Friday, September 21, 2007 Roma Lodge 7130 Highway C (Spring Street) Racine, WI 53406

DIRECTIONS

6:00 PM - Social Hour
7:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Meeting and Program

Dinner - (Prices include tax and gratuity)

• Italian Sausage with Red Sauce
• House Recipe Lasagna
• Pasta Primavera
• Roma?s famous Italian Brown Potatoes
• Italian Green Beans
• Tossed Salad
• Pasta Salad
• Bread
• Ice cream
• Regular or decaffinated coffee, hot tea, water

Members/Guests – $20.00
Chemistry Students – $10.00

For dinner reservations, please call
Bruce Warren at Marquette University
 (414) 288-7065
or
e-mail: bruce.warren@mu.edu

subject="ACS Dinner Reservation"

All are welcome.
 Come and hear the speaker without attending the dinner.

ABSTRACT

In the absence of enforced licensing laws and in the presence of a malevolent and painful medical orthodoxy that focused its therapy on bloodletting and leeching, the 18th and 19th centuries saw the growth of a vigorous alternative medical system. In the Eastern United States, this unorthodox medicine was especially well entrenched, and pow-wow "doctors", hydropaths, Thomsonians, electropaths, and homeopaths maintained sizable practices. Substantial reliance on herbal preparations of folk culture origin, on charms and semi-occult chants, and on defined acts and manipulations characterized many of these medical systems. Vestiges of these unorthodox practices still survive, but even more important several of the therapies and natural product preparations that they devised have found their way into the medicine of today.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

• Professional activities:
  • President, American Chemical Society (Washington, DC), 1994;
  • director, American Chemical Society (Washington, DC), 1985-1996;
  • director; Council for Chemical Research, 1995-1999;
  • Board Member, IUPAC-USA, 1995-2001;
  • Board Member, Chemical Sciences Roundtable-National Academy of Sciences, 2001-present;
  • director; Centcom Advertising, Ltd. (Westport, CT), 1987-1995;
  • trustee, Northampton County Historical Society; 1989-present;
  • trustee, Keystone Junior College (1975-89)
  • trustee, Chemical Heritage Foundation (Board then Heritage Council), 1986-present;
  • member, Journal Pharmaceutical Science board (to 12/90);
  • member, Bioconjugate Chemistry board (to 12/03)
  • chairman, Chemical& Engineering News board (1988, 1992-93, member 1994-95)
  • consultant, Unimed Pharmaceuticals, Somerville, NJ,1989-1995
  • consultant, Digestive Care, 1992-present
  • consultant, Bio-ProX, 1995-1997
  • consultant, DCV Pharmaceuticals, 1998-2000
  • consultant Serenix Pharmaceuticals, 1999-present
  • consultant, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; 1990-present;
  • consultant, Air Products and Chemicals, Allentown, PA,1991-present
  • consultant, Apollon Corp., Malvern, PA, 1992-1995
• Education/Degrees:
  • Lebanon Valley College, B.S.cum laude, 1959 (Chemistry/Math)
  • University of Delaware, Ph.D., 1963 (Organic Chemistry)
  • Princeton University, fellow, 1964 (medicinal Chemistry)
  • Lebanon Valley College, honorary D.Sc. 1985;
  • Albright College, honorary D.Sc., 1993
• Experience:
  • instructor, University of Delaware, 1962-63
  • visiting fellow, Princeton University, 1963-64
  • assistant professor, Ohio University, 1965
  • assistant professor, Marshall University, 1964-66
  • assistant, associate full professor of chemistry, Lehigh University, 1976-present
  • professor of nuclear medicine, Hahnemann University, 1971-present
  • director, Center for Health Sciences, Lehigh University, 1980-87
• Honors: Robinson Award (1969), Brody Award (1978), H. S. Bunn Distinguished Chair in Chemistry (1985-Present), Who's Who in America (1886-present), Brady Cancer Achievement Award (1989), Henry Hill Award in Medicinal Chemistry (1997), Mosher Award for Contributions to Chemistry (1996), Ben Franklin Partnership Award for Corporate Consulting (2002).