502 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Albert Montgomery Kligman, M.D., Ph.D. A EULOGY BY WALTER B. SHELLEY, M.D.* This is Albert Kliõman day! We are all here to salute him, and it is my delight and joy to fire the first twenty-one guns. (Your thou- sand guns will follow.) Albert is wonderful--a eulogist's delight. For those few of you who don't know him, I would like to paint his portrait. After eighteen years as a friend, colleague, confidante, and co-author, I would like to do this in oil, but your committee has allotted me only enough time for a water color. So, if you will pardon my quick brush, I will begin. The brightest, õayest colors must be used to depict Albert's life. Nothing about him is ordinary, drab, or neutral. Although he hails to the title of Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania and is completely indigenous to Philadelphia, his background sports at least a half dozen other professions. You would do well to consult this gentleman in such disparate fields as forestry, chemistry, mycology, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and mushroom culture. Each he has mas- tered and enriched at various points in his half century stroll on our planet. Indeed, he remains an international authority on the care and feeding of mushrooms, having authored the only definitive monograph in this area. Although his vocations are a tour de force, it is his avocations which leave one breathless. And I speak literally. For here is a man Kennedy would embrace with vigor. His early years in college found him captain of the Penn State gymnast team. Figure skating, ballet dancing, golfing, and skiing followed. Each was studied and performed with an in- tensity unmatched by others. Having mastered the land, he took to the water in a retrograde evolutionary manner, and we find him racing sails above and aqua-lunõing below. As the year of affluence appeared, we saw Albert soar into the skies to acquire successively expertise in gliding, parachuting, flying his own plane, and more recently, balloon- * University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS 603 ing! Every week of his life has been eventful as he searches out the physics of antigravity. The legends of his exploits, too, have enjoyed a logarithmic ascent. Given the time I could recount stories of his flying above the Atlantic with a gas tank registering zero, of his eighty mile an hour automobile accident, of near disaster in a blinding snow storm. But all this drama has left Albert unscathed, full of zest and ioie de vivre. He has become an objet d' art of our department, and no foreign guest ever arrives without asking, "Do you think we could see Dr. Kligman ?" But, as your Society is so properly recognizing, Albert is more than a myth. He is in his finest flowering as a truly great teacher and researcher. Teaching is his greatest love, and I am certain that all who have heard his eloquent impassioned lectures would rank him as incomparable. He is a forceful, articulate, persuasive logician who attacks doubt and untruth with no concern for the source or conse- quences. His lectures are a daily delight to students who enjoy his antics, anecdotes, and thrusts at the ill-informed. His fame as an ora- tor and scholar is such that a sampling of his recent speaking engagements includes Johannesburg, Cairo, Munich, London, and San Francisco. He obviously has seven-league boots and a voice to match. On a clear day, I have known him to give as many as eight thoroughly different sparkling lectures. No account of Albert can evade the superlatives, and this is especially true in research. Hundreds of papers have flowed from his laboratory over the past twenty-five years. They have centered on disorders of hair, ache, fungous infection, poison ivy dermatitis (who can forget the Poison Ivy Picker of Pennypack Park in Life Magazine--in full page, too!), and now in his semi-centennial year, aging. Nothing cutaneous is foreign to his probing ceaseless curiosity. His most recent classics have included a definitive study of the magic penerrant, di- methyl sulfoxide, and an exquisite method of predictive patch testing. Accolyres from the shores of Thailand to the halls of Lebanon have come to serve in his lab and to gather a lifetime of inspiration. But one of Albert's crown jewels has been the "Holmesburg Experiment." Here in a prison Albert has provided a new code of penal therapeutics, namely the involvement of prisoners in experiments for the common good of man. Nothing has given Albert more satisfaction than bring- ing prisoners to an awareness of their new significance in society. Before putting my palette down, let me sketch Albert as a friend and a father. He is charitable and generous to a degree commensurate