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Hospitality Lounge The Hospitality Lounge was an innovation a t the National meeting in Honolulu, an appropriate occasion because of the international nature of the meeting. This was borne out by our visitors who were from Japan, Australia, Canada, England, Puerto Rieo, as well as most of the United States. About fifty people a day stopped in, staying anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or two. In addition to a hard core of college and university professors, there were high school teachers, students, post-docs, deans, research chemists, historians, and even a photographer. The Lounge became an oasis in the midst of the meeting. It was a place: to enjoy the view of the yacht harbor and the Pacific from a balcony on the 12th floor of the Ilikai; to have a m p of coffee or a drink of orange juice, sit down, and rest your feet for a few minutes; to go off in a quiet corner to review a talk; to meet new people, obtain information about the Division and its activities, join the Division or subscribe to the Journal; to have national or international committee and subcommittee meetings off in a corner or on a balcony (the Division of History of Chemistry even held its executive committee meeting in our Hospitality Lounge!); to stow all manner of parcels, packages, briefcases, suitcases, A/V equipment and other impedimenta far a few minutes or all day; to look through 1920's issues of the Journal, photographs of past biennial meetings, a complete collection of ACS standardized tests, or information on chemistry programs in other countries; to enter the daily raffle for a free subscription (or extension) t o J. Chem Educ; t o use the phone, to feel a t home, to exchange ideas, to learn a little Japanese, to make plans for future meetings. Many persons thought the Hospitality Lounge was a successful experiment, so successful that another is planned for the Washington meeting. Many of the features which characterized Honolulu will be used again, including a daily raffle. It will be in the same hotel as the Chem. Educ. sessions; we do not have the hotel name or room number a t the early date a t which this is being written, but we will have signs posted around the meeting area. Look for them. See you there! J o h n a n d Betty Moore Eastern Michigan University

Bob a n d Corinne Brasted T h e University of Minnesota

Volume 56, Number 8, August 1979 I 495