This year, for the sec­ond time, the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (NACS) will be using on-line bal­lot­ing as the only way to vote for Direc­tors-at-Large. We have con­tract­ed with a firm that is expe­ri­enced in on-line vot­ing to ensure the accu­racy and con­fi­den­tial­ity of the process. The elec­tions are sched­uled for March 18th to April 5th. You will be receiv­ing an email mes­sage on March 17th with your user­name, unique pass­word and a link to a restrict­ed vot­ing web­page. The sub­ject head­line is “NACS Elec­tions for Direc­tors-at-Large”. Please don’t delete this email until you cast your vote. If you have a prob­lem receiv­ing this email, then you need to con­tact Edrick Morales at edrickmorales@live.com.

The web log-in page will have instruc­tions on how to use your elec­tron­ic bal­lot with links to tech­ni­cal assis­tance in case you have dif­fi­cul­ty with the log-in and PDF doc­u­ments with the pro­posed amend­ments and revised ver­sion of the by-laws.

You can cast your vote start­ing on March 18th at 12:01 am. The vot­ing web­page will be held open to those mem­bers of NACS (includ­ing stu­dents) who reside with­in North Amer­i­ca. Back­ground infor­ma­tion for each can­di­date will be avail­able on the bal­lot site with a hyper­link asso­ci­at­ed to each candidate’s name. On the bal­lot web­site, you will be select­ing only six (6) or less mem­bers from the slate of 11 can­di­dates for the office of Direc­tor-at-Large and one vote to approve or not approve the amend­ments to the by-laws. The top six can­di­dates will be elect­ed to office if the amend­ments to the by-laws are approved; oth­er­wise, the top four (4) can­di­dates will be elected.

Vot­ers will need to log back in and com­plete the bal­lot from scratch if they log-out or close the brows­er win­dow with­out sub­mit­ting their bal­lot. Your pass­word will be deac­ti­vat­ed after you record your vote.

The Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of the Cat­alyt­ic Soci­eties (EFCATS) Board announces the exten­sion of the dead­line for the appli­ca­tions of two EFCATS awards: the Young Researchers Award and the Applied Catal­y­sis Award. The new dead­line is April 15th 2013.

Young Researchers Award

 
The EFCATS Award aims to rec­og­nize indi­vid­ual con­tri­bu­tions in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis with empha­sis on the­o­ret­i­cal or exper­i­men­tal dis­cov­ery and under­stand­ing of new cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic process­es, syn­the­sis and cat­alyt­ic func­tion of nov­el inor­gan­ic solids and com­plex­es, mech­a­nisms of reac­tions, deac­ti­va­tion phenomena.

The can­di­dates for the award must have already shown the poten­tial for research inde­pen­dence and evi­dence of matu­ri­ty. Appli­cants should also be able to demon­strate a promis­ing track-record of ear­ly achieve­ments appro­pri­ate to their spe­cif­ic research field and career stage, includ­ing sig­nif­i­cant pub­li­ca­tions (as main author) in major inter­na­tion­al peer-reviewed mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary sci­en­tif­ic jour­nals, or in the lead­ing inter­na­tion­al peer-reviewed jour­nals of catal­y­sis field. They may also demon­strate a record of invit­ed pre­sen­ta­tions in well-estab­lished inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences, grant­ed patents, awards, prizes etc.

Selec­tion of the Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent and vice-pres­i­dent of The Euro­pean fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties. Selec­tion shall be made on the basis of excel­lence. The award win­ner must not have turned 41, March 1st of the award year. Thus, nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments should indi­cate the date of birth of the nominee.

Nom­i­na­tions for the Award should prove the candidate’s excel­lence and will include:

• A pre­sen­ta­tion let­ter in which the mer­its of the can­di­date are detailed. The pre­sen­ta­tion let­ter should be pre­pared by the per­son propos­ing the candidate.
• Two fur­ther rec­om­men­da­tion letters.
• The candidate’s CV (high­light­ing a date of birth).

Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments should be sub­mit­ted in one com­plete pack­age to the Pres­i­dent of EFCATS (Aveli­no Cor­ma at corma@itq.upv.es) before April 15, 2013.

Applied Catalysis Award

 
Selec­tion of the Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists includ­ing a major­i­ty of cur­rent or pre­vi­ous indus­tri­al sci­en­tists appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent and vice-pres­i­dent of The Euro­pean fed­er­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties from names sug­gest­ed by mem­bers of the EFCATS board. Com­mit­tee mem­bers who are cur­rent or recent employ­ees of the com­pa­ny of any nom­i­nee shall abstain from vot­ing on that pro­pos­al. Selec­tion shall be made on the basis of excel­lence sci­en­tif­ic nov­el­ty, tech­ni­cal achieve­ments in devel­op­ment and scale-up, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team­work between sci­en­tists and engi­neers, with empha­sis on actu­al or poten­tial com­mer­cial application.

Nom­i­na­tions for the Award should prove the candidate’s excel­lence and will include:

• A pre­sen­ta­tion let­ter in which the mer­its of the candidate(s) are indi­cat­ed (pre­pared by the per­son propos­ing the candidate(s)),
• A list of the achieve­ments of the candidate(s) con­firmed by the com­pa­ny apply­ing the new con­tri­bu­tion with­in a sup­port­ing letter.
• A detailed CV of the candidate(s).

Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments should be sub­mit­ted in one com­plete pack­age to the Pres­i­dent of EFCATS (Aveli­no Cor­ma at corma@itq.upv.es) before April 15, 2013.

John N. Armor
Semi-retired consultant
 
Founder of a per­son­al, glob­al con­sult­ing busi­ness, GlobalCatalysis.com. My ded­i­cat­ed inter­ests in catal­y­sis con­tin­ue through occa­sion­al tech­ni­cal pub­li­ca­tions (such as Catal­y­sis Today 178 (2011) 8), invit­ed lec­tures, and atten­dance at major nation­al and inter­na­tion­al catal­y­sis focused meet­ings. I bring over 40 years of expe­ri­ence in catal­y­sis begin­ning with my under­grad­u­ate research at Penn State Uni­ver­si­ty and my PhD work at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. After receiv­ing my doc­tor­ate degree, I spent 4 years as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty, then joined Allied Chem­i­cal Corporation’s cen­tral research cen­ter for 11 years, and moved to Air Prod­ucts & Chem­i­cals to lead a catal­y­sis research cen­ter before retirement.

