Northeastern Section of the ACS
Annual Board Meeting
Written Reports
Pfizer Inc., Cambridge MA
1/12/12
Members and guests in Attendance: M. Chen, J. Driscoll, P. Gordon, M. Hoffman, J. Larese, K. Lee, R. Lichter,
J. Piper, L. Shao, M. Schwartz, M. Singer, M. Strem, R. Tanner.
The meeting was called to order at 4:10pm with P. Gordon as the Chair.
The minutes from January 2011 Annual Meeting were approved as presented.
Chair: P. Gordon
 My thanks for the continued support of the Board; our support this year to ACS national programming continues to be exemplary.
 The following programs/activities are noteworthy: The German Exchange program, The Connections to
Chemistry and NCW programs, The Cape Cod Science Cafes, The Government Affairs involvement, The
ACS Fellows program, The ACS coaches Program and of, Course, IYC celebration.
 There is a need to expand the number of volunteers in the section, including the YCC.
 Anticipate nominating many more ACS Fellows in 2012
Chair Elect: R. Tanner
 No written report
Secretary: M. Singer
 No written report
Treasurer: J. Piper
 See Treasurer’s report appended at the end of this report.
 To summarize o Currently there is $38K in the bank, compared to $39K this time last year. o Unreimbursed expenses of ~ $12K due from the Trustees. o Should end FY 2012 $12K in the black.
 Treasurer’s report was approved as presented.
Archivist: T. Frigo
 No written report
Trustees: M. Strem
 The annual report of the Trustees will be presented at the Feb 2012 meeting.
Councilors:
Councilor reporting
 No written report
Standing Committees
Budget Committee: J. Piper
 No written report
Awards: D. Phillips
NESACS 2011 ACS Fellows Committee
John McKew, Chair, Charles Kolb, Morton Hoffman, Robert Litcher, Mukund Chorghade, Dorothy
Phillips and Patrick Gordon (Ex Officio)
NESACS members among the 2011 Class of 213 ACS Fellows
• Catherine E. Costello, Boston University School of Medicine
• Peter C. Dedon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Thomas R. Gilbert, Northeastern University
• Dudley R. Herschbach, Harvard University
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• Esther A. H. Hopkins, Polaroid (Retired)
• Russell P. Hughes, Dartmouth College
• Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David M. Lemal, Dartmouth College
• Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Patricia Ann Mabrouk, Northeastern University
• John L. Neumeyer, Harvard Medical School
• Barry B. Snider, Brandeis University
• Steven R. Tannenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• John C. Warner, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
2011 Henry A. Hill Award
Sub-committee: Dorothy Phillips, Doris Lewis, Michael Sanger, Ruth Tanner, Don Richter, Morton
Hoffman
Recipient: Stephen A. Lantos; award presented at NESACS meeting, October 11, 2011.
Article in Nucleus, October 2011(see below); recipient’s picture on cover of Nucleus December 2011
2011 Henry A. Hill Award to Stephen Lantos
Ref. The Nucleus Vol. XC, No. 2, October 2011 p.15
The recipient of the Henry A. Hill Award for 2011 is Steve Lantos, Chemistry Teacher and Director of
Summer School at Brookline High School, Brookline MA. The Hill Award is presented annually to a member of the Northeastern Section of ACS (NESACS) for meritorious service to the Section and to the profession of chemistry. Steve has served as Chair of the High School Education Committee since
1993 and as a Board member from 1999 to date. He began his second term as Director-at-Large in
2007. He coordinated the High School Day Program at the 2002 and 2007 ACS fall national meetings in Boston. NESACS honored Steve for excellence in teaching chemistry with the 1991 Aula Laudis and the 2005 Richards Award. He received Brookline Foundation’s Caverly Award as the 2004
Teacher of the Year. He was honored in 2006 with a Fulbright scholarship for study in Japan. Steve also works with the United States National Chemistry Olympiad as the Chairperson for Lab Practical
Task Force (since 2000) and as a team mentor. Steve earned his B.S. degree from the University of
Michigan and his M.S. degree from Tufts University.
Recognition of 50- and 60-year ACS members, NESACS meeting, October 11, 2011
50-Year Members
Stanley James Adelstein
Francis J. Bullock
James N. Butler
George E. Chabot
Paul L. Damour
Carl Derderian
Lowell H. Hall
William K. Henze
Dorothy Higgins
Theodore Jochsberger
Andrew J. Kelly
Roy Louis Kisliuk
Ira S. Krull
Richard A. Laursen
Robert L. Lichter
Sin Shong Lin
Alkis C. Makrides
Frank A. Meneghini
F. Robert Rolle
Joseph B. Rosenberger
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Carl W. Seidel
Haig Vartanian
Manfred Weigele
Stephen J. Weininger
Jean King Whelan
David A. Williams
Barbara G. Wood
60-Year Members
Arthur P. Alexander
Karl Brack
Edwin B. Carton
John Figueras
Edmund J. Freeman
Ethan C. Galloway
Bennett S. Gesmer
Frederick S. Holahan
Martin Idelson
H. E. Knipmeyer
George C. Krusen
Victor M. Kumin
Roger J. Labrie
Jack L. Lapuck
Giuglio Lopolito
Betty H. Palm
George Rendina
Charles A. Rossiter
Dietmar Seyferth
Elizabeth R. Simons
Stephen J. Tauber
Alfred Viola
NESACS Education Committee Awards
Presented at the May 12, 2011 Education Night Awards
DR. PHYLLIS A. BRAUNER MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD
Jiazuo “Henry” Feng ( Boston University), Mark W. Grinstaff, Advisor
“Functionalized Nanoparticles: Old Drugs, New Tricks”
”
Jiazuo "Henry" Feng (Boston University), at right, with Marietta Schwartz
(University of Massachusetts Boston), Chair, NESACS Education Committee,
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at left, and Susan Brauner
THEODORE WILLIAM RICHARDS AWARD
The 2011 Theodore William Richards Award for excellence in teaching high school chemistry was presented to Parul Kumar (Lexington High School). She was honored with a certificate of recognition and a $1500 cash prize .
Parul Kumar (Lexington High School), at right, with Steve Lantos (Brookline
High School), Chair, NESACS High School Education Committee
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2011 Arno Heyn Book Award
Selected by NESACS Board of Publication
Ref. The Nucleus, Vol. XC, No. 3 November 2011, p11.
Harvey Steiner was been selected to receive the 2011 Arno Heyn Book
Prize. This prize was created in 2005 to honor the late Arno Heyn. Previous winners of the award have been Mark Spitler and Sam Kounaves (2005), Vincent
Gale (2006), Vivian Walworth (2007), Myron Simon (2008), Arthur
Obermayer (2009) and Donald Rickter (2010). Harvey has been a critical part of
The Nucleus team for twenty years as the owner of Art Related Technology.
