140 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS He has presented several papers before the Scientific Section of the Toilet Goods Association and be- fore THE SOCIETY Or COSMETIC CHEMISTS. Always his writing was aimed at reducing pure science to practice, for while a student of and believer in pure science, he felt that its findings should be applied wher- ever possible, for the sake of improve- ment of products and processes. During World War II Ed was commissioned an "Expert Consult- ant" to the camouflage branch of the Engineer Board at Fort Bel- voir. He helped to develop for them the well-known "Camouflage Stick" of which several million were made and distributed. It is certain that they have helped to save many lives. While not officially attached tO the Quartermaster's Corp, he was consulted regularly on such products as sunburn preventatives, flashburn creams, etc. In his own village he was an auxiliary policeman, and in greater Detroit he bore the impressive title of a "Poison Gas Reconnais- sance Officer." To refer to Ed's more peaceful assignments, he served on the Oint- ment & Galenical Committee of the U.S. P. X and the N. F. V when the American Pharmaceutical Associa- tion revised its "Recipe Books," he served with Dr. Wimmer and others in rewriting this adjunct to the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary. Later when the American Pharmaceutical As- sociation formed their committee of experts, Ed became one of them. With this variety of interests, it is only natural that Ed should be associated with many scientific so- cieties. Among them are: Ameri- can Pharmaceutical Association American Chemical Society Ameri- can Oil Chemists Society Ameri- can Association for the Advance- ment of Science Society of Analy- tical Chemists, London Analytical Chemists Society Detroit En- gineering Society Michigan Acad- emy of Pharmacy Toliet Goods Association, Scientific Section American Institute of Chemists, and the Society of Chemical In- dustry. Yet it may be said that Ed's heart is in THE SOCIETY Or Cos- METIC CHEMISTS. In addition to the labors connected with its foun- dation and its growth, Ed shouldered another formidable task, viz., that of establishing and editing the $OClETY'S publication, T•z JOURNAL or THE SOCIETY OF COS- METIC CHEMISTS. As we all know he has been handling this job both with loving devotion and with extraordinary efficiency thereby adding importantly to the stature of the SOCIETY and to the dissemina- tion of the varied technical informa- tion as presented at our meetings by chemists, physicists, dermatologists, odontologists, endocrinologists, and others whose activities are within the purview of our organization. With all of this as a premise, you might wonder why Ed did not re- ceive the SOCIETY's medal before this. I am afraid that I shall have to accept the blame for this apparent delay. When the SOCIETY's medal

MAISON G. DE NAVARRE, THE MAN 141 was first established, I was particu- larly anxious, as president of your SOCIETY, tO have the award ad- ministered by an impartial com- mittee which, moreover, could be relied upon to have access to all the relevant information concerning any prospective medalist's qualifica- tions. This is why I appointed to this committee men connected in- timately with technical publica- tions, and among them Ed de- Navarre. The chairman was Dr. Wimmer whose recent untimely departure has been a source of grief to the entire membership. The other members were Mr. Far- rell, editor of Drug and Cosmetic Industry and present chairman of the Medal Award Committee, and Dr. Chichester, then technical edi- tor of Drug 7?ade News. One may be sure that while serving on this committee, Ed contributed his ex- cellent judgment toward the selec- tion of recipients for the medal the list of the SOCIETY'S distin- guished medalists, brief though it may be, furnishes convincing testi- mony of this Committee's capacity for making the right choice. It is, therefore, with particular pleasure, and a sense of poetic jus- tice, that I may play a part in these exercises honoring Ed deNavarre, perhaps also by way of making amends for having helped to delay this honor to Ed by making him a member of. the Medal Award Committee. Ladies and Gentlemen, when news first reached me of the Medal Com- mittee's decision, my immediate re- action was: "It could not have hap- pened to a better man." Your en- thusiastic presence here proves that indeed it could not have happened to a better man. Thank you! MAISON G. DE NAVARRE, THE MAN BY HARLAND J. WRIGHT, VICE-PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER rimerican Perfumer & Essential Oil Review, New York 18, N.Y. Mr. President, Toastmaster, members and guests of THE SO- CIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS, the ladies in gracious attendance and gentlemen: WHETHER BY evil design or a complimentary gesture, neverthe- less I appear tonight, cast in the role of the proverbial "Over-the-back- fence" gossip--and about a man. And behold, the man-subject is in the presence. Poetically, the sub- ject is one of my top best friends. The program planners were em- phatic--"do a job and let the chips fall where they may." Anyway, the subject himself invited it. I have always been sensitive to voices--the quality and timber of voices. When the scholarly and