We were saddened to hear that on October 23 Edward Harris, our beloved webmaster, died of complications from Large B Cell Lymphoma.

From his business web site we learned that Edward Harris was a graduate chemist with over thirty years experience at Union Carbide Corporation in new product development and commercialization and technology management, including over ten years experience in literature research. Product areas cover polymers, organic chemicals & intermediates, silicones and specialty chemicals spanning such market domains as the plastics industry, coatings, automotive, metalworking fluids, mining chemicals, fuel and lubricant additives and chemical process intermediates.

He also served as Technology Manager for numerous business components. Technology management, the setting of business and R&D priorities and the technical management of the R&D programs, in particular has led to broad exposure to many industries' technology and businesses.

He had also directed a multimillion dollar corporate services operation providing Library and Business/Technical Information Research Services as well as Computer Programming, Systems and Networking to a broad spectrum of technical, business and marketing clients.

But to members of the North Jersey ACS community he was Ed Harris who attended our meetings and designed our web sites. It was Ed who made the MARM website for the meeting held at Rutgers NJ in 2005, so accessible to members so that they could easily find information about the program. He was able to keep up with the changing ideas as the program developed over the five years it took for the planning. He developed a domain name www.marmacs.org that has now become standard for all MARM meetings. In fact this website format became so popular that other regional meetings including the upcoming western regional meeting (www.wrmacs.org) to be held next year in San Diego was using him as their webmaster and using the same format.

Because of the popularity of the MARM website format the North Jersey ACS website was redesigned to be have the similar format of that website where pages and links are easily accessible from the home page. All of the North Jersey ACS topical groups have their websites linked to the njacs.org website.

Here are some comments from some of our members about Ed:

"This is very very sad news. Ed has been a wonderful friend to the North Jersey Section as well as a superb web master. He will be sorely missed by all and will never be forgotten."

"Ed was always wonderful to us. I never called him without getting a positive response.

"He was a wonderful colleague and web master. He is deserving of a special tribute"

Ed did not share with us his disease and kept working on our websites even when his disease came out of remission and he was thinking of other treatments options.

Ed is survived by his wife of 43 years, Harriet, and by his daughter Debbie and grandchildren Stefanie and Zachary.

As a memorial to Ed, a donation was made by the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Members can still make donations in Ed's honor to:

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Westchester/Hudson Valley Chapter
1311 Mamaroneck Avenue, Suite 130
White Plains, NY 10605

Please note: Ed's email address is being retired. Please direct all inquiries regarding this website to .