Don Macnaughtan:

Education

1967 - 1971, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Ph. D., Analytical Chemistry Thesis research was in the area of chemical separations under Professor L. B. Rogers. Served as the head teaching assistant for the quantitative analysis course.
1964 - 1967, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, B.S., Chemistry
1961 - 1964, New England College, Henniker, New Hampshire, B.A., Music with focus on the piano

Professional experience
    Chemical

Since retirement from Bayer Corporation, he has done some consulting work until recently. He now focuses on mostly on family and friends. He would love to hear from any old acquaintances from whom the years have resulted in separation.

1975 - 2001, Bayer Corporation, New Martinsville, West Virginia, Retired May 2001

• Held various positions from Chemist to Manager to Senior Research Scientist.
• Managed a state-of-the-art analytical research laboratory, which provided special analyses and testing on a wide variety of materials to support problem solving in processing, research, patent applications, legal matters, and regulatory requirements such as FDA food additive petitions and EPA wastewater analyses.
• Managed the Process Safety Laboratory, which performed experiments to study Bayer.s processes, chemicals, and products to ensure the safety of its employees and the protection of the equipment.
• 1985 - 1987, Lived, along with my family, and worked in Leverkusen, Germany as part of the Bayer Exchange Program.
• Experienced in a wide variety of chemicals and processes including polyurethane chemicals and processes, polycarbonates, agricultural and inorganic chemicals, and blood plasma processing.

1974 - 1975, Loras College, Department of Chemistry, Dubuque, Iowa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

1971 - 1974, University of Illinois, Department of Chemistry, Urbana, Illinois, Assistant Professor,

• Taught undergraduate Quantitative Analytical Chemistry and graduate-level Statistics.
• Received an "Outstanding Teacher Award" as determined by the student body.

    Legal and Other

         1977 - 1978, Served as an expert witness and provided testimony in the "Sunshine Mine Fire" litigation in Federal Court in Boise, Idaho.
         1980, Deposed regarding material used to construct a helmet worn during a motorcycle accident that resulted in a head injury. Testimony demonstrated Bayer Corporation did not produce the construction material.
         1988 - 1990, Charter member and President of Wetzel County Solid Waste Authority.
         1990 - 1998, Served two, four-year terms in the West Virginia State Legislature as State Senator representing the Second Senatorial District. Served as Chairman of the Labor Committee, Vice Chairman of Health and Human Resources Committee.
         1982 - 1985, 1989 - 2002, Charter member of the New Martinsville Water and Sanitary Sewer Board.
         2005 - , Trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia

    Languages

         Speaks and reads German.

    Personal/Interests

Don was born in Keene, NH and raised in Walpole, NH. His father, originally from New York City, was descended from several of the original New England families from the Old Lyme, CT area. Don.s mother, Dorothy, was from Dover, NH, graduate summa cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a master.s degree in French, Latin and English. She taught French, Latin and English in the New Hampshire school systems. Don attended the local Walpole grade schools, but attended high school at Lenox Episcopal Preparatory School, in Lenox, MA. From there he focused on his academic studies. In 1960, after the death of her husband, he lived with his sister in Parkersburg, WV for a year. After that experience, he later had no trouble accepting a position with Bayer Corporation (then Mobay Chemical Corp.) in New Martinsville, WV just up the Ohio River from Parkersburg. Bayer Corporation in the USA is headquartered nearby in Pittsburgh, PA.

Don married Marlene Acker on July 20, 1967 at St. Ann.s Episcopal Church in Old Lyme, CT

Marlene graduated from Univ. of N. H. with a Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology. She has also obtained her Bachelor's degree in nursing and is a registered nurse specializing in intensive care, and has also general experience in general nursing care and ambulatory surgery care.

They have three daughters: Heather, Megan, and Marisa.

Heather has her master.s degree in mathematics/statistics from Purdue University and is living and working in Arizona.

Megan received her degree in chemistry from Ohio University honors program with highest honors, and her doctorate in Chemistry from Purdue University. Megan is married to Aaron Smith and they have a son Samuel. Aaron received his bachelor's in Biology with highest honors from Fairmont College in Fairmont, WV. He received his doctorate in Plant Molecular Genetics from Purdue University. Currently, they are both in their last year of postdoctoral work at the University of Georgia. They both have secured tenure-tract positions at Louisiana State University starting in the fall of 2008. Megan recently received a large grant from NIH to continue her research at LSU.

Marisa is in her fourth year of chemistry graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

Although retired, Don has many interest and activities such as his children and grandson, gardening, drawing, music, and various outdoors activities. He occasionally plays the organ at his church, but misses the opportunity to play the piano informally with small groups or with other individuals.

Don is a life member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
He is a member of 'Helping Hands' an organization providing food each week to those in need.
President of Hillside Improvement Association, 2005 - .
A member of the Old Lyme Conservation Trust, Old Lyme,CT, 2005 - .
A member of the American Chestnut Foundation

  Updated 23Aug2007 by hjm