7O JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Our meetings continue to demonstrate our mushrooming growth. At each meeting we say "this is the largest National Meeting to date." Today's meeting has a total registration of 818. Special recognition is extended to the masterful job done by Charlie Fox as Chairman of this Annual Meeting. The September Seminar in Chicago with Morrie Root as Chairman, Hy Henkin in charge of Program, and Bill Ackley in charge of Arrangements, was outstanding with a total registration of 432, the largest seminar ever held out of New York City. Our May Meeting, chaired by Herman Jass, was equally outstanding with a total of 686 reg- istered, the largest Semi-Annual Meeting in our history. Next year, there will be only one National Meeting in New York City. This will be the 1968 Annual Meeting in December. Our other meetings will be in Boston and in Washington. The Washington Meeting on April 22nd and 23rd, 1968 will reflect the new ecumenical spirit among cosmetic scientists, and will witness the joint harmonious presentation of papers by individuals from the SCC, FDA and TGA. This meeting will take the place of the regular May Meeting of the SCC and TGA. The high caliber of our programs has produced the greatest backlog in our history, of papers waiting to be published in our Journal. In August, Dr. Martin Rieger retired as Editor of the Journal and was officially honored for his five years of devoted service. The tremendous responsi- bilities of Editor have now been placed in the capable hands of Dr. Karl Laden, who is struggling to organize the unitized staff our Journal needs so badly to reduce the heavy burden of the Editor and to put the Journal on the same organized basis as the Society's new office. As you all know, our Journal has suffered severe exponential increases in its printing costs this year. These have overwhelmed gains from increased advertising revenues and from reduced payments for overseas issues. We are grateful that Karl Laden has agreed to take on the responsi- bilities of Editor and join with him in reaffirming the principle that the Journal of the SOCIETY Or COSMF•TIC C•IEMISTS exists for Scient .fic rather than for profit making purposes and is indeed a prime raison d'•tre for our Society. Our membership growth, under the dynamic leadership of chairman, Bob Goldemberg, broke all records this year. We gained over 250 new members and have today a total of 1340 members. At our Board Meet- ing on Monday, Dec. 4th 49 new members were admitted. We have in- augurated a thorough study of our membership classifications with a view to expanding these to a more definitive basis, and we hope to see this finalized next year.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT 71 Our participation in international affairs was monitored in 1967 by Lester Conrad, and we were honored by his election in September to the Presidency of the International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists. Twice before we have contributed presidents to the IFSCC namely Sabbat Strianse and Ed deNavarre. Jesse Starkman and Ed de- Navarre are planning next year's overseas tour and we now have 60 regis- tered for our American delegation to the Congress of the IFSCC in May 1968 in Tokyo. You will also be pleased to learn that there is a good chance that we will hold another IFSCC Congress here in the United States in 1976. Our Awards in 1967 reflected our continuing effort to extend recogni- tion for outstanding contributions to the expanding technology of the Cosmetic Sciences. Dr. J. B. Speakman of the University of Leeds, Leeds, England, Our Literature Award recipient last May, was the selec- tion of the Literature Award Committee, with Dr. Joe Migliarese as its chairman. This selection was based on the recommendations of the Literature Review Committee chaired by Dr. Karl Laden. Tonight we will honor our 1967 Medalist, Dr. G. Robert Clark of the Food and Drug Administration, an honorary member of our Society. Dr. Clark was the unanimous choice of a distinguished committee headed by Dr. Anthony Schwartz. In September, the IFF Award was granted by our Publica- tions Committee to Dr. C. Papa of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Chapter Awards were reviewed this year by Marshall Sorkin and his committee, and Dr. Harold Tucker was the recipient of this Award at the New York Chapter. New types of Awards were studied by Dr. Robert Conner as we sought other ways to recognize ability and achievement in the cosmetic sciences. This past year, our Investment Trustees Committee headed by Dr. Sol Gershon carefully monitored over $141,000 in investments with a net gain of about $16,000 in our investment portfolio. Our Education Committee headed by Dr. Winthrop Lange has com- pleted, in cooperation with the APHA, a syllabus in Cosmetics for phar-- macy students. Most of our chapters are working actively with local universities and have contributed to the development of cosmetic cur- ricula in their areas. Our Survey Committee with Mitchell Sehlossman as Chairman, com- pleted its 1966 report and this was published in the August issue of the Journal. The most dramatic aspect of this survey was its revelation of the urgent need to recruit younger people into our Society and for our industry's laboratories.