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I. Summary

II. Preface

III. Introduction

IV. Early Years (1951-1965)

V. Transition and Growth (1966-1975)

VI. Expansion and Strengthening (1976-1990)

VII. Conclusions

PART II

VIII. Appendix - PART II

A. Awards

B. Organization

1. Executive Committees (1951-1990)

2. 1990 Organization and Committee Members

C. Pictures (not reproduced here)

D. Reminiscence

E. Archival Documents

A. Awards

P.J. Flory Division of Polymer Chemistry Award

1976	P.J. Flory
1978	C.S. Marvel
1980	M.L. Huggins
1982	H.F. Mark
1984	J.D. Ferry
1986	C.G. Overberger
1988	W.H. Stockmayer
1990	M. Szwarc

C.S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award

1981	L.J. Fetters
1983	W.L. Mattice
1985	E.L. Thomas
1987	G. Wilkes
1989	R. Langer

H.F. Mark Polymer Education Award

1982	H.F. Mark
1984	C.S. Marvel
1986	P.J. Flory
1988	M. Morton
1990	G.B. Butler

Distinguished Service Award

1983	E.J. Vandenberg J. Lal
1984	W.J. Bailey O. Vogl F. Dammont
1985	B.M. Culbertson F.R. Mayo F.H. Winslow
1986	W. Stockmayer E.M. Fettes J.C.H. Hwa
1987	C.S. Marvel C.G. Overberger W.E. Gibbs
1988	B.H. Ullyot
1989	J.C. Salamone

B. Organization
1. Executive Committees (1951-1990)

	1951	1952	1953
Chairman	C.S. Marvel	W.E. Hanford	P.J. Flory
Vice Chairman	W.E. Hanford	P.J. Flory	R.M. Fuoss
Secretary	H.F. Mark	H.F. Mark	H.F. Mark
Treasurer	H.F. Mark	H.F. Mark	H.F. Mark
Councilors		R.F. Boyer W. Stockmayer	R.F. Boyer W. Stockmayer

	1954	1955	1956
Chairman	R.M. Fuoss	H.F. Mark	R.F. Boyer
Vice Chairman	H.F. Mark	R.F. Boyer	T.G Fox
Secretary	J. Dec	J. Dec	J. Dec
Treasurer	J. Dec	J. Dec	J. Dec
Councilors	R.F. Boyer J.D. Ferry	J.D. Ferry T.G Fox	J.D. Ferry T.G Fox

	1957	1958	1959
Chairman	T.G Fox	A.V. Tobolsky	F.R. Mayo
Vice Chairman	A.V. Tobolsky	F.R. Mayo	C.G. Overberger
Secretary	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow
Treasurer	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow
Councilors	T.G Fox A.V. Tobolsky	A.V. Tobolsky F.R. Mayo	A.V. Tobolsky F.R. Mayo

	1960	1961	1962
Chairman	C.G. Overberger	T. Alfrey Jr.	M. Morton
Vice Chairman	T. Alfrey Jr.	M. Morton	A.M. Bueche
Secretary	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow
Treasurer	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow	F.H. Winslow
Councilors	F.R. Mayo T. Alfrey, Jr.	T. Alfrey, Jr. M. Morton	T. Alfrey, Jr. M. Morton

	1963	1964	1965
Chairman	A.M. Bueche	F.H. Winslow	R. Simha
Vice Chairman	F.H. Winslow	R. Simha	E.M. Fettes
Secretary	W.J. Bailey	W.J. Bailey	W.J. Bailey
Treasurer	W.J. Bailey	W.J. Bailey	W.J. Bailey
Councilors	F.H. Winslow M. Morton	R. Simha F.H. Winslow	R. Simha F.H. Winslow

	1966	1967	1968
Chairman	E.M. Fettes	W.J. Bailey	W.H. Stockmayer
Vice Chairman	W.J. Bailey	W.H. Stockmayer	J.R. Elliott
Secretary	W.E. Cass	W.E. Cass	W.E. Cass
Treasurer	J.B. Kinsinger	J.B. Kinsinger	J.B. Kinsinger
Councilors	R. Simha E.M. Fettes	E.M. Fettes W.H. Stockmayer	E.M. Fettes W.H. Stockmayer

	1969	1970	1971
Chairman	J.R. Elliott	J.B. Kinsinger	W.E. Gibbs
Vice Chairman	J.B. Kinsinger	W.E. Gibbs	J.P. Kennedy
Secretary	J.C.H. Hwa	J.C.H. Hwa	J.C.H. Hwa
Treasurer	R.S. Porter	O. Vogl	O. Vogl
Councilors	E.M. Fettes J.B. Kinsinger	E.M. Fettes J.B. Kinsinger	E.M. Fettes J.B. Kinsinger

	1972	1973	1974
Chairman	J.P. Kennedy	J.C.H. Hwa	O. Vogl
Vice Chairman	J.C.H. Hwa	O. Vogl	J.K. Stille
Secretary	F.E. Karasz	F.E. Karasz	F.E. Karasz
Treasurer	O. Vogl	J.E. Mark	J.E. Mark/ JC. Salamone
Councilors	E.M. Fettes J.B. Kinsinger	J.B. Kinsinger W.E. Gibbs	J.B. Kinsinger W.E. Gibbs

	1975	1976	1977
Chairman	J.K. Stille	F.E. Bailey	V.T. Stannett
Vice Chairman	F.E. Bailey	V.T. Stannett	B.M. Culbertson
Secretary	E.J. Vandenberg	E.J. Vandenberg	E.J. Vandenberg
Treasurer	J.C. Salamone	J.C. Salamone	J.C. Salamone
Member-At-Large		P.H. Lindenmeyer	P.H. Lindenmeyer
Councilors	W.E. Gibbs J.C.H. Hwa	W.E. Gibbs J.C.H. Hwa	W.E. Gibbs J.C.H. Hwa

	1978	1979	1980
Chairman	B.M. Culbertson	E.J. Vandenberg	E.M. Pearce
Chair-Elect	E.J. Vandenberg	E.M. Pearce	W.C. Wooten, Jr.
Vice Chairman	E.M. Pearce	W.C. Wooten, Jr.	J.C. Salamone
Secretary	J.E. McGrath	J.E. McGrath	J.E. McGrath
Treasurer	J.C. Salamone	M. Shen/S. Israel	S.C. Israel
Member-At-Large	P.H. Lindenmeyer	P.A. Hiltner	P.A. Hiltner
Councilors	W.E. Gibbs J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey P.W. Morgan	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey S.E.B. Petrie N.M. Bikales	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey S.E.B. Petrie W.E. Gibbs

	1981	1982	1983
Chairman	W.C. Wooten, Jr.	J.C. Salamone	N.M. Bikales
Chair-Elect	J.C. Salamone	N.M. Bikales	L.G. Donaruma
Vice Chairman	N.M. Bikales	L.G. Donaruma	J. Economy
Secretary	J.J. O'Malley	S.W. Shalaby	S.W. Shalaby
Treasurer	S.C. Israel	S.C. Israel	S.C. Israel
Member-At-Large	P.A. Hiltner	R.M. Ikeda	R.M. Ikeda
Councilors	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey S.E.B. Petrie W.E. Gibbs	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey W.E. Gibbs E.M. Pearce	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey W.E. Gibbs E.M. Pearce

