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In this Issue:

Upcoming Event 2

Annual Meeting 3

Event Recap 5

Member News 6

Calendar of Events 7

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C H i C a g o d r u g & C H e m i C a la s s o C i at i o N

FoUNdEd iN 1900 – oUR 116th YEAR

President, Brian BloomVice President, diana Watson

Secretary, Patrick Kapsatreasurer, Cheryl dePasquale

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Heather Boritzke • Joe Bruzdzinski Jr. • Lou DePasquale • Jerry Hahn • Tanya McKnightBob Miller • Gina Peart • Megan Peboontom • Charles Wyack Jr. • Ex-Officio Karen Desmond

Vernon E. Karris, Executive AdministratordiRECtoRS 2016

Cd&CA Annual Meeting

Election of officers for 2017

President – Diana Watson

vice President – Patrick Kapsa

secretary – Cheryl DePasquale

treasurer – Joe Brudzinski Jr.

director, 2 year – Dawn Drass

director, 2 year – Angela Johnson

director, 2 year – Megan Peboontom

director, 2 year – Christopher Wrobel

director, 1 year – Larry Kelly

ex officio – Brian Bloom

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Chicago drug & Chemical Association

ANNUALHOLIDAYPARTY

december 8th, 20166:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Hilton, Lisle/Naperville3003 Corporate West drive

Lisle, IL 60532

Rooms available at special discounted rate of $89 by calling 1-800-552-2599, Group code CDCA or booking online before November 16th at

http://www.lislenaperville.hilton.com. Group Code CDCA

Please bring an unwrapped toy for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots drive.

Raffle prizes will be given out.

Please contact Bonnie Buckley with the Hilton Hotel @ 630-245-7621 if your company is interested in hosting a suite.

$125 by check, $129 on line includes open bar, appetizers, carving station, fresh pasta station and dessert

Tickets available at http://www.cd-ca.org/store/events/holidayparty.html or contact Vern Karris (708) 403-7884 or vern@cd-ca.org

R.S.V.P. by December 1, 2016

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Cheryl DePasquale still celebrating the Cubs World

Series win from the night before while Tommy

Turriff auctions off some Silent Auction items.

Special thanks to our Key Volunteersgina Peart tanya mcKnight Joe bruzdzinski Jr. tommy turrifflesley burchett diana watsonvern Karris

Very special thanks to our 78 generous contributors!

Acid Products Excalibur Seasoning olin Chlor Alkali

Alexander Chemical Faure Bros / Gateway Whse

outsource Solutions

Altom transport FBC industries occidental Chemical

AMS Environmental Fitz Chem Pallet Maxx

Apac Chemical Global Chemical Phibrochem

APCo Packaging Graham Chemical PMP Fermentation

Arro Corporation hallstar Company Potash Corp

Ashta Chemical harcros Chemicals PQ Corp

Batory Foods hawkins Chemical Prayon Corp

BhS Marketing hofbrau house Producers Chemical

Brenntag Global Marketing

holland Applied Radchem Products

Brenntag Great Lakes hydrite Chemical Rowell Chemical

Bruce & tammy Schechinger trust

iCC Chemical Salerno’s Pizza & Pasta

Buck’s Pit Stop ineos Calabrian Seacole Specialty Chemical

Calumet Specialty Prod Ingredients, Inc. Sea-Land Chemical

Chemceed innophos Seeler industries

Chemsynergy JC’s Pub & Ristorante Seven Bridges

Chevy Chase Country Club

Jones-Hamilton SICALCO / RBIS

Chuck’s Southern Comforts Cafe

K.A. Steel Chemicals TLC Ingredients

Church & dwight Kraft Chem tom turriff

Columbus Chemical LA Chemical tradebe Environmental

Ele Corp Lianda Corporation Univar

EMCo Chemical distributors

Magrabar Vantage Specialty ingredients

Emerald Kalama NB Coatings Viking Chemical

ERCo World Wide Neves Global Wego Chemical

Evonik North American Whse Xena international

Thanks to the efforts of Tommy Turriff, his key volunteers listed below, and the many generous donors from our

industry, the 2017 CD&CA Silent Auction raised funds for our contributions to science-related education projects and student scholarships, collecting OVER $14,000.

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Karen Desmond Chairperson

Last year was exciting for the Education Committee. Through all of your support during last year’s silent auction we raised a record of $13,000.

