The 2021 Saint Louis Award Banquet is on!

St. Louis Award Banquet 2021

Celebrating Leah O’Brien (2021 Awardee) & Richard Loomis (2020 Awardee)

Friday, October 1, 2021, following the Saint Louis Award Symposium at SIUE, Edwardsville.
Glen Echo Country Club*, 3401 Lucas & Hunt Road, Saint Louis, MO 63121

6:00 pm cocktails (open bar), hors d’oeuvres
7:00 pm banquet
8:00 pm program

• Dr. Samina Azad, Chair, St. Louis Section–American Chemical Society
  Opening Remarks and Award Presentation
• Prof. Michael ShawSIU Edwardsville
  Introduction of the Awardee
• Prof. Leah O’Brien, ACS Fellow, SIU Edwardsville,
  2021 ACS St. Louis Section St. Louis Awardee
  Awardee Address: Warming the Department Climate to Retain Women Faculty

8:30 pm program (delayed from 2020)

• Prof. Sophia Hayes, Immediate Past Chair, St. Louis Section–American Chemical Society
  Opening Remarks and Award Presentation
• Prof. Bill BuhroACS Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
  Introduction of the Awardee
• Prof. Richard Loomis,Washington University in St. Louis,
  2020 ACS St. Louis Section St. Louis Awardee
  Awardee Address: It is Easier to Fill Big Shoes when You are Surrounded with Good People

Please send reservations, including check, by September 27th to:
Jeffrey Cornelius
Department of Chemistry
1 Maybeck Place
Principia College
Elsah, IL 62028
phone: 618.374.5296; fax: 618.374.5122; email

Reservations

Because of concerns with COVID, we ask that all attendees be fully vaccinated, and asymptomatic when the attend the banquet.

Make checks payable to Saint Louis Section–ACS and include the information requested below. Alternatively, pay directly via Paypal and include the information requested below in the note window. For both methods of payment, please also send an email confirmation of the information to Dr. Cornelius.

Name(s) _______________________________________________________
Special dietary limitations, if any ______________________________________
Vaccinated (yes or no) ____________________________________
Number attending: (
  _____ regular ACS members and spouses, $30 each
  _____ graduate and undergraduate ACS members, $15 each
  _____ non-members, $60 each )
   = amount remitted: $ _______________

For information on ACS Membership please see the following link.

^*Venue directions:

Glen Echo Country Club is in Normandy, in the southwest sector of the intersection of Natural Bridge Road and Lucas & Hunt Road. See map. Use either entrance:

1. Main entrance drive: turn west off Lucas & Hunt Road; Edison Avenue will be on the opposite side of the road almost adjacent to the entrance drive. Continue on the winding drive, and the parking lot will be on your right adjacent to the clubhouse.
2. back entrance: turn south off Natural Bridge Road onto St Marys Lane, just east of the post office. Continue through the gate, veer right, and park in front of the clubhouse.