My past role with the NACS (8 years as Pres­i­dent and 7 years as Trea­sur­er) focused on bring­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty at large, estab­lish­ing our pop­u­lar web­site, return­ing excess pro­ceeds from our NAM meet­ings to the mem­ber­ship, strength­en­ing the finan­cial posi­tion of the NACS as well as the indi­vid­ual clubs, build­ing up the cor­pus to the Kei­th Hall Edu­ca­tion­al Fund, estab­lish­ing new ways to pro­vide edu­ca­tion­al assis­tance to the mem­ber­ship, and enhanc­ing the num­ber and iden­ti­ty of our pro­fes­sion­al Awards program.

Hav­ing stepped aside from a lead­er­ship role in the NACS for the last 4 years, I would like to rejoin the Board of Direc­tors and again work for the mem­ber­ship at large. I would like to con­tin­ue to serve as a resource to the Soci­ety by par­tic­i­pa­tion in Board activ­i­ties while men­tor­ing new gen­er­a­tions of our lead­ers, because I believe there is more that I can still contribute.
 

Jing­guang Chen
Thay­er Lind­s­ley Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engineering
Colum­bia University
 
Jing­guang Chen start­ed his career at the Exxon Cor­po­rate Research Lab­o­ra­to­ries before join­ing the fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware, serv­ing as the Claire LeClaire Pro­fes­sor of chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing and Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Cat­alyt­ic Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy. In the past two decades he has been active­ly serv­ing the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing the Catal­y­sis Sec­re­tari­at of ACS, Chair of the Gor­don Research Con­fer­ence on Catal­y­sis, Kokes Chair for the Philadel­phia NAM, and co-founder and team leader of the Syn­chro­tron Catal­y­sis Con­sor­tium. He has served as the Direc­tor-at-Large of NACS since 2005. His recent con­tri­bu­tions as DAL includ­ed the appli­ca­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of trav­el grants to grad­u­ate stu­dents and young fac­ul­ty to the ICC meeting.

If re-elect­ed he would like to help estab­lish a more for­mal process in NACS in apply­ing and grant­i­ng trav­el assis­tance to catal­y­sis conferences.
 

Abhaya Datye
Dis­tin­guished Regents Professor
Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal & Nuclear Engineering
Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mexico
 
Abhaya Datye has been on the fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co since 1984 and present­ly serves as the under­grad­u­ate advi­sor for chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing and for­mer­ly served as Asso­ciate Chair. He serves as Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Micro­engi­neered Mate­ri­als, a strate­gic research cen­ter at UNM that reports to the Vice Pres­i­dent for Research. 

Abhaya received his Ph.D. in chem­i­cal engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan in 1984. He has authored over 240 pub­li­ca­tions, 3 patents and has pre­sent­ed 120 invit­ed lec­tures around the world. He was the Chair of the Gor­don Research Con­fer­ence on Catal­y­sis in 2010. He served as the pro­gram co-chair for the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety meet­ing at Snow­bird, UT. He has been active­ly involved in the West­ern States Catal­y­sis Club, where he has served as pres­i­dent and as the Club rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the NAM board. As a Direc­tor at large for the Soci­ety, he plans to enhance the vis­i­bil­i­ty of catal­y­sis and to get new stu­dents, espe­cial­ly grad­u­ate and under­grad­u­ate stu­dents into the field.

His research group has pio­neered the devel­op­ment of elec­tron microscopy tools for the study of cat­a­lysts. Using mod­el cat­a­lysts, his group has shown metal/support inter­faces can be stud­ied at near atom­ic res­o­lu­tion. His cur­rent work involves the syn­the­sis of biore­new­able chem­i­cals, fun­da­men­tal stud­ies of cat­a­lyst sin­ter­ing, alco­hol reform­ing into H2 and syn­the­sis of nov­el nanos­truc­tured het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts, espe­cial­ly the sta­bi­liza­tion of iso­lat­ed sin­gle atoms on sup­ports. He leads the NSF Part­ner­ship for Inter­na­tion­al Research and Edu­ca­tion (PIRE) on Con­ver­sion of Bio­mass derived reac­tants into Fuels, Chem­i­cals and Mate­ri­als (a col­lab­o­ra­tion between fac­ul­ty and researchers in the US, Den­mark, Ger­many, Nether­lands and Finland).
 

Below is an overview of the pro­posed amend­ments, as well as a ratio­nale for each one of them, fol­lowed by the full text of the by-laws. The ratio­nal to amend the by-laws was cod­ed using a blue-ital­ic font, dele­tions were strike-through and amend­ments were cod­ed using an ital­ic font high­light­ed in yel­low. View the Let­ter form the Pres­i­dent for more infor­ma­tion. A PDF ver­sion of this doc­u­ment is avail­able at Pro­posed By-laws — Feb­ru­ary 2013.
 

AMENDMENTS

ARTICLE V

Sec­tion 2. No one per­son shall be enti­tled to hold two office posi­tions at any one time.
Pro­pos­al: Extend the exclu­sion from hold­ing two office posi­tions to all such positions
Ratio­nale: Apply this con­sis­tent­ly to all offi­cers, not just to the Pres­i­dent and Sec­re­tary, as cur­rent­ly stated.

ARTICLE VIII

Sec­tion 1. The Board of Direc­tors shall con­sist of mem­bers elect­ed by the affil­i­at­ed catal­y­sis society(ies), one from each, six (6) mem­bers elect­ed from the mem­bers elect­ed at large by the mem­ber­ship of the (NACS), and any offi­cers (elect­ed by the Board) who are not already mem­bers of the Board.

ARTICLE XIII

Sec­tion 1. The at-large mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors to be elect­ed by the mem­ber­ship at large shall be elect­ed from a slate of not few­er than ten (10) nom­i­nees select­ed by the Nom­i­na­tions Com­mit­tee, appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent. Elec­tion shall be by elec­tron­ic bal­lot of the mem­ber­ship of the NACS. Any mem­ber of the NACS shall be added to the slate upon receipt by the Pres­i­dent of the (NACS), no more than one-half of whom shall be mem­bers of any one affil­i­at­ed catal­y­sis society(ies), pro­vid­ed that the peti­tion shall be received by the Pres­i­dent pri­or to the first of Jan­u­ary of the year in which new mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors are to be elect­ed. Elec­tion shall be by plu­ral­i­ty vote. The elect­ed at-large mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors will be seat­ed at the next meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors and will be the at-large mem­bers who vote for the elec­tion of new officers.
Pro­pos­al: Increase num­ber of Direc­tors-at-Large from 4 to 6 and the required num­ber of can­di­dates from 7 to 10.
Ratio­nale:

1. The cur­rent num­ber of DAL date to a time when mem­ber­ship and local clubs were few­er than today and they rep­re­sent a small­er frac­tion of the Board than in ear­li­er times.
2. The “at-large” mem­bers rep­re­sent the com­mu­ni­ty at the nation­al lev­el and they are the only mem­bers of the Board elect­ed by the entire mem­ber­ship of NACS.
3. DAL are more per­ma­nent mem­bers of the Board than the local rep­re­sen­ta­tives, which often change between meet­ings due to rota­tions and local elec­tions; DAL also tend to attend these meet­ings with few­er instances of sub­sti­tu­tions. In doing so, DAL rep­re­sent a cadre of expe­ri­enced board mem­bers and pro­vide meet­ing-to-meet­ing con­ti­nu­ity, as well as a pool from which to draw in case of unex­pect­ed or planned rota­tions of officers.

