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Welcome to CAS Collage. This page provides a lighter look at CAS over the last 100 years. As the page name suggests, diverse topics and items are posted here. 

• Chemical & Engineering News: CAS at 100
  Chemical & Engineering News, June 11 2007, Vol. 85, Number 24
  Special issue features CAS' 100th Anniversary
  
  
• Information Today: CAS Turns 100*
  Information Today, February 2007, Vol. 24, Issue 2
  Barbara Brynko
  reprint courtesy of Information Today Inc.

*Requires Adobe Reader.

• In 2006, CAS was voted the Best Outdoor Concert Venue by Columbus residents.  CAS is proud to host the Columbus Symphony Orchestras "Picnic with the Pops" and "Popcorn Pops" concert series on the lawn every summer for the past 24 years.
• CAS was honored as the International Company of the Year in 2006 by the Columbus Council of World Affairs.
• CAS held an employee-supported food drive in 2006 that resulted in over 1,730 donated meals to Central Ohios Operation Feed that supply over 225 pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters.
• CAS employs a diverse staffover 50 languages are spoken at CAS.
• CAS is located on 54 acres of land on the corner of Ackerman and Olentangy River Road just north of The Ohio State University campus.
• The CAS campus shares a campus with over 500 groomed trees and over 500 trees along the river bank of the Olentangy.  Many trees are native to Ohio, but there's a myriad of other species as well. The tree species range from Norway Spruce to Japanese Tree Lilac to Eastern Cottonwood.

CAS Trivia

Q: What do the CA emblem (as seen on the printed Chemical Abstracts^TM and The Ohio State University (OSU) Stadium, the "Shoe", have in common? 

A: Both had the same designer - Professor Thomas French. 

An award-winning designer, Dr. "Tommy" French headed the OSU Department of Engineering Drawing and was a friend of E. J. Crane, an early editor of CA and first director of CAS.  

Dr. French was also a "wild dreamer," advocating construction of a stadium that would hold 62,000 football fans when Ohio State football played at the 15,000-seat Ohio Field on High Street in Columbus, Ohio.  He was a major fundraiser for the "Shoe," which opened on October 21, 1922 for the OSU-Michigan game.  Who won?  Ohio State, of course.

CAS Fun Photos

CAS Campus

CAS People and Events

CAS scientists on the lawn.	July 1992 at the CAS Picnic.	Milton Harris, Fred Tate, Dale Baker, overseeing CAS computer-assisted production systems and CAS REGISTRYSM.	This CAS building was constructed on The Ohio State University (OSU) campus in 1955 to house the growing CA Operations and staff (1955-1965). It is now known as Watts Hall.
Dedication in 1973	1985 CAS European User Council	1984 CAS User Council in Japan	In 1985, CAS hosted visitors from the Chinese Science and Technology Consultant Corporation.

CAS Products

Indexing to create Chemical Abstracts	CAS Index	-	-
CAS Data Center in 1950s	Data storage	CAS Data Center in the mid-1960s.	-
Nancy, a giraffe at the Columbus Zoo in the 1980s, showcases the Collective Index stacked here!	A CAS scientist visually demonstrates the wealth of data available in the 10th Collective Index of Chemical Abstracts covering 1977-1986, Volumes 86-95.	Volunteer abstractors indexing for printed product	-