His job has been to work closely with The Nucleus editor and to transform the original content and rough layout provided by The Nucleus editor into final files for submission to the printer and the NESACS webmaster. Harvey has been the main interface between the printer (currently Turley Printing of
Palmer, MA) and The Nucleus . Harvey has provided many years of continuity in the production of The Nucleus, which has been a key factor enabling stable and timely production of The Nucleus . This was especially true during the unsettled time when Arno Heyn’s illness resulted in multiple changes in editors (Chorghade, Spitler,Filosa) over a one-year period. Harvey’s long history producing the final Nucleus copy simplifies the editor’s job to managing content and layout. The editor does not have to worry about the technical details of producing a professional newsletter.
Harvey has played a critical role in bringing new editors up to speed and deserves a great deal of credit for the continued excellence of The Nucleus.
In addition to our awardee, our section has been fortunate in having many skilled, conscientious people who have created what has been long considered the best newsletter among the local sections of the ACS. Vince Gale, Mark
Spitler, Sam Kounaves, Mukund Chorghade, Don Rickter, Sheila Rodman,
Mindy Levine, Myke Simon, Vivian Walworth, and Mike Filosa are just a few of these talented people. Arthur Obermayer made the historic step of starting the NESACS website in 1996. It was one of the first local section websites in the ACS. Many people are needed to put together The Nucleus as reporters, photographers, copy editors, writers, and proofreaders. New volunteers to maintain and improve it are welcomed.
The Heyn Book Prize was awarded at the NESACS November meeting at Astra-Zeneca in Waltham,
MA.
Local Arrangements: M. Burgess
 No written report
Chemical Education: M. Schwartz
Education Committee Members
Marietta Schwartz, Chair Undergraduate Programs
Stephen Lantos High School Subcommittee Chair
Morton Hoffman Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Boston University.
Ruth Tanner Professor, UMass Lowell
The following programs for 2011 are described in the 2011 Education Committee Report :
 James Flack Norris/Theodore William Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships. (Edwin
Jahngen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Chair).
 The Tenth Undergraduate Environmental Research Symposium. Cosponsored by the Education
Committee of the Northeastern Section ACS et al., and Coordinated by Edward Brush et al from
Bridgewater (MA) State College (BSC).
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 The Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (XIII). Sponsored by the Education Committee of the Northeastern Section ACS and the Younger Chemists Committee of the Northeastern Section
 Grants -in -Aid to Undergraduates
 Connections To Chemistry (Marietta Schwartz, Chair)
 ACS Scholars Program
 YCC/NESACS –JCF/GDCh German Exchange (Michael Strem, Strem Chemicals, Chair, Ruth Tanner,
Morton Hoffman, and YCC Members)
 Avery A. Ashdown High School Chemistry Examination Contest (Committee: Steve Lantos, Chair; Peter
Nassiff)
 United States Chemistry Olympiad Team (Section Coordinator: Steve Lantos)
 Lyman C. Newell Grants (Ruth Tanner & NEACT members)
 Aula Laudis Society (Harvey Gendreau, Chair)
 Theodore William Richards Award (Steve Lantos, Chair; with NESACS Awards Committee)
Board of Publications: M. Mahaney
 No written report
Nucleus Editor: M. Filosa
 No written report
Web Report: M. Levine
 No written report
Constitution & By-laws: C. Costello
 No written report
Membership: M. Chen
A total of 929 new members joined Northeastern Section of American Chemical Society on
2011 and 848 “Welcome New Member” letters were sent during 2011. There were about 70 new members who attended our Local Section Monthly Dinner Meetings during 2011.
New members list was received from Karen Piper (Business Manager of the NUCLEUS) on the dates as follows:
Month Date New Transferred Totals
Members Members
January
January
February
9
26
16
48
33
46
23
26
31
71
59
77
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
21
29
28
27
28
16
23
21
22
27
65
62
32
27
24
28
29
55
51
53
18
24
20
17
28
51
44
39
27
28
83
86
52
44
52
79
73
94
78
81
Total 553 376 929
The purpose of the membership committee is to welcome new members, assist and support our members in need and refer them to the appropriate resources; monitor membership in our section and recommend chemists and chemical scientists for membership, especially students in colleges and universities.
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More new members are interested in employment opportunities and job information. Some are interested in the
National Chemistry Week, others are interested in Government Relations, Hospitality and other functions. New members are integrated by assigning them specific functions.
The committee worked closely with Mrs. Karen Piper, Business Manager of The Nucleus . She supplied the new members’ roster. Our Editor of The Nucleus , Dr. Michael Filosa, placed a short note in the monthly issues of The Nucleus to invite the New Members to our monthly dinner meetings. Our section secretary, Anna Singer is in charge of reservations of the monthly dinner-meeting.
A sample copy of my “welcome letter” to new members is attached.
March 21, 2011
Dear Colleague,
Congratulations on joining the American Chemical Society and its Northeastern Section. Welcome aboard!
We intend to make sure your decision to join was a wise one. We also provide you with a broad range of services and opportunities to help you personally and professionally.
I would like to invite you to be a guest of our section at one of our monthly dinner-lecture meetings of your choice. Our dinner-lecture meetings are usually held on the second Thursday of each month (September through May). Social hour is at 5:30 pm, dinner is at 6:30 pm., with a guest speaker to follow . The lectures are on a drop-in basis; reservations are necessary for dinner.
Our next monthly dinner meeting is for the Gustavus J. Esselen Award dinner meeting on April 14, 2011 at
Harvard Faculty Club, 21 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA. 5:30 pm-Social hour; 6:30pm-Dinner. Free Parking in
Broadway Street Garage (3 rd level or higher), enter from Cambridge Street via Felton St.
At 8:15 pm, Esselen Award is at Pfizer Hall(MB 23)-Mallinckrodt Building12 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA. The
Esselen Award recipient is honoring Dr.
Arthur J. Nozik , Senior Research Fellow at the National renewable
Energy Laboratory. Professor Adjoint in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Topic: Prospects and Novel Approaches for the Low Cost Power Conversion of Solar Photon to
Electricity and Solar Fuels
For dinner reservations, please contact our section secretary, Anna Singer at 781-272-1966 (voice or Fax) or Email: secretary@nesacs.org
no later than Friday, April 8th, a week before the Dinner Meeting and let her know that you are a new member. We welcome your participation and look forward to meeting you. If you would like to volunteer for any NESACS Committee (listed in The Nucleus or online), please let Anna know. Thank you.
