St Louis Section
Recognition Night

Recognition Night

Recognition Night is our traditional event for thanking and honoring members of long standing and members who have made extraordinary contributions to the section.

• There’s a social hour for meeting old and new friends, and a fine dinner with more time for talk.
• The immediate Past Chair gives a short retrospective talk on his/her tenure as chair or on a related topic, in other words, it could be about anything at all.
• The Distinguished Service Award and the Science and Technology Award are presented.
• Many 50+ year ACS members attend, and special recognition is given to those celebrating their 50th and 60th years of membership.

Recognition Night 2010

March 13 is Recognition Night 2010
Please join us in the clubhouse at Glen Echo Country Club (map).

6 pm—Social hour
7 pm—Dinner and festivities

To reserve your place(s) at this grand event, please return the reservation form with choice of entrée and check by March 6th to:

Shelley D Minteer
Department of Chemistry
Saint Louis University
3501 Laclede Ave
St Louis, MO 63103
phone: (314) 977-3624
email: minteers@slu.edu

Make checks payable to St. Louis Section–ACS
Name(s) _______________________________________________________
Number attending _____ × $30 each = amount remitted $____________
Choice of entrée (number of each): salmon _____ or beef _____

Recognition Night 2009

... was held on March 28th at Glen Echo Country Club. About 50 members and guests attended.

As the first order of business (after the socializing and eating was out of the way), chair Bill Doub convened a brief General Meeting of the Section to formally vote on the changes to the Section Bylaws. These are the same bylaw changes that were approved at the Continuity Dinner in December, but there were not enough members in attendance then to constitute a quorum. This time there were, and the changes were approved unanimously.

Five of the eleven 50-year members and two of nine 60-year members attended and received certificates from ACS.

John Baldus (Pfizer) was presented the St Louis Section Award for Science and Technology, and Eric Ressner (Sigma-Aldrich) received the 2008 award for Distinguished Service to the St Louis Section. Past Chair Keith Stine received a plaque commemorating his service as Chair of the Section in 2008 and an ACS Past Chair pin. Keith gave a cultural and historical look at 1949 and 1959, the years in which tonight’s new 50- and 60-year members joined ACS.

Just about everyone was having too good a time, including the self-appointed photographers. We have only a few usable photos from the evening.

Ted Gast presents the Science and Technology Award plaque to John Baldus as Chair Bill Doub checks the spelling. The honorarium followed a moment later, after Ted realized he couldn’t keep it.

Bill Doub presenting the Distinguished Service Award to a happy Eric Ressner.

Keith Stine gives his Past Chair address, recapping events in chemistry and culture from 1949 and 1959.