Geoffry Black becomes new Executive Minister of UCC

There will be a national call in prayer service for Geoffry Black the new executive minister of the UCC. The link is http://www.ucc.org/news/join-in-prayer-for-geoffrey.html.

Rev Black takes office October 1, 2009 and that is the date of the prayer service which will take place at noon eastern time. I will be taking part in this service even though I will be in Arizona on vacation.

Rev. Black will need all the help he can get with the issue of reorganization and the problems it caused. For more information about that see my previous posts about the General Synod.

Jeannette Brown

Last Weekend of Summer

Well it has been a very busy summer. I spent the beginning of the summer at the Chemical Heritage Foundation working on my book. I had another fellowship there. Then I went to Synod and I have blogged about that.
I have just come back from Washington DC and Atlanta GA. I was in Washington for the American Chemical Society meeting and I also took the oral history of one of my African American women chemists. I went to Atlanta to take the oral history of three more at the expense of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. They have a program in which they are taking video oral histories of women chemists so my women fit into their program. I experimented with my video camera and took both an oral history and a video history. It was fun.

The good news is that I have a publisher for my book about these women. I won't say who is going to publish the book yet until I sign the contract. I am in the middle of contract negotiations now. I have two lawyers looking at the contract as I don't know whether to accept their terms or negotiate. I could use some help. My editor is very supportive. I think he stacked the deck in my favor because two of my friends on the women chemists committee of the American chemical society told me that they were the blind reviewers. I got three positive reviews for my book proposal. So I will be very busy from now on. The book it due to the publisher in September 2010. There is a lot of work to do besides writing as it is a non fiction book so I need permissions from a lot of people. I have begun to blog about this I set up another blog http://aawomenchemists.blogspot.com.
Jeannette