Proposed Changes to Cincinnati Section By-Laws

At the ACS Board Meeting of December 8, three changes related to the Oesper Award (Article XIII of our By-Laws) were proposed and unanimously accepted. These changes are

  1. to change the junior/senior eligibility to "first year chemistry and second year chemistry," to more accurately reflect the two levels of these awards;
  2. to change the name of this award from "Ralph E. Oesper Scholarship Awards" to "Ralph E. Oesper Chemistry Awards" to reflect that some winners do not go on to college to use these awards as scholarships and to put "Chemistry" into our local ACS award;
  3. to delete the dollar amount of these awards from our By-Laws so that we can change them as needed to accommodate changing financial conditions and inflation. The present awards at each level are $200/$100/$50. The proposed change would read: The Oesper Committee, subject to Board approval, will determine the amounts of the awards at the first meeting each year." Present thinking is to double the awards for 1995, the first change in over 30 years.
Our Constitution and By-Laws require that these changes be presented to the membership no later than seven days prior to a vote at a regular meeting, at which a two-thirds majority vote in favor is required. After these steps, the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws at National ACS must give a final approval.

This constitutes the required notification prior to the vote at the February meeting.

T. J. Logan
Councilor, Cincinnati Section

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