Report to Council

Report to Council

Committee on Committees

Mister President and Members of Council:

The Committee on Committees (ConC) will conduct its annual New Chairs Training Session in Dallas, Texas, January 23-25, 2015, as part of the ACS Leadership Institute.

ConC is developing its recommendations for 2015 Committee Chairs, members, associates, and consultant appointments for consideration by the President-Elect and the Chair of the Board of Directors. Also, Nominations and Elections is seeking names of potential members for service on ConC, especially those who have not previously served. A form for this purpose is found on page 47 of the Council Agenda.

The ACS Bylaws require that ConC review each Joint Board-Council and Other Committees of the Council no less often than every five years and advise the Board of Directors and Council whether they should be continued. In fulfilling the Bylaw mandate, performance reviews for the committees on Patents and Related Matters and Technician Affairs have been completed and are on the Council agenda for action. These reviews do not appear in the agenda book.

[SLIDE 1] On behalf of ConC, I move that the Committee on Patents and Related Matters, subject to concurrence by the Board of Directors, and the Committee on Technician Affairs be continued.

Performance Reviews for the committees on Science and Ethics have been completed, and ConC expects to take action at a national meeting next year.

[SLIDES 2-4]

On behalf of the Council, ConC would like to recognize those members who will have served the statutory limit or have otherwise completed their service on ACS governance committees at the end of 2014. Please stand now and be recognized.

Mark A. Benvenuto
Donna G. Friedman
Gary D. Anderson
D. Paul Rillema
Louise M. Lawter
Thomas R. Hays
Ann M. Sullivan
Kathleen Gibboney
C. Marvin Lang
John M. Long
Susan M. Schelble
Jeffrey M. Wilson
David L. Cedeno
Ingolf Gruen
Allen E. Pinchard
David M. Singleton
Ronald D. Archer
John Covington
Robert L. Lichter
Diane Grob Schmidt
Andrew D. Jorgensen
Lester M. Bynum
Patricia A. Redden
Jeffrey S. Gaffney
Analice H. Sowell
Jeffrey B. Trent
Martin A. Abraham
Ean Warren
Al Ribes
James L. Chao
Brian G.R. Treco
Cynthia K. Larive
Lee Y. Park
John G. Palmer
Neal Abrams
William S. Case
Elise B. Fox
Sara J. Risch
Mamie W. Moy
Eleanor D. Siebert
W. H. “Jack” Breazeale
Catherine C. Fenselau
Andrea B. Twiss-Brooks

[SLIDE 5]

The following committee chairs have served the statutory limit on the committee they chair. Please stand, and remain standing until all names have been called. Hold applause until all names have been read.

Donna G. Friedman
Louise M. Lawter
Bonnie Charpentier
Andrew D. Jorgensen
Robert H. Hill, Jr.
Karl S. Booksh
Sandra J. Bonetti
Gregory Ferrence
Brian G.R. Treco
Anne B. McCoy
Al Ribes
Dawn Brooks

[SLIDE 6]

We wish to now recognize the following Council members for their 15 years of service on the ACS Council. Please stand now and be recognized.

Fifteen (15) Years

Harmon B. Abrahamson
Alan A. Hazari
Richard A. Hermens
John G. Palmer
Anne M. Rammelsberg
Elsa Reichmanis
Carmen Scholz
Linda D. Schultz
Khamis S. Siam
Julianne M.D. Smist
Ean Warren

[SLIDE 7]

We wish to now recognize the following Council members for their 20 years of service on the ACS Council. Please stand now and be recognized.

Twenty (20) Years

Satinder (Sut) Ahuja
Bruce S. Ault
Arindam Bose
Ronald Breslow
Alan B. Cooper
Ronald P. D’Amelia
Sally B. Peters
Dorothy J. Phillips
Eleanor D. Siebert

[SLIDES 8-9]

We wish to now recognize the following Council members for their 25, 30, 35, and 40 years of service on the ACS Council. Please stand, and remain standing until all names have been called. Hold applause until all names have been read.

Twenty-Five (25) Years

Joseph M. Antonucci
Lawrence Barton
Elise Ann Brown
Mitchell R.M. Bruce
George H. Fisher
Thomas R. Gilbert
S. Allen Heininger
Barbara A. Sawrey
Mark Wicholas
Elaine S. Yamaguchi

Thirty (30) Years

George M. Bodner
Martha Casey
Anne T. O’Brien

Thirty-Five (35) Years

Roland F. Hirsch

Forty (40) Years

Janan M. Hayes
Valerie J. Kuck
C. Marvin Lang

Finally, those elected to ConC this morning are strongly encouraged to join the meeting of ConC this afternoon, in Grand Ballroom A (next door), of this hotel, starting with lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Mister President, this concludes my report.