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Iota Sigma Pi
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Plutonium chapter is the twenty-eighth chapter.
Plutonium was chosen by the chapter at Purdue University because
the symbol Pu had the letters P.U. for Purdue University. On
May 16, 1962,
the women of the Purdue Chemistry Department began the organization of the
Plutonium chapter. Officers elected to effect the establishment of an Iota
Sigma Pi chapter at Purdue were:
Nina
Matheny, Catalyst, Emma Stephens Larson, Reducer, Margeret Schormuller, Equivalent, Karen L. Erickson, Historian and Jean Mallan, Mordant.
The official installation of the Plutonium
chapter and initiation of its members were held on February 9, 1963, in the Wetherill Room of the
Chemistry Building, Purdue. Dr. Hoylande Young was the installing officer. The sponsor
was Radium chapter, University of Cincinnati; the chapter adviser Dr. Nathan Kornblum, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Purdue University.
The meetings of Plutonium have been concerned
with business matters, program meetings, and social gatherings. Programs have
included social and political sciences, as well as scientific discussion by
staff members and graduate students of Purdue University. Marian College, Indianapolis, was affiliated with Plutonium until May, 1971. A new
metropolitan chapter, Cobalt was installed in Indianapolis at that time.
In the past, Plutonium's
service projects included assistance with the Lafayette Science Fair for high
schools, the annual Christmas party held by the Chemistry Department, and the
social tea after football games in the fall sponsored jointly by Plutonium,
Phi Lanbda Upsilon, and Alpha Chi.
An outstanding event of the year has been
the presentation of awards to the women students at Purdue University who have attained the highest grades in the chemistry
laboratory courses. Recipients of the awards have been: Kenddra Davenport, Katherine Dammon Anderson, Rosemary Duhon, Pamela Jackson, Mary Ann Chmielewski, Christy Lynne
Kirchner, Leslie Elaine Bauman, Marva L. Evans, Eileen M. Hanna.
Currently, the main activities of
the Plutonium chapter are the National Chemistry Week, in colaboration with
ACS, and the Chemistry Discovery Day with Girl's Scout troops from all
Indiana.Dr. Avanelle Kirksey
was elected Coordinator Members-at-Large at the Seventeenth Triennial
Convention in Cincinnati, June, 1972. Dr. Ching Siang Tang Yeh has served as the chapter advisor since 1968.
The Catalysts of Plutonium have been:
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Nana Matheny
Emma Stephens Larson
Nancy Jackobs
Eunice Kreider
Martha Ownbey
Rita Reed
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Helen Hauer
Patricia Thorstenson
Carol Hooker (two years)
Diana Darling (two years)
Ruthann Nichols
Rosemary Rader
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