We completed the 2nd year of our 5-year commitment to fund the You Be the Chemist Challenge (YBTC) held in March of last year. For those of you who are not familiar, this challenge is a competition that starts at the school level and continues with local, state, and national challenge competitions. The Chemical Education Foundation relies on volunteers to coordinate school participation and plan the local and state challenges, so our commitment to this organization is greatly appreciated.

In addition to YBTC, the Education Committee has decided to donate an addi-tional $1,500 to sponsor YBTC Essential Elements workshops, which should be able to cover 3 workshops. This program is designed to provide K-8 educa-tors with methods for teaching chemistry concepts through hands on learning. Our spon-sorship will help in the purchas-ing of materials, transportation, and paying the instructors. Amy Andrews attended the Silent Auction as a represen-tation for the organization. Amy is a certified instructor for the Essential Elements work-shop and teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Chicago. The 1st workshops are scheduled for December 13th and 20th.

We have also donated $2,000 to a school in need, Elgin High

also travels during the summer to instruct teachers K–12 prac-tical applications of chemistry. Along with being a polymer ambassador, a master teacher for ASM, a STEM educator, countless workshops, she was recently elected High School Ambassador for the American Assoc. of Chemistry Teachers.

Scholarship winners. This year we awarded three Members Only Scholarships. Our 1st winner was awarded to Louis DePasquale III. Louis received a $1000 scholarship. Louis is currently attending University of Dayton in their Chemical Engineering Honors Program. During his HS career he made the Deans list all semesters for both his SR and JR years while playing varsity football and wrestling. He could not attend the silent auction, but his dad accepted the scholarship on his behalf.

Our second winner is Lauren Swain. Lauren received a $1500 scholarship. Lauren is a senior at South HS in Downers Grove. Lauren is in the top 2% of her class ranking 8 out of 591 and ACT composite of 34. She would like to pursue a career in Pediatric Medicine.

Karen Desmond receiving her Honorary Membership

School. They have provided us with a wish list of several items for their chemistry lab such as student lab kits, wash bottles, etc.

Through the ISTA (Illinois Science Teacher Association) we received several applications and choose two that stood out. Our 1st award of $750 went to Kerrie Rovito. Kerrie is a 6th-8th grade science teacher at Hamilton Elementary School in Chicago. Kerrie works with teachers from all grade levels to align the science curriculum to the Next Generation Science Standards as well as traveling around the U.S. to train middle school science teachers on how to use a particular science curric-ulum for computer science. She has spent several weeks in Israel on an archaeological dig to write a curriculum for middle school students, skyping with students, and blogging about the dig.

The next $750 teacher award went to Sherri Rukes. Sherri is an AP Chemistry teacher at Libertyville High School. She has received over 15 grants to help make chemistry come alive for students and was name a Golden Apple Fellow for Outstanding Teaching. Sherri

O u r t h i r d w i n n e r i s Samantha Biel. Samantha received a $2500 scholarship. Samantha is currently attending University of Nebraska in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Samantha’s ACT composite was 33 and her academic achievements include George Beadle Scholarship Recipient, Nebraska Legends Scholar, Illinois State Scholar and National Honors Society.

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oktoberfest 2016

On October 13, Gina Peart (FBC Industries) and her committee put together a really fun event at the Hofbrauhouse in Rosemont. Great German food and beer were served amongst our CD&CA colleagues. More pictures are available on the CD&CA Shutterfly site.

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Gerald McInerney (NB Coatings) is reporting some exciting news about his company’s brand new facility, including new labs, spray rooms, and new capacity in Lansing, IL.

Tim Ryniec’s (LA Chemicals) daughter, Abby plays for the Lemont Rockers 14U team and they won the Big Bash Championship in Midlothian. It was an ASA National qualifier. She was 2 for 2 with 2 RBI’s in the championship game.

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December 8, 2016✱

holiday PartyHilton Lisle/Naperville

welcome to shutterflyWe have created a website called “Chicago Drug & Chemical Association” to share pictures with our members. Please check it out at

http://cdca.shutterfly.com/

Chicago drug & Chemical linkedln groupWe have created a group on LinkedIn for the CD&CA. It is a great way to have discussions, share information and stay in touch, etc. To join the group, please go to:

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To join the CD&CA group, you must be a member of LinkedIn. LinkedIn is free and setting up a new account only takes a few minutes. Please join the discussion on LinkedIn.