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Virgil B. Sease
AFTER 33 YEARS with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Dr. Sease retired from his activities at Du Font's Redpath Laboratory, Parlin, N.J., at the end of 1950. He has been a member of this Society since 1926. He became a Fellow in 1934, the year in which the grade of Fellow was established.
Dr. Sease joined the Du Pont Company in 1917 as a research chemist at the Ex
perimental Station near Wilmington, Del. From late in 1917 until 1920 he was engaged in similar activity at the Delta Laboratory, Arlington, N.J., where he worked on the acetylation of cellulose. In 1920 he went to the Redpath Laboratory, Parlin, N.J., where investigations on the manufacture of photographic film were in progress. In 1925, he became director of research for the Du Pont-Pathe Manufacturing Corp., at Parlin. When this organization became Du Font's Photo Products Dept., he moved to Wilmington in the same capacity. He became technical consultant to the department in 1942 and technical adviser in 1946. He was named director of the development section in 1947.
Dr. Sease's research on photographic emulsions included studies on precipitation conditions, the role of iodide and the nature of gelatins. He was particularly interested in grain size and in this connection worked on the formulation of developers to control graininess. He wrote a number of technical articles on photographic developments and was responsible for the development of a number of patents in the photographic field.
He was born near Leesville, S.C., in 1888. He received his B.A. degree from Newberry College in 1908, was principal of a high school in South Carolina from 1908 until going to Newberry College as an instructor in 1911. He was a fellow at Johns Hopkins from 1916 to 1917 and he received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1917. He and Mrs. Sease now live at 1010 Berkeley Rd., Wilmington 67, Del.
New Members
The following members have been added to the Society's rolls since those published last month. The designations of grades are the same as those used in the 1950 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY.
Honorary (H) Fellow (F) Active (M) Associate (A) Student (S)
Aragones, Daniel, Partner, Managing Director, Laboratorio Cinefoto. Mail: Ave. Oral. Franco 426, Barcelona. (A)
Bennett, Norman, American University. Mail: 10707 St. Margarets Way, Kensington, Md. (S)
Bischof, Wallace P., 3524 E. Anderson Ave., Albuquerque, N. M. (A)
Bodnar, John, Head, International Cutting
Dept., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Mail: 1210 Daniels Ave., Los Angeles
35, Calif. (M) Bradish, Albert S., Vice-President in Charge
of Production, Atlas Film Corp. Mail:
1526 N. Harlem Ave., River Forest,
111. (M) Bunnell, Ray F., Head, Electrical Dept.,
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. Mail:
366