{"id":4470,"date":"2014-08-04T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2014-08-04T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:30:06","slug":"in-memory-of-chet-schink-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2014\/08\/in-memory-of-chet-schink-41\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Chet Schink ’41"},"content":{"rendered":"

The June 30 issue of C&E News published this obituary of Chet Schink ’41<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Chester\u00a0Chester A. (Chet) Schink, 93, a retired Tektronix chemist, died on Nov. 22, 2013, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Born in Portland, Schink earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Reed College in Portland in 1941 and a master\u2019s degree in biochemistry from Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) in 1943.<\/p>\n

Schink was recruited to contribute to the war effort, first by joining Washington, D.C.-based Hercules Powder and then by working for Radford Ordnance Works. After World War II, he returned to Oregon State to earn a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1947.<\/p>\n

After a brief stint in DuPont\u2019s research and development office in New Jersey, Schink returned to Oregon in 1951 to work for Krishell Laboratories. Five years later, he joined Tektronix as a chemist. During nearly 30 years at the company, he managed the electrochemical laboratory, became a certified industrial hygienist, and developed a companywide chemical safety program. He also designed the company\u2019s chemical waste treatment system before retiring in 1985.<\/p>\n

Schink taught chemistry at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Ore.<\/p>\n

He was an emeritus member of ACS, joining in 1942. He was a founding member of the Portland Section. He eschewed computers and preferred to receive his meeting notices through the U.S. mail.<\/p>\n

After retiring, Schink volunteered for the Urban Tour Group, a nonprofit organization that provides historical tours of Portland for schoolchildren. He was an avid gardener and traveler.<\/p>\n

Schink is survived by his wife of 66 years, Hannah; daughter, Janice Camp; son, Andrew; one granddaughter; and two great-granddaughters.<\/p>\n

I recently had the opportunity to meet Hannah, who lives in Eastmoreland, and her son, who was visiting. Andrew told me how, as a much younger man, he helped manufactured chemicals for his father in an open vat on SE Powell. The Schinks also passed along Chet’s prized two-pan balance and his Reed “letter man” sweater (yes, you could earn a sports letter at Reed back then).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The June 30 issue of C&E News published this obituary of Chet Schink ’41: \u00a0Chester A. (Chet) Schink, 93, a retired Tektronix chemist, died on Nov. 22, 2013, in Portland, Ore. Born in Portland, Schink earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from … finish reading In Memory of Chet Schink ’41<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}