	1984	1985	1986
Chairman	L.G. Donaruma	J. Economy	J.E. McGrath
Chair-Elect	J. Economy	J.E. McGrath	R.K. Eby
Vice Chairman	J.E. McGrath	R.K. Eby	R.M. Ikeda
Secretary	A.B. Salamone	A.B. Salamone	A.B. Salamone
Treasurer	S.C. Israel	R.M. Ottenbrite	R.M. Ottenbrite
Member-At-Large	R.M. Ikeda	R.M. Ikeda	J.L. Benham
Councilors	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey W.E. Gibbs E.M. Pearce	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey W.E. Gibbs E.M. Pearce	J.C.H. Hwa F.E. Bailey E.M. Pearce S.W. Shalaby

	1987	1988	1989
Chairman	R.K. Eby	R.M. Ikeda	S.C. Israel
Chair-Elect	R.M. Ikeda	S.C. Israel	J.L. Benham
Vice Chairman	S.C. Israel	J.L. Benham	R.M. Ottenbrite
Secretary	A.B. Salamone	A.B. Salamone	A.B. Salamone
Treasurer	R.M. Ottenbrite	R.M. Ottenbrite	W.H. Daly
Member-At-Large	J.L. Benham	B.C. Anderson	B.C. Anderson
Councilors	F.E. Bailey E.M. Pearce S.W. Shalaby N.M. Bikales	F.E. Bailey E.M. Pearce S.W. Shalaby N.M. Bikales	F.E. Bailey E.M. Pearce S.W. Shalaby N.M. Bikales

	1990
Chairman	J.L. Benham
Chair-Elect	R.M. Ottenbrite
Vice Chairman	A.B. Salamone
Secretary	F.D. Blum
Treasurer	W.H. Daly
Member-At-Large	B.C. Anderson
Councilors	E.M. Pearce S.W. Shalaby S.C. Israel J.E. McGrath

2.__1990_Organization_and_Committee_Members

Since it is not possible to record the names of all the men and women who have served POLY in the past, it is at least possible to show a "snapshort" of those who served POLY in one single year, 1990, and acknowledge their service. The tabulation below details the grid organization, scope of activity and those who serve in various committees.

POLY Organization and_Committee Members, 990 (Partial_Listing)

There are 11 members in the Executive Committee all of whom are elected by the membership, as required by POLY Bylaws, and report to the Chairman. There are 30 appointed committees, 5 of which report to the Chairman directly in a staff function. The rest reports to various officers who function as department heads. The Councilors and Alternate Councilors, all required by ACS Bylaws, are elected. The Councilor Committee, consisting of the Councilors, also reports to the Chairman. Alternate Councilors have no function except that they replace Councilors if the latter should not be able to attend a Council meeting.

The Board consists of the Executive Committee, the chairmen of all committees and the Alternate Councilors. The 1990 organization is shown in the chart.

Executive: Chairman, Chairman-Elect, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, Past Chairman, Member-at-Large, Councilors.

Chairman: J.L. Benham

1. Awards. A.C. Watterson

2. Foreign_Affairs. J. Salamone

3. Industrial_Sponsors. E.J. Vandenberg (Ch.), M. Jaffe, W. Daly, K. Wagener, R. Stackman, J. Collette, K. Matyjaszewski. R. Faust, R. Storey

4. Intersociety. J. Raybolt (APS), J.M. Pochan (SPE), D. Paul (AIChE), J. Economy (IUPAC)

5. Nominating. R.M. Ikeda

Chairman-Elect: R.M. Ottenbrite

6. Planning. R.M. Ottenbrite

7. Division_Officers_Caucus. R.M. Ottenbrite

8. Macromolecular_Secretariat. K.J. Wynne

9. Biotechnology_Secretariat. R. Dunn

10. Surface_Science_and_Catalysis_Secretariat. A.B. Salamone

Vice_Chairman: A.B. Salamone

11. Program. A.D. English (co-Chair), C.W. Frank (co Chair), R.L. Clough, J.M. DeSimone, P. Dubin, M.D. Ediger, R.J. Farris, L.J. Fetters, W.T. Ford, B. Gordon, J. Haw, A. Jamieson, R.P. Kambour, J.T. Koberstein, J.E. McGrath, R.D. Miller, P.A. Mirau, J.A. Moore, A. Natansohn, C.K. Ober, T.J. Pacansky, E.M. Pearce, V. Percec, J.M. Pochan, R.P. Quirk, J. Robolt, J. Riffle, J.P. Runt, A.B. Salamone, H.W. Schmidt, D.N. Schulz, S.W. Shalaby, G.L. Wilkes, K.J. Wynne

12.Workshops. W.D. Field

13. Biennial_Symposium. J.C. Salamone (1990), J.E. McGrath (1992)

14. Hospitality_Suite. J. DeSimone, R. Register

15. Banquet. A.D. Broske

Secretary: F.D. Blum

16. Education. Cochairs: C.E. Carraher, Jr., C.G. Overberger
Vice Chairs: E.M. Pearce, F. Rodriquez
Director: J.P. Droske
Secretary: W.J. Scott
Treasurer: T. Provder
POLYED National Information Center for Polymer Education: J.P. Droske
Polymer Education Newsletter (PEN): Co-editors, D. Garner, C.A. Byrne
Precollege Directorate: Ass. Dir., M. Sarquis
(1) Award for Excellence in Polymer Education by High School Teachers, M. Sarquis

(2) Liaison for National Chemistry Week, R. Bauer, A. Salamone
(3) Polymer Demonstration Kits, (vacant)
(4) Kindergarten - Elementary School Education, M. Sarquis
(5) NSF Education Proposal, M. Zeldin
College/University Students Directorate: Ass. Dir., M.
Zeldin
(1) Organic Chemistry Certificate Award, W.T. Ford
(2) Summer Employment Program, C.G. McCarty (3) Travel Award Program for Undergraduates, R.T. Chern
(4) High School Brochure, R. Bauer
(5) Coordination with ACS Polymer Exam, D.A. Tirrell
(6) Polymer Education Survey, R.D. Deanin
(7) Summer Undergraduate Fellowships, J. Schroeder
(8) Sherwin Williams Student Award in Applied Polymer Science, M. Bowden
Industrial/Government Professionals Directorate: Ass. Dir., R.S. Moore
(1) Media Committee, J.J. Meister
(2) Industrial Teachers Committee, R. Stackman
(3) Video Tape Development, (vacant)
(4) Short Course Development, G.L. Wilkes, C. Arnold
College/University Professionals Directorate: Ass. Dir., J.P. Droske
(1) Curriculum Development Award, K. Matyjaszewski
(2) Visiting Program, J.P. Droske
(3) Teacher Training Support Program, (vacant)
(4) Textbook Author Committee, L. Sperling Liaison with ACS Committee on Education (SOCED): J.P. Droske, R.D. Archer Liaison with ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT) S.W. Shalaby
Other Members: N.M. Bikales, D. Branstein, W.H. Daly, R.B. Fox, J.F. Kinstle, M. Jaffe, E. Vandenberg, R. Zand

17. Nomenclature. W.V. Metanomski (Ch.), B.C. Benicewisz, N.M. Bikales, J.M. DeSimone, R.B. Fox, J.I. Kroschwitz, K.L. Loening, L.H. Sperling, W.J. Work

