282 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS are here tonight. I want to introduce each of them to you and to ask that as I do so they come forward to receive a special membership scroll desig- nating them as our charter members. We hope that in accepting these scrolls they will realize that we consider this but a small emblem of our high appreciation of their foresight in forming this organization. Philip D. Adams and Robert Casely have both written us expressing re- gret that they cannot be here tonight and both send their best wishes to the other charter members and to the SOCIETY. Unfortunately, C. L. Thomas has not been active in the SOCIETY since shortly after its founding, and we have not been able to locate him to invite him here tonight. If anybody here does know where we can locate Mr. Thomas, we would like to be notified. Now we come to those who are here: Emery Emerson--will you please step forward and receive this scroll. E.G. Gundlach Emil Klarmann Stephen Karas Raymond Reed Marcel Surer Walter Taylor James Baker Maison deNavarre--Ed, I find that I have one more scroll which has not been distributed. Before you return to your chair I want to explain this to you. I want to tell you that by a special vote of the Board of Di- rectors of this SOCIETY it was decided that special recognition should be given to you tonight for your particular efforts in bringing together the other 11 individuals who, with you, founded this SOCIETf. Therefore, Maison G. deNavarre--In recognition of the singlemindedness of the devotion to the cosmetic industry which led to the founding of our SOCIETY ten years ago and To do further honor to a man already held high in our esteem, a past chief executive and Medalist and To express our appreciation for yeoman efforts in editing and publishing our distinguished Jou[tN_•,L oF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS and To convey our admiration for the character and accomplishments of the man himself And just to say "thank you" for the unselfish interest and devotion shown to the SOCIETY over these years... On behalf of the SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS I am happy to present to you, Maison G. deNavarre, our Seventh Honorary Membership, on this most appropriate occasion, the observance of the tenth anniversary of our founding.

MY FRIEND, ERNEST GUENTHER 283 In my opening remarks I said there were three purposes for our meeting tonight. Now we come to the second, which is to honor this year's Medal- ist. For this portion of our program we are fortunate to have as our toastmaster a man who has been active for several years in the affairs of our SOCIETY. He has been Publicity Chairman for the past three years and an active worker in any capacity where he has been called upon to serve. At our recent elections he was chosen as a director of our SOCIETY for the next year. By this description you have recognized the man to whom I will now turn over the meeting--your Toastmaster, Savery F. Coneybear-- or, as most of us know him, "Ted" Coneybear. Mr. Coneybear introduced the ladies and gentlemen at the head table. He then called on Drs. Emil Klarmann and Edward Langenau to each, in his turn, give their eulogies of the Medalist. MY FRIEND, ERNEST GUENTHER By Evict. G. Kt.^P. Vt^NN "Avbpa laoL •'vwrr•, Mo•aa, rroXOroorrov ..... " "SpE.•K To •, oh Muse, of the much travelled man..." May it not surprise anybody if I invoke here the same Muse whom Homer invoked to help him tell the story of Ulysses. Because Ulysses and Ernest have one important thing in common they are both much travelled men. But here the comparison ends, since Ulysses has been made by the gods to wander around aimlessly, whereas Ernest Guenther's peregrinations all over the globe were planned most purposefully and executed most meticulously. However, in my enthusiastic envy of Ernest's good fortune as a globe trotter, I am getting ahead of myself. Let me pick up the thread at its proper place. To understand my friend Ernest Guenther and all that he stands for, it is almost necessary to have known Munich before the first world war where he was born before the turn of the century, and where he spent his child- hood and adolescence. In those days Munich was known as the Athens of Bavaria. It merited this designation not only because it was a most im- portant center of European arts and sciences, but also because life in Mu- nich, the capital of Bavaria, was replete with charm, grace and that untrans- latable Gumiit/ichkeit. Moreover, Munich practiced real democracy.