Information about our monthly meetings will be provided through the Nucleus, our monthly publication. Have you received a copy of the Nucleus? If not, please contact our Business Manager of the Nucleus, Karen Piper at 978-456-8622 or E-mail: piper28@attglobal.net
Once again, welcome to ACS and the Northeastern Section!
Sincerely yours,
Michaeline F. Chen - Chair, Membership Committee Northeastern Section, ACS
E-mail: mfuchen@verizon.net
Tel: 781-235-5201
Nominations: J. McKew
 No written report
Professional Relations: M. Chorghade
 No written report
Public Relations: J. Driscoll
I was appointed as Public Relations Chairperson starting in Oct. 2011 but there were a number of activities that we organized prior to Oct. 2011.
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Outstanding Achievement Award presentation from NESACS to Jack Driscoll for “Visionary efforts to improve the practice of industrial hygiene including the development of the first handheld pgotoionization detector”. The
Award Ceremony was sponsored by NESACS and the American Industrial Hygiene Association at the AIHCE conference in Portland, OR in May 2011.
Date:5/ /12
Press: Research & D evelopment, AIHA News, Physics Today…, Cape Cod Times (June 23, 2011)
Attendance: 52 people including the Chair of the Local OR section.
Links: http://bit.ly/rXuTZ1 ,
Jennifer Maclachlan approached Mort Hoffman about o rganizing a Science Café on Cape Cod. Mort indicated that NESACS would sponsor a series of Café’s under the auspices of International Year of Chemistry (IYC) activities. These activities would be multipurpose and would provide a meeting place for southern MA NESACS members and bring science related activities to Cape Cod residents. We decided on four Science Cafes that were related to IYC activities for each quarter.
The Cape Cod Science Café’s were sponsored by NESACS and PID Analyzers, LLC
Science Café #1 Theme: Water (IYC event)
Three presentations:
Date: March , 2011 (after two postponements due to snow storms)
A presentation by Krista Longnecker , of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on the Cape Cod Water supply
A presentation by Gong Min Lei of director of the Barnstable County Water Laboratory on Instrumentation and methods for testing Cape Cod water
Attendance 55 people
Press: Barnstable Hyannis Patch
Links: http://conta.cc/uUXaEp , http://bit.ly/rq3MHd , http://bit.ly/vgHDIc ,
Lead sources: NESACS list, Cape Cod Contacts & Constant Contact
Science Café #2 Theme: Alternate Energy Sources (IYC event)
Date: April
A presentation by Mort Hoffman on IYC
A presentation by Prof. Dan Nocera of MIT on “Alternative energy & Sustainability”
A presentation by Prof. Walter Johnson of Suffolk Univ. on “Comparison Solar and Wind Power at the Friedman
Field Station”
Attendance: 59 people
Press: Barnstable Hyannis Patch
Links: http://conta.cc/vRjBCL , http://on.fb.me/rPF7vS , http://bit.ly/tBCwtL , http://bit.ly/rqgKMG , http://bit.ly/s0qMIP ,
Hanover Day: Theme: Chemistry experiments for young children
Sponsored by NESACS- Christine Jaworek-Lopes had a booth at Hanover Day to display chemistry experiments
Date: June 2011 Jack Driscoll & Jennifer Maclachlan visited
Links: http://bit.ly/vE9qyl ,
Mass Spectrometry Group Local Boston Section
Family outing
Date: Aug. 25, 2011
Sponsored by NESACS
Attendance: 40 people
Press: Chelmsford Patch
Link: http://bit.ly/sjkHRq ,
Science Café #3 Theme: Recycling (IYC event)
Date: Oct. 2011
A presentation by Todd Marcus, Brewmaster and Owner of Cape Cod Beer, on “Sustainability and the Art of
Craft Beer”
Attendance: 55 people
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Press: Cape Cod Times Article (Oct. 2011), Barnstable Hyannis Patch,
Links: http://bit.ly/t8K91r , http://conta.cc/syQot4 ,
Science Café #4 Theme: Healthy Kids & Science for K-6 Grade Students
Chemistry Experiments including Blood chemistry with chemicals, pH of water samples & juices, sun screen beads, hand sanitizer, pH & other tests using cabbage juice etc.
Attendance: 150 students & parents
Press: Sandwich Enterprise (Dec.9, 2011), Barnstable Enterprise (Dec. 11, 2009), Cape Cod Times (Dec. 11,
2011), Sandwich enterprise (Dec. 16, 2011 photos from event)
Links: http://conta.cc/ua8OL8 , http://bit.ly/u7x7eW , http://bit.ly/t13WCv , http://bit.ly/zcHcqI
For additional information: search on the internet keyword: Cape Cod Science Café
National Chemistry Week- Oct. 23, 2011
Oct. 23 Museum of Science Demo & discussion by Bassam Shakhashiri (President Elect of ACS)
Oct. 24 Chemistry Connections for High School Teachers at Burlington High by NESACS
Oct. 27 Middle School & High School Teachers visit the Museum of Science with NESACS Chemistry Support
Oct. 29 Boston Children’s Museum with NESACS chemistrySupport
Overview of NCW: http://conta.cc/rBZ57s , http://bit.ly/rMd71O ,
Special Committees
Continuing Education: VACANT
 No written report
Fundraising: VACANT
 No written report
Government Relations:D. Lewis
 No written report
Esselen Award: H. Mayne
 No written report
IYC 2011: M. Hoffman
The role of the Committee was to gather information about IYC activities from the websites of the ACS, the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), and the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), and to disseminate that information to the NESACS membership via articles in The NUCLEUS , items on the NESACS website, and announcements at monthly meetings of the Section. The IYC logo appeared on the cover of all the issues of The NUCLEUS in 2011, and reports of IYC activities (with photographs) were published therein and presented at the meetings of the NESACS Board of Directors. Funding in the form of mini-grants was provided for events from the 2011 NESACS budget.
In addition, NESACS activities were introduced on the official IUPAC website for IYC
<www.chemistry2011.org>.
During 2011, the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) will sponsor meetings, lectures, seminars, science cafés, and outreach activities to young people and the general public in order to celebrate IYC within Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire. NESACS is one of the 190 local sections of the American Chemical Society (ACS). With more than 7,000 members, it encompasses Eastern
Massachusetts and all of New Hampshire; it is contiguous with the Rhode Island, Central Massachusetts,
Maine, and Vermont local sections. During 2011, NESACS will celebrate IYC with monthly meetings, lectures, seminars, science cafés, workshops for high school teachers, and outreach activities for young people and the
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general public. It is anticipated that many thousands of individuals will be impacted directly and indirectly by the message of the importance of chemistry to their lives. Topics: celebrating chemistry, chemistry education, seminars, hands-on activities, workshops, sustainable and green chemistry, science fair. Audiences: students, professional chemists, professors, general public, educators, industrial chemists, teachers, research scientists, women chemists.
