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Executive Committee Meeting, January 11th, 2008
The
meeting reviewed the 2007 and 2008 budgets and the details of the 2008 meeting
program. The Committee plans to
distribute a full RSC-US meeting program to members prior to the Spring RSC-US
and ACS spring meetings. The Executive
also decided to hold a recruiting/publicity activity at the fall ACS National
Meeting in Philadelphia.
2007 Annual General Meeting
Saturday, November 17th.
Thanks
again to you and everyone involved (including President Jim Feast), for
providing the long service awards for Dr. Paul Stonehart and Prof. Keith Addy
at our AGM, that was held at the Princeton Club in NYC. We had a wonderful time
and the awards came as a complete surprise to the recipients, as planned. Dr.
Neil Ashweek from the West Coast sub-section was with us as our guest and
gave us a fresh overview of their program for 2008. I believe everyone on both
coasts is committed to expanding their programs, involving more of the
membership as time goes by, and so raising the profile of the RSC. We are
looking forward to a close working relationship with all of you in the years to
come.
The new slate
of officers for the East Coast Section, that take office beginning November
17th, 2007 for a two-year term, is as follows:
Mr. J. H.
Badger, CChem, MRSC, President
Dr. L. W. McQuire,
FRSC, Hon. Sec.
Dr. L.
Davenport, CSci, CChem, MRSC, Hon. Treasurer
Dr. K. K.
Bagga, MRSC, Member-at-Large
Committee Meetings
Friday April 13th, 2007.
Le Rivage Restaurant, 340 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036 (212) 765-7374
Friday February 3rd 2006
in NYC. Agenda included Old and New business items: Retaining members:
New website hosted by RSC UK: RSC UK Outreach in US: Participation in
2008 MARM: Improved Communications.
Friday, April 7, 2006. Le
Rivage Restaurant, 340 W 46th St New
York, NY 10036 (212) 765-7374
Friday, June 23, 2006. Le
Rivage Restaurant, 340 W 46th St New
York, NY 10036 (212) 765-7374 Agenda included final planning, task assignments and choice
of speaker for the Fall meeting in Baltimore, and the principal meetings in
2007. Although minutes are not yet generated it can be reported that the
plan is to attempt to hold the Spring 2007 meeting at the British Embassy,
Washington DC, Fall meeting at Dr Stonehart's in Madison, CT. The Princeton
Club NY will again be the venue for the AGM
Outreach programs were discussed in depth. It was
noted that some members had made important contributions in this regard
during the last 12 months and we hope to report on these in due course and
pursue more such opportunities to show young people some idea of the many
things Chemistry is about and also to convey information to the general public
in a more understandable way. We will have a new webmaster as Emmerson
Bowes, who started the website and edited it since, had expressed a wish to
step down this last few years for lack of time. Dr. Les McQuire has
agreed to take on the task. There will be no change, of course, to our
web address www.rsc-usa.org .
Friday, Oct 13, 2006. Le Rivage
Restaurant, W 46th St New York, 10036 (212) 765-7374
In lieu of minutes not yet available, the agenda included Programs and Dates
for 2007 Meetings-----Spring ---- British Embassy or possibly a one coinciding
with MARM at Collegeville PA,May 16-18 and in Fall, Sept 15, Garden Party/wine
tasting. The AGM will be held again at the Princeton Club on Nov 17.
New Business included a discussion of book awards, the UK meeting on International Section Leadership in November to which the president Dr. Klau Wagner (above) has been invited and the expenses so involved.
General News
Spring Meeting 2006: Speaker Dr Paul Stonehart - Topic “Making Money in Chemistry”
The meeting was very successful, many members had spent the afternoon in excellent weather touring the area and some visiting the FDR Roosevelt home at Hyde Park.
Some of the members at dinner at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel.
After dinner members were treated to an enthusiastic presentation by member Dr. Paul Stonehart. It is apparent that while the subject of making money had a universal appeal the chemistry and inventions that led to the decision whether to play it safe and serve an appreciative employer or strike out and risk all in an entrepreneurial adventure, were equally as fascinating to the audience. Paul's career in and out of industry has led him to a place in the top echelon of exponents of fuel cell science and technology and related chemistry. There was lively and long discussion of the current and future energy needs and some of the methods being explored to attain them.
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Dr. Paul Stonehart |
Dr.Paul Stonehart, was awarded the prestigious Francis Bacon medal and prize for Fuel Cell Science and Technology by the Royal Society of Chemistry of London, England. The award read in part "Distinguished for his pre-eminent and lasting contributions to fuel cell catalysis and design." Paul Stonehart is the president of Stonehart Associates, Inc. (SAI) in Connecticut, USA; founded in 1976 to develop advanced nano-dimensioned materials. An extensive patent portfolio is licensed worldwide. He has about 200 papers, patents, books, reviews, etc., in the fields of electrocatalysis for rapid reactions, fuel cells, materials science of composite systems, structures of high surface area carbons, polymer ion-exchange membranes, and gas-phase catalysis. He is recognized as a pioneer and major world authority in fuel cell science and technology. In addition, he has organized and chaired numerous international conferences in energy and fuel cell technology and has served on the US Department of Energy advisory panel for fuel cells in transportation. He was educated at the University of Cambridge (King's College) and has a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1962) where he was a Salters' Scholar. On leaving Cambridge he joined Stanford University, and then the American Cyanamid Company. In 1972 that he was appointed Head of the Advanced Fuel Cell Research Laboratories with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft (United Technologies Corporation); and in 1976, he was appointed as the first Diamond Shamrock lecturer in Electrochemistry and Fuel Cell science at Case Western Reserve University. He is an Associate Fellow of Branford College, Yale University; an active member and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry where he was a founding member for the US Section, serving as President and now as President Emeritus; the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the International Society of Electrochemistry, and the Carbon Society. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Connecticut (USA), Yamanashi University (Japan), Witwatersrand University (South Africa); Monash University (Australia); and the University of Alicante (Spain). |
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