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.

CITATION By PRESIDENT PALrE L^UFFER IN CONSIDERATION Of the leading and decisive role played by Stephen L. Mayham in the spectacular growth of the American toiletties industry in the past thirty years With knowledge of his outstanding and essential labors in shaping and developing the trade literature so important to a progressive industry With respect for his tremendous influence in establishing and maintain- ing the reputation of the industry for high technical excellence and ethical standards In appreciation of his untiring fight to win for the industry, governmental recognition of its necessity, good will, and integrity In gratitude for his ceaseless championing of the chemist and for his influence in improving the chemist's status in our industry I now welcome Stephen L. Mayham as an Honorary Member of THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS. ACCEPTANCE OF HONORARY MEMBERSHIP By S. L. MAYHAM Executive 1/ice-President, Toilet Goods dssociation, New York 20, N.Y. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I ESTEEm4 it a very high honor indeed to be presented with an Honor- ary Membership in THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS I am particu- larly pleased in joining that good company which includes such fine scientists as myold friends Dan Dahle, Bob Clarke, and "Tomrole" Thomson. To say that this honor came as a great surprise to me would be an under- statement. I am not a cosmetic chemist nor indeed any kind of chemist at all. I feel somewhat like a friend of mine who went down to the Battery when Eisenhower came home from Europe to see what was going on. 126