ON TOUR WITH ACS SPEAKER SERVICE
Linda Wang · Chemical & Engineering News · 2006
ARMED WITH A GOOD ROAD MAP and a healthy appetite, former American Chemical Society president Ned D. Heindel set out in late September to crisscross the state of Tennessee. I tagged along for the first half of the trip to witness this ACS Speaker Service veteran and longtime volunteer hard at work. Our first stop was Memphis, where we joined members of the Memphis Section for dinner at Buckman Laboratories. After dinner, Heindel gave a freewheeling talk about the history of "commercialized quackery." Our next stop was 160 miles north, in Murray, Ky., where members of the Kentucky Lake Section had gathered for dinner and to hear Heindel give a historical talk about folk medicine in the 19th century. By 9:30 PM, we were on the road again, headed south toward Nashville, where I would catch my return flight to Washington, D.C. Heindel would continue on to Chattanooga, Knoxville, and, finally, Johnson City. By the ...