ARTICLE XV

Sec­tion 2: The act of the major­i­ty of the mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors present at a meet­ing of the direc­tors at which a quo­rum is present shall be the act of the Board. Mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors may par­tic­i­pate in a meet­ing of the Board by means of con­fer­ence tele­phone or sim­i­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tions equip­ment where­by all per­sons par­tic­i­pat­ing in the meet­ing can hear each oth­er, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in a meet­ing in this man­ner shall con­sti­tute pres­ence in per­son at the meet­ing. In the absence of a meet­ing by a major­i­ty of the mem­bers of the Board, res­o­lu­tions can be enact­ed by a major­i­ty writ­ten con­sent of all the mem­bers of the Board.
Pro­pos­al: Change from “unan­i­mous” to “a majority”
Ratio­nale: “Unan­i­mous writ­ten con­sent” as in cur­rent bylaws is not con­sis­tent with our oper­at­ing rules, by which all motions are approved by a major­i­ty of the votes cast.

ARTICLE XVII

Sec­tion 3. The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee shall com­prise of elect­ed offi­cers and key func­tion­al posi­tions with­in the NACS. Mem­bers of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee shall be des­ig­nat­ed by the Pres­i­dent, but should include: the Pres­i­dent, Vice-Pres­i­dent, Sec­re­tary, Trea­sur­er, Lead Trustee of the Kei­th Hall Edu­ca­tion­al Fund, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor, Archivist, and the most recent liv­ing past President.
Pro­pos­al: Update the by-laws to reflect pre­vi­ous votes of the Board in which Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor and Lead Trustee were made Offi­cer posi­tions and the posi­tion of Archivist was cre­at­ed. Note that the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee dif­fers from Offi­cers and the mem­bers of the for­mer are appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent; the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee is advi­so­ry and non-vot­ing (although some mem­bers may hold vot­ing rights as Offi­cers). The pro­posed changes also clar­i­fy as “most recent liv­ing” the spe­cif­ic iden­ti­ty of the “past President”
Ratio­nale: The mod­i­fi­ca­tion of Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee mem­bers reflect the changes of Offi­cers approved by the Board in the past meet­ings. The orig­i­nal bylaws were unclear about which past-Pres­i­dent was meant.

ARTICLE XIX

Sec­tion 1. These Bylaws may be amend­ed by a major­i­ty vote of the mem­bers vot­ing either (a) in per­son, by proxy or by bal­lot receive at a duly con­vened mem­ber­ship meet­ing of the (NACS), or (b) by elec­tron­ic bal­lot cir­cu­lat­ed at the instance of the Board of Direc­tors, pro­vid­ed that notice of the pro­posed amend­ment shall be con­tained in the notice of such duly con­vened meet­ing or in such elec­tron­ic bal­lot so circulated.
Pro­pos­al: Replace mail bal­lots with elec­tron­ic vot­ing man­aged by inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor to ensure accu­ra­cy and confidentiality
Ratio­nale: Pre­vi­ous NACS postal mail bal­lots have led to <20% vote yields and includ­ed many returned bal­lots because of out­dat­ed postal address­es. A shift to elec­tron­ic vot­ing has led to near­ly 50% respons­es, while ensur­ing the con­fi­den­tial­i­ty, integri­ty, and accu­ra­cy of the process. Elec­tron­ic bal­lots have become the norm for all learned soci­eties, as well as for cor­po­rate share­hold­er votes more generally.

ARTICLE XX

Sec­tion 1. These Bylaws shall be adopt­ed by a major­i­ty of votes cast of the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship as here­in pro­vid­ed, and shall become effec­tive imme­di­ate­ly thereafter.
Pro­pos­al: Clar­i­fy the word­ing by adding “of votes cast”
Ratio­nale: The cur­rent word­ing is unclear and the inter­pre­ta­tion could be equiv­o­cal. A major­i­ty of votes of the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship, as in any elec­tion, is not cer­tain to be achieved because not all mem­bers may choose to par­tic­i­pate in the voting.

BYLAWS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALYSIS SOCIETY

 
Revi­sion — Feb­ru­ary 2013

 
We, the mem­bers here­of, asso­ciate our­selves for these pur­pos­es: to pro­mote and encour­age the growth and devel­op­ment of the sci­ence of catal­y­sis and those sci­en­tif­ic dis­ci­plines ancil­lary there­to; to orga­nize and par­tic­i­pate in pro­fes­sion­al meet­ings of sci­en­tists; to report, dis­cuss and exchange infor­ma­tion and view­points in the field of catal­y­sis; to serve as a cen­tral exchange for the sev­er­al catal­y­sis club(s)/society(ies) (here­after referred to as soci­eties) con­cern­ing infor­ma­tion on their activ­i­ties; and to pro­vide liai­son with for­eign catal­y­sis soci­eties, with the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties, and with oth­er sci­en­tif­ic orga­ni­za­tions and individuals

ARTICLE I — Name

• Sec­tion 1. The name of this cor­po­ra­tion shall be: The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, (NACS).

ARTICLE II — Membership

• Sec­tion 1. Any per­son from North Amer­i­ca asso­ci­at­ed, direct­ly or indi­rect­ly, with the fields of endeav­or referred to in the pur­pose clause of these Bylaws, shall be eli­gi­ble for full membership. 
• Sec­tion 2. All mem­bers of any affil­i­at­ed North Amer­i­can catal­y­sis society(ies) shall become indi­vid­ual mem­bers of the NACS in the event of an appro­pri­ate res­o­lu­tion of affil­i­a­tion enact­ed by the Exec­u­tive Board of sim­i­lar gov­ern­ing body of such catal­y­sis society(ies), as here­inafter provided. 
• Sec­tion 3. Any North Amer­i­can catal­y­sis society(ies) in exis­tence at the time of the adop­tion of these Bylaws may there­after affil­i­ate with the NACS by res­o­lu­tion of its Exec­u­tive board or sim­i­lar gov­ern­ing body. 
• Sec­tion 4. Any North Amer­i­can catal­y­sis society(ies) found­ed after the adop­tion of these Bylaws may affil­i­ate with the NACS by res­o­lu­tion of its Exec­u­tive Board or sim­i­lar gov­ern­ing body, but only after being invit­ed to do so by the Board of Direc­tors of the NACS.
• Sec­tion 5. Noth­ing here­in shall pre­clude mem­bers of any catal­y­sis society(ies) from becom­ing indi­vid­ual mem­bers of the (NACS), notwith­stand­ing that such catal­y­sis society(ies) may not have been invit­ed to affil­i­ate with the NACS.
• Sec­tion 6. Per­sons from out­side North Amer­i­ca may indi­cate their inter­ests in join­ing NACS as Asso­ciate Mem­bers. As Asso­ciate Mem­bers they do not have to pay dues, and they are not eli­gi­ble to vote on elec­tions and oth­er mat­ters per­tain­ing to the NACS.
• Sec­tion 7. The local clubs shall be enti­ties that are sep­a­rate from the NACS.

