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| Richard Schwenz, newly appointed Publications Coordinator |
The Board of Publication (see "News from
Journal House," page 878, for a description of the Board) is
pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Schwenz,
Department of Chemistry, University of Northern Colorado
(UNC) as the Journal's Publications Coordinator. Rich Schwenz
will be the third person to hold this position. The others
were James DeRose, 1974-92, and Kenneth Emerson, 1992-97.
The Publications Coordinator is hired directly by
and is responsible to the Board for handling the business
affairs of the Journal, including the office expenses, printing
costs, advertising revenue, and oversight of subscription
fulfillment. Your Journal is now a $1.25 million operation
and growing. The Publications Coordinator plays a pivotal
role in the Journal's vitality and its relationship with you, a
subscriber and chemical educator who depends on its
timeliness and very high benefit/cost ratio. As in the
previous transition between Publications Coordinators, Rich and
Ken will be working together for several months, so that
the "passing of the spreadsheet" will be essentially invisible
to you except as a change on the Journal's masthead.
Ken Emerson, who is retiring to spend more time in the outdoors.
To further introduce our new Publications
Coordinator, Rich Schwenz is a physical chemist with a B.A.('77)
from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Ph.D.('81)
from Ohio State University where his research was on
luminescence from halogen-metal reactions in molecular beams.
He joined the faculty at UNC as an Assistant Professor in
1984 and has been Professor since 1994. His professional
interests are in the molecular spectroscopy of di- and
triatomic molecules, computer interfacing of laboratory
instruments, development of new experiments using computers,
and modernization of physical chemistry courses.
He chairs the physical chemistry examinations
committee for the Division's Examinations Institute. To get
a flavor of his thinking, read his "Provocative Opinion"
J. Chem. Educ. 1992, 69, 1001 and
1994, 71, 1099.
James V. DeRose, the Journal's
first Publications Coordinator.
| Election of Officers
The candidates for the 1997 annual election of
Division officers for 1998 are listed below. The ballots
for the 1998 election of Division officers will be mailed
to members by the Division secretary, Jerry L.
Sarquis, to arrive in late August or early September.
Ballots must be received by the Secretary by October 1, 1997.
For Chair Elect (Chair in 1999)
- · J. J. Lagowski, University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas
- · Tamar (Uni) Susskind, Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills, Michigan
For Councilor/Alternate Councilor
- · John Clevenger, Truckee Meadows
Community College, Reno, Nevada
- · Loretta Jones, University of Northern
Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
- · Richard Jones, Sinclair Community College,
Dayton, Ohio
- · Adele Salerno, Mt. Notre Dame High
School, Cincinnati, Ohio
- · Allan Smith, Drexel University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- · Anna Wilson, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana
Information about membership in the Division
of Chemical Education may be obtained from the
Secretary, whose address is listed in the Information
Column on page 906. |
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