124 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS me in my place. He was slight of build--what you'd expect of an editor-- he still looks undernourished but maybe the raise he got from T. G. A. will help that. Well, I was in New York City for almost a week that time and spent a couple of nights at the Mayhams. We talked of many things--as we always did on subsequent trips. ! met Steve's family, including all the cats. I was to know the Mayhams better in later years, including the cats. I remember the family car--it was a Pierce Arrow. I learned that Brooklyn was not in a distant state--it just took a long time to get there by subway, especially during rush hours. Steve taught me that New Yorkers lived by the clock--by their position on the subway platform--that the ages it took to get to work, and back home were used to read, cover to cover, one or more newspapers. It was during these years when I was fresh from college, that Steve-- more than anyone--molded the foundation of my career in the Toilet Goods Industry. Whether he did it knowingly or not I cannot say, but he did. I found myself thinking and acting like he did. We didn't always agree--and still don't. Perhaps the reason is that we are two people of the same pattern, the one cut from, and by, the other. For at least the next ten years Steve did his best to keep me headed in the right direction. When I got anxious to move ahead a little faster, Steve would pull on the reins saying, "Take it slower, Ed, you'll last longer." As a youngster then, I didn't like to hear him say that, but I knew he was so right. During this time, Steve helped me start my monthly column, Desiderata, which is over fifteen years old. His suggestions in handling this feature have been the basis of its existence. As early as 1935 we talked about a Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Steve cautioned me that the project would fail... for good reasons then. And Steve was usually right. It did... in 1935, but in 1945 this very group came to life. About the same time we talked about standards for cosmetic materials along the line of a Cosmeticopoeia. Again Steve shook his head in the negative. But if my memory serves me correctly, Steve started this very thing in his T. G. A. about 1940. Now it is part of a permanent service of the T. G. A. to the Toilet Goods Industry. About 1936 Steve paved the way for a contract between the D. Van Nostrand Company and me, resulting in 1941, in my book--"The Chemis- try and Manufacture of Cosmetics." Seventeen years before I was born, Steve was delivered in Schoharie, N. ¾. Some years later, he graduated from Union College. After a bit of law he married in 1917, did a two-year stint in the army during World War I and became a father in 1923. For three years he was Associate Editor of the yourhal of Commerce then in 1926, and for the next twelve years, he

THE STEVE MAYHAM ! KNOW 125 was Editor of the .4merican Perfumer. These are the years I knew him best. That is when I learned he doesn't send Christmas cards. Then one day, Steve left and I felt almost like a boy losing a parent, we had be- come so close to each other. Steve and I started swapping letters a couple times a week, now. I still have those letters--many of them undated some typed, some in his looping longhand. I discovered a different Steve Mayham then. Perhaps it is best to keep those letters in my personal file- but I like to read them off and on, for they were deep and thought pro- voking. Some were on baseball, others on politics, business advice, and everything in between. During this time Steve wasn't sure what he wanted to do. But the fates had something in store that was to be his meat for years to come. And one day it happened. First the work at the World's Fair--then the Direc- tor of the Board of Standards--and finally what he is now--Executive Vice-President of the Toilet Goods Association. It seemed that soon after he went to work at the World's Fair Steve became so wrapped up in his task that our letters became fewer and fewer. Finally after he became Executive Secretary, Steve and I met more on the long-distance phone than in person or by letter. During the last seven or eight years, I see Steve at the T. G. A. meetings and in Canada at the T. G. M. A. gatherings. Both of us have become so busy we don't get a chance to talk like we used to... and I miss it. Well, that's the Steve Mayham I know. I could recite dozens of inci- dents in which I tried his patience and only twice did I feel his displeasure. Once he even told me to keep my nose out of politics and to stick to chem- istry-maybe he was right. I was lucky to work closely with him and to get the benefit of his wide knowledge, wisdom, and personality. Besides being my teacher and disciplinarian, he was a friend, a continual source of inspiration and understanding. He had the quality of being able to make up his mind on something quickly and mostly he was right. This charac- teristic earned him many friends and brought countless visitors seeking his opinions. By honoring Steve Mayham, he will lend further character to an already distinguished but small group. I know that I reflect the sentiments of this body in welcoming him to Honorary Membership.