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Show 9l days each year during which time he gave two to three hundred lectures and consulted with twenty or more firms on scientific problems. Several days were spent outside of the United States and on at least one day he was honored for his scientific achievements. He gave two or three "science and religion" talks each month to various church groups, attended weekly meetings of the General Sunday School Board, attended three or four Stake Sunday School Conferences somewhere in the Church, gave one talk each month to a community or civic group, climbed a mountain or went on an extensive hike one or two days, and ran a footrace ‘o l8 each year with his students. Little wonder that one of his associates could describe him with the statement, "Eyring's not a professor, he's a college."19 To describe a year in the life of Eyring in such a short paragraph does not do justice to him, for it does not reveal the quality with which these tasks were accomplished. Later in this chapter and in other chap- ters of this thesis, his research, teaching, church activities and scien- tific honors are described, but to illustrate his other activities we will concentrate on some of the events during the year 1957 and where necessary describe events of other years to augment the story. Eyring made fifteen major trips in l957. days in the eastern United States. In January, he spent six He first went to Washington, D.C. to attend the meetings of the National Academy and to meet with an advisory committee for the molecule class of the International Science Exhibition. As chairman of the committee, he was responsible to see that the molecules exhibit for the United States was made ready for the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition of 1958. He worked with several major scientific firms in the construction and preparation of this |