ARTICLE III — Dues, Finances and Compensation

• Sec­tion 1. Mem­ber­ship fees shall be paid in such amounts and for such peri­ods as shall be deter­mined by the Board of Directors. 
• Sec­tion 2. The fis­cal year of the NACS shall end on Decem­ber 31. 
• Sec­tion 3. No com­pen­sa­tion shall be paid to any offi­cers or direc­tors for their ser­vices ren­dered to the NACS in such capac­i­ties; pro­vid­ed, how­ev­er, that this shall not pre­clude such offi­cers and direc­tors from being reim­bursed for expens­es incurred by them in the con­duct of their activ­i­ties in such capac­i­ties, at the dis­cre­tion of the Board of Directors. 

ARTICLE IV — Location

• Sec­tion 1. The reg­is­tered office of the NACS shall be locat­ed with­in the Com­mon­wealth of Penn­syl­va­nia, at such place as shall be deter­mined by the Board of Direc­tors. The prin­ci­pal office of the NACS shall be locat­ed at such place as shall be deter­mined by the Board of Direc­tors with­out restric­tion as to jurisdiction.

ARTICLE V — Officers

• Sec­tion 1. The offi­cers of the NACS shall con­sist of a Pres­i­dent, Vice-Pres­i­dent, Sec­re­tary, Trea­sur­er, Lead Trustee and For­eign Sec­re­tary Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor.
• Sec­tion 2. No one per­son shall be enti­tled to hold the office of Pres­i­dent and Sec­re­tary two office posi­tions at any one time. 
• Sec­tion 3. Only mem­bers of the NACS shall be eli­gi­ble for elec­tion to office.

ARTICLE VI — Duties of Officers

• Sec­tion 1. The Pres­i­dent shall be the chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of the NACS and shall pre­side at all meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship and/or the direc­tors; he/she shall call all meet­ings of the direc­tors; he/she shall have gen­er­al and active man­age­ment of the busi­ness of the NACS and shall, either direct­ly or by del­e­ga­tion, see that all orders and res­o­lu­tions of the Board of Direc­tors and that all duties of the offi­cers are prop­er­ly per­formed; he/she shall sub­mit inter­im reports of the oper­a­tion of the NACS to the mem­ber­ship as and when meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship shall be held and to the Board of Direc­tors at their var­i­ous meet­ings as here­inafter pro­vid­ed; he/she shall appoint all com­mit­tees except as here­in oth­er­wise pro­vid­ed, and he/she shall be an ex-offi­cio mem­ber of all com­mit­tees so appoint­ed; he/she may del­e­gate the per­for­mance of any of the fore­go­ing; he/she shall exe­cute any and all con­tracts and oth­er doc­u­ments in behalf of the NACS pur­suant to author­i­ty del­e­gat­ed to him/her for such pur­pos­es by res­o­lu­tion duly adopt­ed by the Board of Direc­tors, and he/she shall per­form such oth­er duties as may be pre­scribed by the Board of Direc­tors from time to time.
• Sec­tion 2. The Vice-Pres­i­dent shall per­form all duties of the office of Pres­i­dent in the latter’s absence, inca­pac­i­ty or arbi­trary refusal to act, and, when so act­ing, shall have all pow­ers of and be sub­ject to all restric­tions upon the office of Pres­i­dent. Fur­ther, he/she shall per­form such oth­er duties as may be pre­scribed by the Board of Direc­tors or by the Pres­i­dent, from time to time.
• Sec­tion 3. The Sec­re­tary shall attend all meet­ings of the Board of Direc­tors and of the mem­ber­ship and shall per­form the fol­low­ing var­i­ous duties: he/she shall main­tain a list of the mem­ber­ship and their address­es; he/she shall record min­utes of all meet­ings in a book to be main­tained for that pur­pose and, when required, shall per­form a sim­i­lar ser­vice for all stand­ing com­mit­tees; he/she shall send to the Board of Direc­tors and/or to the mem­ber­ship all notices as to the busi­ness of the NACS and as to the time, date and place of all meet­ings to be held of the Board of Direc­tors and/or of the mem­ber­ship, respec­tive­ly; he/she shall engage in, and main­tain records of, all cor­re­spon­dence as required by the busi­ness of the NACS; he/she shall be the cus­to­di­an of the cor­po­rate seal and of all books and records of the (NACS), except as here­in oth­er­wise pro­vid­ed; he/she shall attest any and all con­tracts and oth­er doc­u­ments, and shall affix the cor­po­rate seal as nec­es­sary, in behalf of the NACS pur­suant to author­i­ty del­e­gat­ed to him/her for such pur­pos­es by res­o­lu­tion duly adopt­ed by the Board of Direc­tors or by the Pres­i­dent, from time to time. In the event of the Secretary’s absence, inca­pac­i­ty of arbi­trary refusal to act, his/her duties shall be per­formed by a Sec­re­tary Pro Tem appoint­ed by the Board of Direc­tors or by the President.
• Sec­tion 4. The Trea­sur­er shall be the cus­to­di­an of all funds as well as finan­cial books and records of the NACS and shall deposit all such funds in the name of the NACS in such depos­i­to­ry or depos­i­to­ries as shall be des­ig­nat­ed by the Board of Direc­tors; he/she shall col­lect and receive all fees, con­tri­bu­tions and grants paid to the NACS; he/she shall pay all vouch­ers and oblig­a­tions pur­suant to author­i­ty duly grant­ed to him/her by the Pres­i­dent and Sec­re­tary or be res­o­lu­tion of the Board of Direc­tors; he/she shall pre­pare and sub­mit com­plete an accu­rate inter­im finan­cial reports of the finances of the NACS as and when meet­ings may be held, as well as to the Board of Direc­tors at any time upon request there­from, and he/she shall per­form such oth­er duties as may be pre­scribed by the Board of Direc­tors or by the Pres­i­dent, from time to time.
• Sec­tion 5. The For­eign Sec­re­tary shall attend all meet­ings of the Board of Direc­tors and per­form the fol­low­ing duties: main­tain con­tact with oth­er catal­y­sis soci­eties out­side North Amer­i­ca and main­tain records of cor­re­spon­dence with these soci­eties, dis­trib­ute the NACS Newslet­ter to oth­er catal­y­sis soci­eties and serve those func­tions of the Sec­re­tary with for­eign mem­bers, serve as one of the two NACS rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the Coun­cil of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Catal­y­sis Soci­eties, and per­form such oth­er duties as may be pre­scribed by the Board of Direc­tors or by the Pres­i­dent, from time to time. The Lead Trustee shall mon­i­tor and assign vari­ety of invest­ment vehi­cles with input from trustees; lead sub-com­mit­tee (of trustees, Pres­i­dent and Trea­sur­er) that reviews invest­ment deci­sions; review invest­ment strat­e­gy (bian­nu­al); gen­er­ate annu­al finan­cial report by March 15 for IRS report­ing; and with accoun­tant pre­pare 990 tax form and sub­mit to IRS by May 15 of each year.
• Sec­tion 6. The Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tion shall main­tain and add new con­tent in the NACS web­site; renew web­site domain name as sched­uled by pay­ments in register.com; pub­lish a Newslet­ters with a tar­get of four issues per year; main­tain a list of cur­rent mem­bers from local Clubs; main­tain an email dis­tri­b­u­tion list of mem­bers; update dis­tri­b­u­tion list in mail serv­er as need­ed; pro­vide mail­ing list for rental on a fee per use basis to cus­tomers; admin­is­ter elec­tron­ic elec­tions for Direc­tor-at-Large every 4 years or oth­er events as need­ed; and arrange con­tract for elec­tron­ic web­site for vot­ing and gen­er­ate user­names and pass­words for elec­tron­ic bal­lots.

