562  News  Items  and  Personal  Notes.    {Am^uJg°uusrt'  f^m. 
Williamsport  High  School  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  August  29  and 
30.  Applications  should  be  sent  to  L.  L.  Walton,  Secretary,  P.  O. 
Box  265,  Williamsport,  Pa. 
National  Exposition  of  Chemical  Industries. — The  Fifth 
National  Exposition  of  Chemical  Industries  will  be  held  this  year 
in  Chicago  during  the  week  of  September  22.  The  exhibition  will 
be  in  the  Armory  of  the  First  Regiment.  The  committee  having 
charge  of  this  exposition  is  a  very  representative  one  composed  of 
officials  and  chemists  of  many  of  the  leading  chemical  industries 
and  editors  of  the  leading  chemical  journals,  and  is  under  the 
chairmanship  of  Dr.  Charles  H.  Herty.  The  personnel  of  the  com- 
mittee assures  in  advance  that  this,  the  fifth  exposition  of  this  kind, 
will  be  another  great  success. 
Dr.  Henry  Kraemer,  Dean  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy, 
University  of  Michigan. — After  thirty-three  years  of  service  as 
a  teacher  in  the  Pharmacy  Department  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, Professor  Alviso  B.  Stevens  has  retired  from  active  service  and 
removed  to  a  country  life  in  California.  Since  the  illness  and  de- 
cease of  Professor  Schlotterbeck,  Professor  Stevens  has  filled  the 
position  of  dean  of  this  institutional  department.  The  vacancy  in 
the  deanship  caused  by  his  resignation  has  been  filled  by  the  selec- 
tion of  Professor  Kraemer  as  dean. 
A  Memorial  Tablet  in  Honor  of  Professor  Whitehead. — 
At  the  annual  commencement  exercises  held  on  June  2,  the  alumni 
of  the  school  of  pharmacy  presented  to  the  South  Dakota  College 
of  Agriculture  and  Mechanic  Arts,  a  bronze  memorial  tablet  to 
honor  the  memory  of  the  late  Professor  B.  T.  Whitehead  whose 
decease  occurred  on  April  1,  191 7. 
For  a  period  of  twenty-one  years  Professor  Whitehead  was 
head  of  the  department  of  pharmacy  of  this  state  college  and  is 
said  to  have  been  a  very  thorough,  painstaking  instructor. 
The  N.  A.  R.  D.  Convention. — The  National  Association  of 
Retail  Druggists  will  hold  its  convention  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Sep- 
tember 7-13.  The  pre-convention  arrangements  as  announced  give 
every  evidence  that  the  "  Flower  City  "  is  doing  its  best  to  provide 
