John Warner - Green Chemistry

John Warner received his BS (1984) in Chemistry from UMASS Boston and his MS (1986) and PhD (1988) in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University. He worked at the Polaroid Corporation from 1988 - 1997 in exploratory research and media research. In 1997 he accepted a position at the University of Massachusetts (Chemistry, Boston Campus, 1997-2004 and Plastics Engineering, Lowell Campus, 2004-2007). Warner has published over 100 patents, papers and books and is co-author of Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice with Paul Anastas. His recent patents in the fields of semiconductor design, biodegradable plastics, personal care products and polymeric photoresists are examples of how green chemistry principles can be immediately incorporated into commercially relevant applications. Warner is editor of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews and associate editor of the journal Organic Preparations and Procedures International. Warner also serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington DC. He received The 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from President Bush, and was awarded the American Institute of Chemistry's Northeast Division's Distinguished Chemist of the Year for 2002.

John is the President and Chief Technology Officer of the WarnerBabcock Institute for Green Chemistry. He will be our guest speaker this Thursday and will tell us how Haverhill can expand it's economy in the area of Green Chemistry.

President's Message

Dear Friends,

Thank you Bernie Clohisy for the very fine program on the Peabody Essex Museum which you brought to our club last week. Looking for something to do on the weekend? The Peabody Essex in Salem (Mass.) is definitely a worthwhile destination!

While going through the Rotary mail this week, I found several contributions to the Duck Race - one from one of the sponsors and a few checks adopting ducks. The adoption papers that I've seen are not for one duck alone. I've seen adoption papers and accompanying checks for a flock of 25 ducks at $100 and a quacker's dozen of 12 ducks at $50.

That is why I am asking every Rotarian to sell $500 worth of ducks. With a car being given to the first place winner and the possibility of another duck returning $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to the adoptive "parent(s)," it will be easy to reach that goal. $500 does not mean only 100 single ducks (although it could be!). It can mean just 5 flocks (which really means 125 ducks), or it can mean 10 quacker's dozen (actually 120 ducks), or any combination of single ducks, quack packs of 5 ducks a pack for $25, quacker's dozens and flocks.

John Cuneo, Sheryl Meehan and Daine Franz are tirelessly working to make the regatta both a successful FUNDraiser and a successful FUNraiser! It can be and will be both with the help of every Rotarian. YES WE CAN!

I am writing this message from my hotel room in New York City on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. After attending a wedding on Long Island, Gail and I are looking forward to a few days of R&R before we return to Haverhill mid-week. Of course I look forward to our next Rotary meeting on Thursday. Until thenŠ

Rotarily Yours,

Ira

Where's Quacky?

Quacky is appearing all over the city to help us gain publicity for our major fundraiser.

Please consider placing a web banner on the home page of your web sites. For information go to http://www.haverhillrotary.com/banners/. It contains information and code regarding the placement of banners. Note there are versions for both non-profit and commercial web sites and two sizes from which to choose. Banners will help to direct potential donors to adopt ducks online at AdoptaDuckToday.com.

Do What You Would Like To Do.

I have lived in Atkinson for most of my life. When I was a child, a man who also lived in this town would come up to our place to visit. He lived where the Atkinson Community Center is now located. At that time he and his wife ran the The Hampshire Camp for Girls at that location. I think that he enjoyed it.

What he didn't enjoy was his fulltime job at the Shawmut Bank in Boston. It was in the Foreign Currency Department there. He also didn't like his boss there. They were both about the same age and so it looked like they were going to be there for a long time together. He used to commute to Boston each day from Atkinson on the Boston and Maine train.

I have always remembered one of his visits to us. I don't know if his life at the bank caused it but he was thin. I was about age eleven at the time of this particular visit and he turned to me and said: "When you grow up if you ever have a job that you hate, leave it. Don't be like me and stay with a job that makes you misemble."

One of life's lessons? I think so.