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JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Annual Report of the HENRY F. MASO President December 6, 1967 It is my duty at this meeting to present to you the annual report of your President for 1967, the 22nd year of our Society. Every President before me has devoted his annual report to reviewing his year in office as a year of great complexities, major problems, exciting developments and high productivity. 1967 was certainly no different in all of these respects and was indeed a year of continued spectacular growth. Our great progress this year reflects the loyal and dedicated efforts of your officers, directors, committee chairmen and their many committee members, a total of 115 individuals, whose vast contributions on a strictly voluntary basis cannot be measured in financial terms, but should be recognized for the success they have generated. 1967 will be known in our history as the year of our independence. After 15 years of a beneficial yet dependent relationship with the New York Academy of Sciences, we have now emerged as a fully independent organization. We are grateful to the New York Academy and to Mrs. Eunice T. Miner, who retired in May as our Administrative Assistant, for her wise counsel during our formative years. Today we look with great pride at our new office at the Chemists' Club in New York City. This could not have been accomplished without the diligence and conscien- tiousness of Harry Isacoff, our Secretary, Ken Hartley, our Treasurer, and Mrs. Rose Potraker, our Office Supervisor and your Society's first full-time employee. We are now able to maintain a detailed surveillance and control of all aspects of our Society's activities including any phase of our finances. As you know, we have approximate assets of $178,000. However, this generates only a portion of the income required to operate a society of our rapidly increasing magnitude, and does not supply the in- come needed to expand our operating staff. 69