64 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Harold DeWitt Goulden EULOGY BY PAUL C•. I. LAUFFER, PH.D.* We are here this evening to honor Hal Goulden because he has made extraordinary and unique contributions to the welfare of the cosmetic industry and to the status of cosmetic chemists. He has done this by working hard and unselfishly and by applying to his tasks a keen in- telligence, implemented and buttressed by sound training and ex- perience. Hard work was never a stranger to Hal. As a high school boy he delivered papers and worked as a printer's devil and as a clerk in a haberdashery store. His first connection with the toilet goods industry may have been his ordertaking for the old Larkin Company. Or it may have been his job in the greenhouse of Mr. Palmer, president of E. R. Squibb & Sons, who had an estate at the end of the street in Stamford where Hal lived. Mr. Palmer took an interest in his young assistant and took him along on walks through his large garden. He presented to Hal over a hundred fine rose plants, and Hal used their flowers, under the encouragement of his chemistry teacher, to prepare rose absolutes by enfleurage and by solvent extraction. The same chemistry teacher, Dr. Parks, used to invite a small group of his students to spend evenings listening to his wireless set, using one of the first DeForest audiotrons. Hal has never forgotten the night when he watched Dr. Parks writing down the Morse Code message telling of the Titanic's sinking after she struck an iceberg. On another occasion, a lot of garbled code came in, and they did not know until the next day that the U. S. had attacked Vera Cruz. One of Hal's first loves was football, which he played well as a boy, account of his speed (he later ran the 100 yards in 10 seconds flat when at Rutgers). However, while still in grammar school he was indulging one afternoon in his favorite game, and, as he dove in for a tackle, he got kicked right between the eyes. The other lads carried him home and deposited him on a bed, and when Hal's father came home and saw Hal's condition the football career ended then and there. Hal also * Chesebrough-Pond's, Stamford, Conn.

FIFTEENTH MEDAL AWARD 6,_5 sang the soprano solos at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Stamford at that time, and the choir master complained bitterly about his stand- ing up there with a black eye to sing his solo. His mother rejoined that he was really a very good boy, and the choir master agreed that no doubt he was and might wear a halo, but it probably was an asbestos one. At Rutgers, Hal was both treasurer and steward of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. There he ran the dining room where 40 hungry students ate 21 meals a week. He put to good use the training he had received when he spent several summers with his grandfather who ran a res- taurant in Waterbury there Hal arose at 5 a.m. to make the rounds of wholesale houses with his grandfather and learned a lot about buying food. One day at Rutgers, a frat brother who was an agricultural grad re- visited his old haunts and asked Hal how the dining room was going. Hal said he was looking for a cheap source of good meat. The grad said: "Well, I'm butchering some Aberdeen Angus, and I'll let you have one for fifty dollars." "Sold," said Hal, for this was a fabulously low price. About three weeks later the grad appeared with his beautiful steer, wholesale dressed, and unloaded him in the kitchen. He had with him about a dozen other old grads who had come along to see what Goulden would do with the carcass. Hal had provided himself with the necessary tools and had drafted a couple of husky freshmen to help wrestle the sides onto the large table, and he proceeded to cut up the beef and store it in the large refrigerated room which fortunately was a part of the old mansion housing the fraternity. The alumni stood around open mouthed, unaware that Hal's grandfather had taught him how to cut up a side of beef. Hal can still make your mouth water with his detailed and loving description of a juicy steak. In addition to his fraternity jobs, Hal worked at various odd jobs to help finance his education. As a freshman, he tended the furnace of a retail store in New Brunswick, going there early in the morning to warm up the place. As he walked back toward the college, he used to pass a young lady on her way to the railroad station, a young lady who some- how attracted Hal's admiring attention, but he couldn't think of any means of striking up an acquaintance. Not until he was a senior did he actually meet this young lady, Mary Elizabeth Williams, who three years later became Mrs. Goulden. Hal hung up an enviable scholarship record in chemical and biological sciences at Rutgers, graduating in 1923. Soon he joined E. R. Squibb & Sons, where he had the good fortune to work with a thorough-going