18. Public_Relations. T.J. Pacansky (Ch.), P. Sormani, J. Stouffer

19. Exhibits. J. Stouffer

20. Historical. J.C.H. Hwa

21. ACS/ECOM. T. Ford

Treasurer: W.H. Daly

22. Polymer_Preprints. B.M. Culbertson, (Ed.), J.S. Riffle, D. Garcia, J.W. Holubka, R.F. Storey

23. Circulation. F.R. Dammont

24. Library_Subscriptions. M. Fair

25. Publications. D. Gerbi

26 Business_Office. J.H. Pearce, D.M. Morrill

Past_Chairman: S.C. Israel, replaced by R.M. Ikeda

27. Bylaws. S. Huang

28. Operations_Manual. S.C. Israel
Member-At-Large: B.C. Anderson

29. Membership. T. Ford

30. Membership_Booth. E. Yilgor, I. Yilgor

Councilors: E.M. Pearce (Ch.), S.C. Israel, J.E. McGrath, S.W. Shalaby
Alternate_Councilors: M.M. Bitritto, B. Gordon, III, R.S. Moore, M. Tirrell

C. Pictures (not included here)

Division Chairmen
1955, 1956, 1960
H.F. Mark, R.F. Boyer, C.G. Overberger

1962, 1964, 1965
M. Morton, F.H. Winslow, S. Simha

1966, 1968, 1969
E.M. Fettes, W.H. Stockmayer, J.R. Elliott

1970, 1971, 1972
J.B. Kinsinger, W.E. Gibbs, J.P. Kennedy

1973, 1974, 1976
J.C.H. Hwa, O. Vogl, F.E. Bailey

1977, 1978, 1979
V.T. Stannett, B.M. Culbertson, E.J. Vandenberg

1980, 1981, 1982
E.M. Pearce, W.C. Wooten, Jr., J.C. Salamone

1983, 1984, 1985
N.M. Bikales, L.G. Donaruma, J. Economy

1986, 1987, 1988
J.E. McGrath, R.K. Eby, R.M. Ikeda

1989, 1990,1991
S.C., Israel, J.L. Benham, R.M. Ottenbrite

1992
A.B. Salamone

Division_Activities

(Note to Editor: The pictures are numbered in the back according to chronology. The following is the caption for each numbered picture.)

1. POLY made history in 1965 by being the first division of ACS to sponsor a charter flight abroad. The above picture shows the 1967 charter flight leaving from New York for London and Paris. Two flights were flown via Air France, departing June 7 and 9, to coincide with the IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium in Brussels - Louvain, June 12-17. The round-trip fare was $225. Dr. Henry Z. Friedlander (with glasses), organizer of the POLY Charter Flights program, stands at the left of the banner (bags in front).

2. POLY experimented the meeting format by holdings its Spring 1973 meeting jointly with the Rubber Division in Detroit, outside the regular national ACS meeting. It was the only one of that type and has not been repeated afterwards for lack of special advantage. Dr. Turner Alfrey, Jr., (POLY Chairman 1961) of Dow Chemical was honored by receiving the 1973 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry, sponsored by the Witco Chemical Co. Seated at the dais, from left, are J.C.H. Hwa, POLY Chairman; Alfrey; O. Vogl, Vice Chairman; J.E. Mark, Treasurer; J. Lal, Meeting Program Chairman; R. Milkovich, Meeting Arrangements Chairman. Seated at the table, clockwise from left, are Mrs. J. Lal, Dr. Claire Bluestein, representing Witco Chemical Co., Dr. Ray Boyer, POLY Chairman in 1956 and Witco Syposium Chairman, Mrs. Ray (Peggy) Boyer, Mrs. Jesse (Dolores) Hwa (second from right). Rest are all well wishers from Dow Chemical Co.

2a. (Note to Editor: The picture corresponding to 2a is not attached in the folder, because I do not have the original. The duplicate, which is shown in Ulrich's book, may be good enough to be shown in the History. In case you should decide that you could use that picture from the book, the following is the caption that should go with the picture. Because of the chronology, it should be the third picture shown.)

A special symposium on the History of POLY was held at the September 1974 ACS meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of POLY. Shown here are the speakers and POLY chairmen at the symposium, from left, front row: J.R. Elliott (1969), C.S. Marvel (1951), O. Vogl (1974), H.F. Mark (1955), P.O. Powers; standing: R.F. Boyer (1956), J.C.H. Hwa (1973), F.H. Winslow (1964), R.D. Ulrich, J.K. Stille (1975), F.R. Mayo (1959).

3. Prof. Paul Flory receives the first Division of Polymer Chemistry Award in 1976 during the Biennial Symposium in Key Biscayne, Florida, from

Chairman Fred Bailey. Other officers present, from left, are Ed Vanderberg, Joe Salamone, Jesse Hwa, Bill Gibbs, John Stille. The award has since been named after Prof. Flory.

4. POLY and the Society of Polymer Science, Japan held a joint U.S. - Japan conference at the 1980 Biennial Polymer Symposium, in November, Palm Springs, CA. The officers of POLY and SPSJ are shown here. Ninth from the left is Prof. Maurice L. Huggins, recipient of the 1980 P.J. Flory
Polymer Division Award.

5. Professor Lewis J. Fetters of the University of Akron is pictured receiving the first C.S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award at the Fall 1981 ACS meeting in New York City. Participating in the POLY award ceremonies are, from left, Dr. Harvey Ledbetter of Dow Chemical Co., sponsor of the $2,000 award; Prof. Fetters; Dr. Carl Wooten, 1981 POLY Chairman; Dr. Joginder Lal, Chairman of the Awards Committee.

6. Division Chairman present at the November 1982 Biennial Symposium in Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, in honor of Prof. Herman Mark who, in that year, received both the P.J. Flory Division of Polymer Chemistry Award, and the first POLY Polymer Education Award which was later named after Prof. Mark. Present are Division chairmen, from left, Ed Vandenberg, Ray Ottenbrite, Bill Culbertson, Jesse Hwa, Herman Mark, Joe Salamone, Norbert Bikales, Stan Israel, Carl Wooten.

7. During the Spring 1984 ACS meeting in St. Louis, the 1982 POLY officers were presented with the 1982 Outstanding Large Division Award from ACS. Shown here are, from left, Guy Donaruma, Vice Chairman; Norbert Bikales, Chairman-Elect; Joe Salamone, Chairman; Stan Israel, Treasurer; and kneeling, Shalaby Shalaby, Secretary. The criteria for winning the Award are the quality of technical program, administration and financial position, educational thrusts, interdivisional and intersociety interaction, membership growth and overall improvement.

8. The second H.F. Mark Polymer Education Award was presented to Prof. C.S. (Speed) Marvel during the Fall 1984 ACS meeting at the Division's banquet. The Award, sponsored by Proctor and Gamble Co., was given to Prof. Marvel in recognition of his outstanding achievements in promoting both undergraduate and graduate polymer education. Seated from left are Jim Economy, Chairman-Elect, Marvel, Guy Donaruma, Chairman.

9. At the Fall 1985 ACS meeting in Chicago, the officers of POLY were presented, for the second time, with the 1984 Outstanding Large Division Award from ACS. POLY was cited for its increased membership, outstanding technical programs at the national ACS meetings including free tutorials, excellent workshops, intersociety activities, Biennial Symposium, participation in PAC Chem, and publications, particularly Polymer Preprints. Shown from left are the 1984 officers: Ray Ottenbrite, Treasurer; Stan Israel, Program Chairman; Ann Salamone, Secretary; Jim Economy, Chair-Elect; Guy Donaruma, Chairman.

