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Maryland Section Executive Committee Ballot for 2006Below is the ballot for the 2006 Maryland Section Executive Committee.The ballot is being mailed to the members via the Chesapeake Chemist, due totime constraints.Please mark the ballot and then place it in an envelop, with your namewritten on the outside of the envelop. Mail your sealed ballot to Dr. ShirishShah, Chemistry Department, Towson University, Towson, MD,21252.The ballots will be counted by the secretary of Maryland Section, for theofficial count.Maryland Section Executive Committee Ballot for 2006Officers: Chair:Councilors:Sandra K. YoungVice-Chair: Stephanie WatsonChair-Elect: Lev RyzhkovSecretary: Sara NarayanTreasurer: Angela ShermanDonald JonesDavid RoswellAlternate Councilors:Members-At-Large:Shekar MunavalliShirish ShahJoe ToppingPaul SmithLiina LadonJan KolakowskiKaren HatwellMaurice IwunzeJames NwabaDirections to the Burkshire: Take exit 25, Charles Street, from 695. Follow Charles Streetabout 2 miles to Towsontown Blvd. Turn left. At West Burke Ave turn right. The Burkshireis on the left side as you enter West Burke Ave. Meeting attendees should proceed to theleft lane. Turn left into the Burkshire’s parking entrance. Turn the corner and make animmediate right into the P2 parking garage. Please the press intercom button for admittanceto the elevators. Proceed to the front desk to get a parking pass required for your car. Look forsigns posted in the lobby and elevators to locate the dining room.6
ACS Maryland Section SurveyThis survey will help us to plan for next year’s activities. Please take a fewminutes evaluate the activities for the year, marking each with a number from 1(Best) to 5 (Worst). Then please mail your survey responses to Shirish Shah,Chemistry Department, Towson University,Towson, MD, 21252.ActivitiesMonthly Dinner meetingsChesapeake ChemistAward DinnersStudentsRemsenBraudeMD ChemistKids and ChemistryOthersChemistry OlympicsChemaginationSAACS(Chemistry Clubs atColleges and Universities)Earth Day CelebrationWorkshopsBowling ChallengeNational Chemistry WeekHistory continued.December 10, 1967December 12, 1960December 18, 1856December 19, 1813December 22, 1884December 24, 1818Start of “Project Gasbuggy,” the world’s first commercial experimentwith nuclear mining under the New Mexico desert.At the meeting of American Nuclear Society, it wasannounced that the first pure compound of californiumwas synthesized.Birthdate of Joseph J. Thomson, who discovered theelectron in 1897. In 1906, he was awarded the NobelPrize in Physics in recognition of the great merits of histheoretical and experimental investigations on theconduction of electricity by gases.Thomas Andrews, who discovered that every gas has acritical temperature above which it cannot be liquefied,was born on this date.Birthdate of St. Elmo Brady, the first black man to earn aPh. D. in chemistry, in 1916, from the University of Illinois.Birthdate of James P. Joule, who discovered the law ofheating of conductors. He was a researcher in mechanicalequivalent of heat and discovered that temperature of gasfalls when the gas expands without doing work ( Joule-Thomson Effect). The unit of energy is named after him.Continued on page 87
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