ANALYTICAL PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER 1985, VOL 22 315 New Members of Council Dr. Bill Campbell is currently Senior Analyst in the Research and Technology Department of ICI Petrochemicals and Plastics Division, based at Wilton on Teesside. Born at Stevenston, Ayrshire, in 1949, he was educated at the local High School and Ardrossan Academy before embarking on a BSc course in Chemistry at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Sur- viving this without disillusionment and with a heightened interest in matters analytical he decided to undertake research toward a PhD under the super- vision of (the now) Professor John Otta- way at the same institution: the subject of this research was the better understanding of “Carbon Furnace Atomisation in Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.” In 1975 he joined the then Petrochemicals Division of ICI at Wilton, where his interests included Energy Dispersive XRF and non-metals analysis.Later, he turned to a more business related analy- tical role which involved him in a diversity of classical, chromatographic and spectro- scopic techniques as they applied to the solutions of problems in the Bulk and Speciality Chemicals Areas. This led eventually to his current interest in the analytical chemistry of surfactants and the analysis of detergent formulations. He is at present Chairman of the international CESIO/AIS working group on the analy- sis of these materials and actively involved with the UK SDIA/GOSIP industry panel and the relevant BSI panel. Dr. Campbell joined the SAC in 1972, and became an FRSC in 1984.He has written for Annual Reports on Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy (ARAAS) since 1977 and has been Topic Editor since 1980. Married, with one son, much of his spare time is occupied with family mat- ters, but when business and family com- mitments permit he takes an interest in winemaking, photography and travel and has been known to resort to indoor footbalVcircuit training in an attempt to hold back the inevitable. A biography of Dr. Christopher Burgess was published in Anal. Proc., 1982, 19, 422, on the commencement of his first period of service on Council. Dr. Arnold Fogg was born in Radcliffe in 1935 and was educated at Chadderton Grammar School. At the age of 16 he joined ICI (Dyestuffs Division) in Black- ley, working in the Department of Phar- macy under the guidance of Dan Corrigan in the pre-Pharmaceuticals Division days.After learning the difference between pipettes and measuring cylinders he likes to think that he made rapid progress. “A” levels and the first year of an external London degree course were taken part- time at the Royal Technical College, Salford, where he became a full-time student after spending three formative years with ICI. He remembers the exhila- ration of cycling round The Crescent in Salford and across an almost deserted Piccadilly late on freezing winter even- ings, and his bicycle was a common sight parked outside the Central Library in Manchester . Return to ICI was impossible as National Service was still in operation. He reckons that he would have enjoyed being a soldier, although others doubted this, but having become a Scotophile, even attending a rather improbable Highland Games event in south Manchester, he went to carry out research with Bob Chalmers and Wolf Moser in Aberdeen.In 3 years he managed to get his golf score down from 136 to 108, to obtain a rather shaky working knowledge of Scottish Country Dancing and to marry Joyce Carson, an English/Biblical Studies grad- uate, in addition to gaining a PhD degree. His research was on the reaction between sulphite and nitroprusside, discovered by Boedeker in 1861; he still remembers the look on Wolfs face in the front row at a conference when he included in his intro- duction (against advice) the comment that 1861 was also noted for the outbreak of the American Civil War. His return to England in 1961 was to Loughborough College of Advanced Technology, initially as an Assistant Lec- turer Grade B in Inorganic Chemistry.He and Mike Ellis, the hammer thrower, became the first sub-wardens in the newly built Faraday Hall. Despite his firmly held view at that time that 3 years in any one place was about right he is still at Lough- borough. He transferred to the analytical section, formed on the arrival of Duncan Burns in 1967 after university status had been gained. In the following years the section flourished; research activity increased and the MSc course in Analy- tical Chemistry, and the analytical tech- niques short courses for industry in their present form, were introduced. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1977 and to Reader in 1981.He has published some 124 research papers, 50 of them in The Analyst, and has supervised 23 successful PhD students. He joined the Chemical Society and the SAC in 1967, and since 1970 has served continuously on the Electroanalytical Group committee, being Honorary Treasurer from 1976-82 and Chairman currently, and on the Midlands Region committee for all but 5 years since 1970, being Honorary Secretary from 1972-5. He has also served on the Special Tech- niques Group committee and on the SAC 1977 committee. Dr. Fogg considers that the main advantage of being a university teacher of some years standing, and of being actively involved in analytical chemistry research and the Analytical Division, is that one gets to know so many pleasant people in Britain and