10. POLY chairmen present after the Division banquet at the Spring 1985 ACS meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, in honor of Prof. Herman Mark at the occasion of his 90th birthday. From left, standing, Jesse Hwa, Joe Kennedy, Norbert Bikales, Eli Pearce, Bill Culbertson; seated, Bill Bailey, Jim Economy (Chairman 1985), Herman Mark.

11. Dr. Fred Bailey, Union Carbide Corp., was presented a plaque from ACS during the Fall 1985 ACS meeting in Chicago, recognizing his strong
and creative leadership as Chairman of the Divisional Officer's Caucus from 1980 to 1985. Dr. Bailey was one of the founders of this informal group which was formed to discuss items of mutual concern to all divisions.

12. Recipients of POLY Distinguished Service Awards in 1985, from left, Bill Culbertson, Frank Mayo, Stretch Winslow. Third and fourth are H. Morawetz and Bill Bailey.

13. Prof. Charles G. Overberger (left) receives the 1986 P.J. Flory Division of Polymer Chemistry Award from Dr. H. Ledbetter (right), Dow Chemical Co., with Dr. Jim McGrath, POLY Chairman looking on during the Biennial Polymer Symposium, November, 1986 in Boca Raton, Florida. Prof. Overberger is distinguished for his outstanding research leadership in polymer science. The award is supported by the Dow Chemical Co. and consists of a plaque and $2,000.

14. Scene at the Hospitality Suite, during the Fall 1987 ACS meeting in New Orleans.

15. After 2 1/2 years of negotiations, an agreement was signed on October 19, 1987 in Tokyo, Japan, between the President of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, M. Takayanagi, POLY Chairman Ron Eby, and Chairman of the Polymer Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, David J.T. Hill. Shown here are, representatives from three organizations: from left, D.J.T. Hill, RACI; Joe Salamone, POLY; T. Saegusa, SPSJ; Otto Vogl, POLY; J.H. O'Donnell, RACI; A. Abe, SPSJ.

16. Barbara Hodgson Ullyot was presented with POLY's Distinguished Service Award during the 1988 Fall ACS meeting in Los Angeles in recognition of her many contributions to the administration of the Division through her service from her national ACS office, and in recognition for her dedicated efforts towards excellence in communication, programming and organization. Shown are B.H. Ullyot and Stan Israel (Division Chairman-Elect).

17. The Industrial Sponsors Group, organized by the Industrial Liaison Committee (Chairman: Ed Vandenberg) held a lively panel discussion on "Polymer Recycling: The Key Issues" at the Miami ACS meeting in September, 1989. The panelists are, from left, Eric Baer (Case Western), W. Pearson (Plastics Recycling Foundation), J. Gissendanner (State of Florida), D. Genson (Dow), L. Starr (Hoechst Celanese), Bill Bailey (U. of Maryland).

18. The First Pacific Polymer Conference, organized by the Pacific Polymer Federation (founding members: U.S., Japan, Australia), was held at the Royal Lahaina Resort, Maui, Hawaii, on December 12-15, 1989, the week preceding the Pacific Basin Chemical Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Conference program had 5 keynote speakers, 35 invited lecturers and over 300 contributed papers. Shown here are some of the speakers and officers at the Conference. In front row, third to fifth from left, are Otto Vogl, former POLY Chairman (1974), and first President of the Federation; Takeo Saegusa, former President of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan and presently the Chairman of the Macromolecular Division of IUPAC and
Vice President of the Federation; James H. O'Donnell, former President of the Royal Australian Institute of Chemists, and Deputy Vice President of the Federation. Joe Salamone, second row, first on left, POLY Chairman in 1982, is Secretary/Treasurer of the Federation.

19. Most recent group picture of Division Chairmen present at the Fall 1990 ACS meeting in Washington, D.C. in a descending order of their seniority in chairmanship, from left, seated, Jesse Hwa, Otto Vogl, Vivian Stannett, Bill Culbertson, Ed Vandenberg, Carl Wooten, standing, Norbert Bikales, Jim Economy, Jim McGrath, Dick Ikeda, Judy Benham, Ray Ottenbrite.

20. Portion of the members present at the POLY Board meeting at the Fall 1990 ACS meeting in Washington, D.C. Front row are members of the Executive Committee. From left, Dick Ikeda, Chairman 1988; Bill Daly, Treasurer; Judy Benham, Chairperson; Stan Israel, Past Chairman and Councilor; Frank Blum, Secretary; Ray Ottenbrite, Chairman-Elect; Eli Pearce, Councilor.

D. Reminiscence

This section is a compilation of the letters that various people wrote to Jane Vogl in response to her solicitation for remembrances, anecdotes, etc. in 1984. To minimize the length of this section, some editing has been made. Only the "meaty" material is shown here.

Paul_O._"Pop"_Powers (Chairman, Membership Committee, 1951)

"I am occasionally referred to as the father of the Polymer Division, or even as one of the fathers. As for the good old days, if you are writing to Ed Fettes, he has my version of the way the Polymer Division started. The one thing that I can add is that both the petitions to the Council were submitted by me. At first I had some people at Battelle sign and then I sent it to Bell Labs and to Brooklyn POLY. Milton Harris, who was on the Council said the hundred names were not necessary so I wrote another petition and asked Paul Flory who happened to be in Atlantic City to come along when I presented it. The petition was granted the following spring. By that time, I was through at Battelle and had to go back to work and was not active in the early years of the Division. My first realization of the desire for a Polymer Division was at Miller's in Baltimore after one of the last Gordon Conferences at Gibson Island. They all said what a nice thing it would be if there was a Polymer Division. So, I went back to Columbus and started writing petitions.

After all, I am the chief proponent of myself as the father of the Division. Paul Flory has said publicly that he would like to be remembered as the father of the Division. I did bring him along when the petitions (2) were presented for the new division. Also, Speed Marvel said he convinced Charley Parsons, the then Secretary of ACS, that there was a place for the new Division".

Raymond_F._Boyer, (Chairman, 1956)

"I will mention several personal experiences:

1. Bob Simha was Program Chairman for the 1965 Polymer Division meeting in Atlantic City. He asked me to organize a symposium on multiple transactions in polymers, a first of its kind for the Polymer Division and probably for ACS. It became a 2 1/2 day invited affair, with speakers
representing most of the then experts in the field and/or their graduate students. See Polymer Preprints, Vol. 6, No. 2, P. 503ff, 1965. There were several contributed papers.

Interscience offered to publish the entire symposium as one of its Polymer Symposium C series, actually C-14, 1966, with Raymond F. Boyeras Editor. This contained a number of pioneering papers and I still refer to it. Dr. William P. Slichter gave one such pioneering paper on NMR of Polymers. In a recent conversation with him, he reminisced about this symposium and said he considered it the best given by the Polymer Division up to that time.

The Russians evidently thought highly of it since it was translated into Russian and published by "Mir" in book form under the title: Russian Translation. R.F. Boyer "Perekhody ^ Relaksatsionye Lavlenya v Polimerakh" lzd. "Mir" (1968).

I have subsequently noted perhaps six Russian papers (English translations in "Polymer Science USSR") in which J. Poly. Sci. C 154 was one of the primary citations.

I cite this as one example in which Polymer Division Programs reached an audience far beyond it's own membership. I'm sure there are others.

