If you are attending either the ACS Spring Meeting in Dallas or the NSTA Meeting in Las Vegas, look for us, beneath the familiar JCE banner. Our booth will be open at the Dallas Meeting from Monday, March 30 through Wednesday, April 1. Look for booth 950­952 where we will have lots of Journal materials on display including CD-ROMs, popular software, Classroom Activities, and many of our print publications. We will have a small, free token, such as JCE pencils or bookmarks. Many of the staff will be there - John Moore, Jon Holmes, Nancy Gettys, Mary Saecker, Lin Morris, Richard Schwenz, Emory Howell, and Betty Moore. Hal Harris will be there, spending most of his time visiting publishers booths so that the information in the Chemical Education Resource Shelf and the Book Buyers Guide is up to date and accurate. Stop by and see us.

As Emory Howell describes on the opposite page, he and some secondary school feature editors will have a booth at the NSTA Meeting. They will also present a free workshop.

Submitting a Manuscript?

If you are writing a manuscript for submission to the Journal or planning to, here is some important and helpful information. We have recently revised our Guide to Submissions, our Submission Keywords, and our Instructions for Electronic Submission; we have added some guidelines for formatting the Literature Cited in your manuscript. Special guidelines for lab experiments appeared in December 1996. You can find these documents on JCE Online or you can contact us and have us send them by mail or by fax.

Student Awards

If this is the March issue, then Spring is just around the corner. With Spring come special programs that give students awards for excellence: in chemistry departments, ACS Local Sections, and school systems. Many individuals look for meaningful gifts for graduates as well. We pass along a suggestion that has been used by many organizations - get these young people off to a great start in chemistry by giving them a Journal subscription. There is even a special reduced price for gift subscriptions. Contact us directly (information appears in the masthead on page 254) or use the subscription form between pages 296 and 297. If you provide adequate notice, we will get a sample issue to you for presentation at the time of the award presentation.

Distribute JCE at Workshops and Short Courses

As many of you know, we will make sample copies of the Journal available for workshops, short courses, regional meetings, chemistry or science education classes, etc. In addition to the print issues, we can send our complete JCE Publications/Software catalog, a selection of our new and very popular Classroom Activities, and other materials as well. If you need a door prize, sometimes we can help with that.

We are happy to say that we have had an increasing number of requests. We enjoy working with readers on these projects - just give us a couple of weeks of advance warning before materials are needed.

Help Us Locate Our Earliest Subscribers

This is a reminder that as a part of our 75^th anniversary celebrations we are looking for someone who was an original subscriber or reader of the Journal. If you are that person, or know of someone who is, please let us know. Perhaps your subscription dates from 1934, instead of 1924. Let us know. Tell us a bit about why you began subscribing and why you have kept on subscribing. You may well be a winner!

We will award a free one-year extension to the subscription of whomever has subscribed the longest, and will publish the name of the person - and the cover of the issue - in this column. To be eligible, please reply by April 1, 1998.

Quick Reminders

Here are a few quick reminders of things you won't want to miss.

• Be a Charter Subscriber to JCE Online+ if you haven't done so yet. It opens up a world of information at http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Plus/Subscribe/. Try it out. Thousands of your colleagues are visiting the site each month.
• You can be a Journal Ambassador. Help us recruit more subscribers. There are gift subscriptions available at a reduced price and if you bring in six year's worth of subscriptions you get a personal bonus as well. You can also help us by distributing See the January 1998 issue for details.
• You can be a Journal reviewer. To get started simply fill out our reviewer interest form, available on JCE Online, by fax, or by mail. Return the form to us and your name and reviewer characteristics will be entered into our database, to be matched to incoming manuscripts.
• If you haven't already done so, order JCE CD 1997. Use the order form that appears inside the back cover of the November 1997 issue or use the form on JCE Online. The CD contains all the text, graphics, tables, abstracts, and color. It contains the supplementary materials and complete annual index, too. It is easy to find and view articles, and you can do full-text searching for a word, partial word, or phrase.
• The JCE Online column this month (see p 382) features JCE Index - the full index from 1924 to the present, online and easy to use. The column has some tips for making searches faster and more sharply focused.