Dear Col­leagues in Catal­y­sis:

On Sep­tem­ber 28th the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia will begin its 59th sea­son! On behalf of the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee, I wel­come you to par­tic­i­pate in our planned activ­i­ties for this sea­son. We take great pride in being the old­est and one of the most active catal­y­sis clubs in North Amer­i­ca and need your par­tic­i­pa­tion to main­tain the vital­i­ty of the club.

Once again, the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee (list­ed below) has assem­bled a pro­gram of activ­i­ties (see attached sheet) designed to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions in the field of catal­y­sis while meet­ing fel­low sci­en­tists and col­leagues.

2006–7 CCP Officers

• Roger Grey, Chair
  Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
• Edrick Morales, Chair-Elect
  Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
• Ist­van Halasz, Pass Chair
  PQ Cor­po­ra­tion
• Steve Har­ris, Trea­sur­er
  Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
• Hong-Xin Li, Sec­re­tary
  Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al
• Mahesh Kon­duru, Pro­gram Chair
  John­son Matthey
• Carl Men­ning, Arrange­ments Chair
  Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
• Xiao Chen, Direc­tor (Spon­sor­ship)
  John­son Matthey
• Haim­ing Liu, Direc­tor (Mem­ber­ship)
  Arke­ma
• Michael Smith, Direc­tor (Poster Ses­sion)
  Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
• Anne Gaffney, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to NACS
  ABB Lum­mus

In June the Exec­u­tive com­mit­tee of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia met to plan our activ­i­ties for 2006–2007. High­lights of this meet­ing include;

• Pro­grams — The month­ly din­ner meet­ings for this sea­son will con­sist of a lec­ture by the fea­tured after din­ner speak­er and will also include a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent or post doc. A joint meet­ing with the Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York Catal­y­sis Soci­ety will be held in Novem­ber (at the Bucks Coun­ty Sher­a­ton, Lang­horne, PA). This sea­son the annu­al stu­dent poster ses­sion will be held in March, and the Spring Sym­po­sium in May will be held at the same loca­tion as the month­ly meet­ings (Hol­i­day Inn Select, Wilm­ing­ton).
• Dues — The 2006–2007 sea­son will again be $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents will be $6.00. Please pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive or to our trea­sur­er, Steve Har­ris (stephen.​harris@​lyondell.​com). Steve will accept dues pay­ments at the month­ly meet­ings.
• Din­ner Fees and Reser­va­tions -The cost of the din­ner to our mem­bers will be $30.00 (stu­dents and retirees, $15.00) and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. After one drink, the bar will serve as a cash bar dur­ing the social hour. Walk-in and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $35. We strong­ly encour­age mem­bers to make advanced reser­va­tions for the month­ly meet­ings. Although the club will con­tin­ue its pol­i­cy of allow­ing walk-in atten­dees, the hotel can­not guar­an­tee that they will have enough meals to accom­mo­date a large num­ber of walk-ins. Please help us by mak­ing advanced reser­va­tions.
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tions — We will con­tin­ue to take advan­tage of e-mail cor­re­spon­dence, instead of hard-copy announce­ments for our meet­ings. Hong-Xin is updat­ing our data­base of e-mail address­es to try to include every­one. If you know of some­one who does not receive our e-mails or need to update your e-mail address, please con­tact Hong-Xin (hongxin.​li@​pqcorp.​com).
• Web page — Last year our club estab­lished its own web site (catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org). We encour­age you to vis­it this site to review past and future activ­i­ties of our club and oth­er items of inter­est to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty (i.e. con­fer­ences and links to oth­er catal­y­sis orga­ni­za­tions). Our web­mas­ter is Edrick Morales (edrick.​morales@​lyondell.​com).
• Atten­dance — We real­ly would like to improve the atten­dance this year at our month­ly meet­ings and the Spring Sym­po­sium. We there­fore encour­age our mem­bers to sup­port the club by attend­ing as many meet­ings as pos­si­ble and also to invite your col­leagues to join us at our meet­ings.

I am look­ing for­ward to an inter­est­ing 2006–2007 sea­son. Please feel free to con­tact me through­out the year with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the Club.

Sin­cere­ly,

Roger Grey
Chair, 2006–2007
E-mail: roger.​grey@​lyondell.​com
Phone: 610–359-2286