Dear Col­leagues:

Wel­come to the 60^th sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia. Since the club was found­ed in 1949, we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of hold­ing reg­u­lar meet­ings in catal­y­sis to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions among our fel­low sci­en­tists. Fol­low­ing the path, your offi­cers, list­ed on the left col­umn, have assem­bled a pro­gram of activ­i­ties for the 2008-09 sea­son and seek to pro­vide a myr­i­ad of stim­u­lat­ing and enjoy­able tech­ni­cal meet­ings. We hope that you will join us by reg­is­ter­ing as a mem­ber of the club for the new sea­son and enjoy the pre­sen­ta­tions.

The pro­gram includes a joint meet­ing with the Wilm­ing­ton area sec­tion of AIChE in Octo­ber. Our annu­al stu­dent poster ses­sion will be coor­di­nat­ed by Joseph Fedeyko (John­son Matthey) and held in March. Michael A. Smith (Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty) will orga­nize the Spring Sym­po­sium in May. As intro­duced in the past cou­ple of years, we will con­tin­ue to have a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent or post-doc pri­or to the main lec­ture at some of the month­ly meet­ings.

Dues for the 2008-09 sea­son will remain at $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents will be $6.00. You can pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to our trea­sur­er (Steve Har­ris), or at the month­ly meet­ings. A list of com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.

The cost of the din­ner will again be $30.00 for mem­bers, $15.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. Walk-ins and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $35.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings.

We encour­age all mem­bers to use our web­site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org to receive lat­est infor­ma­tion on month­ly meet­ings. If you would like to receive our month­ly announce­ments or need to update your con­tact infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our Mem­ber­ship Direc­tor, Eliz­a­beth Ross-Medgaar­den at Elizabeth.​Ross-​Medgaarden@​lyondellbasell.​com.

Please con­tin­ue to sup­port our club by attend­ing and invit­ing your col­leagues to our month­ly meet­ings.

I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at the club month­ly meet­ings. Please feel free to con­tact me, or any of the oth­er offi­cers, through­out the year with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the club.

Best regards,

Hai-Ying Chen
Chair
610–341-3441
chenh@​jmusa.​com

We would like to express our appre­ci­a­tion for the gen­er­ous sup­port of our spon­sors dur­ing the 2007-08 sea­son.

Gold Son­sors:

• Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries
• The Cat­a­lyst Group
• The PQ Corporation/Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al
• Arke­ma
• Colo­nial Met­als, Inc.
• Hype­r­i­on Catal­y­sis
• Symyx
• BASF
• Du Pont

Sil­ver Spon­sors:

• Lum­mus Tech­nol­o­gy, a CB&I Com­pa­ny
• Air Prod­ucts
• Evonik
• John­son Matthey Cat­a­lysts
• Mil­len­ni­um Inor­gan­ic Chem­i­cals

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia is pleased to announce that Dr. David Olson is the recip­i­ent of the 2008 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award. The award is giv­en for out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the advance­ment of catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship.

The 2008 Award rec­og­nizes Dr. Olson for his inno­v­a­tive and pio­neer­ing work in the field of zeo­lite crys­tal chem­istry, adsorp­tion and catal­y­sis and for his orga­ni­za­tion­al lead­er­ship. Dr. Olson has been involved in zeo­lite research for over 40 years, includ­ing 33 years at Mobil and since then has served as Adjunct Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and more recent­ly at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty. Illus­tra­tive of his many sig­nif­i­cant sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal achieve­ments are his struc­tur­al works on rare earth X and Y zeo­lites, ZSM-5 and their appli­ca­tion to petro­chem­i­cal process­es, includ­ing the use of ZSM-5 as a xylene iso­mer­iza­tion cat­a­lyst. He is cofounder of the Struc­ture Com­mis­sion of the Inter­na­tion­al Zeo­lite Asso­ci­a­tion and served as its chair for over six years. In addi­tion, he orga­nized and for many years chaired the North East Cor­ri­dor Zeo­lite Asso­ci­a­tion (NECZA). He is co-author of the Atlas of Zeo­lite Struc­ture Types, which is a well-known hand­book for researchers in the field of zeo­lites.