2. Another such is "Applied Polymer Symposia, No. 24", John Wiley and Sons, New York City, 1974, "Technological Aspects of the Mechanical Behaviour of Polymers," which reprints papers given at the Turner Alfrey Witco Award Symposium. Dr. Jesse Hwa, then Chairman of the Polymer Division, asked this writer to organize the symposium and edit volume 24."

F.H._"Stretch"_Winslow (Chairman, 1964)

"My role in the Division began in early 1956 with a phone call I received from Ed Fettes, the Chairman of the Nominating Committee. He asked me to run for the office of Secretary-Treasurer, adding that I had a 50-50 chance of being elected since I had only one opponent, long since
forgotten. I, of course, was delighted to accept his invitation since I regarded the opportunity as a modest extension of my long-term commitment to better communications. A few months later, I received another phone call - - that time it was from Joe Dec who said, "Since you have just been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Division, you had better drive down here to Atlantic City and take over my duties." I asked why he was so anxious to get rid of the job and he confessed that it actually had been fun as well as an excellent way to get acquainted with some wonderful people. He added that I might have a little trouble collecting the one-dollar yearly dues and rounding up a quorum of ten tired but true members for the annual business meeting, since it was traditionally sandwiched in between the last paper of the day and the social hour of the fall meeting. Joe was correct on all counts.

At the time polymer science and the Division were both growing rapidly and many members thought that services and activities should be expanded. Frank Mayo decided to do something about it. When he became Chairman in 1959, he appointed Charlie Overberger, the Chairman-Elect, head of the Program Committee. Thus, Charlie and succeeding Chairmen were responsible for the symposium held in the year in which they held office. Mayo also appointed a Committee, chaired by Chester Rosenbaum, that surveyed opinions on Divisional needs. It resulted in several important changes in operations during the following year. For example, the mail ballot was instituted and a Committee was formed for the purpose of organizing the first Biennial Polymer Symposium. Also, the Division began publishing Polymer Preprints.

In launching Polymer Preprints, I sought valuable advice from the Organic Coatings Division (now Polymer Materials, Science and Engineering) which had been distributing similar booklets for several years. As luck would have it, Swift and Co., located across the street from Bell Laboratories in New York City, agreed to do the printing and I talked Chester Rosenbaum into becoming the first Preprint Editor. In those days, the Secretary-Treasurer made virtually all business decisions and some appointments, such as Preprint Editor. One well-known member of the Division was not happy about the idea of Preprints and vowed never to present another paper at our meetings. As I recall, he changed his mind on the matter less than two years later. To cover the cost of preprinting the dues were raised to $4 per year. Since I had no storage space, virtually no extra copies of the booklets were printed.

In 1961, the Division co-sponsored the Montreal IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium. At the same time Boyer, Starkweather and Kinsinger began organizing the first ACS Biennial Polymer Symposium. The meeting was held the following year (1962) at Michigan State University with an attendance of about 375. As I recall, I had my own private reception committee in East Lansing. I was met at the bus stop by two mighty irate men from Standard Oil of Indiana who had not been invited to attend the Gordon Polymer Conference of which I was Chairman that year. Unfortunately, they got only sympathy.

In 1963, Bill (and Mary) Bailey became Secretary/Treasurer and immediately began a membership drive that was highly successful. In 1964, when I was Division Chairman, Speed Marvel received the first Witco Award. It should be noted in passing that Speed was also the first Chairman of the Division.

The following year (1965) the Division acquired an international flavor with the first Friedlander Flight to the Praque meeting. Henry Z had attempted but failed to organize a flight to Paris under Divisional sponsorship in 1963."

Ed_Fettes (Chairman, 1966)

"On the matter of the Polymer Division, Jane, experiences are hard to recall as it was a long time ago and my files have disappeared over the years. In the early days, the Division was much smaller and much less organized. If my memory serves me right, the only elected officers were the Chairman, Vice Chairman, two Councillors, and a combined Secretary-Treasurer. My own involvement really came about because of my close friendship with Arthur Tobolsky. He knew me well and I worked only 10 miles away. He was a consultant to Thiokol from 1948 and I saw him almost every month from then to 1960 when I moved out to Koppers in Pittsburgh. I was on the Nominating Committee when Stretch Winslow was nominated for Secretary. Bill Baker, then head of Bell Labs, was on the Nominating Committee also. He proposed Stretch and assured the committee that he would be ready and most willing to run (or else?). In those casual days, the Committee chairmen were simply appointed by the then Chairman. I was head of the Program Committee the year that Frank Mayo was elected Chairman of the Division. At the Gordon Conference that year, I remember Frank telling me that he planned to make the Vice Chairman head of the Program Committee as he had nothing else to do otherwise. That is how that started, though we have reverted back to having an appointed chairman serving over a period of years. The latter is certainly better for continuity and longer planning. A weak or haphazard committee chairman (and we did have some) left a real burden on the next incumbent in the position. The Membership Committee existed in the early days, but was not very effective. Bill Bailey was the one who really revolutionized that committee by expanding it to its present large size and trying to have representatives in all of the large laboratories. I do not have the numbers anymore, but I think that the records will show a dramatic jump in Division Membership under Bill's tenure. The funds were much less of course. We held the business meetings in someone's room and when we were lucky, there was an officer in a good enough position in an industrial lab that he could get a suite to hold the meeting. But often the room was small and most had to sit on the floor."

William_J._Bailey (Chairman, 1967. By Mary Bailey)

"When Bill Bailey became Treasurer of the Division of Polymer Chemistry in 1963, the Division was a sleepy little outfit with few members and little clout in the ACS. The books and ledgers had been immaculately kept. Bill Bailey kept loose records and scattered figures, but he surely was a good idea man. The Division dues were $4, which included each year the two abstracts of Polymer Division papers at National ACS meetings.

Bill Bailey's objective was to increase the membership and recognition of the Division and he began, most naturally, with the polymer chemistry alumni of the University of Maryland and practically made each a part of the membership committee. He also called on many of his friends to help spread the word - what a bargain and how scholarly were the abstracts.

He and Mary also went after libraries and corporations. The price of the abstracts to these institutions was $6 each year - and back copies were available and patronage solicited. The records were kept on 3 x 5 cards (remember those?) and although some were skeptical of the idea that libraries would want the abstracts, the list of subscribers was considerable - i.e., Harvard, Howard, Amoco, Asiatic Petroleum and Labratorie de Chimie Macromolecular.

Solicitation letters were assembled on the ping pong table in the Bailey recreation room with the help of the Bailey children, ages approximately 9, 6 and 5, and neighbor children who were entranced with the activity and the wages - 10 cents per hour, plus a coke.

Those notes were written by Mary Bailey, who remembers vividly those frantic and rewarding days."

Jack_Elliott (Chairman, 1969)

"I was attracted to the period from 1966 to 1972 as one of change and growth for the Divisions and for the formation of the Secretariat, conceived as the vehicle for further cooperation of Divisions in fostering broader discipline participation in selected subjects and a breadth of coverage that the five divisions that joined forces for the Secretariat programs provided.

Each Symposium brought together five divisions, that covered basic and exploratory research, development, rises and marketing - that is a "state of the art" coverage of such subjects as "adhesives", "styrene", and "high temperature polymers".

The symposia were organized with an eye to emphasizing a subject that was about ready for a surge in activity and probably some new directions would emerge.

The fact that the Secretariat has been in operation for some 15 years, attests to the viability of this concept.

To me, the most important result is the mixing of people, disciplines, problems and goals that work towards an objective in the field of Macromoleculars for several days.

