AFFILIATES
OF THE
SOCIETY
Till the beginning of
1933 the activities
of the Society were limited to Belgrade. At that time many
chemists
were working in other towns of Serbia, especially in those where the
chemical
industry was located. At the 7th regular meeting of the
Presidency
of the Administrative Committee of the Society held on January
31, 1933, 14 new members were accepted, among whom chemists
and technologists from Obilicevo (Obilićevo),
near Krusevac, who had expressed their wish to found an affiliate of
the
Society in the area in which they lived and worked. Their rules
were
accepted at the 2nd conference of the Administrative Committee on
August
7th, 1933 and so the first affiliate of the Serbian Chemical Society
began
to work. Its first President was Dr.
Radomir
Nikolic. The Affiliate in Obilicevo had 29 members the
following
year and was active till 1941. After the war it was reactivated
in
1970 when the Affiliate in Krusevac (Kruševac)
was founded.
The
second affiliate was founded
in 1935 in Skopje and
Dr. Kosta Stavric was appointed its first President. In
the
first year it had only 20 members, and when the war broke out the
number
had risen to 50. The Affiliate in Skopje stopped working in 1941,
and after the war it was transformed into the Macedonian
Chemical Society.
After
the Second World War and
the rapid development of the chemical industry and the teaching of
chemistry,
it was clear that the Serbian Chemical Society in order to attain its
goals
could not limit its activities only to Belgrade, but that the work of
the
Society should spread to the whole of Serbia. At the Annual
Assembly of the Society on June 17th, 1949, a proposal was made
and implemented by the end of the same year, that the rules of the
Society
should have a supplement of new articles concerning the establishment
of
affiliates, their organization and goals.
In the same year, 1949,
the Serbian Chemical Society founded its first post-war Affiliate in
Novi Sad, which had 18 members. After 23 years, in 1972,
the Affiliate in Novi Sad had more than 200 members and was undoubtedly
the biggest and the most active affiliate of the Society. The
activity
of the Affiliate manifested itself in various forms: organizing plenary
and section lectures, scientific and professional meetings, seminars
for
training teachers, consultative seminars, visiting companies and
scientific
excursions. .
On
January 21-23, 1970, in the
organization of the Affiliate in Novi Sad, the first annual meeting of
the Serbian Chemical Society was organized outside of Belgrade, i.e.,
in
Novi Sad. That was the 15th Annual Meeting of the Chemists of
Serbia.
Later on the 18th, 33rd and 37th Annual Meetings of the Serbian
Chemical
Society (1974, 1991, and 1995, respectively) were held in the Novi Sad
Affiliate, that is, in the Serbian Chemical Society - Chemical Society
of Vojvodina. In mid-December, 1971 the
Affiliate
organized the First Meeting of the Chemists and Technologists of
Vojvodina,
at
which two plenary lectures were delivered and 71 scientific papers
communicated.
Six more such meetings were organized: the 2nd
Meeting
in Novl Sad 1980, the 3rd Meeting in Novi Sad 1982, the 4th Meeting in
Zrenjanin 1984, the 5th Meeting in Kikinda 1986, the 6th meeting in
Novi
Sad 1988 and the 7th Meeting in Novi Sad 1991. In
co-operation
with the corresponding sections or independently, the Affiliate
organized
eight large symposia and congresses.
In 1972 the Affiliate in
Novi Sad
began to organize meetings of students of chemistry and chemical
technology.
Thus, on December 16th, 1972, the First Yugoslav
Meeting. of Students of Pure and Applied Chemistry took place in
Novi Sad. This excellent activity continues and the Affiliate has
organized
10 meetings of this type so far. As a rule, students from
neighboring
and some East European countries have participated. Separate
sections
were founded within the Affiliate.
The Section for Corn and Flour
Technology was founded in Novi Sad, in 1960, and soon after the
Section for Analytical Chemistry,
the Section for Biochemistry,
the Section for Organic Chemistry,
the Teaching Section,
the Section for Environmental Protection,
the Section for Chemical Engineering,
the Section for Chromatography,
the Section for Macromolecules
and
the Section for Corn and Flour
Chemistry.
Under the pressure of
constitutional
changes occurring in the country in 1974, affiliates of the Serbian
Chemical
Society in Vojvodina (in Novi Sad and Zrenjanin) united on December
23rd, 1977, into the Chemical
Society
of Vojvodina, with its seat in Novi Sad. In this way
the
Affiliate in Novi Sad grew into a separate chemical society. The
connection with the Serbian Chemical Society remains reflecting itself
only in the fact that according to the Statute, all members of the
Chemical
Society of Vojvodina are members of the Serbian Chemical Society at the
same time. Further positive activity and close contacts of the
two
societies have shown that these changes had been just formal.
In 1985
the Chemical Society of Vojvodina was reorganized so that it now
consists
of the Chemical Society Novi Sad,
founded
on December 27th, 1985, theChemical
Society Zrenjanin, founded on December
13th, 1985 and the Chemical
Society
Kikinda, founded on April 17th,
1985.
After 1991, the Serbian Chemical Society and the Society of Vojvodina
came
closer together formally. This was reflected in the fact that the
Assembly of the Chemical Society of Vojvodina on May
10th, 1994 decided that its name would be: The
Serbian Chemical Society - Chemical Society of Vojvodina and
that it would consist of two affiliates, in Zrenjanin and in
Kikinda.
According to the new Statute of 1996 this name became official.
In 1951
an affiliate was founded in Nis (Niš).
By its activities it very soon became one of the most active
ones.
