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October 2016 NUCLEUS 9-17-2016Aa4web DED UN 18 O 98 F http://www.nesacs.org N Y O T R E I T H C E N O A E S S S L T A E A C R C I N S M S E E H C C TI N O CA October 2016 Vol. XCV, No.2 N • AMERI Monthly Meeting NESACS New Hampshire Henry Hill Award Meeting at Holiday Inn Meeting Boston-Brookline Recognition of 50- and 60-Year Members At the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Process Chemistry National Chemistry Symposium Week Events At Boston Museum of Science and Boston Children’s At Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Museum Cambridge, MA In Memoriam Christine Jaworek-Lopes June 1, 1970–May 21, 2016 By Michael P. Filosa Photo by Christine Jaworek-Lopes Christine, Zach and Josh at the October 2015 Henry A. Hill Award Meeting. She will be missed by all of us who Photo by Morton Z. Hoffman knew her. I want to share a happy story from She is survived by her husband the Anaheim ACS Meeting in the Spring Joshua Lopes, her two children, Cassie of 2011. I happened to rent a car for that and Zach, and two stepdaughters Abby trip since I have relatives in the area. I and Lindsay all of Hanover, MA. She bumped into Christine and Marietta was predeceased by her father, Gerald. As the Nucleus Editor I knew Christine She is survived by her mother, Fry- as the meticulous organizer of National Schwartz who were rooming together at the conference. I don’t recall exactly deryka Jaworek of Three Rivers, Mas- Chemistry Week for the Northeastern sachusetts. She is also survived by her Section. Chris would invariably have how it happened but I ended up agreeing to drive them to the airport. We had sister, Joanne Jaworek and husband, the event organized by mid-summer and Ryan Betts of Brick, New Jersey. had her flyer announcing her plans quite a few hours so we left the confer- ready for the Nucleus so that it could run ence and went to the Long Beach Daniel J. Sandman in the Summer, September and October Aquarium and enjoyed the sea creatures 1942–March 4, 2016 editions. Her events were very success- and other animals. I recall Marietta in a ful and I was always pleased to publish picture with a parakeet on her shoulder. the reports she submitted on these We also stopped and enjoyed walking events. She also won a number of the beach. Somehow, I lost the photos I Chemluminary Awards for her NCW ef- took, but the memories are still fond. forts at Summer ACS National Meet- In addition to the Chemluminary ings. Awards mentioned above, Christine was I also knew Christine as a fellow the 2015 recipient of the Henry A. Hill board member and Councilor for NE- Award for Meritorious Service to the SACS. It was at last summer’s Boston Northeastern Section and the 2008 E. Meeting that I found out she had been Ann Nalley Northeast Regional Award ill with advanced colon cancer since for Volunteer Service to the ACS. She early in the year and was in the fight of was a beloved Associate Professor of her life. I, coincidentally, bumped into Chemistry at Emmanual College where Professor of Chemistry Daniel J. Sand- her in a back hall of the Convention she was known as “Dr. J” or Dr. J-Lo.” man of the University of Massachusetts- Center. She looked well, I thought, and Sister Janet, President of Emmanuel Lowell Chemistry Department passed she thanked me for saying so. Later she College, recently announced a new fac- away on March 4, 2016. attended Council while a pump was ad- ulty award (Faculty Excellence in Serv- Dr. Sandman received a B.S. from ministering her chemotherapy. ice to the Community award) in honor Drexel University and a Ph.D. from Later I followed her illness through of Christine. She is the first recipient of Princeton University, and was a post- her Caring Bridge blog. She was gen- the Award. doctoral researcher at the University of erally upbeat and factual about her treat- http://ecthehub.com/2016/05/23/ Wisconsin. He was a Senior Staff Sci- ments and prognosis. She did her best chemistry-professor-dr-christine-ja- entist in Corporate Research at Xerox and never gave up even when she wrote worek-lopes-passes-away/ Corporation and at GTE Labs in that the doctors said they had no more Christine was from Palmer, Massa- Waltham prior to being appointed to treatment options for her. She chusetts and was salutatorian of her Professor of Chemistry at the University poignantly wrote after our last light class at Palmer High School. She re- of Massachusetts in Lowell in 1993. snow on April 3rd, “I am glad it snowed ceived her