Abstract

In a special election for a post on the American Chemical Society Board of Directors, petition candidate Elizabeth Ann Nalley of the Wichita Falls-Duncan Section has been elected Region V director. (Region V consists of a large part of the midsection of the U.S.) She will serve the remainder of the 1995-97 term of former Region V Director Charles B. Lindahl, who died last April, and a full 1998-2000 term (C&EN, Feb. 17, page 51). Also vying for the post were Clara D. Craver of the St. Louis Section and Paul R. Jones of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section. Because no candidate in the three-way election captured a majority of first-choice votes, ACS bylaws required a count of second-choice votes from ballots of the third-place candidate—-in this case, Jones—to be added to first-choice votes of the leading two candidates. With that, Nalley received 2,516 votes and Craver 1,664 votes from a total of 4,256 ballots cast. ...

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