The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia held its annu­al elec­tions for the 2007–2008 Club offi­cers at the April 19th gen­er­al meet­ing. I am pleased to announce the results of the elec­tions below.

• Chair Elect – Mark Kamin­sky
• Trea­sur­er – Stephen Har­ris
• Direc­tor – Haim­ing Liu
• Direc­tor – Micheal Smith
• Direc­tor – Qi Sun

Unfor­tu­nate­ly in June, Mark Kamin­sky informed the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee that he has accept­ed a job oppor­tu­ni­ty with­in Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal and will be trans­fer­ing to Texas in August 2007 and there­fore can­not ful­fill the respon­si­bil­i­ties of the Chair Elect of the Club. The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, instead of call­ing for a new spe­cial gen­er­al elec­tion, unaminous­ly agreed that the posi­tion of Chair Elect could be filled by the can­di­date who received the sec­ond most votes for Chair Elect in the April elec­tion. Con­se­quent­ly, Hai-Ying Chen has accept­ed the posi­tion and is the new 2007–2008 Chair Elect of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia.

Accord­ing to the bylaws, the fol­low­ing offi­cers auto­mat­i­cal­ly fill the posi­tions as list­ed below.

• Chair – Edrick Morales
• Past Chair – Roger Grey
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety – Anne Gaffney

Edrick Morales, as Chair, appoint­ed Carl Men­ning, Joseph Fedeyko and Bjorn Mod­en to the posi­tions of Arrange­ments Chair, Pro­gram Chair and Sec­re­tary, respec­tive­ly.

The new Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee terms com­mence the first day of June, 2007.

The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee wish­es to thank Xio Chen, Ist­van Halasz, Mahesh Kon­duru, and Hong-Xin Li for their past ser­vice to the Club as they leave their pos­tions on the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee.

Roger Grey
Past Chair