At the recent 100th meeting of American Chemists, A Mr Rodney Hammond took over as President of the Association. Mr Hammond is a graduate of Leathersellers (now part of the British School of Leather Technology) and worked with William Walkers in the UK and Granite State in the US. He has been with Seton Leather for eight years where he is now Vice President of Operations. He takes over the presidency from the retiring president Dean Didato of Buckman Chemicals.