Senior Chemists Committee
Activities and Information
Senior Chemists / Younger Chemists Committees
Dia Beacon Museum Group Tour and Social Brunch
DATE: Sunday, October 27, 2024
SCC / YCC Joint Event: Dia Museum – Tour & Lunch
LOCATION: Riggio Galleries at the Dia Art Museum, 3 Beekman St, Beacon, NY 12508
TIME: 10:00 am – 1:30 pm
TICKETS: only 20 tickets available, so please register early!
COST: $5 per person (non-refundable)
PARKING: No Fee, but the on-site parking lot fills quickly on free resident weekends. Please arrive prior to 10:00 am to park within the spaces right in front of the entrance.
CARPOOLING: is encouraged
ACCESS: Free Pass (last Sunday of each month) to Hudson Valley residents of these counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Please have your DRIVER LICENSE available to prove residency. Non-residents will be charged $18 admission fee.
MEET @ 10:00am: at the outdoor cafe seating to the left of parking
TOUR @ 10:00am - narrated group tour (and map) of the museum
BRUNCH @ 12:00pm - subsidized lunch and dessert in the cafe by Homespun Foods of Beacon NY. A dessert platter and beverages will be available. Indoor and outdoor seating is available to encourage social connecting and energizing member collaboration and possibly committing service to the younger or older chemists committees.
OTHER ACTIVITIES to do AFTER the tour/brunch:
Visit the adjacent eclectic, novel bookshop (open from 10 am to 5 pm) or
Visit the Main Street of Beacon for its many cafes and stores
Kindly Sign the Waiver and Photo Release
Please Print and Bring to the Event ---OR---
Email to Glenn at [email protected]
Questions? Contact: Glenn at [email protected], 412-888-6160 --- OR ---
Joan at [email protected], 845-527-9606 --- OR ---
Patti at [email protected], 845-505-0825
JOIN US! $5 registration by Monday, October 14, 2024
SCC / YCC Joint Event: Dia Museum – Tour & Lunch
LOCATION: Riggio Galleries at the Dia Art Museum, 3 Beekman St, Beacon, NY 12508
TIME: 10:00 am – 1:30 pm
TICKETS: only 20 tickets available, so please register early!
COST: $5 per person (non-refundable)
PARKING: No Fee, but the on-site parking lot fills quickly on free resident weekends. Please arrive prior to 10:00 am to park within the spaces right in front of the entrance.
CARPOOLING: is encouraged
ACCESS: Free Pass (last Sunday of each month) to Hudson Valley residents of these counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Please have your DRIVER LICENSE available to prove residency. Non-residents will be charged $18 admission fee.
MEET @ 10:00am: at the outdoor cafe seating to the left of parking
TOUR @ 10:00am - narrated group tour (and map) of the museum
BRUNCH @ 12:00pm - subsidized lunch and dessert in the cafe by Homespun Foods of Beacon NY. A dessert platter and beverages will be available. Indoor and outdoor seating is available to encourage social connecting and energizing member collaboration and possibly committing service to the younger or older chemists committees.
OTHER ACTIVITIES to do AFTER the tour/brunch:
Visit the adjacent eclectic, novel bookshop (open from 10 am to 5 pm) or
Visit the Main Street of Beacon for its many cafes and stores
Kindly Sign the Waiver and Photo Release
Please Print and Bring to the Event ---OR---
Email to Glenn at [email protected]
Questions? Contact: Glenn at [email protected], 412-888-6160 --- OR ---
Joan at [email protected], 845-527-9606 --- OR ---
Patti at [email protected], 845-505-0825
JOIN US! $5 registration by Monday, October 14, 2024
The Senior Chemists Committee of the Mid-Hudson Local Section continues to plan and execute activities to attract interest and participation of our section members. You may have attended our Hudson Beach Glassblowing event, the Renegades Ball game or the CIA tour and extravagant meal. Our section theme for this year is “The Year to Reconnect, Renew and Reenergize”.
We invite Younger Chemist members and Senior Chemist members to a tour/brunch of the eclectic and unusual Riggio Galleries at the Dia Beacon museum on Sunday, October 27.
The Dia Art Museum is located on Rt. 9D just south of the Beacon Train Station. It is founded on the idea that art is a visually active, self-determined value experience. The 250,000 square feet landmark is on 26 acres with eleven permanent art works and numerous non-traditional exhibition spaces of architecture and design from the 1960's to the present including 102 very unusual original canvases and abstract visual art with some by Andy Warhol (above).
As a Hudson Valley resident, you will receive free admission to Dia Beacon. Please have your driver’s license, if necessary, to prove residence in the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley FREE PASS encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Otherwise, there is an $18.00 admission fee.
Participants will receive a narrated group tour (and map) of the museum followed by a choice of subsidized lunch and desserts in the cafe by Homespun Foods of Beacon NY.
Indoor and outdoor seating is available to encourage social connecting, and energizing member collaboration and possibly committing service to the younger or senior chemists committee.
You may also visit the adjacent eclectic, novel bookshop open from 10 am to 5 pm or after the brunch at Dia visit the Main Street of Beacon for its many cafes and stores.
We invite Younger Chemist members and Senior Chemist members to a tour/brunch of the eclectic and unusual Riggio Galleries at the Dia Beacon museum on Sunday, October 27.
The Dia Art Museum is located on Rt. 9D just south of the Beacon Train Station. It is founded on the idea that art is a visually active, self-determined value experience. The 250,000 square feet landmark is on 26 acres with eleven permanent art works and numerous non-traditional exhibition spaces of architecture and design from the 1960's to the present including 102 very unusual original canvases and abstract visual art with some by Andy Warhol (above).
As a Hudson Valley resident, you will receive free admission to Dia Beacon. Please have your driver’s license, if necessary, to prove residence in the Hudson Valley. The Hudson Valley FREE PASS encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Otherwise, there is an $18.00 admission fee.
Participants will receive a narrated group tour (and map) of the museum followed by a choice of subsidized lunch and desserts in the cafe by Homespun Foods of Beacon NY.
Indoor and outdoor seating is available to encourage social connecting, and energizing member collaboration and possibly committing service to the younger or senior chemists committee.
You may also visit the adjacent eclectic, novel bookshop open from 10 am to 5 pm or after the brunch at Dia visit the Main Street of Beacon for its many cafes and stores.
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.
