Conant Honored

James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, has been given the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award by the American Chemical Society, for outstanding public service. The award is given every three years to a chemist or chemical engineer who has been active in public service activities. The major feature of award is the privilege of choosing the recipient of a $2000 scholarship for graduate study.

Conant, a chemist before becoming president of Harvard, left the University in 1953 to become U.S. High Commissioner in Germany and is now Ambassador to West Germany.