The following summarizes the IYC activities of the Northeastern Section during 2011:
January 13, 2011 The 911 th Meeting of NESACS
The meeting took place at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly Sepracor, Inc.) in Marlborough, MA., jointly with the Central Massachusetts Section, to celebrate the beginning of IYC. Presiding at the after-dinner meeting was Dr. Liming Shao, Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Sunovion, and Chair of the Medicinal
Chemistry Subsection of NESACS. Welcoming remarks were made by Mr. Nobuhiko Tamura, Executive Vice
President and Chief Scientific Officer of Sunovion, Dr. John Williams, Chair of the Central Massachusetts
Section, and Dr. Patrick Gordon, Chair of NESACS. Approximately 100 attendees heard Prof. J. Woodland
Hastings of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, speak on Bioluminescence:
Many Different Evolutionary Origins, Different Genes and Proteins, But Similar Chemical Intermediates .
February 22, 2011 The 912 th Meeting of NESACS
The meeting took place at the Holiday Inn in Brookline, MA. Approximately 60 people braved the piles of snow to hear ACS President Nancy Jackson of Sandia National Laboratories speak on The State of Chemistry in the
International Year of Chemistry ; she stressed the importance of chemistry toward the solving of the most important global challenges.
March 1, 2011 Cape Cod Science Café
The IYC FirstQuarter Cape Cod Science Café (Topic: Water Purity and Sustainability) was held at the Hyannis
Golf Club. The theme of the meeting was Protecting the Water Supply on Cape Cod , and featured the following speakers: Dr. Krista Longnecker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, A Scientific Perspective of Water on
Cape Cod , and Susan Rask, Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, Nitrogen and the Cape
Cod Coastal Water Quality . Event sponsors included The Town of Barnstable, The Cape Cod Commission,
Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment, and PID Analyzers, LLC. The event received extensive press and electronic coverage, and was enthusiastically received by the approximately 30 people in attendance. Dr. Jack Driscoll and Jennifer Maclachlan of PID Analyzers LLC, organized the event.
March 10, 2011 The 913 th Meeting of NESACS
The meeting took place in the Executive Dining Room of the School of Management at Boston University. Prof.
Peter Mahaffy of King’s University College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, spoke about The International Year of Chemistry: Our Life, Our Future to approximately 80 attendees. He provided a view of the history and focus of IYC, its global scope, and examples of activities that a designed to highlight the central importance of chemistry in our lives and our future. Earlier in the day, Prof. Mahaffy was interviewed by Amanda Yarnell,
Assistant Managing Editor, C&EN .
March 11, 2011 Public Lecture by Peter Mahaffy in Celebration of IYC
Prof. Mahaffy met with members of the faculty and teaching staff in the Department of Chemistry at Boston
University over lunch, and provoked them with remarks on “Indigestible, uninteresting, and uninspiring!” Is it time to think “outside the boxes” about teaching and learning general chemistry?
Later, he presented a public lecture at Boston University on Changing Climate, Changing Understanding: Visualizing the Science of Climate
Change , where he des cribed the contributions to IYC activities that are being made by the King’s Centre for
Visualization in Science in Edmonton, of which he is co-director.
March 20-27, 2011 NSYCC Exchange Trip to Germany
A group of two undergraduates and ten graduate students of chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering (including materials science) at colleges and universities within the Section spent a week in
Germany as the guests of the Jungchemikerforum (Young Chemists Committee; JCF) of the Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society); also traveling with the group was Patrick Gordon (NESACS
Chair, Emmanuel College), Ruth Tanner (University of Massachusetts Lowell), John Podobinski (Cerulean
Pharma, Inc.), and April Jewell (NSYCC Chair, Tufts University). The visit included excursions to industrial, academic, scientific, and cultural institutions in the Nürnberg area, and the JCF student chemistry research conference ( Frühjahrssymposium ) at the University of ErlangenNürnberg, which provided the participants with the opportunity to engage in extensive networking with German and other European students, and to take part
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in discussions focused on careers, education, and international opportunities. Each student representative from
NESACS made a poster or oral presentation on his/her research at the Frühjahrssymposium .
April 14, 2011 The 914 th Meeting of NESACS
The Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest was presented to Dr. Arthur J. Nozik,
Senior Research Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Adjunct Professor, Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, at the meeting at Harvard University. After welcoming remarks by Dr. Arthur Obermayer, Chair of the Esselen Award Committee, reflections on the Award by Dr. Myron S. Simon, Founding Member of the Committee, and an introduction of the recipient by Dr. James
T. Hynes, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, and CNRS Director of
Research Emeritus, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, the Award was presented by Gustavus J. Esselen, IV.
Dr. Nozik spoke on Prospects and Novel Approaches for the Low Cost Power Conversion of Solar Photons to
Electricity and Solar Fuels . More than 100 members and friends attended.
April 29, 2011 Cape Cod Science Café
The IYC SecondQuarter Science Café (Topic: Alternative Energy and Sustainability) was held at the Hyannis
Golf Club. About 50 attendees heard the keynote speaker, Prof. Daniel Nocera (M.I.T.), and a presentation by
Jeffrey Wootan (Broadway Electrical Co., Boston). Prof. Walter Johnson (Suffolk University), who was scheduled to speak, was on a field trip with his students and was unable to be present; his slides were shown by Dr. Jack Driscoll (PID Analyzers), one of the hosts for the event. The event was sponsored by NESACS,
PID Analyzers, The Cape Cod Commission, and the Town of Barnstable, and was also hosted by Jennifer
Maclachlan (PID Analyzers).
April 30, 2011 Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC)
NSCRC, an IYC event organized by the Northeastern Section Younger Chemists Committee (NSYCC), was held in the Curry Student Center at Northeastern University with approximately 100 undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral research associates in attendance. The keynote lecture was given by Prof. Suzanne
Walker of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University on Structure, Function, and
Inhibition of Human O-GlcNAc Transferase.
