Mosher Award
2010
The Carol and Harry Mosher Award is granted
annually to an ACS member chosen from the national community who has
demonstrated excellence in chemistry, worked to insure advancement of
the chemical profession and has participated fully in the ACS on a
national, regional and local level. This award was established in 1980
in honor of Harry and Carol Mosher, two founding members of the Santa
Clara Valley Section who both epitomize these values. The Mosher award
recipient is presented with an engraved plaque and an honorarium, at
the January dinner meeting of the Section.
The recipients of the 2009 Harry and Carol Mosher
Award were Sally and Howard Peters. They gave a presentation
titled: "Death by Chocolate" at the monthly dinner meeting on January
21, 2010. Howard and Sally have been very involved with ACS at a
National and Local level for the past 30 years.
Howard Peters earned a B.S. in chemistry in 1962 at Geneva College in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Stanford
University in 1967. In 1978 Howard received a Juris Doctor degree
from Santa Clara University. He practiced patent law in the Silicon
Valley for 30 years, and during this time he wrote and obtained over
300 patents.
Howard is a 47-year member of the ACS and has served
as an elected member of the ACS Council for 31 years; he has served on
all national ACS elected committees and was an elected member of the
ACS Board of Directors for 2005-7. He received the ACS Henry Hill Award
in 2007 for advancing chemistry as a profession. In 2006 he was elected
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London). For the past nine
years he has been an invited judge for chemistry for the INTEL
International Science and Engineering Fair.
Sally Peters is also a chemistry graduate, earning
her B.S. at Geneva College (1964). In 1983 she earned a Masters Degree
in Library and Information Science at San José State University.
She has been an information specialist at PARC in Palo Alto for over 25
years.
Sally served as the Chair of the Santa Clara Valley
Section in 2001 and has served as a Councilor for the Section for 15
years. Sally received the Geneva College Outstanding Alumni Service
Award in 1997 and the SCV Section's Ottenberg Service Award in 2001.
She has organized the high school-level ACS-United Nations Chemistry
Olympiad competition in the Santa ClaraValley since 2001.
Natalie
McClure,
Chair
Mosher
Award
Committee
