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

ACCEPTANCE OF HONORARY MEMBERSHIP 127 There was a great jostling and pushing but my friend managed to work himself right to the front. In telling about it later, he said "Somebody yelled, 'Man Overboard!' I looked around and by gosh, it was me." Many years ago when "Ed" deNavarre first suggested to me the idea of there being a technical society devoted to chemists working in the industry, as he told you, I discouraged him. First, I discouraged him because at that time the idea was to operate as a section of one of the established technical societies such as the American Chemical Society or the American Pharmaceutical Association. While the time was not ripe, I believed then, as I do now, that the cosmetic industry and cosmetic chemists are sufficiently important in their own right to deserve to have a society of their own. More important to me personally was the fact that at the time when "Ed" suggested this to me, if a chemist working for Company "A" were seen passing the time of day on his lunch hour with a chemist from Company "B," they were both fired by 4 p.m. that afternoon, and I had no desire, being a reasonably busy guy, to have my office flooded with cos- metic chemists looking for jobs. In other words, "Ed" was ahead of his time or at least, so I thought. Later on when the SOCIETY was organized, I welcomed it as a fine addition to the growing number of organizations of individuals engaged in the same type of scientific effort. There has been a curious misconception prevalent in the industry that THE Soct•'r¾ OF COSMF:rm C•Emsrrs and the Scientific Section of the T. G. A. were somehow in conflict and competition. These two organiza- tions are both most usetiff, each in its own field. Membership in the T. G. A. is by company only--membership in T•E SOC•F•,¾ OF COSM•.*•C C•msrs is by individual. [ cannot see how there can possibly be any conflict nor has there been any in the past. That last statement is perhaps a slip of the tongue because I do recall at one time when Tu• Soc•.r¾ oF COSM•.,IC CU•M•Sq•S unfortunately, so I believed, stepped over into the field of politics, I was really irritated, and I remember at the time saying, "I wish those--chemists would stick to their chemistry in which they are experts and let me attend to the politics, in which they decidedly are not." I think that incident arose from the growing pains of a young, vigorous organization and I know as your maturity approaches, you will be less likely to "expert" in the fields in which you are not expert. Yours is a fine, young, vigorous organization and I repeat that I am proud indeed to be made an honorary member of it. Thank you very much.