Students and Sponsors,

It is about time for the Dazzling Demos by the world class experts Marv Lang and Don Showalter.  They will be coming to Metropolitan State College for their presentation entitled “Boiling Cold…Freezing Hot” on Sept. 26.  There will be a social time at 5:00 PM and dinner at 6:00 PM in the Tivoli, Room 440.  Our dinner will be a buffet with chicken parmesan and stuffed shells. The demos will be in Science, Room 119 at 7:00 P.M.  Cost of the dinner for college students is just $5.00 and $15 for faculty and guests.  We want to pack the house for these outstanding presenters.  This is one program you will not want to miss.  So, please pass this information on to all of the students and faculty at your campuses and please encourage them to attend. Reservations are due to me by Friday, Sept. 19   cgabel@mscd.edu This will also be an opportunity for you to present your research at a poster session during the social time.  Thanks,Dr. Gabel

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Hello Everyone!

I am posting a schedule for the sale of the lab manuals for the fall chem courses.

Each day there are time slots for the start of each lab section.  I hope I got them all correct, If you notice anything wrong please correct me.

This schedule is for the first week.  I thought the people that were available could actually take the books to the classrooms directly on the first day, and that we could also man the stockroom for some time slots.

I could not fill each slot with chem club members, so my wife Rupa, volunteered to help out for a couple of days.  She is a Metro student, but an English major of all things.  I told her we would give her an honorary Chem Club Membership for the day, and she seemed to accept that.

If any other chem club members can make some time to sell in the stockroom for a one or a two hour slot, it would indeed help. Please let me know, and I will modify the schedule.

I will also post signs on all of the doors of the chem labs early Monday morning, announcing to students that we will be selling their lab manuals both in their classes and in the stock room during certain hours.  It will be important to sell in the stockroom as well since not all students will have cash or checkbook available during their first class period.

Any Chem Club members selling the manuals could also make a friendly announcement to the classroom they are selling in, something about joining the chem club.

I look forward to seeing you all soon.

 James…

Hello Everyone,

Hope Summer is going good.  I just wanted to post a message about Chemistry Club Meetings.  We will have the same schedule as before.  Wednesdays & Fridays,  every other week.

June’s Meetings:

Wed June 4th 8:00 AM

Friday June 6th 1:00 PM

Wed June 18th 8:00 AM

Friday June 20th 1:00 PM

July’s Meetings:

Wed July 2nd 8:00 AM

Wed July 16th 8:00 AM

Friday July 18th 1:00 PM

Wed July 30th 8:00 AM

Meetings will be in the P-Chem Lab SI 312. Bring ideas of fun things to do! Hope to see some of you there!

James

Club,

Chem Day is coming up fast!  Those of you who will be contributing equations to the “balancing equations” contest and/or participating in Chem Day,  can we have a short meeting?  I’ve volunteered to type up and lay out your quiz document, if you’d like me to.

Your contest will be held in 306 and I’ll be next door running the periodic table contest in 304.  Donuts and coffee will be served up in the morning, contests start at 8 am and usually run until noon or 1.  Lunch is free for participants.

I’m available Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, and Thursday afternoon to chat with any and all of you.

Dr. Ball

Hello everyone,

The Ice Core Lab visit is tomorrow!

We will plan to depart from Metro at around 10:00 AM.

I have Ford Excursion, so anyone who wants to ride with me cartainly can.

Let’s meet in our usual club meeting lab room between 9:30 and 10:00.

thanks,

James

Hello Everyone

I have managed to schedule a Tour of the Labs at the National Ice Core Laboratory! (ok, not my original idea, but cool just the same) (no, literally very cool). The laboratory manager, Todd Hinkley will arrange a customized tour for our knowledge level.  We will learn of the chemistry that is applied to the ice cores from around the world, (including Antarctica) that helps understand about earth’s environment in the past. Part of this tour is in warm areas, and part of it in sub zero temperatures.  You must bring cold weather gear etc…  Friday March 14th 11:00 AM, is the scheduled tour time.  We will plan to depart from Metro at 10:00 AM, so that we may carpool.  It is at the Federal Center.  PLEASE rsvp with me at jkingiv@comcast.net  asap. He really needs to know how many people are attending to arrange for it with the lab.  

Check out their website:  http://nicl.usgs.gov/prewho.htm

Thanks,

James King

p.s.  Keep a lookout at the Events section of the website, we’ve got LOTS of cool tours coming up!

Hello Everyone, Here is the meeting Schedule:

If you are a member, try to attend any meeting.  If you want to be a member, also please try to attend any meeting!~

We are doing 2 “meeting weeks” per month.  And within each of those 2 “meeting weeks” we will meet twice ‘per week’ in order to give all members the best oportunity to attend. 

Here is the schedule that seemed to be the best for all of those who marked on Dr. Ball’s Door:

Tuesday Feb 26th 9:00 AM  Science building 312

Friday Feb 29th 1:30 PM  Science building 312

Tuesday March 11th 9:00 AM  Science building 312

Friday March 14th 1:30 PM  Science building 312

Tuesday March 25th 9:00 AM  Science building 312

Friday March 28th 1:30 PM  Science building 312

At any given meeting some officers will always be present, and we welcome your ideas!

Let’s make this the biggest year for the Chemistry Club to date!

James King

Hello Everyone,

 The elections are over, I guess that means I am the president.  It was a tough race, and the mudslinging got bad, but we made it through. And congratulations Jonathan.

For our first order of business, I wanted to send out an inquiry.  Who would you like to see?

 Would you like to see a medical school representative?  A dental school rep? A Pharm school rep?  If everyone who is interested will shoot me an e-mail directly at jkingiv@comcast.net then I will get to work immediately on it.  Also let me know what evening is best.  Obviously if we only get one request for dental school for example, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to ask a representative to come.  I am also going to contact the Biology Club, and see if there is any interest there.  The more people we get the better.  And if any of you are members of the Bio Club, you too can pass the word along to them.  This may be your future, so speak up and let me know.  And if there is anything else specific that any of you would like to see also, please let me know.

Next on the agenda is our meeting schedule.  If you haven’t gotten by Dr Ball’s office and crossed off your available times please do so quickly.  As for meeting attendance, all members are encouraged to attend as often as you can.  Sometime next week our meetings will be posted.

Thanks again,

James King

Club members,

The election results for the VP position are:

9 votes for Jonathan Miorelli
1 vote for Patricia Witte

There were three paper ballots and seven votes by email.
Thanks for voting!