It organized meetings of chemists from the Nis region and usually
accompanied
by lectures delivered very often by guests from Belgrade, Novi Sad and
from abroad. This Affiliate, beside other activities, together
with
the Spectrochemical Section of the Society, organized the 7th
Yugoslav Conference: General and Applied Spectroscopy on September
26-29,
1978, in Nis. In recent years, however, the activity of
the
Affiliate has been considerably reduced and there is a great necessity
for its work to be organized better and intensified, because it is
located
in an important university center in Serbia.
The
Affiliate in Zrenjanin
was founded in 1952. It
developed
quickly, simultaneously with the fast development of the food and
chemical
industry, followed by the development of secondary and university
education
in that area. After the transformation of the Affiliate of the
Society
in Novi Sad into the Chemical Society of Vojvodina, the Section in
Zrenjanin
became formally an Affiliate of that Society in 1977. The new
organizational
change took place in 1985 when the Affiliate developed into the
Chemical
Society Zrenjanin, which at the same time is a member of the Chemical
Society
of Vojvodina, Novi Sad. According to an article of the Statute,
however,
all members of the Chemical Society Zrenjanin are at the same time
members
of the Serbian Chemical Society and they have their representatives in
its Administrative Committee. The Affiliate founded its own sections
among
which the Teaching Section has great success. About 200
scientific
and technical lectures have been presented in the Chemical Society of
Zrenjanin
so far, and the following meetings have been organized:
The 4th Meeting
of the Chemists of Vojvodina, on September 27-28, 1984,
A meeting
of Rubber and Plastics Producers on March 28-29, 1985.
Since
May 1994 this Affiliate has
been called the Affiliate in Zrenjanin of the Serbian Chemical Society
- Chemical Society of Vojvodina.
The
Affiliate in
Kragujevac was founded in 1952.
Its activity since the very beginning has been very poor. This is
something to worry about because it is located in a town which is one
of
the university centers of Serbia.
In 1954
an affiliate was founded in Subotica.
At the very beginning it showed exceptional activity, but in 1972 it
almost
stopped working. This Affiliate, also officially joined the
Chemical
Society of Vojvodina in 1974, but because of its inactivity, it has
stopped
being mentioned.
The Affiliate
in
Leskovac was founded in 1955
and from the very beginning it has been very active. Over 100
meetings
with 60 lectures have been held. The Affiliate organized two
technical
meetings in 1979 in Leskovac and in Predejane. Together with the
Pharmaceutic-Chemical Industry "Zdravlje"-Leskovac, the Affiliate
organized
the meeting: Medical Aromatic Herbs in
Yugoslavia
on Zlatlbor on September 8-10, 1993.
The
Affiliate in Bor
was founded in 1964. Since
that
time it has organized about 200 meetings with lectures delivered by
experts
from this country and from abroad, in metallurgy, chemistry, analytical
chemistry, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, environmental
protection
and new materials. The Affiliate organized a series of lectures
for
secondary school pupils and preparations for competitions from the
fields
of chemistry and ecology. Members of the Affiliate are active
participants
in the traditional meeting October Days organized every year by the
Faculty
of Mining and Technology in Bor.
The
Affiliate in Pristina
(Priština) was founded in 1964.
It was active for only a few years after being founded.
The
Affiliate in Uzice
(Užice) was founded in 1968.
On April 16th, 1950 a District Unit of the
Serbian
Chemical Society was founded in Uzice, but it practically never
worked. The basic aspects of the work were meetings with
lectures.
A hundred and twelve meetings were organized and 224 lectures were
delivered.
The lecturers were mainly professors at Belgrade and Kragujevac
Universities,
as well as educational counselors and secondary school teachers.
The meetings were often like technical seminars and served to improve
the
level of chemistry teaching in the district of Uzice.
The
Affiliate in Vranje
was founded in 1969. It was
very
active only in the first years.
The
Affiliate in Krugevac
was founded in 1970. The Affiliate
organized a number of meetings with lectures delivered by professors
from
universities in Serbia.
The
Affiliate in Kraljevo
was founded in 1975. Today
it
has about 90 members, mainly teachers and professors of
chemistry.
So far it has organized about 40 meetings with 120 lectures.
The
Affiliate in Cacak
(Čačak) was founded in 1982.
It has carried out its activities mainly by organizing meetings with
lectures.
The Affiliate has organized ten professional meetings at which the
following
subjects were dealt with: water supply for the town, corrosion,
environmental
protection.
The
Affiliate in Dimitrovgrad
was founded in 1982. It has
organized
meetings with lectures delivered by outstanding professors from
universities
in Serbia.
The
Affiliate in Belgrade
was founded in 1983. The
position
of Belgrade in the Society has been always particular. With time
mostly through affiliates, the activity of the Society has been
transferred
to other towns. So Belgrade, although the greatest part of the
activity
has been carried out and will confirm to be carried out in it, is no
longer
an exceptional town among other towns in which there are affiliates of
the Society. Former plenary meetings of the Society are now held
in the Belgrade Affiliate, and instead of the President of the Society
as it used to be, the meetings are often run by the President of 'the
Affiliate.
The Affiliate in Belgrade represents the core of the Serbian Chemical
Society
because it is a direct or indirect advocate or participant in most of
the
Society's activity.
The
Affiliate in Kikinda
was founded in 1987 under the name
Chemical
Society Kikinda and in 1994 it was reorganized into the
Affiliate
Kikinda of the Serbian Chemical Society - Chemical Society of
Vojvodina.
The Affiliate was the host and organizer of the 5th Meeting of the
Chemists
of Vojvodina.
In the year of the
Society
Centennial, 1997, three new
affiliates
were founded in Sabac (Šabac), Sremska
Mitrovica
and
Gornji Milanovac.
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