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May / June 2013 Foreword
Chromatography Today, Volume 6, Issue 2 should see us celebrating another bumper issue packed with quality articles on another hot separation science topic of the day. However, any sense of pride over this achievement is very much tinged with sadness. As many of you will already know, April 6th saw the untimely death of Bernie Monaghan. Bernie acted as a consultant through his own company, Chromatography Consulting International, and of course he was the Editor of Chromatography Today. Our thoughts are with Bernie’s close family and all his former work colleagues who knew him well.
Appropriately, this issue carries a fulsome appreciation of Bernie from his long-time Shandon / Hypersil / Thermo colleague, Kevin Doolan. However, here, on behalf of the entire Chromatography Today team and members of the Executive Committee of The Chromatographic Society, I would like to pay tribute to Bernie for the tireless work he put in to get our magazine off the ground and for keeping the momentum going for over five years after a very positive initial impact. What you will hear from Kevin Doolan and just about everyone who knew Bernie was that he was the consummate people’s person. However what was important in the context of Chromatography Today was that he used this and his many other personal attributes highly effectively to achieve our goals.
The Chromatographic Society had previously had experience of publishing magazines. The in-house Chromatographic Society Bulletin had been a feature of the Society’s activities from the mid- 1970’s right through to 1999 but the target of quarterly issues had always been an extremely tough ask. An attempt at modernisation through re-branding to “The Communicator” did not help and for a while in the early 2000s, the Society’s website and e-mails were the Society’s only means of communication. Also, titles from other sources, such as “Chromatography and Analysis” and “Chromatography Forum” had been relatively short-lived. It was not surprising then that the initial reaction to the prospect of the Chromatography Today venture had been somewhat sceptical. “Especially in this day and age, how on earth are we going to persuade people to write for nothing” was a sentiment that was voiced. However, that was not to reckon with the energy and drive of Bernie Monaghan. The Society had been involved in a minor way with a short column on separation science in International Labmate. The possibility of something more significant had been broached but it was not until Bernie got involved with the Society’s Executive on a one-to-one basis that we realised that this could and would become a reality. With many years in the lab and on the road behind him, he knew his chromatography, talking comfortably with the John Knox’s of this world. He had been one of the vendors and so had intimate knowledge of the potential advertisers. He had talked to chromatographers day after day for many years and so he had a feel for what the readers would find interesting. Less obviously, he knew the foibles of his contributing editors and so could berate them to good effect without causing the least bit offence. He wanted quality like of all of us but never lost sight of the need to pull in advertisers
Alan Handley - President of the Chromatographic Society
and get Chromatography Today out on time.
He will be sorely missed by all of us on Chromatography Today. Putting together this issue has already been much more onerous than usual. However, Bernie’s efforts will not have been to little avail. We will keep at it and ILM Publications will be continuing to provide us with the support we need.
There will be more on Bernie and, in particular his scientific interests, in the next issue and no doubt in future issues beyond that. However, Bernie would be the first to point out that it would be very remiss of us not to commend to you the contents of this issue. Quite simply, by focussing this time around on the analysis of polar molecules we have been able to place a net over several current hot topics. The HILIC mode of LC and ‘modern SFC’ certainly seem to be the happening areas these days. Also, in the polar molecules context we have been able to re-visit an old friend, porous graphitic carbon. On the features side of things we welcome newcomer, Joe Russell of the University of the West of England. Joe was the recipient of a Chromatographic Society student bursary to attend the meeting in April on “Automated Approaches in Modern Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry”. We hope the experience will inspire Joe to return to writing more meeting reports in the near future. Even more so, we hope that you will enjoy this issue.
Finally, please note that the Chromatographic Society will return to the theme of the analysis of polar molecules for its 2014 Spring Symposium. The likely venue is AstraZeneca, Macclesfield round about May / June next year so look out for confirmation of the actual date so that you can pencil it into your diary as soon as possible.
Alan.
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