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remeaibar. you don't Itve ki a world all 



own. Yo»r brothers are here aho." 



Schweitzer spoke of Individuals 



have the ability to improve 

 worldwide. Having the ability, 

 chemists and as ACS members i 

 the responsibility to address 

 ongoing way. Indeed, K Is more 

 sponsibllity: It is. as Schweitzer 

 privilege, for in serving others 

 MTve ourselves. 



Barbara Hodsdon new 

 ACS meetings head 



Barbara R. Hodsdon has been named 

 head of the Department of Meetings, 

 Expositions & Divisional Activities, 

 American Chemical Society. She 

 succeeds Albert T. Winstead, who 

 died recently. 



Hodsdon has had a long career 

 with ACS. Shejoined the society in 

 1954 as the administrative secretary 

 for the Philadelphia Section. In July 



1965, she transferred to Washington, 

 D.C., as administrative assistant to 

 the manager of the National Meet- 

 ings & Divisional Activities Office. 

 In 1975, Hodsdon was named 

 manager of the Office of Divisional 

 Activities & Regional Meetings, a 

 newly established office within the 



Membership Division's Department 

 of Meetings & Expositions. Her 

 duties included: general assistance to 

 ACS divisions, liaison to the council 

 Committee on Divisional Activities 

 and the annual Program Coordina- 

 tion Conferences, management as- 

 sistance as requested by ACS regional 

 meetings and ACS divisional sym- 

 posia and conference organizers, 

 administration of the Experimental 

 Division Program Development 

 Fund, operational assistance with 

 special domestic meetings, and su- 

 pervision of ACS travel arrange- 

 ments. 



From 1982 to the present, Hodsdon 

 developed and coordinated the ex- 

 perimental teleconferencing of se- 

 lected symposia from national 

 meetings. 



Hodsdon makes her home in An- 

 napolis, Md. She is the mother of one 

 son and two grandsons. Her son 

 Richard resides in Seattle, Wash, with 

 his family. In her leisure time, 

 Hodsdon enjoys playing bridge, 

 reading, and travel. D 



