78 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Dr. Walter A. Taylor is again your Treasurer. Dr. Paul G. I. Lauffer and Dr. Sophie L. Plechner are your new directors Ladies and Gentlemen consider yourselves officially installed in your re- spective offices as of tomorrow morning. And now may I present your new President for 1958 who will take over completely after tonight's affair--James H. Baker. President's Luncheon Address* By James H. Baker I AM GRATEFUL to all those who elected me president of this still growing and imposing society. The honor carries with it a trust and a duty. I am thankful to you for the honor and conscious of both trust and duty. With your indulgence, I would like to present a few comments on what has been accomplished up to now and to tell you what I hope to do during the next year. May I go back and refresh your memories, for a few moments, as to why this SOCIETY was born. There must have been sound reasons or else we would not have prospered in all directions as we have in the relatively short period of thirteen years. The primary and paramount reason was: To elevate and promote the professional stature of the cosmetic chemist. I believe that all other rea- sons are subordinate to this. The dissemination of scientific work pertinent to our field by means of papers at our semiannual gatherings, seminars, chapter meetings and through the JOUR•^L, together with the opportunity to exchange personal ideas and fraternize, are merely means of elevating and promoting our stature in the scientific world. Those of us who worked in this industry during the nineteen thirties and early forties, know that the professional stature of a cosmetic chemist was well-nigh nil. We were more or less frowned upon by the learned chem- ical groups, even though our chemical education and training was parallel to other chemists. In fact, we are called upon to broaden our scope of scientific knowledge to such an extent that we nmst today understand and discuss intelligently additional fields, such as: Dermatology, Toxicology, Skin Allergies, * Presented at the December 10, 1957, Meeting, New York City.

78 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Dr. Walter A. Taylor is again your Treasurer. Dr. Paul G. I. Lauffer and Dr. Sophie L. Plechner are your new directors Ladies and Gentlemen consider yourselves officially installed in your re- spective offices as of tomorrow morning. And now may I present your new President for 1958 who will take over completely after tonight's affair--James H. Baker. President's Luncheon Address* By James H. Baker I AM GRATEFUL to all those who elected me president of this still growing and imposing society. The honor carries with it a trust and a duty. I am thankful to you for the honor and conscious of both trust and duty. With your indulgence, I would like to present a few comments on what has been accomplished up to now and to tell you what I hope to do during the next year. May I go back and refresh your memories, for a few moments, as to why this SOCIETY was born. There must have been sound reasons or else we would not have prospered in all directions as we have in the relatively short period of thirteen years. The primary and paramount reason was: To elevate and promote the professional stature of the cosmetic chemist. I believe that all other rea- sons are subordinate to this. The dissemination of scientific work pertinent to our field by means of papers at our semiannual gatherings, seminars, chapter meetings and through the JOUR•^L, together with the opportunity to exchange personal ideas and fraternize, are merely means of elevating and promoting our stature in the scientific world. Those of us who worked in this industry during the nineteen thirties and early forties, know that the professional stature of a cosmetic chemist was well-nigh nil. We were more or less frowned upon by the learned chem- ical groups, even though our chemical education and training was parallel to other chemists. In fact, we are called upon to broaden our scope of scientific knowledge to such an extent that we nmst today understand and discuss intelligently additional fields, such as: Dermatology, Toxicology, Skin Allergies, * Presented at the December 10, 1957, Meeting, New York City.