“The Role of the Section Office in the Life of the Chicago Section” |
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Speaker: |
Jim Shoffner
Adjunct Professor and Consultant | Science Institute of Columbia College |
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Date: | Friday, February ,23 2001 |
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Location:   |
Ann Sather's Restaurant
(Same as main meeting) |
Topical Group: 5:30-6:30 P.M.
Social Hour: 6:00- 7:00 P.M.
Dinner: 7:00 P.M.
Meeting: 8:00 P.M.
I gave a similar presentation for the 100th Anniversary Symposium commemorating the founding of the Section at the request of Jim Doheny. I am dedicating this talk to the memory of Jim Doheny and Ellen Cozzens, both recently deceased; and in honor of Ron Sykstus, our most recent section executive director, now retired. We are, indeed, a greater, more outstanding section today because of the dedicated service over many years of these individuals.
He has been active in ACS at the local section, division and national levels. Locally, he has been section chair, member of the board and served on and led many committees and task forces. Nationally, he has served on the committees on program review, economic status, project seed, public relations, council policy, nomination and elections, minority affairs and science, including serving as chair of SEED from 1983-85 and vice chair of N&E in 1999. He is presently a member of four divisions: organic, petroleum, industrial & engineering and professional relations. He was recently elected to a three-year term as director-at-large and will serve on the ACS board from 2001-03.
He has been very active in science and public policy issues for nearly thirty years, leading in the establishment of the public affairs committee for the Chicago Section in 1973. He has served on the Science Task Force of the Governor of Illinois and the Task Force on Hazardous Waste for the Attorney General of Illinois, and as a delegate to the Illinois White House Conference on Libraries. He has received awards and recognitions for his service to the society and the profession, including the Henry Hill Award in 1997 and the Chicago Section Public Affairs Award in 1986.