ARTICLE VII — Bonds

• Sec­tion 1. The Board of Direc­tors may require any of the offi­cers to be bond­ed at such times and for such amounts as it shall deem necessary.
• Sec­tion 2. The Board of Direc­tors may require the administrators(trustees) of the Kei­th Hall Edu­ca­tion­al Fund and any out­side pro­fes­sion­al who assumes an active role in admin­is­ter­ing the pro­ceeds of the Fund to be bonded.

ARTICLE VIII — Board of Directors

• Sec­tion 1. The Board of Direc­tors shall con­sist of mem­bers elect­ed by the affil­i­at­ed catal­y­sis society(ies), one from each, four (4) six (6) mem­bers elect­ed from the mem­bers elect­ed at large by the mem­ber­ship of the (NACS), and any offi­cers (elect­ed by the Board) who are not already mem­bers of the Board.
• Sec­tion 2. Only mem­bers of the NACS shall be eli­gi­ble for elec­tion to the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IX — Duties and Powers of the Board of Directors

• Sec­tion 1. The prop­er­ty and busi­ness of the NACS shall be man­aged by the Board of Directors.
• Sec­tion 2. In addi­tion to the gen­er­al pow­ers of the Board of Direc­tors exist­ing by virtue of their office, the pow­ers and author­i­ty express­ly giv­en by law, by the terms of the Arti­cles of Incor­po­ra­tion of the (NACS), and else­where in these Bylaws, the fol­low­ing spe­cif­ic pow­ers are express­ly con­ferred on the Board of Direc­tors.

  To appoint and/or remove any and all agents, ser­vants or employ­ees of the (NACS), oth­er than the mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors and the offi­cers, and to deter­mine their duties and salaries, as well as to del­e­gate such pow­ers to an offi­cer of the NACS; to autho­rize the nego­ti­at­ing and exe­cut­ing of all con­tracts, doc­u­ments and instru­ments appro­pri­ate for the prop­er oper­a­tion of the NACS; to del­e­gate any pow­ers of the Board of Direc­tors to any com­mit­tee of Board mem­bers, not less than two (2) in num­ber, for so long and under such terms as the Board may deter­mine; to estab­lish poli­cies of the NACS and to direct the exe­cu­tion of the same, pur­suant to the pur­pos­es of the (NACS), and gen­er­al­ly to do all law­ful acts and things as are not here­in oth­er­wise del­e­gat­ed or direct­ed to be done by the mem­ber­ship or offi­cers of the NACS.

ARTICLE X — Meetings of the Board of Directors

• Sec­tion 1. The Board of Direc­tors shall meet at least annu­al­ly at the call of the Pres­i­dent. In addi­tion, the Board of Direc­tors shall meet inter­mit­tent­ly at such times and places as may be set by res­o­lu­tion duly adopt­ed at duly con­vened meet­ings of the Board of Directors.
• Sec­tion 2. Spe­cial meet­ings of the Board of Direc­tors shall be called by the Pres­i­dent and/or Sec­re­tary as and when they or either of them shall deem it nec­es­sary, or upon the signed writ­ten request of any three (3) mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors, the times and places of such spe­cial meet­ings to be deter­mined by the offi­cer call­ing the same.
• Sec­tion 3. The Sec­re­tary shall send to each mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors, at least one (1) week’s pri­or writ­ten notice of any spe­cial meet­ing and at least ten (10) days pri­or writ­ten notice of any annu­al or inter­mit­tent meeting.
• Sec­tion 4. Not with­stand­ing Arti­cle 20, the Pro­vi­sions of the ARTICLE may be amend­ed at any reg­u­lar duly con­vened meet­ing by a major­i­ty vote of the mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors present and vot­ing at such meeting.

ARTICLE XI — Meetings of the Membership

• Sec­tion 1. Meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship in gen­er­al shall be held at such times and places as shall be deter­mined by the Board of Directors.
• Sec­tion 2. Notices of the meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship in gen­er­al shall be giv­en to each mem­ber at least thir­ty (30) days in advance of the date of such meet­ing, pro­vid­ed that the pay­ment of such member’s mem­ber­ship fee is not then in default.
• Sec­tion 3. Loca­tion of nation­al bien­ni­al tech­ni­cal meet­ings of the NACS shall rotate around the mem­ber­ship clubs. For this pur­pose these meet­ings shall be oper­at­ed by the local soci­ety. For these meet­ings the NACS shall be respon­si­ble for the selec­tion of the meet­ing orga­niz­ers. For this meet­ing, the oper­at­ing local soci­ety has an “agency” (as defined by the US IRS in 2000) rela­tion­ship with the NACS for the orga­ni­za­tion and oper­a­tion of the meeting.

