Senior Chemists Committee
Activities and Information
Recap of the
Senior Chemists / Younger Chemists Committees
Dia Beacon Museum Group Tour and Social Brunch
The Senior Chemists Committee of the Mid-Hudson ACS Section adopted the theme of “The Year to Reconnect, Renew and Reenergize” for 2025. This fall we hosted a collaborative event with SCC and YCC members to tour the Riggio Galleries at the Dia museum and then gather for a group lunch. We provided a “young and old chemists” engaging activity at the well-known non-profit Dia Museum and Exposition in Beacon NY which is housed in the historic landmark of a 1929 former Nabisco box printing facility with nearly 300,000 square feet of exhibit space. There are 11 permanent art works and numerous non-traditional exhibition spaces of architecture and design from the 1960's to the present, including 102 canvases by Andy Warhol.
An ACS grant was used to subsidize a group tour for 20 attendees as well as a relaxing seasonal lunch catered by Homespun Foods of Beacon, NY. The group tour guide provided interesting information about the artists’ intention for their exhibits. All exhibits were very large installations (as they are called). Three 10’ tall, tilted and curled 2” thick steel mazes made for a dizzying level walk through. Another exhibit created unusual reflections with cleverly placed very large mirrors. Three 20 feet deep by 20 feet wide dizzying “steel pits” dared onlookers to get very close. Film Director, Steve McQueen had a 30,000 square foot hypostyle hall of Egyptian pillars with a Bass stereophonic light show that immersed your senses with deep repetitive bass notes and softly changing colored lighting. Quite a nice place to meditate and even nap! After the group tour and lunch some members continued touring and went on to get a picture by a tilted boat hull. The immense size of the installations made onlookers wonder how the artists ever got their art in the building!! All attendees were appreciative of the grant which made this memorable day possible.
--- Glenn Roy, Ph.D., SCC Chair
An ACS grant was used to subsidize a group tour for 20 attendees as well as a relaxing seasonal lunch catered by Homespun Foods of Beacon, NY. The group tour guide provided interesting information about the artists’ intention for their exhibits. All exhibits were very large installations (as they are called). Three 10’ tall, tilted and curled 2” thick steel mazes made for a dizzying level walk through. Another exhibit created unusual reflections with cleverly placed very large mirrors. Three 20 feet deep by 20 feet wide dizzying “steel pits” dared onlookers to get very close. Film Director, Steve McQueen had a 30,000 square foot hypostyle hall of Egyptian pillars with a Bass stereophonic light show that immersed your senses with deep repetitive bass notes and softly changing colored lighting. Quite a nice place to meditate and even nap! After the group tour and lunch some members continued touring and went on to get a picture by a tilted boat hull. The immense size of the installations made onlookers wonder how the artists ever got their art in the building!! All attendees were appreciative of the grant which made this memorable day possible.
--- Glenn Roy, Ph.D., SCC Chair
American Bounty at the
Culinary Institute of America
On Saturday, September 17th, some Senior ACS Members and their guest arrived for a culinary experience, education and innovative taste activity at The Culinary Institute of America. An ‘a la carte’ three-course lunch, new for the Fall Season, was served in the Chairman’s private dining room of the American Bounty restaurant. Our servers and chefs were culinary students who achieved high standards of culinary perfection and personal service. The lunch was followed up in the Theater with a resident Chef’s virtual tour of the CIA’s history, culinary programs and famous, now celebrity graduates. We then received instructions to taste combinations of some ingredients to learn how to improve our home meals’ taste. Thus, we can now “Taste Like A Chef”. The group also did a walking tour through the Hall of Recognition gallery and historic Farquharson Hall built in 1907 as a Jesuit church, now the student’s dining hall. A wonderful 5 hours was had by all!
Glass Blowing Event and Cullet Education
The Senior chemist committee sponsored a glassblowing event on October 5,, 2019 at Hudson Beach glass in Beacon New York. Ten senior chemists were offered a free opportunity to glass blow their own ornament of choice. There was education about glass and colors of glass and everyone enjoyed touring the gallery and store with a 10% discount. As a service to clear glass recycling efforts, six small glass recycling boxes were given out to members willing to go to restaurants, community centers, or schools and educate those places specifically on glass recycling. They would collect clear, colorless, clean glass to be collected and sent to a cullet processor. This saves 40% energy then making glass from sand. Glass recycling by sorting color is not done to any great extent.
Glenn Roy, Ph.D., SCC Chair of MHACS, ACS Professional Member, 32y.
Are you 50+, Retired or Not Retired?
THEN JOIN US...…
The Senior Chemists Committee (SCC) mission is to address and support the social needs and professional ambitions of senior chemists and to utilize their knowledge and experience. I am soliciting your ideas for activities and suggesting some activities to begin planning in detail.
Are you interested in sharing your career with our Younger Chemists Committee and mentoring? And/or just getting out for an entertaining activity? Are you interested in: Seminars (your expertise show, your chemistry magic, your favorite travel, tour of your former employee lab?), Glassblowing your own ornament, Boscobel or other productions, Polich (formerly Tallix) foundry tour, Renegades ballgame evening out, Mountain Scout Survival School, ACS Regional Meeting Reunions.
We invite you to bring back your skills, talents, memories, or get out to a fun event, and network with the SCC in your Mid-Hudson American Chemical Society!
Contact me with your ideas and feedback!
Glenn Roy, Ph.D., Chair MHACS SCC, ACS Professional Member 32y. [email protected]
THEN JOIN US...…
The Senior Chemists Committee (SCC) mission is to address and support the social needs and professional ambitions of senior chemists and to utilize their knowledge and experience. I am soliciting your ideas for activities and suggesting some activities to begin planning in detail.
Are you interested in sharing your career with our Younger Chemists Committee and mentoring? And/or just getting out for an entertaining activity? Are you interested in: Seminars (your expertise show, your chemistry magic, your favorite travel, tour of your former employee lab?), Glassblowing your own ornament, Boscobel or other productions, Polich (formerly Tallix) foundry tour, Renegades ballgame evening out, Mountain Scout Survival School, ACS Regional Meeting Reunions.
We invite you to bring back your skills, talents, memories, or get out to a fun event, and network with the SCC in your Mid-Hudson American Chemical Society!
Contact me with your ideas and feedback!
Glenn Roy, Ph.D., Chair MHACS SCC, ACS Professional Member 32y. [email protected]
Senior Chemist StoryCorps
Senior Chemists in the Mid-Hudson ACS were asked "What is your fondest memory as a chemist?" and their oral responses were recorded. Here are the responses from some our section members. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews from more than 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Millions listen to their weekly broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition and on StoryCorps’ Listen Page.
