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

5O4 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETV OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS with his total commitment approach in all fields. I know of no one with a deeper loyalty and kindness to his friends, his school, and his col- leagues than Albert. Albert's beautiful home reflects the love and affection he bestows upon his wife and three children. Living in regal splendor with his books, his collection of hats, and a multi-storied living room, Albert is the perfect host at many a distinguished dinner party. I should tell you Albert has been married twice--and his bride of both times is seated here to my left. Bea--also a physician worthy of eulogy in her own right--through an indescribable series of medical mishaps came so close to death that Albert commemorated her return to health by the moving ceremony of a second wedding. The warmth of Albert's home life can be richly illustrated by a favorite story of mine. It seems that Albert addressed your group a few years ago, and a beautiful alluring woman whose identity must remain in the algebraic initials, Z. Z., was a co-speaker. After the conference, Albert was invited out by the glamorous Z. Z., but he declined saying he had to go back to Philadelphia to take his children to the Franklin Institute to see a performance--"Science Can Be Fun." Surely he deserves a special award for this. If I close with a wistful stroke of the brush, it is but from dreamy envy of this superman. He leads us all in the pursuit of excellence. Ladies and gentlemen, I salute Albert the Great, Kligman.