ARTICLE XII — Notices

• Sec­tion 1. Notices of all meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship and of the Board of Direc­tors shall be mailed to each mem­ber of the NACS or of the Board of Direc­tors, addressed to such mem­bers or direc­tors lat­est address­es, as record­ed in the books of the NACS.
• Sec­tion 2. Atten­dance by a mem­ber or by a Direc­tor at any meet­ing shall con­sti­tute a waiv­er of notice of such meet­ing, except where atten­dance at such meet­ing is for the express pur­pose of object­ing to the trans­ac­tion of busi­ness because said meet­ing was alleged­ly not law­ful­ly or duly called or con­vened, and where such objec­tion is made imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the con­ven­ing of such meeting.
• Sec­tion 3. Any notice may be waived in writ­ing, signed by the per­son or per­sons enti­tled there­to, either before or after the time and date stat­ed there­in, and such waiv­er shall be entered into the min­utes of the meet­ing held pur­suant to such waiv­er of notice.
• Sec­tion 4. Nei­ther the busi­ness to be trans­act­ed at, nor the pur­pose of any mem­ber­ship meet­ing, or any annu­al or inter­mit­tent meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors, need be stat­ed in any notice or waiv­er of notice of such meet­ing unless oth­er­wise specif­i­cal­ly required by law or by these Bylaws. Notice of any spe­cial meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors shall con­tain the pur­pose of, and a brief descrip­tion of the busi­ness to be trans­act­ed by such meeting.

ARTICLE XIII — Nominations, Elections and Terms of Office

• Sec­tion 1. The mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors to be elect­ed by the mem­ber­ship at large shall be elect­ed from a slate of not few­er than sev­en (7) ten (10) nom­i­nees select­ed by the Nom­i­na­tions Com­mit­tee, appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent. Elec­tion shall be by mail elec­tron­ic bal­lot of the mem­ber­ship of the NACS. Any mem­ber of the NACS shall be added to the slate upon receipt by the Pres­i­dent of the (NACS), no more than one-half of whom shall be mem­bers of any one affil­i­at­ed catal­y­sis society(ies), pro­vid­ed that the peti­tion shall be received by the Pres­i­dent pri­or to the first of Jan­u­ary of the year in which new mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors are to be elect­ed. Elec­tion shall be by plu­ral­i­ty vote. The elect­ed at-large mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors will be seat­ed at the next meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors and will be the at-large mem­bers who vote for the elec­tion of new officers.
• Sec­tion 2. The one (1) mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors from each affil­i­at­ed catal­y­sis society(ies) shall be elect­ed by the respec­tive catal­y­sis society(ies) in accor­dance with its inter­nal procedures.
• Sec­tion 3. Nom­i­na­tions for the offi­cers shall be made at a Board meet­ing and elect­ed by the Board of Direc­tors at a meet­ing of such Board con­vened with rea­son­able dis­patch after the elec­tion of such Board. The offi­cers shall take office on July 1, 2001, and every four years thereafter.
• Sec­tion 4. The term of office for all offi­cers and mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors shall be four (4) years. All offi­cers and mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors shall con­tin­ue in their respec­tive capac­i­ties until their suc­ces­sors are elected.
• Sec­tion 5. Any vacan­cies in the Board of Direc­tors or among the offi­cers aris­ing by rea­son of death or res­ig­na­tion, shall be filled for the unex­pired term by a major­i­ty vote of the remain­ing mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors present and vot­ing at the first meet­ing held after such death or res­ig­na­tion. In the event that the Pres­i­dent is no longer able to serve (for rea­sons of death or res­ig­na­tion), the Vice-Pres­i­dent shall assume his/her duties until a meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors with­in 2 months of the loss of the elect­ed Pres­i­dent. In the event that nei­ther the Pres­i­dent nor the Vice Pres­i­dent is able to serve, the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee shall elect one of its mem­bers to serve as the oper­at­ing offi­cer (by major­i­ty vot­ing) until an emer­gency meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors can be con­vened (with­in 2 months of the vacancies).
• Sec­tion 6. Elec­tion of offi­cers and of mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors shall be by closed, writ­ten bal­lot, whether sub­mit­ted at a meet­ing or by mail.
• Sec­tion 7. Any mem­ber who shall have paid his/her dues shall be eli­gi­ble to hold office in the (NACS), whether as an offi­cer or as a mem­ber of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE XIV — Quorum

• Sec­tion 1. A quo­rum for the pur­pose of hold­ing a meet­ing of the mem­ber­ship gen­er­al­ly shall con­sist of such mem­bers as shall be in atten­dance at the time and place when such meet­ing is to convene.
• Sec­tion 2. A quo­rum for the pur­pose of hold­ing any meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors shall con­sist of a major­i­ty of all of the mem­bers of the Board, exclu­sive of any mem­ber who may have resigned or died. If a quo­rum is unavail­able for any meet­ing of the Board of Direc­tors, that meet­ing shall be adjourned to a new time and place, due notice of which shall be giv­en to the mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors, in which event a quo­rum, for pur­pos­es of the said adjourned meet­ing, shall con­sist of such mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors as shall be in atten­dance at the time and place when such adjourned meet­ing is to convene.

ARTICLE XV — Voting

• Sec­tion 1. All mat­ters to be vot­ed upon by the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship, oth­er than elec­tion to the Board of Direc­tors, shall be deter­mined by major­i­ty vote of the mem­bers voting.
• Sec­tion 2. The act of the major­i­ty of the mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors present at a meet­ing of the direc­tors at which a quo­rum is present shall be the act of the Board. Mem­bers of the Board of Direc­tors may par­tic­i­pate in a meet­ing of the Board by means of con­fer­ence tele­phone or sim­i­lar communica­tions equip­ment where­by all per­sons par­tic­i­pat­ing in the meet­ing can hear each oth­er, and par­tic­i­pa­tion in a meet­ing in this man­ner shall con­sti­tute pres­ence in per­son at the meet­ing. In the absence of a meet­ing by a major­i­ty of the mem­bers of the Board, res­o­lu­tions can be enact­ed by unan­i­mous a major­i­ty writ­ten con­sent of all the mem­bers of the Board.
• Sec­tion 3. Each mem­ber of the Board of Direc­tors shall be enti­tled to one (1) vote in such capac­i­ty at the meet­ing of the Board, and each mem­ber of the NACS shall be enti­tled to one (1) vote in such capacity.
• Sec­tion 4. Proxy vot­ing at mem­ber­ship shall be per­mit­ted, pro­vid­ed that such proxy is exe­cut­ed in writ­ing by the indi­vid­ual enti­tled to cast such vote and pro­vid­ed such proxy spec­i­fies the meet­ing at, or the dura­tion for which, such proxy shall be effective.
• Sec­tion 5. Mail bal­lot­ing at mem­ber­ship meet­ings shall be per­mit­ted, pro­vid­ed that such mail bal­lot is signed by the mem­ber enti­tled to cast such vote. If the mat­ter being vot­ed upon is to be the sub­ject of a mem­ber­ship meet­ing, such mail bal­lot shall be valid only if received no lat­er than the con­ven­ing of such meet­ing. If the mat­ter being vot­ed upon is the sub­ject of a gen­er­al mail bal­lot only, such mail bal­lot shall be valid only if received no lat­er than the date spec­i­fied for such pur­pose in the mate­r­i­al pro­mul­gat­ing to the mem­ber­ship the sub­ject to be vot­ed upon.