Twelve oral presentations were made of which three were given by undergraduates; 60 posters were on display. The judges for the awards were Dr. Penny Beuning (Northeastern
University), Dr. Morton Hoffman (Boston University), Dr. Marietta Schwartz (University of Massachusetts
Boston), Dr. Yibin Xiang (Genzyme), Dr. Sharotka Simon (Brandeis University), and Dr. Andrew Scholte
(Genzyme), NSYCC Vice-chair. The following awards were presented:
Outstanding Oral Presentation Award: Joseph Wzorek (Harvard University)
Excellent Oral Presentation Award: Melissa Brulotte (Bridgewater State University)
Excellent Oral Presentation Award: Laura Brozek (Boston College)
Excellent Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award: Christopher Pace (Boston College)
Excellent Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation Award: Michael Lacy (Tufts University)
Graduate Women in Science Poster Presentation Award: Allison Greene (Boston College)
Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial Undergraduate Book Award: Jaizuo Feng (Boston University)
May 9, 2011 15 th Annual Andrew H. Weinberg Symposium
Dr. Peter Adamson, Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group and one of the leaders in the development of new therapies in childhood cancer, was the invited speaker at the symposium at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in
Boston. In his talk to approximately 50 attendees, Childhood Cancer Research: 21 st Century Science, 20 th
Century Clinical Trials , Dr. Adamson provided an overview of the current status of pediatric cancer research and outcomes and a critical outlook for the future.
May 12, 2011 The 915 th Meeting of NESACS
Education Night was celebrated at the meeting at Tufts University in the presence of 75 attendees. A panel discussion on Towards a Sustainable Energy Future with Profs. Deyang Qu and Jonathan Rochford of the
University of Massachusetts Boston and Prof. Michael Berger of Simmons College was followed by the presentation of the following awards: James Flack Norris/Theodore William Richards Awards for Excellence in
Teaching at the Secondary School Level; Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships; Undergraduate
Grants-in-Aid; Undergraduate Research Symposium, Phyllis Brauner Book Award; Project SEED Students;
Induction of new members into Aula Laudis ; Simmons College Prize; Avery A. Ashdown Chemistry Examination
Awardees.
May 12, 2011 Meeting of the Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling (BAGIM)
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The Grafton Street Restaurant in Cambridge, MA, was the venue of the meeting, which featured Dr. Jean-
François Truchon, Research Scientist at the Chemical Computing Group, as the speaker on How Integral
Equation Theory Fits Into the Drug Discovery Picture: The Solvent Slush .
May 15, 2011 Reception in Honor of Dr. Jack Driscoll, PID Analyzers, LLC
A reception was held at the American Industrial Hygiene Association conference at the Hilton Hotel in Portland,
OR, as part of a symposium on the commercialization of the technology of photoionization, which was in honor of Dr. Jack Driscoll (PID Analyzers) and his contributions to industrial hygiene monitoring instrumentation.
Symposium speakers included Geoffrey Hewitt (Ion Science Americas) on The History of Photoionization and the Early Days at HNU Systems, Inc.
, and Phillip Smith (USDOL-OSHA Salt Lake Technical Center) on The
Impact of Photoionization-based Instrumentation on the Field of Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Driscoll received a plaque from NESACS with the following inscription: “In recognition of your visionary efforts to improve the practice of industrial hygiene through development of highly portable detection instruments, including development of the first handheld photoionization detector, the HNU PI101, and numerous other handheld and transportable detection systems. Your work has had a large and lasting impact on the practice of industrial hygiene, and in other fields where the need exists to measure airborne chemicals in real-time or near realtime.”
May 19, 2011 NESACS Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
An afternoon symposium on New Developments in Anti-infective Research was held at the Holiday Inn,
Woburn, MA, for more than 200 scientists to discuss the current and future paradigms for the discovery of new anti-infective agents.
June 25, 2011 Celebrating Hanover (MA) Day
“Celebrating IYC at Hanover Day” in Hanover, MA, featured a table of hands-on activities on the use of sunscreen, acidbase chemistry, and water purification with PUR™ kits, supervised by students from Emmanuel
College and their mentor, Prof. Christine Jaworek-Lopes. Attendees made necklaces and bracelets from uvsensitive beads, and learned about the pH-dependent colored dyes in goldenrod paper. Copies of the Earth
Day edition of Celebrating Chemistry were distributed.
July 19, 2011 NESACS Golf Tournament
This annual event was held at the Wedgewood Pines Country Club in Stow, MA, with prizes for the longest drive, those closest to the pin, and first, second, and third place teams. Hole sponsorships were available at the following levels: B oron, O smium, S ulfur, T ritium, O xygen, N itrogen. There were about 35 participants.
August 25, 2011 Greater Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (GBMSDG) and NESACS Picnic in Celebration of IYC
The picnic in celebration of IYC was held in Chelmsford, MA. There were green science activities for the attendees, and the viewing of research posters from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS).
George Ruger, Chair of the Mid-Hudson ACS Local Section, also participated.
September 4, 2011 NESACS Celebrates IYC at Fenway Park
Approximately 100 members of NESACS, their families, and friends watched the Boston Red Sox begin their
September collapse with a 11-4 loss to the Texas Rangers.
September 8, 2011 The 916 th Meeting of NESACS
An all-day symposium, organized by NESACS and the Chemistry Graduate Program of the CGP-Doering
Foundation, was held at the Holiday Inn, Woburn, MA, in honor of the late Harvard Prof. William von Eggers
Doering. Almost 300 participants listened to many eminent speakers on Doering’s contributions to chemistry, education, and their development in China. The dinner speaker was Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen, Chair of the
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, on Asymmetric Catalysis as a Mechanistic
Tool: Probing non-Covalent Interactions .
October 11, 2011 The 917 th Meeting of NESACS
Almost 100 persons attended the meeting at Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Cambridge, MA, for the presentation of the Henry A. Hill Award for Outstanding Service to the Northeastern Section to Steve Lantos
(Brookline High School), the recognition of 50- and 60-year members of the ACS, and an address by Bill Carroll
(Occidental Chemical Corporation), 2005 ACS President) on The Chemistry Enterprise: Do We Have a Future or What?
October 21, 2011 Cape Cod Science Café
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The ThirdQuarter IYC Cape Cod Café (Topic: Sustainability in the Chemistry and Art of Craft Beer) was held at Cape Cod Beer of Hyannis, MA, which utilizes sustainable practices in their manufacturing as well as wholesale businesses. Brewmaster/President Todd Marcus discussed these sustainability practices, the chemistry of their craft beer, and how he made the transition from being an electrical engineer to becoming an entrepreneurial Brewmaster. The event, which attracted 60 participants, was sponsored by Cape Cod Beer,
NESACS, and PID Analyzers, LLC .
October 23, 2011 National Chemistry Week: Celebrating Chemistry – Our Health, Our Future!