The second most important result is the broadening of the skills and interests of individuals in related work that will benefit their own growth in doing better work themselves and benefits that multi discipline approaches almost invariably generate.

From a personal point of view, the Secretariat for Macromolecules
helped me meet and work with some really fine people.

Some examples:

Jesse Hwa - took the first poll of interests of members of a Division of the ACS - the Polymer Division.

Otto Vogl - co-generator of the Secretariat for Macromolecules.

Ten others that met at such places as Colby Jr. College in New Hampshire and the Holiday Inn in Springfield, MA".

Jesse_C.H._Hwa (Chairman, 1973)

"In the 60's, business of the Polymer Division was conducted in the late afternoon (after most of the technical sessions were completed) in the Chairman's motel or hotel room. A representative meeting, I recollect, was one held in Stocky's (W. Stockmayer) bedroom in 1968. Those present were Bill Cass, Stretch Winslow, Ed Fettes, Bill Bailey, Jack Kinsinger, Maurice Morton, myself and perhaps one or two others. Honestly, the room was not very big. We had to sit on the floor, leaning against the wall or the bedpost, and somehow survived those hours of half-torture. At the end of that meeting, someone got wise and said "Maybe we could ask ACS to give us a meeting room next time."

When I was nominated as Secretary in 1968, my name was the only one on the ballot. Ray Boyer was the Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Either he was too busy to find another name, or he and Bill Cass conspired, which they got away with.

Bill Cass, my predecessor as Secretary, spent untold hours for the Division. Anyone who attended technical sessions in the late 60's probably could recall that Bill would sit alone at the desk in front of the doors to the sessions, selling Preprints and signing up new members, on all five days of the ACS meeting, from morning until the end of the day. What most people do not know is that Bill and Adelaide would personally stuff and lick some 3,000 envelopes for each mailing of the Polymer Newsletter. Bill also collected all the Preprint manuscripts and supervised the printing and mailing of Preprints. For library subscriptions, Bill had invested $3 on an addressograph gadget, two pieces of wood and some nails from his garage. With a handyman's touch, voila, a hand crankable stamping machine was made that took care of the labels for library subscriptions. Simple, just press that bar 300 times and slip in a new plate each time. When I drove to Bill's home outside Boston to inherit the Secretary's possessions in 1969, Bill presented that labelling machine to me with loving care.

As Chairman in 1973, the most difficult issue that confronted my office was the question whether to continue with the Biennial Symposium in 1974. The 1972 Biennial held in Ann Arbor was a disaster. The Biennial before that in Akron also suffered a loss. Too many meetings? Poor location? Poor accommodations? Not enough industrial topics? Those were the questions asked in a survey and thoroughly discussed by the Executive Committee. When the Committee finally voted yes in 1973 to try for "just one more time" at a then un-tested "far-away" location - St. Petersburg, Florida, I sighed in relief. That bold experiment has since led to better worlds.

The present organization of the Division was born on a yellow sheet. By the Spring of 1973, as Chairman, I found I had to communicate to literally 26 people. (Some committees had two co-chairmen; many new committees were created by myself as Secretary and Chairman). So I started to group the functions and scribbled the skeletal organization on a yellow pad. On one summer Sunday afternoon in 1973, Otto Vogl, then Chairman-Elect, and I drove to Jack Elliott's home (Past-Chairman) in Connecticut. After a round of martinis, I showed the yellow sheet to Otto and said: "Otto, I am thinking of organizing the Division in this way and announce it at the fall meeting. I will not do it unless you, as Chairman next year, support it and make it work. What do you think?" Otto looked at the chart and said: "Yes, I will support it."

Otto_Vogl (Chairman, 1974)

"To the best of my knowledge, my first interaction, other than membership, began with the invitation by Jack Elliott, who was then the Program Chairman, to join him on the Program Committee. This was around 1966 if I remember correctly. As a consequence, Jack also invited me to
the then Executive Committee Meeting, which was a very informal gathering, held in the hotel room of Bill Bailey in Atlantic City. Bill was then the Chairman or Chairman-Elect. Stretch Winslow was present and maybe two or three other people. Stretch was at that time the Past-Chairman.

This was the meeting of the Executive Board at that time. It was recognized that a membership drive was desired and Jesse Hwa was appointed the new Membership Chairman. He made some drastic changes. He appointed over 10 co-assistant chairman dividing the membership into regions. At this time, Jesse asked me to join them as Co-Chairman responsible for international memberships. This was my new activity and had somewhat of a autonomous character. Over the next two years, with a vigorous campaign, based on individual letter writing, to potential foreign members, I was able to increase the international membership, as we insisted on calling it, not foreign but international membership, from about 180 to about 540. This was done by writing about 800 individual letters; particular emphasis was given to the Japanese membership. All these activities were done based on list of attendees of people who have gone to IUPAC Meetings and addresses otherwise obtained. This was a substantial amount of work and then the secretary, Mary Alice Clark, had only limited interests in my apparently ridiculous activities.

In 1969, Jack Elliot became Chairman of the Division and a drastic modernization in the management of the Division took place. Over the last five years, Jack, Jesse Hwa, who then became Secretary, and I who became Treasurer, cooperated very closely in the modernization of the Administration of the Polymer Division. Initially, with the leadership of Jack Elliot, Jack appointed me in 1969 as the Nominating Chairman. We nominated Bill Gibbs and Anton Peterlin and Gibbs at that time, at the Air Force in Dayton, won handsomely and has been an asset to the Division ever since; as Chairman and later on, as Councilor. It should be recollected that Bill Gibbs had been already nominating Chairman, I believe in '62 or '63. Up to Bill Bailey's tenure, the Division had Secretary and Treasurer in one position. I believe Bill Bailey was the last Secretary Treasurer who held the position in one hand, and at that time Mary Bailey helped him substantially to do his job. It was found that this position had to be changed and Jack Kinsinger became Secretary or Treasurer, I believe, and ultimately had the chair after Elliot. In '69, a crisis in the Treasury occurred and Jack asked me whether he could use me as the Treasurer of the Division, which I accepted. This was much more than I had anticipated because the Treasury was in a very sad state. Most payments were found in shoe boxes and poorly registered. Furthermore, the three year membership for $12 as compared to the $5 individual membership for the year had become, although initially well conceived, a disaster in terms of administration. Because of poor bookkeeping, we did not know who had paid and who had not been paid and practically speaking we had to give everybody what they asked for, in terms of reprints and other services. Jane, my wife, and both children helped me substantially during this period, first in Wilmington and then after my departure to Amherst and also in Amherst to bring the Treasury into a workable form. Even so, it was very difficult to do, had it not been for the ACS's offer to put the
Division memberships on the computer and keep books in connection with the ACS membership. Although I resisted initially because this meant more control of the ACS over the Division, which I never liked too much, but it took a big load off our shoulders and by 1971, the Treasury was in sound shape. When I took over the Treasury, it had about $5,000 in reserves, and by very frugal and tight handling of the affairs, we were able to add about $2,500 a year to our reserves. It was still a very unsafe situation, because at that time, chartered flights were undertaken by Henry Z. Friedlander with budgets exceeding the total budget of the Division. This became quite intangible and by 1971, under the Chairmanship of Bill Gibbs, we decided a change must be made, and Bill with my help, engineered the Incorporation of the Division to take away the personal responsibility for any possible financial failure of the Treasury. In summary, the achievement as Treasurer, was to bring the Treasury from a bad situation to a sound computerized billing done in Washington.

