Fritz H. Walker, installed as FSCT president; 2004-2005 officers and board announced.At the close of its 2004 Annual Meeting on October 29, Dr. Frederick "Fritz" H. Walker became the 83rd President of the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology. Dr. Walker is a Research Associate for the Performance Materials Technology Division at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA. Dr. Rose A. Ryntz, Senior Manager/Senior Technical Fellow for the Global Advanced Material Engineering Department at Visteon Corporation, Dearborn, MI, has been named President-Elect of the FSCT FSCT Federation of Societies for Coating Technology FSCT Fire Support Control Terminal . Elected to serve as FSCT Secretary-Treasurer was Dr. Yasmin Sayed-Sweet, Strategic Business Manager for Cook Composites & Polymers, Clarkston, MI. President Walker Fritz Walker (Philadelphia Society) is a member of the FSCT Publications Committee and the Editorial Review Board of JCT JCT Junction JCT Jerusalem College of Technology JCT Joint Contracts Tribunal (UK build contracts governing body) JCT Journal of Coatings Technology JCT John Christner Trucking JCT Journal of Curriculum Theorizing RESEARCH. In addition, he served as a Past Chair of the FSCT's Professional Development Committee and, most recently, chaired the FSCT's Structure and Governance Task Force. Dr. Walker was also the first place recipient of the FSCT's 2001 Roon Awards Competition. Dr. Walker holds numerous patents in diverse areas of coatings technology. He has authored chapters in two ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. Symposium Series and is the author of the FSCT monograph "Introduction to Polymers and Resins." In addition, he lectures regularly on various aspects of coatings chemistry, including presentations at the Gordon Research Conference on Coatings Science, and the Athens Conference on Coatings Science and Technology. Dr. Walker began his career in 1982 with the Pioneering Research Group at Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based company, manufactures miscellaneous materials. A Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries. The annual sales revenue of Rohm and Haas stands at about USD 8.2 billion. , and in 1988 became Director of the Michigan Polymer Laboratory for Akzo Coatings Inc. Employed at Henkel's Corporate Research Lab in 1991, he later joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., in 1993, where he is currently a Research Associate for the Performance Materials Technology Division. He is a member of the American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in and the Society for Protective Coatings SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) is a professional organization for the industrial coatings industry. It was founded in 1950 as the Steel Structures Painting Council, a non-profit association concerned with the use of coatings to protect industrial steel structures . Dr. Walker received a B.A. Degree in Behavioral Biology from Bloomfield College Bloomfield College is a private college located in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Bloomfield College was founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1868 as German Theological Seminary of Newark, New Jersey to train German-speaking ministers. , and M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Physical-Organic Chemistry from Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , where his dissertation on the chemistry of small, strained ring propellanes was awarded the Richard Wolfgang Memorial Prize. President-Elect Ryntz Rose A. Ryntz (Detroit Society) is recognized as one of the world's leading experts in the area of automotive plastics coatings and has developed new techniques to study paint on plastic performance including scratch and gouge gouge (gouj) a hollow chisel for cutting and removing bone. gouge n. A strong curved chisel used in bone surgery. gouge a hollow chisel for cutting and removing bone. resistance. A Past Chair of the FSCT's Professional Development, Annual Meeting Program, and Industry Relations Task Force Committees, Dr. Ryntz was also a member of the FSCT Events Steering, Technical Advisory, Operating, Nominating, and Paint Industries' Show Committees, and was a Trustee of CIEF CIEF Conseil International d'Études Francophones (Council of International Francophone Studies; Lafayette, LA) CIEF Capillary Isoelectric Focusing CIEF Carrier Independent Exchange Facility . A member of the Publications Committee, she also serves on the Editorial Review Board of JCT RESEARCH and the Advisory Board of JCT COATINGSTECH. Dr. Ryntz served as Technical Chair for the Detroit Society from 1988-1994. Dr. Ryntz has received numerous awards, including the 2000 George B. Heckel Award, the FSCT's highest honor, as well as first place in the 2000 FSCT Roon Awards Competition; the 2003 Roy W. Tess Award from the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE PMSE Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes PMSE Programme-Making and Special Events (UK frequency spectrum) PMSE Programme Making & Special Events (UK Office of Communications) ) of the American Chemical Society; and the 2004 Women's Automotive Association International's Professional Achievement Award. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An author of over 75 papers and 25 patents in the paint and plastics field, Dr. Ryntz has also written one book, Adhesion to Plastics: Molding and Paintability and edited two books, Plastics and Coatings: Durability, Stabilization, and Testing and Coatings of Polymers and Plastics. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Ryntz joined Dow Chemical in 1983 as a Senior Research Chemist. In 1985, she joined the Mt. Clemens Paint Plant of Ford Motor Co. and moved to DuPont Automotive Coatings following their purchase of Ford's paint facility. After joining Akzo Coatings Inc. in 1989, she was appointed Technical Director for plastics and industrial finishes. In 1992, Dr. Ryntz rejoined the Ford Motor Co. as a Senior Technical Specialist in the Plastics and Trim Products division. She is currently Senior Manager/Senior Technical Fellow for the Global Advanced Material Engineering Department at Visteon Corporation. She earned a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Wayne State University Wayne State University, at Detroit, Mich.; state supported; coeducational; established 1956 as a successor to Wayne Univ. (formed 1934 by a merger of five city colleges). , a Ph.D. in Organic Polymer Chemistry Polymer chemistry or macromolecular chemistry is a multidisciplinary science that deals with the chemical synthesis and chemical properties of polymers or macromolecules. from the University of Detroit, and an M.B.A. Degree from Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Secretary-Treasurer Sayed-Sweet Yasmin Sayed-Sweet (Detroit Society) is the Strategic Business Manager for Cook Composites & Polymers, Clarkston, MI, which she joined in 1996. Since 2000, Dr. Sayed-Sweet has served on the FSCT Board of Directors. She has served as a member of the Technical Advisory (1997) and the Society Support (1999-2001) Committees. In addition, Dr. Sayed-Sweet was Technical Chair of the Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Society Technical Committee in 1998. A member of both the American Chemical Society and the Society of Cosmetic Chemists The Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of cosmetic science. , her areas of expertise include new market development and strategic sales. Dr. Sayed-Sweet earned a Ph.D. Degree from the University of Wyoming UW is a national research university prominent in the fields of environment and natural resource research, specializing in agriculture, energy, geology, and water resource related fields. and an M.B.A. Degree from Michigan State University. She also completed post doctorate studies at Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University, mainly at Ypsilanti, Mich.; coeducational; founded 1849 as a normal school, became Eastern Michigan College in 1956, gained university status in 1959. and at the Michigan Molecular Institute. She is the recipient of the Sara Rhodes Ph.D. Award. Other Elections The following individuals have been elected to serve terms on the FSCT's Executive Committee and Board of Directors. Executive Committee Charles "Chuck" Shearer (New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Society) has been elected to serve a three-year term on the FSCT Executive Committee. Currently the New Business Development Manager at Stahl USA, Peabody, MA, he has been in the coatings industry for 24 years. Mr. Shearer received a B.A. Degree in Biology/Chemistry from Annhurst College and completed advanced chemistry courses at Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. at Lowell. Mr. Shearer is a member of the FSCT Board of Directors and has served on the organization's Structure and Governance Task Force and Nominating Committees. A Past-President of the New England Society for Coatings Technology, he has also served the Society as a Past Chair of both the Publicity and Membership Committees, and was a member of their Technical Committee. Mr. Shearer is a member of the American Chemical Society and the National Wood Floor Association. He is also the co-inventor of a patented nitrocellulose-based, UV cure, wood finish. His areas of expertise include waterborne paints and coatings; wood finishes, both industrial and architectural, waterborne, solvent-based, and UV cure; polyurethane and acrylic polymerization polymerization Any process in which monomers combine chemically to produce a polymer. The monomer molecules—which in the polymer usually number from at least 100 to many thousands—may or may not all be the same. ; and crosslinking. Melinda Forbes (Los Angeles Society) has been elected to serve a two-year term on the FSCT Executive Committee. She is Senior Account Manager at Kronos, Inc., Fullerton, CA., and has been in the coatings industry for 23 years. Ms. Forbes received a B.A. Degree