ARTICLE XVI — Inspection of Books, Accounts and Records

• Sec­tion 1. The books, accounts and records of the NACS shall be open for inspec­tion at any time by any offi­cer or mem­ber of the Board of Directors.
• Sec­tion 2. The books, accounts and records of the NACS shall be open for inspec­tion by any mem­ber of the NACS at such rea­son­able times and places as may be des­ig­nat­ed by res­o­lu­tion duly adopt­ed by the Board of Direc­tors; pro­vid­ed, how­ev­er, that the Board of Direc­tors shall des­ig­nate a time and place for the exam­i­na­tion of such books, accounts and records by the mem­ber­ship imme­di­ate­ly pri­or to, dur­ing, or imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing any mem­ber­ship meet­ing which may be held.

ARTICLE XVII — Committees

• Sec­tion 1. The Pres­i­dent shall appoint the Nom­i­na­tions Com­mit­tee to sug­gest can­di­dates for offi­cers of the NACS; at the time of elec­tions of the offi­cers, addi­tion­al nom­i­na­tions may be received from those attend­ing the Board meeting.
• Sec­tion 2. In addi­tion to such com­mit­tees as the Pres­i­dent may appoint pur­suant to these Bylaws, the Board of Direc­tors may estab­lish and appoint, from time to time, such addi­tion­al stand­ing and/or spe­cial com­mit­tees as it may deem appropriate.
• Sec­tion 3. The Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee shall be com­prised of elect­ed offi­cers and key func­tion­al posi­tions with­in the NACS. Mem­bers of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee shall be des­ig­nat­ed by the Pres­i­dent, but should include: the Pres­i­dent, Vice-Pres­i­dent, Sec­re­tary, Trea­sur­er, For­eign Sec­re­tary, Lead Trustee of the Kei­th Hall Edu­ca­tion­al Fund, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor, Archivist and the most recent liv­ing past President.
• Sec­tion 4. The Pres­i­dent may call a meet­ing of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee to seek its advice.
• Sec­tion 5. An Awards Com­mit­tee shall be appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent and led by the Vice Pres­i­dent, for the pur­pose of solic­it­ing sug­ges­tions for nom­i­na­tions for the pro­fes­sion­al award. This com­mit­tee should be select­ed in a man­ner to avoid con­flict of inter­ests in the award process.

ARTICLE XVIII — Corporate Seal

• Sec­tion 1. The Sec­re­tary shall hold the Cor­po­rate Seal.

ARTICLE XIX — Amendments to Bylaws

• Sec­tion 1. These Bylaws may be amend­ed by a major­i­ty vote of the mem­bers vot­ing either (a) in per­son, by proxy or by mail bal­lot receive at a duly con­vened mem­ber­ship meet­ing of the (NACS), or (b) by mail elec­tron­ic bal­lot cir­cu­lat­ed at the instance of the Board of Direc­tors, pro­vid­ed that notice of the pro­posed amend­ment shall be con­tained in the notice of such duly con­vened meet­ing or in such mail elec­tron­ic bal­lot so circulated.

ARTICLE XX — Adoption of Bylaws

• Sec­tion 1. These Bylaws shall be adopt­ed by a major­i­ty vote of votes cast the gen­er­al mem­ber­ship as here­in pro­vid­ed, and shall become effec­tive imme­di­ate­ly thereafter.

ARTICLE XXI — Procedural Requirements

• Sec­tion 1. All meet­ings of the Board of Direc­tors and all meet­ings of the mem­ber­ship of the NACS shall be con­duct­ed pur­suant to Roberts’ Rules of Order, these Bylaws, and to any addi­tion­al rules adopt­ed by such meet­ings not incon­sis­tent with either of the foregoing.

ARTICLE XXII — Professional Awards

• Sec­tion 1. The NACS has estab­lished a series of pro­fes­sion­al awards for dis­tinc­tion in catal­y­sis. The Pres­i­dent is respon­si­ble for the selec­tion of a jury for each award, which shall be made up of estab­lished tech­nol­o­gists in catal­y­sis with­out hav­ing any con­flicts of inter­est in the nom­i­na­tions or award process. Each jury shall be made up of at least 3 per­sons appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent. Their deci­sions shall be con­fi­den­tial and report­ed only to the Pres­i­dent, who then tal­lies the vot­ing, and noti­fies the winner.

ARTICLE XXIII — Keith Hall Educational Fund

• Sec­tion 1. With­in NACS shall be the Kei­th Hall Edu­ca­tion­al Fund (Fund), dis­burse­ments from only the net income of which shall be made for the sup­port and main­te­nance of the tax-exempt activ­i­ties of (NACS), includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to nation­al lec­ture­ships, sem­i­nars and sym­posia, assis­tance for atten­dance at nation­al meet­ings of NACS for grad­u­ate stu­dents or post-doc­tor­al fel­lows, and award rec­og­niz­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the fur­ther­ance of the field of catal­y­sis. Although the Fund shall be sub­ject to the ulti­mate admin­is­tra­tion of the Board of Direc­tors of (NACS), it may be admin­is­tered on a day-to-day basis by “trustees,” who shall be appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent of NACS for stag­gered 6 year terms, with the con­cur­rence of the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee of NACS. One of these trustees shall be des­ig­nat­ed by the Pres­i­dent as the Lead Trustee, who shall be respon­si­ble for report­ing the sta­tus of the Fund on a quar­ter­ly basis to the Pres­i­dent and to the Board on an annu­al basis. These trustees shall receive, hold, invest, and rein­vest the assets of the Fund.
• Sec­tion 2. The Pres­i­dent is empow­ered to replace an appoint­ed trustee for due cause sub­ject to the approval of a major­i­ty of the Exec­u­tive com­mit­tee and con­fir­ma­tion by the Board of Direc­tors.