During this period, '68 and '69, Jack Elliot and I, together with people of the Organics, Coatings and Plastics Division, like Ken Edwards, Lou Nowacki and Princen, we met in the University Club in New York. I had proposed to Jack in a letter earlier, that we form a loose association of polymer-oriented Division of the ACS, similar to the UN. After one or two meetings of this kind, the Macromolecular Secretariat was born, again under the strong management and leadership of Jack Elliot. He became the General Secretary. Subsequently, in '76, I became the General Secretary after having been one of the Founding Members in the Council for many years and more or less provided the "legal" counsel for this association. The founding individuals were most interested in and understood the need for the creation of the Secretariat and ultimately the functioning of the Secretariat. It had to be handled very carefully because of the anxiousness of the individual divisions believing that a super division would be formed. This actually was to some extent as our original intention, or even possibly create a polymer society separate from the ACS. However, this never turned out to be practical.

Kennedy became Chairman in '72 and Jesse Hwa in '73. Up to this time the triumvirate, Elliot, Jesse and I, have been functioning very well throughout three other Chairmanship's. As Jesse did with the Membership Committee, he also was a very creative in the organization and the reorganization of the position of the Secretary (even the Treasury became very burdensome and difficult to handle by one person). As Jesse took over as the Chairman of the Division, it became clear that it wasdifficult to have twenty-three committees reporting directly to the Chairman of the Division. Our desire was that more and more people got involved in Divisional Activities; in order to do that, committees were created and the size of the committees were enlarged to bring more people into the actual functioning of the Division.

By the end of Jesse's term, we had worked very closely together in the reorganization of the committees and their reporting structure. Not too long ago, Jesse and I chatted about "these days" and recalled that in November of '73 in Jack Elliot's house, we sat down to reorganize the Division, and when I became Chairman, I issued the first "Organizational Chart" with a Line Organization. We would have to look into our records to see how in detail it was organized, but it became clear that we wanted to have individual committees reporting through elected officers and members of the Executive Committee to the Chairman. Practically speaking, last Chairman, Past Chairman, Secretary, and the Treasurer became the heads of a super-committee. This had become necessary because several committees had split off, for example, membership booth, the distribution manager of the Preprints, public relation manager and others.

During my year as Chairman, I created three committees, the Committee on Awards. The other committee was the Committee of Archives to which I appointed Ulrich to head this committee. I headed during my Chairmanship a Symposium on the History of the Polymer Division at the National Meeting, again in Atlantic City. The third committee was created which was called Intersociety Society Relations Committee. This committee was later on split into Domestic and Foreign; the latter now has emerged recently as the Foreign Affairs Committee.

After finishing my term as the Chairman, I retained the Intersociety Committee and after it was split, the foreign part of the Committee. De Facto, I was since 1975 the Foreign Minister of the Division of Polymer Science. Foreign relations in sound fiscal planning and execution were the major thrusts in my activity in the Division, first as International Membership Chairman, as Treasurer and later as the one preparing and executing Treaties with other societies.

The first treaty made with the Society of Polymer Science of Japan was very important because it was executed with Professor Furukawa's help and signed during my Chairmanship by Professor Kambara of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the then President of the Society of Polymer Science Japan. We have had a close relationship with this society for the last ten or eleven years, primarily because of the individuals involved and secondarily because the Japanese had a great deal of interest interacting with us for our mutual benefits. This treaty required close cooperation in various phases of Science and meetings; it ultimately ended up with the Japanese joining us in the first Japanese-U.S. Symposium at the Biennial Symposium in Palm Springs in 1980.

Agreements of minimum cooperation were also signed with the French group, Italian group and the German group, although these cooperative efforts never amounted to too much, because the Secretaries of our organizations involved never followed up the agreements properly.

Very recently, I have been active in trying to develop an agreement of cooperation with the Australians, the Chinese and the British Polymer Divisions. It looks that all three groups will ultimately cooperate. A new creation of this a polymer group in Scandinavia, with Ranby as the head, looks promising. We maybe able to reach an agreement of cooperation with the Scandinavians. Ultimately, it will be desirable to make full contact with the European Federation of Polymer Societies, but this organization is not well enough organized.

Much help was given to me recently in the negotiations with the British, Scandinavian and even with the President of the Austrian Chemical
Society in relation to the Austrian polymer group by Jane Vogl, the Office Manager of the Division. The reception by the Chinese Chemical Society and the meetings with the representative of their Polymer group, although it is not yet formally organized, was also effective.

This discussion concludes and spans my service to the Division of Polymer Chemistry. It is gratifying to see that the Division has doubled in size of the membership, but increased by a factor of 15 in financial resources, increased in scope, span and visibility greatly by involving many more people of dedicated workers. The development of a number of excellent workshops, much better Biennial Symposia in desirable locations and much greater breadth in the symposium programs. I feel that I am responsible for having brought into the Division and the Division's activities, a number of people that have achieved a high standard, they include: Carl Wooten, Fred Bailey, Joe Salamone, Vivian Stannett and Guy Donaruma.

I wish to comment also on what I think are the people that have carried the Division throughout the years. It was the important period of 1956 to 1964, with Stretch Winslow, first as Secretary/Treasurer, and then as the Chairman. Stretch brought the Division from 400 to 1,200 and created in 1960, the Polymer Preprints. It was Bill Bailey who took the membership from about 1,200 to 3,500 and separated the Secretary and Treasury. It was the triumvirate Jack Elliot, Jesse Hwa and myself, who brought the organization to a well organized modern organization with Line Organization, financial and scientific planning and effective communications throughout the world, high recognition within the ACS and on an international scale, and creation of programs of high visibility. The leadership of Joe Salamone, first as Treasurer and later as Chairman, who brought the financial situation from a barely profitable organization to a very sound organization and who ultimately created the very much needed national Business Office of the Division in 1983. The stability that Ed Vandenberg brought to the Secretary's position and the increased imagination in planning and in the Treasury by Stan Israel should also be highly regarded."

Fred_Bailey (Chairman, 1976)

"I had a conversation with Maury Huggins. According to Maury, at about this time when the fall meeting was in Atlantic City, several polymer chemists were getting ready to leave town at the end of the meeting. Now, please go to the closet and get out your "Monopoly Game Board" which you may not have looked at recently. In that era, one came to and went from Atlantic City by railroad and four served Atlantic City (the four noted on the Monopoly Board). According to Maury, he, Paul Flory, Carl Marvel, Herman Mark, Ray Fuoss and a few others were waiting in the station bar for the train and having a few, after-the meeting drinks. The question came up as to why there was not a Polymer Division in the ACS and this group decided to try to form one.

I encountered the Division first at the Gordon Conference on Polymers (1957) at Colby Junior College when I was introduced to Field (Stretch) Winslow, who was to be Secretary of the soon to be formed Division. I was impressed that he knew everyone by name.

When I joined the Division in 1960, I still did not realize that it had just been formed and approved in the ACS and that it was such a new organization, though I had participated in the programs for a couple of years (San Francisco in 1958, for example).

Personally, I got to know many of the people in the Polymer Division at the Gordon Conference rather than at the ACS meetings. I met Otto, for example, under the Moreton Bay Fig Tree in Santa Barbara waiting for a taxi. Later, I invited Otto to attend the Gordon Conference on Polymer at Santa Barbara in 1972 and he invited me to be a candidate for the Polymer Division Chair in 1974.