B.S. and Ph.D. from Tufts He is survived by his wife, Alma; today as this may be the last snow I see University. During her time at Em- his daughters, Suzanne Pasko and Dr. fall. Thanks for following the journey.” manuel she served as Chair of the Karen Sandman; his sons-in-law, Chemistry Department. continued on page 13 2 The Nucleus October 2016 The Northeastern Section of the American- Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Anna Singer, 12 Corcoran Road, Burlington, MA 01803 (Voice or FAX) 781-272-1966. In Memoriam 2 e-mail: [email protected] __________________________________________ NESACS Homepage: Christine Jaworek-Lopes and Daniel J. Sandman http://www.NESACS.org Officers 2016 Remembering Vivian Walworth 4 Chair ____________________________ Jerry P. Jasinski By Victor King McElheny Keene State College Keene, NH 03435-2001 Monthly Meeting 5 [email protected] _______________________________________ Chair-Elect Presentation of 50- and 60-year members, Presentation of the Henry A. Hill Leland L. Johnson, Jr. Conditas Biotechnology Group Award for Outstanding Service to NESACS at the Holiday Inn P.O. Box 540 Boston-Brookline Brookline, MA 02446 [email protected] Process Chemistry Symposium 6 617-304-6474 ____________________________ Immediate Past Chair October 20, 2016 at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Katherine L. Lee Cambridge, MA Pfizer 610 Main Street NESACS New Hampshire Meeting 7 Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] __________________________ 617-674-7299 October 22, 2016 at the University of New Hampshire. James Cameron, Dow Secretary Electronic Materials and Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., Executive Director Michael Singer and CEO of the ACS to speak. MilliporeSigma 3 Strathmore Rd, Natick, MA 01760 Young Chemists Continuing to Build International Relationships 8 774-290-1391, [email protected] _ Treasurer Reflections from the annual GDCh-NESACS German Exchange Program James Piper 19 Mill Rd, Harvard, MA 01451 Compiled by Felicia Lucci 978-456-3155, [email protected] Auditor National Chemistry Week Events 10 Patrick Gordon _________________________ Archivist Chemists Celebrate Earth Day Celebrations at the MOS 11 Ken Mattes _______ Trustees Dorothy Phillips, Ruth Tanner, Peter C. Meltzer By Jayashree Ranga and David Sittenfeld Directors-at-Large Cover: David Harris, John Neumeyer, Ralph Scannell, Speaker at the October NESACS Meeting, Professor Malika Jeffries-EL, John Burke, Ioannis Papayannopoulos, Christine Jaworek-Lopes Department of Chemistry and Division of Materials Science, Boston University Councilors /Alternate Councilors (Photo courtesy of Professor Jeffries-EL) Term Ends 12/31/2016 Michael Singer Raymond Borg Deadlines: Mary Shultz Mukund Chorghade December 2016 Issue: October 15, 2016 Robert Lichter Mary Mahaney January 2017 Issue: November 15, 2016 Sophia R. Su Raj Rajur Marietta Schwartz Sonja Strah-Pleynet Term Ends 12/31/2017 Michael P. Filosa John Podobinski Doris I. Lewis Sonja Strah-Pleynet Patricia A. Mabrouk Anna Waclawa Sromeks Mark Tebbe Mary Burgess The Nucleus is published monthly, except June and August, by the Northeastern Section of the American Morton Z. Hoffman Ralph Scannell Chemical Society, Inc. Forms close for advertising on the 1st of the month of the preceding issue. Text Term Ends 12/31/2018 must be received by the editor six weeks before the date of issue. Katherine Lee Jackie O'Neil Catherine E. Costello Andrew Scholte Editor: Michael P. Filosa, Ph.D., 18 Tamarack Road, Medfield, MA 02052 Email: Ruth Tanner R. Christian (Chris) Moreton [email protected]; Tel: 508-843-9070 Michaeline Chen Ajay Purohit Associate Editors: Myron S. 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The Nucleus October 2016 3 Remembering Vivian 2015 NESACS Sponsors Instititution Contribution Level Amgen Platinum Walworth Biogen, Idec Platinum By Victor King McElheny, 18 June 2016, Spoken at The First Congregational Davos Pharma Platinum Johnson-Matthey Platinum Church, Concord, MA on the occasion of a memorial service held for Vivian K. SK Life Sciences Platinum Walworth Navin Fluorine International Gold We remember Vivian as a person who journal for six years. Vivian assigned me Vertex Gold treated us with affection and respect. to check over Land’s 1947 paper on one- Esselen Fund of the Boston Silver But we also remember her constantly step photography before its text was dig- Foundation calling on us to work on significant itized.
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