ARTICLE XXIV — Restrictions and Interpretation

• Sec­tion 1. No part of the net earn­ings of NACS shall inure to the ben­e­fit of, or be dis­trib­utable to, its mem­bers, direc­tors, offi­cers, or oth­er pri­vate per­sons, except that NACS shall be autho­rized and empow­ered to pay out of pock­et expens­es for ser­vices ren­dered and to make pay­ments and dis­tri­b­u­tions in fur­ther­ance of the pur­pos­es of NACS. Approval of the Pres­i­dent is required for such expens­es, which are to be report­ed to the Board at its annu­al meeting.
• Sec­tion 2. No sub­stan­tial part of the activ­i­ties of NACS shall be the car­ry­ing on of pro­pa­gan­da, or oth­er­wise attempt­ing to influ­ence leg­is­la­tion. NACS shall be empow­ered to make the elec­tion pro­vid­ed by IRC § 501(h). NACS shall not par­tic­i­pate in, or inter­vene in (includ­ing the pub­lish­ing or dis­tri­b­u­tion of state­ments) any polit­i­cal cam­paign on behalf of or in oppo­si­tion to any can­di­date for pub­lic office.
• Sec­tion 3. Notwith­stand­ing any oth­er pro­vi­sions of these Bylaws or the Arti­cles of Incor­po­ra­tion, NACS shall not car­ry on any activ­i­ties not per­mit­ted to be car­ried on (i) by a cor­po­ra­tion exempt from fed­er­al income tax under IRC § 501(a) by rea­son of descrip­tion in IRC §501(c)(3), or (ii) by a cor­po­ra­tion, con­tri­bu­tions to which are deductible under IRC § 170©(2).

ARTICLE XXV — Dissolution

• Sec­tion 1. Upon the dis­so­lu­tion of (NACS), the Board of Direc­tors shall, after pay­ing or mak­ing pro­vi­sions for the pay­ment of all of the lia­bil­i­ties of (NACS), dis­pose of all of the assets of NACS exclu­sive­ly for one or more of the pur­pos­es of NACS which may include dis­tri­b­u­tion to an orga­ni­za­tion or orga­ni­za­tions orga­nized and oper­at­ed exclu­sive­ly for one or more of such pur­pos­es, or shall dis­trib­ute all of the assets of NACS to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, or to a state or local gov­ern­ment, for a pub­lic pur­pose. Any assets not so dis­posed of shall be dis­posed of by the Cir­cuit Court of the coun­ty in which the prin­ci­pal office of NACS is then locat­ed, exclu­sive­ly for such pur­pos­es or to such orga­ni­za­tion or orga­ni­za­tions, as said court shall deter­mine, which are orga­nized and oper­at­ed exclu­sive­ly for one or more of the pur­pos­es of NACS.

In the next few weeks, all mem­bers of the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety (NACS) will receive a bal­lot via elec­tron­ic means. This bal­lot will request your vote for six of the eleven can­di­dates for the posi­tion of Direc­tor-at-Large and also your vote regard­ing mod­i­fi­ca­tions of the by-laws of the Soci­ety. I encour­age you to exer­cise your vot­ing rights with­in the spec­i­fied vot­ing period. 

Direc­tors-at-large (DAL) serve four-year terms and are elect­ed by the entire mem­ber­ship. Their new term will start dur­ing the NAM23 in Louisville. Elect­ed DAL rep­re­sent the entire mem­ber­ship by attend­ing annu­al NACS Board meet­ings. The Board con­sists of the NACS offi­cers, one rep­re­sen­ta­tive from each local or affil­i­at­ed soci­ety, and the DAL. The bal­lot will con­cur­rent­ly ask for your approval of mod­i­fi­ca­tions of the by-laws, includ­ing one to increase the num­ber of DAL from four to six; if the mod­i­fied by-laws are not approved, the four DAL can­di­dates with the largest vote count will serve.

The mod­i­fi­ca­tions of the by-laws that are sub­mit­ted for your approval con­sist of a series of motions already approved by the Board in the inter­ven­ing years since the 2003 ver­sion. The elec­tron­ic bal­lot will include a detailed descrip­tion of such changes as well as a ratio­nale for each one of them. These mate­ri­als were post­ed into a sin­gle doc­u­ment that shows an overview of the pro­posed changes fol­lowed by the full text of the by-laws at Pro­posed By-laws — Feb­ru­ary 2013.

NACS con­sists of 14 affil­i­ate local clubs and soci­eties in Cana­da, Mex­i­co, and the Unit­ed States and well over 1,500 mem­bers. It was found­ed in 1956 and its mis­sion includes the stew­ard­ship and sup­port of NAM and logis­ti­cal sup­port and seed finan­cial fund­ing to the local orga­niz­ing com­mit­tees. NACS also pro­vides joint fund­ing for Kokes awards, pre­sent­ed to stu­dents to attend NAM, and finan­cial sup­port for stu­dents to attend the reg­u­lar meet­ings of the local clubs and societies.

On behalf of the NACS lead­er­ship and its gov­ern­ing board, I encour­age you to vote and I look for­ward to see­ing you at NAM23 in Louisville (June 2–7, 2013; www.nam23.org/).
 
With regards,
 
Enrique Igle­sia
Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Society
 
 
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Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty, who has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 cash prize. 

We appre­ci­ate your help in sub­mit­ting nom­i­na­tions. The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not be more than 10 pages and should include a ½ page ten­ta­tive award announce­ment. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 19, 2013. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2011 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2013 Award. 

Nom­i­na­tion let­ter along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to fedeyjm@jmusa.com.
 
Joseph Fedeyko
John­son Matthey ECT
436 Devon Park Drive
Wayne, PA 19087
Tel. 610–341-8218
Fax 610–341-3495
 
 
Past Recip­i­ents of the Award
1968 Adal­bert Farkas
1969 Charles J. Plank
1970 Paul H. Emmett
1971 G. Alex Mills
1972 Alfred E. Hirschler
1973 Paul B. Weisz
1974 Roland C. Hansford
1975 Paul Venuto
1976 Heinz Heinemann
1977 G.C.A. Schuit
1978 George W. Parshall
1979 Alvin B. Stiles
1980 Abra­ham Schneider
1981 James F. Roth
1982 Robert Eischens
1983 Edward Rosinski
1984 James R. Katzer
1985 N.Y. Chen
1986 Bruce C. Gates
1987 James E. Lyons
1988 George Kokotailo
1989 Mau­rice Mitchell, Jr.
1990 Wern­er O. Haag
1991 John A. Sofranko
1992 Fran Waller
1993 George Kerr
1994 Theodore A. Koch
1995 John N. Armor
1996 Mae Rubin
1997 Leo E. Manzer
1998 Ray Gorte
1999 Anne M. Gaffney
2000 Hen­ry C. Foley
2001 Mark Barteau
2002 Steven D. Ittel
2003 Frank E. Herkes
2004 Jing­guang Chen
2005 Israel Wachs
2006 James Dumesic
2007 John Vohs
2008 David Olson
2009 Ted Oyama
2010 Chuck Coe
2011 Chun­shan Song
2012 Ros­tam Madon