world-wide, as well as having the pleasure of meeting many former students again.He enjoys his work, travelling, history, being a member of the local photographic society, his family and supporting his wife’s career. As well as living in Loughborough he also lives in Hounslow, where his wife is the Head Teacher of a large comprehensive school. A biography of Mr. C. A. Johnson appeared in Anal. Proc., 1983, 20, 196, following the conferring on him by the316 ANALYTICAL PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER 1985, VOL 22 Analytical Division of the eighth Analy- tical Division Distinguished Service Award. Since that time he has received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Bradford. A biography of Dr. Diana Simpson appeared in Anal. Proc., 1984, 21, 158, when the ninth Analytical Division Dis- tinguished Service Award was conferred on her.Gyula Svehla was born in 1929 and was educated in Hungary, where he obtained a BSc and later a PhD from the Technical University of Budapest. For a while he taught analytical chemistry there. In 1965 he went to Aberdeen University and since 1966 he has been a member of the teaching staff at the Queen’s University of BeIfast, where he is now Reader in Analytical Chemistry. In 1968 he became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Che- mistry, and in 1973 he was awarded a DSc by Queen’s. He has spent research periods in the Heyrovsky Polarographic Institute in Prague, at the Max Planck Institute in Schwabisch Gmiind and at the van? Hoff Institute in Amsterdam. He has published more than 100 research papers, mainly in the fields of kinetic and electrochemica1 methods of analysis, pub- lished two monographs and revised Vogel’s Qualitative Inorganic Analysis.Since 1972 he has been the Editor of the series “Wilson and Wilson’s Comprehen- sive Analytical Chemistry,’’ of which 18 volumes have been published so far. For 12 years he served on the Editorial Board of Talantu. At present, he is Chairman of the IUPAC Commission on Analytical Nomenclature (V.3.), Chairman of the Northern Ireland Section of the RSC Analytical Division and is a member of the Analytical Abstracts Editorial Board. Professor Alan Townshend was a Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of the University of Birmingham from 1964 to 1980, in what was Professor R. Belcher’s celebrated Analytical Research School.During this time he supervised 36 success- ful PhD students. The achievements of these years are sumrnarised in an earlier biography (Proc. Anal. Div. Chern. Sac., 1975, 12, 40). In 1980 he moved to the University of Hull as Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department. He was promoted to Reader in 1982 and to a Personal Chair in July, 1984. At Hull he has built up a flourishing centre for analytical chemistry, with the active encouragement of his colleagues, and has been ably supported, since Janu- ary 1984, by Dr. Paul Worsfold. They have introduced the unique BSc course in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology (which now has an optional year in industry), and MSc and Diploma courses in Analytical Science.A large research team (currently about a dozen PhD students) is involved in flow injec- tion analysis, chemi- and biolurni- nescence, enzymatic methods, piezoelec- tric sensors, cool flame and diode array spectrometry, microemulsions, environ- mental probIems and other subjects. Professor Townshend is an editor of Analytica Chimica Acta. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Trends in Analytical Chemistry and the Canadian Journal of Spectroscopy, and was on the Boards of The Analyst and Talantu. He is the author of three books and about 200 papers. He was awarded his DSc in 1972 and became an FRSC in 1978. Professor Townshend has long been involved with the RSC and its Analytical Division, and the preceding organiza- tions. He was an elected member of the Council of the CSlRSC (1974-79) and has served on its External Affairs Board and its Post-Experience and Books and Reviews Committees.He has been an elected member of the SAC and AD Councils on several occasions. He was the Division’s Publicity Secretary (1978-82) and has served on most of Council’s Committees. He has been both Chairman (1975-77) and Treasurer of the Midlands Region Committee, and is currently the Vice-chairman of the North East Region Committee and Chairman of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group Committee. He has also been elected to the Committees of the Special Techniques and Education and Training Groups of the AD. He was awarded the SAC Silver Medal in 1975 and was the AD Schools’ Lecturer in 1984-85. He also participates in scientific activi- ties outside the RSC. He has been Secre- tary of Commission V.2 (Microchemistry and Trace Analysis) of IUPAC since 1977, and a member of the British National Committee on Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Sub-committee, since 1975. He is a member of the Chemistry Board of the CNAA, and recently served on the Chemistry CASE panel of the SERC. He is Vice-chairman of the Ultraviolet Spectrometry Group, and a Trustee of the Midlands Association for Qualitative Analysis. Despite the above, he still finds the odd moment to devote to his wife, three teenage sons, a large garden, the odd burst of sporting activity and the oc- casional glass of wine. A biography of Mr. Colin Watson appeared in Anal. Proc., 1981, 18, 232, when he served his first term on the Analytical Division Council.