I think I initiated the transformation of the Polymer Division into its present structural form during my Chair. In this, I continued an organizational development Jesse Hwa had started, but I added to it and separated the Vice-Chair and Chairman-Elect and organized the Board separate from the Executive Committee. Subsequently, I have been able in the ACS to gain for all Divisions, including the Polymer Division, financial allotments which rescued some Divisions from financial disaster and set Polymer on its current financially stable course without excessive levies on the membership".

Bill_M._Culbertson (Chairman, 1978)

"It has been my privilege to be associated with the Polymer Division, in some active capacity, since 1966. I believe it all started with Joginder Lal asked me to serve on the Memberhsip Committee (MC). When Jesse Hwa became Chairman of the MC in 1967, my participation in this area increased, becoming Chairman of MC myself in 1968. During the late 1960's we had a considerable grass roots effort to secure new members, with 130 MC members, including an international section. This strong effort by many members on the MC set a certain vitality level for the Division and greatly helped cement the strength of the Division within the ACS structure as it exists today.

My other areas of service in the Division include Program Committee Secretary, Program Committee Chairman, Division Chairman, Nominating Committee Chairman, Biennial Symposium Chairman (1988) and Editor of Polymer Preprints. In addition, as an elected Councilor for the Columbus Section for several years, I believe I had some impact in the Council of the ACS on some issue that were of great importance to the Division, such as Council Representation and financial support for division programs. From the perspective of 25-year involvement with the Division, a time of immense growth of membership, member involvement, greatly expanded programming, and financial health, I offer a few comments.

About the mid-1970's, a strong effort was launched to establish the Division's Polymer Chemistry Award, with the first recipient in 1976 being Paul J. Flory. During my term as Chairman in 1978, I was fortunate to have Eric Baer Chair the Special Grants Committee. Professor Baer secured long-term 100% funding of this award by Dow Chemical. These efforts culminated in allowing me the very enjoyable chore of presenting this first Dow-funded Polymer Chemistry Award to Carl S. Marvel. Since Professor Marvel was my "scientific grandfather", this was indeed a very enjoyable task. This long association with Dow, to fund the Polymer Chemistry Award, has been a highly focused and greatly appreciated aspect of each Biennial meeting since 1976.

The Special Awards Committee in 1978, under Eric Baer's leadership, developed other significant plans for the Division, i.e., the concept of Corporate Associates. This effort evolved into the current, highly valued Industrial Sponsors effort. With thirty-four (34) companies as Industrial Sponsors in 1990, the Division has great financial support for manyneeded educational projects.

The Division was authorized in 1978, by Council action in 1977, to have 4 Councilors and 4 Alternate Councilors. To make for proper rotation of this expanded councilor activity, we modified the unified slate to establish a 1-2-1 election rotation for these 8 offices. This practice has worked well to maintain strong Councilor and Alternate Councilor representation from the Division.

During my tenure as Chairman, a joint US-Japan Polymer Symposium was planned for the 1980 Biennial meeting in California. With the excellent leadership of Professors O. Vogl (POLY) and T. Tsuruta (SPSJ) acting as prime negotiators for the two societies, followed by the late W.J. Bailey selected as General Chairman for the meeting, a truly outstanding Biennial meeting occurred in Palm Springs in November 1980. I well remember being the home plate umpire for a baseball game played between SPSJ attendees and POLY attendees. It was a truly spirited game and all had great fun, with the US team holding on to win due to the good pitching of W.J. Bailey. To this day I don't think I made any friends with my calling action at home plate. Oh well, such is the life of an umpire!

During the time I was Chairman, there was unrest in the U.S. scientific community regarding Soviet conduct on human rights. Within the U.S. polymer community, this resulted in some attempts, by influential polymer scientists, to organize action to protest Soviet policies. For example, a strong effort was put forth in a letter-writing campaign by some Division members to prevent other members from attending the October 1978 IUPAC meeting, who were few in number, with those trying to achieve a complete boycott by U.S. scientists. In this situation I had to write several letters to key people, on both sides of the issue and get others also to write letters, asking everyone to try and cool the affair. After some months, cool heads prevailed and the hard feelings between different parties started to die. As I look back this was one of my more difficult tasks as Chairman. Who would have predicted, at that time or even last year, the changed USSR of today.

In closing, Joe Salamone is responsible for my becoming Polymer Preprints Editor in 1982. In this position, as well as all the jobs I have held in the Division, the key words people and rewards come to my mind In fact, these same key words come to my mind when someone recently questioned how I could remain active in the Division for 25 years. My life has been greatly enriched because of the many people around the world I have been able to get to know and work with on Division affairs. Many I today count as friends I would not have known had I not become involved with the Division. What a reward! Often the thought has come to my mind that polymer chemists are a unique family of scientists. I can look back and see, many times, where this thought was reinforced. For example, the unique feeling of family by attendees at the 9th Biennial meeting in Key Biscayne, Florida, when Professor Marvel received the Polymer Division

Award. Or, the unique feeling of family at the 14th Biennial when the Polymer Division Award recipient, Professor Walter Stockmayer, participated with William J. McKnight and Bruno Zimm to entertain the attendees with various musical arrangements. Yet, again, the great loss felt by the world polymer community at the untimely deaths of Professor John K. Stille and William J. Bailey. Friendships developed, membership in a unique family of scientists, and enhanced professional growth are huge rewards I know I have reaped from extended, active participation in the Polymer Division."

Eli_M._Pearce (Chairman, 1980)

"In perspective, when one looks back, there are a number of small incidents which become significant without which other events might not have occurred. This is the case for my involvement with the ACS and the Division of Polymer Chemistry.

I graduated with my Ph.D. from Brooklyn Poly in 1958 having completed my thesis in anionic and cationic polymerization with Charles G. Overberger. I had been a DuPont Fellow at Poly and I'm sure that this influenced me, in part, to accept my first position with DuPont. Upon arriving at DuPont, I realized that they valued professional interactions, and I asked Overberger to help me with this. He had me appointed to the Education Committee when Maurice Morton was its chair. This allowed me to attend each ACS meeting through those years. Subsequently I chaired this Committee and we began to expand its activities. Otto Vogl was very involved with the leadership during this period, and he encouraged me to become CommitteeChairman and eventually Divisional Chairman. During the early years as Committee Chairman, Joe Salamone, Stan Israel, and Charles Carraher (Education Committee Chair of ORPL) met in Atlantic City and we formulated the concept of a Joint Polymer Education Committee which subsequently was implemented. I enjoyed various opportunities of working with Joe Salamone during this period because once a concept was formulated, it was then actually done. Thus, among the areas I was able to work with him and Stan Israel, besides the Education Committee activities, was the introduction of the Divisional Workshops and free tutorials preceding symposia at the ACS meetings.

Another particularly fruitful relationship in regard to my Divisional and ACS careers was William (Bill) Bailey. He not only encouraged me in
many different ways, but through his efforts I was appointed to the Committee on Professional Training and the Petroleum Research Board. Bill was my ACS mentor, and at this time when I am running for President of the ACS, I especially miss his advice and counsel.

My professional career in the ACS and the Divisions have been influenced foremost by Charles G. Overberger who has always served as a model, and has been my friend during my entire professional career.

The ACS and the Division both enhanced my enjoyment and accomplishments during my career, and I look forward to continuing my involvement and service as a way of showing my gratitude for all it has given to me."

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