FROM THE CHAIR OF THE NINA I. MCCLELLAND

FOR THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL Society, our 125th Anniversary is a wonderful time to look back at the journey we've taken and to find pointed reminders of how far we have come. I first became involved in the Society in 1967, almost a decade before ACS's centennial. When I was aPh.D. student, my adviser suggested I present results of my dissertation research at a national meeting. The same adviser was serving as a division program chair and encouraged me to assume this responsibility I began my ACS service in program planning in what is now known as the Division of Environmental Chemistry I'm happy to say I have been involved with ACS committees, divisions, the council, and the board ever since. Looking back over those almost 35 years, I am struck by the tremendous improvement in the quality of every one of the ACS programs I've come to know firsthand. I tell friends that the changes ...