This NCW/IYC event was held at the Museum of Science Boston. NCW volunteers were stationed throughout the museum to perform hands-on science activities with museum patrons, especially children; several hundred visitors participated. At 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., Bassam Shakhashiri, ACS President-Elect, presented the Phyllis A.
Brauner Memorial Lectures in the Cahners Theatre to approximately 300 attendees.
October 24, 2011 Connections to Chemistry
The 12 th annual NCW/IYC Connections to Chemistry event to help connect high school teachers with the numerous education resources that are available from the ACS was held at Burlington (MA) High School.
Approximately 100 teachers experienced the hands-on workshops on artificial photosynthesis, K-12 science standards, computer-based molecular modeling, and pH and human health, the keynote address by Bassam
Shakhashiri, ACS President-Elect, refreshments, and dinner. Chemistry education materials and three hours of professional development credit were received by the participants.
October 29, 2011 National Chemistry Week at the Boston Children's Museum
This NCW/IYC event at the Boston Children’s Museum featured NCW volunteers, who were stationed throughout the museum, performed hands-on science activities with more than 100 museum patrons, especially children.
November 10, 2011 The 918 th Meeting of NESACS
This meeting, which featured the presentation of the Arno Heyn Memorial Book Prize to Harvey Steiner (Art
Related Technology, Inc.), Production Manager of The NUCLEUS , by Mary Mahaney, Chair of the NESACS
Board of Publications, and the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Chemistry to Prof. Peter Mahaffy, Kin g’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Norris Award winner was introduced by Prof. Margaret-Ann Armour, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, the Award was presented by Kathleen Browne, Chair of the Norris Award Committee, and Prof. Mahaffey spoke on Should Atoms Come
First? Teaching Chemistry from Rich Contexts .
November 19, 2011 Undergraduate Symposium on Sustainability and the Environment
This annual event, which is dedicated to undergraduate environmental research and projects that address sustainability issues from a campus, regional, national, or global perspective, was held at Bridgewater State
University.
December 8, 2011 The 919 th Meeting of NESACS
The Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA, was the site of the meeting, which was organized by the Medicinal
Chemistry Group of NESACS and featured an afternoon symposium on Metabolic Disorders and
Cardiovascular Disease that attracted more than 100 attendees. The evening speaker was Prof. Thomas
Seyfried of Boston College, who spoke on Targeting Energy Metabolism in Brain Cancer .
December 11, 2011 Cape Cod Science Café
The FourthQuarter IYC Cape Cod Science Café (Topic: Health), which celebrated the theme, Chemistry: Our
Life, Our Health , was held at the Sandwich (MA) Public Library. Featured were hands-on science experiments and demonstrations with a focus on Healthy Kids for the 150 attendees, with food and non-alcoholic beverages provided by Marshland Restaurant. The event was sponsored by the Library, NESACS, and PID Analyzers,
LLC.
The following new activity is listed on the IYC website, NESACS Celebrates IYC+1 in 2012 , with the description,
“During 2012, NESACS will continue and expand upon its activities of 2011 under the umbrella of IYC+1.” The
IYC Committee will remain in operation during 2012 for the celebration of IYC+1 as approved by the NESACS
Board of Directors at its meeting of December 8, 2011.
Medicinal Chemistry Group: R. Rajur
 No written report
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National Chemistry Week: C. Jaworek-Lopes
 No written report
Norris Award: K. Browne
The Norris Committee chose Dr. Peter Mahaffy of King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as the 2011 recipient of the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of
Chemistry. the awards ceremony was held on Thursday, November 10, at Astra-Zeneca in Waltham, MA. The committee committee consisted of Kathleen Browne, Chair, Jerry Jasinski, Doris Lewis, Norbert Pienta, William
Polik, Jerry Mohrig and Mary Shultz.
NERM: M. Hoffman
No Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) was held in 2011.
The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Region of the American Chemical Society,
Inc., (NERACS) met in Anaheim on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, during the ACS national meeting. The following officers were present: Julianne Smist (Springfield College), Chair; Richard Cobb (Eastman Kodak), Vice Chair;
Christopher Masi (Westfield State College), Secretary; Wayne Jones (Binghamton University), Treasurer. Also present were Nikki Fisher of the ACS Regional Meetings Office, and representatives of some of the local sections within NERACS, including NESACS. The Committee received an interim financial report from Martin
Walker (SUNY Potsdam), General Chair of NERM 2010; presently there is a projected loss of a few thousand dollars that might be recovered when all the billing is resolved. Such a small loss would not pose a problem for the NERACS treasury. The Committee heard from Richard Hartmann (Nazareth College), General Chair of
NERM 2012, about the plans for the meeting on Sunday-Wednesday, September 30-October 3, 2012, at the
Radisson Hotel Riverside in Rochester, NY; see <http://nerm.sites.acs.org>. The meeting will be the occasion of the celebration of chemistry at Eastman Kodak and the 100 th anniversary of the Rochester Local Section.
The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of NERACS was held in Denver on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, during the ACS national meeting. The following officers were present: Julianne Smist (Springfield College),
Chair; Richard Cobb (Eastman Kodak), Vice Chair; Christopher Masi (Westfield State College), Secretary.
Treasurer Wayne Jones (Binghamton University) was unable to attend because of the start of classes. Also present were Nikki Fisher of the ACS Regional Meetings Office, and representatives of the following local sections within NERACS: Central Massachusetts, Connecticut Valley, Cornell, Eastern New York, Green
Mountain, Maine, Mid-Hudson, New Haven, Northeastern, Northern New York, Rochester, Syracuse. The
Board received final reports from the General Chairs of NERM 2009 (Julianne Smist) and NERM 2010 Martin
Walker (SUNY Potsdam), and voted to accept them with thanks, and close out those meetings. The Board heard further from Richard Hartmann about the plans for NERM 2012 in Rochester, NY. Bids were accepted from the New Haven Local Section to host NERM 2013 in New Haven, CT, and from the Cornell Local Section to host NERM 2015 in Ithaca, NY. Several local sections (Syracuse, Rhode Island, Binghamton, Maine) expressed interest to host a NERM during one of the following unassigned years: 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
In the election of officers, Julianne Smist and Richard Cobb were re-elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, for the 2012-13 two-year term.
The next annual meeting of the NERACS Board will be held during the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia in
August 2012.
