74 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Your President addressed both the Chicago Chapter and the New York Chapter at their annual "President's Night" meetings. The chairmen of these chapters, William Lieb in Chicago, and Michael Stanton in New York, report excellent attendance at their chapter meetings. A fine spirit of cooperation exists in these chapters and many of the chapter members are active participants in the affairs of their own group and of the national SOCIETY. The library has been completely reorganized in our office at the New York Academy of Sciences, and Miss Florence Wall reports that soon everything will be in order for the efficient handling of the lending of books. We hope that the membership will become acquainted with our library and feel free to use it whenever they wish. The May technical meeting, outstanding in its quality and scope, at- tracted a record attendance of over 400. Today's program of scientific papers is also an excellent one--thanks to the efforts of Program Chairman Strianse. The SOCIET¾'s first Special Award of $1000 was presented at the May meeting luncheon. This award, given to Dr. Stephen Rothman, Pro- fessor of Dermatology at the University of Chicago, resulted from extensive work and planning by James Baker and received financial support from 41 companies. Mr. Baker has continued his efforts on this committee since May and has already received contributions which make a similar award certain for 1956. The Second Annual Seminar was held in September and followed the same pattern as the previous year's Seminar. Scientific experts from three fields: radioisotopes, antiperspirants and aerosols, discussed topics of cosmetic interest, and a series of plant trips were arranged. This year arrangements were made to accommodate 225, a hundred over last year, and still reservation requests had to be denied. Gabriel Barnett, although elected a director a year ago, continued a second year as Seminar Chairman, and the success of the first two Seminar meetings has been due to his extraordinary, untiring performance of duty in this position. The task of getting out our JouR•^L has been handled ardently and painstakingly, as in the past, by M. G. deNavarre. This job is such an enormous and time-consuming one that I feel his full committee should be recognized. The other members of this important committee are Dr. Emil Klarmann, Miss Ruth Bien and Mrs. Veronica Conley. This year five issues of the JouRN^•. have been published, three by our publications committee and two by the British. By careful planning, arrangements have been made that next year there will be six issues, four U.S. and two British, and that these will be scheduled to be mailed on the tenth of every-other-month, beginning in January. Anticipating definite publica-

A REVIEW OF 1955 75 tion dates, it is now hoped that the JouR•rAL can carry more news of Soc•E•r¾ activities to our members. Instead of receiving your President's news- letters by mail, it is planned that you will find these in your Jot•R•rAL. The Soc•E•r¾ is financially sound according to Treasurer Taylor. Walter is a faithful watchdog over our finances. He says we are being somewhat extravagant in our Tenth Anniversary Dinner tonight, but agrees that a celebration is in order on this occasion, even if we do go in the red on it. During the year two new activities have been undertaken. George Kolar, your next year's President, was appointed to prepare a manual of duties and responsibilities of officers, directors and committee chairmen of the SocIwTv. He has accomplished this with the help of present and past encumbents. The result is a booklet of 41 typed pages which will serve as a guide for the future. It is hoped that this first manual will be modified, improved and kept up to date as experience indicates the need. A new committee was started under the chairmanship of Donald Powers to study methods of evaluation for cosmetic products. The course of ac- tion which this committee will take has not been completely formulated, but the general idea is that the committee will solicit methods from our members or from other laboratories for study. They will then be passed on to other laboratories for trial and criticism, then the reports of these trials will be considered by the committee with a view to determining whether the method merits official sanction as a Soc•}i,v oF CosME,m CI•F. ms,s' method. We hope and trust you will all give this committee your full support as it starts its work. The Medal Award Committee this year, as started by last year's Presi- dent, consisted of the past four Medalists under the chairmanship of Dr. Emil Klarmann. Their excellent choice in the man we will honor to- night reflects the careful consideration they have given to their assignment. One of your Soe•Eu'¾'s activities which we feel is not being used to its greatest possibilities is the employment service. As you know, 'this service is available on a confidential basis to cosmetic chemists seeking employment and to executives seeking chemists in our field. If you represent either, call or write William Giese at the New York Academy of Sciences. I want to express my deepest appreciation and thanks to those com- mittees and individuals mentioned. But that's really not enough! There are many more who deserve thanks and praise for their work for the Soe•q'¾ during the past year. Edward Morrish and his nominating com- mittee, Walter Wynne for his handling of the arrangements of facilities for our meetings, Savery Coneybear for his masterful attention to pub- licity, Harry Hilfer for planning the festivities of our tenth anniversary, Paul Eaufief for heading the Literature Review Committee in connection with the Special Award, Robert Kramer for not only keeping the records