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

66 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS scientist, Lloyd K. Riggs. With Dr. Riggs, Hal worked on anesthesia, and soon he delivered his first technical paper, before the Biological Chemical division of the American Chemical Society in Baltimore in 1925. Hal's discourse was on the anesthetic effects of propylene, and he was complimented on it by a pioneer of American physiological chemistry, A. P. Matthews. Soon after, at the Thirteenth International Physiological Congress at Boston, Hal had the pleasure of meeting such other historic figures as T. C. Koch, Shiro Tashiro, and E. C. Kendall, and he will never forget his good fortune in meeting and chatting with the famous Pavlov, after which the great Russian physiologist pre- sented him with an autographed photo of himself. At Squibb's, Hal also studied the auto-oxidation of ether and de- veloped methods for determining peroxides, dissolved oxygen, and ai- dehyde in ether which formed the basis of valuable patents. Hal left Squibb's to become director of White Laboratories, where he studied the effects of vitamins A and D on rats. Here he showed his ingenuity by developing methods for measuring vitamin deficiencies and for photo- graphic recording of rickets. An early rapport was established with F.D.A. scientists when Dr. E. M. Nelson visited White Laboratories and asked Hal to write a letter substantiating the advantages of air- conditioned animal rooms. In this period, Hal obtained valuable ex- perience as part-time instructor in biological sciences at Rutgers Uni- versity College of Pharmacy in Newark. From White, he went to the Mennen Company as chief chemist, where he straightened out many formulas that had been causing production problems. Hal then be- came manager of the Jacqueline Cochran cosmetic firm, where he de- veloped a full line of high quality treatment cosmetics and became fa- miliar with all phases of the cosmetics business. While at Cochran, he was chosen as a member of the Toilet Goods Association Board of Directors, and on June 1, 1942, he resigned from Cochran to accept the position of Scientific Director of T.G.A. In his 22 years at T.G.A., Hal has made full use of his early training in hard work and thorough scientific methods to promote in the cosmetic industry an awareness of the need for good cosmetic chemists in de- veloping products that are safe, efficacious, and elegant. The members of the S.C.C. have indeed been fortunate in having a man of Hal's scientific competence and persuasive powers in a position where he has the ear of almost every cosmetics firm executive. The cosmetic in- dustry has been singularly blessed in having a man who commands the respect and trust of key F.D.A. scientists and who can smooth the path