Each October, the ACS and the Columbus Section recognize those who complete fifty years of membership.

This year we are pleased to honor those who joined the ACS in 1947 and 1948.  They are:

Mr. William T. Buckingham

Mr. Godfrey F. Grail

Dr. Kurt L. Loening

Dr. Gerard O. Platau

Mr. William C. Schickner

Mr. Harold E. Bigony

Mr. Theodore J. Collier

Dr. Norman Leon Hosansky

Dr. Charles Franklin Hull

Dr. Daniel L. Leussing

Mr. William John Mueller

These members have served chemistry well in their professional careers and have also participated in activities of the Columbus Section, to this day.  We recognize specially Dr. Kurt Loening, who currently serves as Alternate Councilor.

Gerard Platau shares his own bit of history as a member of the Columbus Section:

“As the Columbus Section celebrates its 100th anniversary and I complete 50 years of ACS membership, it has been my great privilege to have been associated with the Columbus Section for the past 47 years.  While greatly benefiting from the section’s outstanding, informative meetings and varied, entertaining social programs over the past five decades, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute to two of the section’s pioneering efforts.

In 1958, I served on the organizing committee that founded the section’s own local section publication, The Chemical Record, and then as its editor for several years.  In 1975, I served on the task force that expanded the Dayton Section’s Patterson Award to honor E. J. Crane and then, representing the co-sponsoring Columbus Section, as Chairman of the Austin M. Patterson-E. J. Crane Award for ten years.”