This is from the Kansas City ACS officers: -------------------------------- At the Kenneth A Spencer Award Banquet on Friday, February 24 at the Kauffman Foundation Dr. Con Baker will receive the 2005 Award. Last years ACS President Bill Carroll will attend the meeting. We scheduled a special meeting with Bill Carroll on Friday in the afternoon. A poster for this meeting is attached (see below) The 2001 President Attilla Pavlath is an old friend of Don Baker and will be at our meetings in KC Friday and Saturday. He is the third speaker at the Saturday Symposium to honor Dr. Baker. You can find the program at www.umkc.edu/kcacs and you can see the symposium live on your computer at www.umkc.tv This years ACS president Ann Nalley will present the first lecture on Saturday morning at 10:00 am central time, a magic show, from Oklahoma. The symposium is for the public and includes agricultural and environmental science and engineering parts; it should be of interest to teachers and students. ---------------------------------------------- American Chemical Society UMKC Student Affiliate with the support of Kansas City Section of the American Chemical Society invites all high school and college students as well as other interested parties to a discussion with the 2005 President of the American Chemical Society Dr. William F. Carroll, Jr. Occidental Chemical Corporation, Dallas, TX 75244 Science, Engineering and the Chemical Enterprise: Do we have a Future, or What? (To be followed by a roundtable discussion) Friday, February 24, 2006 at 3:45 PM Kauffman Foundation Conference Center Brush Creek Room, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 Refreshments will be provided at 3:15 pm for early arrivals For questions contact: Eckhard Hellmuth (KC-ACS) at 816-523-0893 or Kathleen Kilway (kilwayk@xxxxxxxx) www.umkc.edu/kcacs __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************** Replying to this email will send it to the entire group--use individual email addresses if you wish to direct a response to individual members. To post to the mailing list, send email to kact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, change your settings or to search the archives, visit //www.freelists.org/list/kact