PRESIDENT'S REPORT W^RREN B. DENNIS December 4, 1962 THIS YEAR'S Report of your President to the membership has proven to be a very complex affair, since 1962 seems to have been a year of decision in many areas of our interest. It was always my belief that the work of our organization was in the hands of the Committee Chairmen and of course this is still true to a great degree. On the loyal and dedicated efforts of your Standing Committee Chairmen the annual march of our affairs has become an accepted fixture of events. Walter Wynne as Arrangement Chairman brings his many years of experience to the smooth running of the Annual and Semi-Annual Meetings and Seminar as well as the Medal Award Presentation and Dinner Dance. By this time you are all acquainted with the decision of Mr. Raymond Reed's Medal Award Committee that the 1962 Medalist is Dr. Paul G.I. Lauffer. This Committee was not content to choose only a Medalist. It went even further and has made proposals whereby the public relations aspect of the Medal Award function can be extended to serve the public image of our SOCIETY even better. The Library Committee has been Chaired by Dr. Frank J. Steele: a dedicated bibliophile as well as an educator in our field. Frank Steele has strengthened the library through purchases of new as well as historical reference items and has contributed valuable volumes from his own collection. The Special Award which proved so brilliant an occasion last May brought great credit to Dr. Herman Jass, the Special Award Committee Chairman, and to Robert L. Goldemberg, Chairman of the Literature Re- view Committee. Both have been persuaded to continue another year in these assignments. We are grateful for their continued willingness to serve the Society in this important way. Harry Isacoff, after five years as Library Chairman and Historian, agreed to undertake the important post of Membership Chairman. To- gether with his Committee, the Chapter Membership Chairmen, he has brought 81 new members into our society which now' totals 916. Edward Silkin undertook the difficult Public Relations Committee

52 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Chairmanship. His efforts have resulted in distinctly better advance re- porting of our meetings, and he has succeeded in placing our notices in several journals which previously failed to print any of our releases. Dr. Barry Dash mounted a Seminar Program, under very difficult con- ditions, which many have told me was one of the finest Seminars we have ever held. The Seminar is assuming a unique significance in the area of the SoeiEw¾'s service to the membership. The Chapters, led by Chicago, have persuaded the Board of Directors to change the locale of this meeting periodically to a major city other than New York. This has the happy effect of removing the geographical barrier which exists for many of our members when meetings are confined to New York. The 1963 Seminar will be in Boston. In 1965 present plans call for Los Angeles. Dr. Hyman Henkin has twice been responsible for programming of exceptional quality. The May meeting was the subject of much laudatory comment, as I am sure today's meeting will be. Perhaps the event with the greatest potential impact during 1962 was Maison G. deNavarre's request to be relieved of his responsibility as Editor and Publications Chairman for THE JouRNaI, oF THE SocIETY oF Cos•4ETie CHEMISTS. This was a grievous blow indeed. What can one add to the evidences of the esteem in which we have held Ed deNavarre over the years. All of you know his zeal for the science of cosmetics, author, editor, columnist, founder of our SOCIETY, an honorary member, its Medalist in 1951, an instigator and first President of the I.F.S.C.C., the encourager of individual Societies of Cosmetic Chemists the world over. We were indeed faced with a crisis as his retirement as Editor became immi- nent. Your President-Elect, Lester Conrad, acted as Chairman of a Special Committee on Editorial Policy to review present policy, suggest our future course of action and search for a successor to Ed deNavarre as Editor and Publication Committee Chairman. The English Society had entered into a contractual arrangement with Pergamon Press to handle the printing and businesg affairs of their two issues of the Journal. We reviewed their arrangement and thoroughly explored offers by Pergamon Press and others to do the same for us. It was finally recommended that we continue our present control of our six issues of the JOURNAL, reduce the load on the Editor by the appointment of a sub- committee for advertising matters and arrange for Mrs. McGillivray to con- tinue her present role in our JOURNAL. These recommendations were accepted along with the nomination of Dr. Martin Rieger to succeed Ed deNavarre as Editor and Publication Com- mittee Chairman. The Board is very pleased that Dr. Rieger has accepted this assignment.