Raymond Chang, Halford R. Clark Professor of Natural Sciences, Emeritus
In your thirty-six years here as teacher and researcher, students and colleagues have benefited from your encyclopedic knowledge of chemistry, your crystal clear presentations, and your famously droll wit. But even they may not appreciate just how wide is your fame. Students, it isn’t just your high school that uses his general textbook; it’s almost every high school. It’s been translated into nine languages and used by schools and colleges around the world. The same is now happening, Raymond, with your text on physical chemistry. To those of us who see you every day it’s easy to forget that when you arrive at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, it’s like Paul McCartney walked into the room. Also known internationally are the books you have written with your wife, Margaret, including a popular explanation of the Chinese language and an award-winning children’s book, In the Eye of War, based on your childhood in Shanghai. Beloved as you are here where you have chosen to live and work, Williams is proud to share you with the world.
I hereby declare you Halford R. Clark Professor of Natural Sciences, Emeritus, entitled to all the rights, honors, and privileges appertaining thereto.
June 6, 2004
Morton Owen Schapiro
President of the College