CHICAGO CHAPTER NEWS LERoy W. JEFFRIES, vice-president of the Johnson Publishing Company (Ebony, Hue, yet and Tan magazines) spoke on the subject, "The Potential for Cosmetics in the 17-Billion Dollar Negro Market," May 13. In just eight years Mr. Jeffries has risen from advertising salesman to vice-president of the Johnson Publishing Company. Previous to joining the Johnson organization, he worked as a job analyst and consultant for the Arma Corporation, manufacturers of precision Naval instruments, and he was an industrial relations executive for the National Urban League in New York. He has a B.S. in Economics from Wilberforce College and a M.A. degree in Industrial Relations and Personnel Adminis- tration from Columbia University. Among his professional society affiliations are the National Association of Mark4t Developers and the American Marketing Association. Mr. Jeffries has lectured on industrial relations, personnel adminis- tration and advertising to civic and social organizations and university groups throughout the country. SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN 4'" -•,. .. • . Officers and Council Members 1958-1959 308

SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 309 SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Italy, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium Os JusE 2SD in Frankfurt, Germany, a committee meeting was held to discuss the plans being made for another series of technical meetings with European societies during September. The SOCIETY ov COSMETIC CItEMISTS left New York for Rome, Italy, on September 5th. The first seminar was held in Milan with the Comi- taro Italiano di Estetica e Cosmetologia and the Associazione Nazionale Industrie Chimiche on September 10th. September 12th was the beginning of a three-day seminar in Bonn, Germany, with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Kosmetik-Chemiker. A separate meeting was held for the discussion of international federation of the various societies of cosmetic chemists. . :•,. .• • ' ':- a.•'v '"• •1•.. • . ß . •. ß 3:.. . , .. ... •" .:•i . ..:..: ' ?.•. 4 •,-.•' •",• i}% : ... ... .:. Plans being discussed for the seminar and international meeting in Bonn, Germany by (left to right): Thomas H. Prichard, Paris Dr. Gerhard Everts, Frankfurt Dr. Herbert Neuge- bauer, Baden-Baden Kurt Pfeiffer, Geneva Robert A. Kramer, New York Dr. Friedrick Keil, Hamburg. 0 A half-day meeting was held on September 17th with the Dansk Kosme- tik-Kemisk Selskab in Copenhagen, Denmark. On September 19th an overnight stop was made in Amsterdam, Holland, and from there plans called for a possible meeting with the Soci(•t• Belge de Cosm&ologie on September 23rd in Brussels, Belgium. A short visit was made to the World's Fair, with the tour arriving in New York on September 24th.