31 Ontario 2019 was a great year for the Ontario Chapter of the SCC. We have grown the membership to almost 290 members with a 10% increase over last year, 30% increase in membership over the last 3 years and 66% increase over 10 years. Thank you all for supporting us. We supported the Seneca College by awarding 2 scholarships to students from their Cosmetic Science Certificate Course, and we presented our speaker of the year award to Ben Schwartz of AAK for his full day seminar on the Chemistry of Lipids in September 2018. We started the year with our first of 3 evening meetings in February. Tia Alkaz spoke about “Rethinking Preservation and the use of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides as Natural Alternatives for Upholding Product Integrity”. In May, Laure-Anne Gillon gave us a talk titled, “When Algae Adaptations Benefits the Skin” and in November Marguerite O’Neal talked to us about “Finding Career Certainty During Disruption”. In addition to our 3 regular evening meetings we held many additional events. In March we hosted a Chemical Supply Chain Management Program for Cosmetic Regulations. In partnership with Responsible Distribution Canada we organized a one-day course to help all navigate the Cosmetic regulations in Canada. David Saucier led us through this topic and made regulations fun and interesting. In April we welcomed Seneca College Students, Faculty and their Families to present their Capstone projects. Paula Dumouchel-Clay also presented ideas on Time Management. In September we gave the stage to Joe Dallal to lead our Education Day seminar. Joe’s talk on Skin & Hair Cosmetic Science: from basics to cutting edge was very well attended and as always extremely well received. The Education Day is always a highlight of our education platform. And while we spent a lot of time on Education, we also had time to have some fun! We started the summer off with a member appreciation boat cruise in June. While the weather was not looking good all day, Mother Nature cooperated and rewarded us with clear skies and warm winds and the 60+ members had a wonderful time enjoying this free event with dinner, cocktails, good music and great views of the Toronto skyline. In July, we held our annual Golf Tournament with approximately 80 participants. The weather was perfect, and everybody had a great time. Our Holiday Dinner Dance was held in November. It was a great evening where 230 members and spouses enjoyed the fabulous food and atmosphere at the Venetian Banquet Hall, music and performances by Matt Dean, dance performance by Latin Energy and all-around wonderful evening. Our annual Toy Drive to benefit the Salvation Army’s Toy Mountain was held again during our Holiday Dinner and it was a great success. Through the generosity of all of you, we were able to collect over 300 toys to make Christmas a little better for many children. Thank you all for donating!

32 Starting a new year as Chair is always exciting and you always wonder if it will be a success. This year was a great success and I could not have done it alone. I send a great big thank you to the entire executive board. Thank you to all the volunteers for being there when we needed them and who helped out tirelessly throughout the year. I am passing this job over to Saina Taidi (Chair) and Shahin Kalantari (Chair-Elect) who I am certain will do a great job. They can count on my assistance throughout the year, whenever it is needed. We have a wonderful year planned and I look forward to seeing you all at the events. Thank you all for your continuous support of the Ontario Chapter. Dorothy Maraprossians Past Chair, Ontario Chapter