Project Seed: C. Schnitzer
 No written report
Richard’s Award: R. Gordon
 No written report
Speakers’ Bureau: VACANT
 No written report
Summerthing: D. Lewis
 No written report
Women’s Chemist Committee: P. Mabrouk
 No written report
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YCC: H. Teng
 No written report
YCC / GDCh 2011 exchange: M. Strem / H. Teng
 No written report
BAGIM: K. Mattes
 No written report
ACS Fellows Nominating Committee: P. Gordon
 No written report
Old Business:
 None
New Business:
 None
The meeting was recessed to February 2012 for receipt of the Trustees Report at 4:25pm
Respectfully Submitted
Michael Singer
Secretary - NESACS
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Northeastern Section of the ACS
Monthly Board Meeting
Holiday Inn, Brookline MA
2/9/12
Members and guests in Attendance: M. Chen, C. Costello, J. Driscoll, M. Hoffman, J. Larese,
D. Lewis, J. Li, R. Lichter, Ka. Mattes, Ke. Mattes, P. Meltzer, D. Phillips, J. Phillips, L. Shao,
M. Singer, S. Su, R. Tanner, H. Teng.
The meeting was called to order at 4:35pm with R. Tanner as the Chair
Chair: R. Tanner
 The Annual Meeting of the Board of Director’s is reconvened for the purposes of accepting the Trustees Report.
Trustees: P. Meltzer
 See Trustees’ report appended at the end of this report.
 The total value of all accounts at the beginning of the year was $2,702,470.23 and at year end was $2,610,220.71. Expenses and withdrawals totaled $118,223.76.
 The Trustees’ 2011 report was approved as presented.
Auditor: A. Rosner (written report)
 The Auditor’s written report is appended at the end of this report
There being no other business to discuss the Annual meeting was adjourned at 4:35 PM.
Respectfully Submitted
Michael Singer
Secretary - NESACS
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NORTHEASTERN SECTION
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Operating Fund
2011
Balance 12/31/10 Operating Fund
INCOME
National Allotment
Travel Grants
Local Dues
From National
Affiliates
New-member Commission
Contributions
Corporate Gifts for Golf
Corporate Gifts Med Chem
Corporate Gifts YCC
Other Corporate Gifts
Program Fees
Ashdown
Connections to Chemistry
Golf Tournament
Project Seed
Continuing Education
Dinner Receipts
February
March
April
May
Medchem
BAGIM
September
October
November
December
Savings Interest
Miscellaneous
ACS for travel
GW IS
ACS for "claims"
Trustees: Cons. Acct.
Perm. Inc. Acct.
Norris Inc. Acct.
Richards Inc. Acct.
Publ. Inc. Acct.
Hill Inc. Acct.
Esselen Trust
Levins Award
Brauner Lecture Acct
Nationa l Meeting/NERM
Summer Programs
Baseball tickets
Advertising
Total Income
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
65,719.50
100.00
4,100.00
10,985.00
2,000.00
3,000.00
785.00
1,400.00
9,678.50
1,172.00
1,100.00
520.00
610.00
700.07
540.00
845.00
380.00
370.00
959.00
600.00
135.00
1,170.00
36,078.00
21,707.96
65,819.50
20,085.00
11,863.50
7,196.07
32.14
1,905.00
0.00
7,300.00
29,202.33
32,700.00
0.00
2,000.00
16,000.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
3,390.00
49,906.50
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39,101.30
305,186.00
344,287.30
============

EXPENSES
Chair
P. Gordon
NEACT
Business Office
Telephone
A+ Conferencing
Postage & Misc.
Treasurer
Postage
Comm of Mass.
Bank Fees/Check order
2009 CPA Review
Budget meeting
Paypal
FedEx
Piper Ent. expense
Archivist
Business office
Publication
NetNation
Roy Hagen
Nucleus
Telephone
Art Related Technology
Turley Publications
Permit Postage
Permit Fee
MBO Services
FedEx
M. Filosa
Piper Ent. expense
Piper Enterprises
Program
Wm Carroll lodging
Ballots
Natick Ctr Graphics
A+ Conferencing
Fundraising
A. Tapper/W edgewood Pines
Career Services
M. Chorghade, travel
Public Relations
L. Johnson
Education
Bridgewater State
ACS
M Schwartz-Book Award
J. Benton, Grant
BU - NSCRC
May dinners
Business office
Connections to Chem:
Sun Specialties
Burlington School Lunch
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
391.60
4,905.21
482.12
18,520.70
21,416.24
15,750.00
190.00
11,415.51
14.58
1,000.00
321.53
2,100.00
2,651.40
51.38
300.00
414.00
168.00
350.00
1,725.00
90.00
446.38
800.16
2,600.00
139.96
150.00
1,362.33
12.62
234.78
88.00
140.00
70.00
4,800.00
255.75
50.55
26.68
95.30
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289.96
1,609.73
5,526.28
40.98
5,296.81
71,210.68
200.00
2,702.78
8,106.00
264.10
270.00

Burlington custodians
ACS
Business office
Newell Awards
NEACT Summer Conference
Ashdown Awards
Awards
S. Lantos
P. Nassiff
May dinners
Business office
Continuing Education
Local Arrangements
Feb., Hol Inn
March, BU School of Mgt
Harvard, April
May, Tufts
Oct - Cambridge Brewing
Business office
Membership Committee
M. Chen
Piper Ent Expenses
Hill Award
NOBCChE 2010-11
Business office
Norris Award
Nat'l Award Banquet
Tufts. 2010
Flik Catering 2011
P. Gordon
K. Browne
Award
Travel
Business office
Nucleus:
Postage
Turley Publications
ART
Speakers Bureau
Norris/Richards Undergrad Res
Awards (4)
Institution Award (2010)
May dinners
Project Seed
Stonehill College
May dinners
Richards Medal
Creative Modeling
Esselen Award
S. Design Printing
Recognition Awards
Award
Nozik travel
Hynes travel
Flowers
71
795.00
50.00
1,308.43
500.00
84.59
238.16
945.00
419.15
5,369.62
6,490.00
945.00
2,243.25
1,282.50
85.96
511.83
136.87
2,000.00
196.08
1,170.00
9,722.00
4,987.92
109.95
255.65
3,000.00
1,719.79
558.76
1,750.00
2,078.39
1,450.70
12,000.00
500.00
45.00
2,500.00
90.00
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
72
73
603.03
15.00
5,000.00
1,643.18
1,618.50
527.50
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9,046.97
900.00
2,186.90
16,416.33
648.70
2,196.08
26,803.16
12,545.00
2,590.00
13,350.00

J. Laino, Photographer
D. Fleshler, PR
Harvard
E.J. Billo
Telephone
Piper Ent. expense
Piper Enterprises
Postage
2012 Expenses:
S. Design Printing
CDL Mail
Levins Prize
Sec. School Award
Award
May dinners
Business office
Aula Laudis
Recognition Awards
May dinners
Trustees
Piper Enterprises
Piper Ent. expense
Chair-elect
R. Tanner
ACS
National Chemistry W eek
BU/W BUR 2010-11
Curling Designs
C. Jaworek-Lopes
B. Shakhashiri
B. Shakhashiri, travel
BU - W BUR
Business office
Summer Programs
M. Gordon, tickets
Contributions to ACS
ACS Scholars
Medicinal Group
S.B. Rajur
ETF Service charges
Hol Inn
L Shao
BAGIM
K. Mattes
Travel Grants
Spring, 13 Councilors
Fall, 12 Councilors
Adm. Secretary
Miscellaneous
NERM/Nat'l Meeting
L. Johnson
Younger Chemists Comm.
