The Committee on Symposia Planning should take an active role in identifying areas which need to be served, locating potential Chairs, approving dates and facilities offered, etc. For any congresses in which the ACS is involved, the Committee should be encouraged to provide at least two symposia. An open competition should be announced for the organizing of such symposia with proposals screened and one or more recommendations forwarded by the Symposium Planning Committee. No official symposium will be planned in honor of the recipient of any ACS award for which the winner has chosen to present the award address under the auspices of the Inorganic Division. Inorganic Divisional Symposia are carefully planned well in advance so as to encompass the most important or topical fields of interest.
Care is taken to space symposia in somewhat similar fields several years apart.
If choice of some symposia were left to the vagaries of the area of specialization of an awardee, it is conceivable it might be necessary on occasions to sponsor symposia in closely related fields within a relatively short time period. The Inorganic Division has a financial commitment to supporting symposia, and it should not have to support symposia which it has, in effect, no decision in selecting. It is suggested that when an awardee is announced, the Program Chair of the Division will attempt to group papers in the area of specialization of the awardee, both from former students or others, in the session or sessions following the award address. The name of the awardee is not to be used in the title for the session.