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Chemical Heritage Foundation Names Shelley Wilks Geehr Director, Communications and Marketing

PHILADELPHIA, PA — 30 June 2005 Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) has named director, communications and marketing. She will lead CHF's communications and marketing efforts including publication of Chemical Heritage magazine, book publishing, Web site, events marketing, and raising awareness of CHF's library, art and artifacts. Geehr has worked in all aspects of publications and marketing at CHF for more than seven years. Before coming to CHF, she worked in publications management for the Risk Management Association.

Geehr serves as a member of the board of directors of the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association and was a member of the Philadelphia Book Clinic for 10 years.

About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF carries out a program of outreach and interpretation in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society; maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries; and encourages research in its collections.