from San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. . She also holds a California Elementary School Teaching Credential. A Past-President of the Los Angeles Society (1988-89), Ms. Forbes also served as Chair of the Education Committee (1984-85), was a member of the Society's Board of Directors (1985-92), co-chaired the 1989 Western Coatings Symposium, and chaired the Entertainment Committee for the 1993 Western Coatings Symposium. She was awarded the LASCT's Outstanding Achievement Award and is an Honorary Member of the Rocky Mountain Society. At the Federation level, Ms. Forbes is the Los Angeles Society Director on the FSCT Board of Directors. She has served as Chair of both the Educational and Society Support Committees, and has been a member of the Professional Development Committee. Ms. Forbes, a recipient of the Women in Coatings Outstanding Leadership Award, is a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and serves on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. Polymers and Coatings Industrial
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Board of Directors Charles E. Carncross (Southern Society), Vice President--Coatings and Plastics Division for Buckman Laboratories, Inc., Memphis, TN, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the FSCT's Board of Directors as a Director-at-Large. Mr. Carncross received a B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Illinois State University ISU is recognized in the prestigious US News rankings as a "National University", that is, a university which grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research. and an M.B.A. Degree from Lake Forest Grad School. He has been employed with Buckman Laboratories for 20 years and has 25 years of experience in the coatings industry. Mr. Carncross has served the FSCT as Chair of the Exhibitor Advisory Committee (1999-2002) and as a member of the Event Steering Committee (2003-04). A member of the NPCA NPCA National Parks Conservation Association NPCA National Peace Corps Association NPCA National Precast Concrete Association NPCA National Paint & Coatings Association NPCA National Pest Control Association NPCA Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority , he has served on its Board of Directors, and its Industry Supplier, Architectural, and Industrial Committees. Gail Pollano (New England Society) Coatings Marketing Manager at Neo-Resins Inc., Wilmington, MA, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the FSCT's Board of Directors. Ms. Pollano has served the FSCT in many capacities. A Past-President of the FSCT (2001-02), she served as an At-Large member on the Board of Directors. She has been a member of the Annual Meeting Program, Corrosion, Planning, and Professional Development Committees and was a Past Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee. In addition, she received FSCT's George Baugh Heckel Award in 1998 in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the general advancement of the Federation's interest and prestige. Ms. Pollano has also been active in the local New England Society, twice serving as President, in 1989 and in 1991. She is a prolific lecturer, speaking on advanced formulation and new product development in the coatings industry. Ms. Pollano has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Women in Coatings Management Award and the Elias Singer Best Paper Award (first place tie, Waterborne Symposium, 1997). She received a B.A. Degree in Biology from Boston University and an M.B.A. Degree from New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). College. Ms. Pollano has worked in the coatings and related industries for 27 years. Dick Mullen (Rocky Mountain Society) has been elected to serve as a Past-President member on the FSCT Board. Now retired, Mr. Mullen was a member of the FSCT Executive Committee and served as the Rocky Mountain Society Representative to the Board of Directors from 1976-80, and again from 1995-98. He also served on the FSCT Environmental Affairs and Educational Committees. Mr. Mullen served twice as President of the Rocky Mountain Society (1975-76 and 1990-91), and was Chair of the Society's Educational, Membership, and Technical Committees. In 1980, he was given the Gold Nugget Award for outstanding contributions to the Society and for the advancement of the coatings industry. Mr. Mullen presented the Society paper, "High Altitude Testing of Paint Films," at the 1972 FSCT Annual Meeting, and was one of the authors of the 1995 Society paper, "Effects of Reverse-Side Substrate Insulation on the Exterior Exposure Performance of an Acrylic Emulsion Coating." A graduate of the University of Denver Background and rankings The University was founded in 1864 as Colorado Seminary by John Evans, the former Territorial Governor of Colorado, who had been appointed by US President Abraham Lincoln. with B.S. and B.A. Degrees, Mr. Mullen has been active in the coatings industry for over 40 years. |
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