726971259
800.00
1,500.00
7,566.25
30.00
17.48
107.44
600.00
88.00
243.79
331.94
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
14,740.37
14,206.56
85
86
87
88
2,786.47
36.00
8,412.75
1,301.45
1,500.00
45.00
13.80
236.77
180.00
400.00
78.44
503.34
375.00
550.00
485.24
3,806.29
2,000.00
1,230.50
550.00
203.54
20,692.11
0.00
1,558.80
416.77
478.44
878.34
8,825.57
2,800.00
4,000.00
12,536.67
561.75
28,946.93
20,006.25
0.00
258.53
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IYC grant
May dinners
Chartwells
A. Jewell
H. Teng
Research Conf Awards
German Exchange
Strem Chemicals
Int'l Year of Chemistry
YCC
Gryphon House
P. Mahaffy
R. Tanner
C. Jaworek-Lopes, Hanover day
PID Analyzers
Gov't Affairs
Adv in Chem Sci
Business office
Total Expenses
BALANCES ON HAND 12/31/10
Citizens Checking
Paypal
Citizens Money Market
89
90
91
92
----------- TOTAL EXPENSE + CASH
(500.00)
135.00
303.30
1,197.52
1,496.78
1,400.00
500.00
648.93
1,061.58
386.94
251.32
450.00
4,032.60
14,631.60
3,298.77
0.00
48.90
---------
7,374.79
57.03
30,682.99
=========== ACCRUED INCOME/EXPENSE
Due from Trustees:
Consolidated
Norris
Esselen
Permanent
Publication
Hill
Richards
Levins
Brauner
12/31/2011
799.16
15,823.71
5,375.66
6,115.54
6,000.00
12/31/2010
320.72
11,700.38
683.55
0.00
0.00
201.78
1,581.30
3,109.81
3,000.00
5.70
13,350.00
3,109.81
0.00
---------------------------------------------------
42,006.96 29,170.16
306,172.49
=
38,114.81
-
344,287.30
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES - 2011
Esther A. H. Hopkins, Peter C. Meltzer, Michael E. Strem
The Trustees of the Section for the year 2011 were Esther A. H. Hopkins, Michael Strem and
Peter Meltzer. We met with our financial consultant, Robert M. Sarly, Senior Vice President at
Smith Barney, Inc., held informal meetings, received reports from Smith Barney and from Piper
Enterprises and discussed recommendations for the Board as to uses for the Funds in our care in keeping with the wishes of the donors of the funds.
The Trust Funds of the Northeastern Section are in three Trust Accounts and six income accounts.
The Trust Accounts are (one)—the Consolidated, comprising the principal amounts of the
Richards, the Norris, the Publication, the Permanent, the Hill and a portion of the Brauner trusts,
(two)—the Esselen Trust, and (three)—the Levins Trust. To keep the capital ratios constant in the Consolidated Trust, capital amounts withdrawn from it are distributed to the Income accounts in the ratio of their ownership.
The Consolidated Account for 2010 had an opening portfolio value of $1,888,541.24.
Withdrawals from the Consolidated Account consisted of $60,000 in distributions to the income accounts and $25,144.10 of management fees and expenses. The adjusted opening balance was, therefore, $1,798,397.14. The closing balance was $1,798,247.86 for a decrease of $149.28. The
Consolidated Trust contains money funds, common stock, exchange traded & closed end funds, mutual funds, and corporate bonds. The current yield at year-end was 6.16% and the annualized anticipated income was $85,777.98.
The Esselen Fund, comprising money funds, mutual funds and government bonds, had an opening balance of $560,914.14. $16,000.00 was withdrawn for the expense of the award this year. The adjusted opening value was $544,914.14 and the closing value was $563,499.85. The
Levins Fund, comprising money funds, exchange traded & closed end funds, and mutual funds had an opening portfolio balance of $10,444.09. No expenses were withdrawn during the year.
The closing portfolio value was $10,054.33. The Brauner Trust “income account” comprised of money funds, common stock and exchange traded & closed end funds had an opening balance of
$35,630.15. Distributions of $1,246.26 were deposited to the Fund with the $3,000 expense for the 2011 Brauner lecture yet to be withdrawn, giving an adjusted opening balance of $38,876.41.
The closing value was $39,301.47 of which $11,627.98 was income and the remainder was Trust principal.
The Hill income account comprising money funds and exchange traded & closed end funds had an opening portfolio value of $26,710.34, received $2,996.46 from the prorated distribution from the Consolidated Account and distributed $2,000.00 to the Section for expenses, for an adjusted value of $27,706.80. The closing value was $26,652.00. The Norris Award income account, comprising only money funds had an opening portfolio value of $3652.65 and an adjusted value of $1,576.63 after receiving $35,003.64 from the prorated distribution and withdrawing
$35,079.66 for expenses. The closing portfolio value was $1,577.79. The Permanent income account, comprising money funds, common stocks and exchange traded & closed end funds had an opening portfolio value of $75,978.91, received $8,665.98 from the prorated distribution and withdrew $7,300.00 in expenses for an adjusted value of $77,344.89. The closing value of the portfolio was $84,465.29. The Publication income account, comprising money funds, common stocks and exchange traded & closed end funds had an opening portfolio value of $65,971.68, received $4,898.52 from the prorated distribution and withdrew no expenses for an adjusted value of $70,870.20. The closing value was $77,387.92. The Richards income account, comprising money funds and exchange traded & closed end funds had an opening value of $34.627.03, received $7,189.14 from the capital distribution, and withdrew expenses of $32,700.00 for an adjusted value of $9116.17. The closing value was $9,034.20.
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The total value of all accounts at the beginning of the year was $2,702,470.23 and at year end was
$2,610,220.71. Expenses and withdrawals totaled $118,223.76.
Respectfully submitted,
The Trustees
Esther A.H. Hopkins
Michael Strem
Peter Meltzer
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