Former Board Chairmen

	FOUNDING MANUFACTURERS OF SOCMA: The Association of Dyestuff, Pharmaceutical, Intermediate, Fine Organic and Aromatic Chemical Manufacturers in the United States
1921	Chair Salmon W. Wilder, Merrimac Chemical Company
1922	Chair C.N. Turner, Newport Chemical Works
1922 - 1923	Chair Herman Seydel, Seydel Chemicals Co.
1923	Chair Fred E. Signer, Butterworth-Judson Corp.
1923 - 1924	Chair Roger N. Wallach, Standard Aniline Products
1924	Chair P. Samuel Rigney, Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co.
1924 - 1925	Chair Dr. August Mertz, American Cyanamid Co.
1925	Chair Salmon W. Wilder, Merrimac Chemical Company
1925 - 1926	Chair Ralph E. Dorland, DOW Chemical Company
1926	Chair P. Samuel Rigney, Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co.
1926 - 1945	Chair. Dr. August Mertz, American Cyanamid Co.
1945 - 1947	Chair Ralph E. Dorland, DOW Chemical Company
1947 - 1949	Chair Dr. Elvin H. Killheffer, E.I. duPont deNemours & Co.
1949 - 1951	Chair Sidney C. Moody, American Cyanamid Co.
1951 - 1954	Chair Dr. Cary R. Wagner, General Aniline & Film Corp.
1954 - 1955	Chair Samuel Lenher, E.I. duPont deNemours & Co.
1955 - 1958	Chair R. Wolcott Hooker, Hooker Electronchemical Co.
1958 - 1960	Chair Samuel G. Baker, E.I. duPont deNemours & Co.
1960 - 1962	Chair Carl A. Gerstacker, DOW Chemical Company
1962 - 1964	Chair Chester M. Brown, Allied Chemical Corporation
1965- 1966	Chair Carl S. Ordach, A.C. Klivington
1966 - 1967	Chair James D. Mahoney, Monsanto Company
1967 - 1969	Chair Thomas P. Turchan, American Cyanamid Co.
1969 - 1972	Chair Frederick L. Bissinger, BayChem Corporation
1972 - 1973	Chair Heinz A. Lips, E.I. duPont deNemours & Co.
1973 - 1975	Chair Harold C. Whittmore, Jr., Sun Chemical Corporation
1975 - 1977	Chair H.F. Tomfohrde, III, Union Carbide Corporation
1977 - 1979	Chair E.P. Clanchard, Du Pont de Nemours & Company, E.I.
1979 - 1980	Chair Edward B. Pollak, Olin Corporation
1980 - 1982	Chair Ernest S. Robson, Jr., Monsanto Company
1982 - 1983	Chair Stuart T. Allen, Du Pont de Nemours & Company, E.I.
1983 - 1987	Chair Conrad S. Kent, Chesebrough-Ponds Inc.
1987 - 1989	Chair James A. Mack, Research Corporation Technologies Inc
1990 - 1991	Chair Gary L. Mossman, Cambrex Corporation
1992 - 1993	Chair Joseph C. Soviero, DOW Chemical Company
1994 - 1995	Chair Charles E. Stewart, Occidental Chemical Corporation
1996 - 1997	Chair Dr. A. Wayne Tamarelli, AWT Private Investments
1998 - 1999	Chair Warren A. Scott, Performance & Intermediate Chemicals
2000 - 2001	Chair Dr. Richard M. Klein, Sybron Chemicals, Inc.
2002 - 2003	Chair Joseph Acker, Danville Chemicals
2004 - 2005	Chair A. Michael DeRuosi, Rhodia, Incorporated
2006 - 2007	Chair Margaret Walker, DOW Chemical Company
2008 - 2009	Chair Charles Hinnant, Optima Chemical Group
2010 - 2011	Chair Dr. Larry Brotherton, Ortec Incorporated