At center and right: Jane and Glenn Crosby (Washington State University), winners of the Charles Lathrop Parsons Medal "for outstanding service to the profession of chemistry by conceiving, managing, and executing diverse programs for students and teachers under the ACS Aegis and nationwide." Their son, Alan Crosby (Newton South High School, Newton, MA) is at left.

At right: Daniel Nocera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), winner of the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, with Harry Gray (California Institute of Technology(, at center, and Richard Eisenberg (University of Rochester).