AlC Award Hartford receives 1974 AlC Gold Medal At its annual meeting last month in Washington, D.C., the American Insti­tute of Chemists presented its 1974 Gold Medal to Dr. William E. ("Butch") Hanford. Now officially re­tired, Dr. Hanford was until last No­vember vice president for research and development in the chemicals group at Olin Corp. in Stamford, Conn.

The award was presented to Dr. Hanford to honor his long and produc­tive career as a chemist and adminis­trator. As evidence of his creativeness as a chemist, he holds more than 100 U.S. patents. Over the years, he has done research on the chemistry of poly-urethanes, polyethylene copolymers, polyesters, polyamides, fluorocarbons, and elastomers. He also has worked in such areas as acetylene chemistry and color photography.

In years past, his contributions to chemistry, the chemical industry, and the chemical profession have been hon­ored by such awards as the AIC Chem­ical Pioneer Award, the Chemical In­dustry Medal of the Society of Chemi­cal Industry's American section, and the Honor Scroll of AIC's New York chapter. He also has received honorary D.Sc. degrees from Alfred University

and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

Over the years, Dr. Hanford has been very active in scientific organiza­tions. In the American Chemical Soci­ety, he has been chairman of the Poly­mer Chemistry, Fluorine Chemistry, and Industrial and Engineering Chem­istry Divisions. From 1968-70, he was a member of the ACS Board of Directors and in 1969 was chairman of its Fi­nance Committee.

In the American Institute of Chem­ists, he was president in 1964-65 and chairman of the board in 1965-66. In 1968, he served as president of the In­dustrial Research Institute. Earlier, he was chairman of the Society of Chemi­cal Industry's American section and of the Scientific Research Society of America.

Dr. Hanford received his B.S. from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1930. He then went on to the University of Illinois to receive his M.S. in 1932 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1935. At the University of Illinois, he did his graduate research under Dr. Roger Adams on diphenyl compounds and the alkaloid vasicine.

It was during his university days

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Award winner Hanford (left), his wife, and AIC president Ernest R. Gilmont

that Dr. Hanford got his durable nick­name "Butch." A fellow graduate stu­dent picked this name for him partly because of his closely cropped butch haircut, which is still one of his trade­marks.

In his professional career, Dr. Han­ford has held such positions as group leader in polymer research at Du Pont, research director at GAF (then General Aniline and Film), and vice president for research and development at M. W. Kellogg Co. In 1957, he joined Olin (then Olin Mathieson) as assistant to the president. Later, he became vice president for research and develop­ment.

Today, Dr. Hanford serves as a con­sultant to such firms as Olin, Phillips Petroleum, and Clairol. Although his interests cover a wide spectrum, he tends to consult mainly in such areas as polymer chemistry, petrochemicals, and consumer products. "My main function," he explains, "is to suggest to companies which of their research proj­ects should be expanded, which should be cut back, and which should be al­lowed to proceed as is."

In 1968, he and his son, William, Jr., who is a lawyer, organized a company in New York City called World Water Resources, Inc. Dr. Hanford is chair­man of the board and consultant to the company, and his son is president. The company specializes in supplying de­veloping countries with equipment for sanitizing drinking water with calcium hypochlorite. To date, it has placed its units in operation in about 40 foreign countries.

For recreation in years past, Dr. Hanford played tennis and squash. More recently, he has turned to less strenuous diversions. A few years ago, he developed a lively interest in three-cushion billiards and installed the ap­propriate billiard table in his home in New Canaan, Conn. He'd play the game more often, he says, if only he knew more people who were skilled at it.

Another of Dr. Hanford's pastimes is international ballroom dancing. In re­cent years, he and his wife, Lorraine, have won three trophies from the Inter­national Ballroom Dancing Association for their skill on the dance floor. One of his most unforgettable moments, he says, was when he and his wife, at an ACS dinner during the Society's na­tional meeting in Washington, D.C., in 1971, put on an impromptu exhibition of ballroom dancing in the awesome marbled halls of the Smithsonian Insti­tution.

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