May Meeting
    We thank Ken Johnson for his talk on ocean research, and we thank him and all the other staff members at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who came in on a Saturday to host us. It was a great afternoon at Moss Landing, and we all had a wonderful and interesting time. 
June and August Meetings
    As usual, there will be no dinner meetings in June or August.

 Saturday, July 11 Picnic
    Our next event will be our summer picnic on Saturday, July 11, on the Stanford campus.

    The wine tasting will be in the lobby of the Keck Science Building. The tasting will be "horizontal," meaning that it will show the difference in taste between wines grown in cold to cool regions, as opposed to those grown in warmer regions.
    Wine taste is dependent on the temperature during the ripening phase of grape growth. Red wines require more heat than white wines do to ripen; otherwise they start tasting herbaceous. Cabernet Sauvignon, for instance, has a green bell pepper character which becomes apparent when the grapes do nor ripen properly.
    The temperature effect on grape growing will be discussed prior to the tasting.

    Also featured at the event will be a catered picnic outside the nearby Mudd chemistry building at Stanford. Both red and white wine will be available for the picnic dinner. Afterwards, ceremonies inside the Mudd building will honor our 50th- and 60th-year members and other award winners.
    The picnic will be a buffet catered by Armadillo Willy's, as it was last year, and the menu will include:

Where:  The Stanford Chemistry Department. Click here for a map.
When: 4:30 p.m. Wine Tasting in the Keck Science Building
5:30 p.m. Buffet BBQ dinner outside the Mudd Chemistry Building
7:00 p.m. Awards inside the Mudd Building

    The Silicon Valley Chemist will have a reservation form for the event; but since most of you have to look at the newsletter on our web page, and you're already online looking at this, you can click here, print your form, and then use your "back" button to return to this page. Remember, this is the one meeting where you have to send a payment with your reservation.  Note the new address to which you should send your reservation and check. The cost, however, will be the same as it was last year: $16 for adults, $5 for kids 4-12, kids 3 and under free. We'll need the reservations by Monday, July 6.
    See you there!


Future Meetings

     Please note that the further into the future we look, the more tentative the arrangements become.  But once we know, you'll see it here first!

    Our Chair-Elect, Bruce Raby, has tentatively scheduled the following:
    On Thursday, September 17 (our usual third Thursday), we will hear Dr. Thomas O. Passell talk about "Thinking Outside the Box About Cold Fusion". We'll be at the Biltmore.
    On Thursday, October 15 (third Thursday again) Dr. E. Furukawa will talk about nano issues in food packaging. Title and place will be set later.
    We will present our brand new Community College Teaching Award, the first such award ever for the entire ACS, on Thursday, November 19. We're expecting to have ACS President Tom Lane here for the presentation.
    As usual, there will be no dinner meeting in December.
    After presenting the Mosher Award in March this year, we will return to our usual January date (Thursday, January 21, 2010  if we can continue with our third Thursday custom) for the presentation of the 2009 Mosher Award, the winner of which may be announced at the picnic.

    Remember that certain dinner meetings are routinely pre-set: Mosher Award presentation and talk in January, Student Affiliates meeting in April or May, Awards Picnic in late June or early July, no meetings at all in August or December.

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