Editorial | The Spirit of Cornell’s Chemistry Society Lives On
THE MICROSCOPE
2016, Volume 64:1, p. ii
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/OMVM5510
AUTHOR
Gary J. Laughlin
EXCERPT
Occasionally, while sifting through the collections here at Microscope Publications, I will happen upon an unusual remnant from Walter C. McCrone’s past (that I can talk about), and such is the case of the Al’Djebar songbook. Al’Djebar was a convivial gathering of Cornell chemistry students that was active at the university from 1921 to 1948. I hadn’t seen the songbook since Dr. McCrone hired me in 1987, while I was studying criminalistics and chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I worked with him at McCrone Research Institute for 15 years until his death in 2002.