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.

72 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS I would like to especially acknowledge the help of Past President Warren Dennis, Chairman of our By-laws Committee, and Immediate Past President Bill Mueller, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, who were my wise counselors in so many problematic areas this past year. I would also like to acknowledge the work of retiring Public Relations Chairman, Phyllis Carter, who looked after the many details of our na- tional publicity so capably. George King is also to be commended as he completes his service as Business Manager of our Journal after five years of managing this most difficult assignment. Our Library Committee with Dr. Tom Smith as its chairman has evolved a new program which we hope will develop this committee into an informal center for distribut- ing technical information to our membership. Another demanding task which we acknowledge today is that performed by Shaw Mudge, our Arrangements Chairman assisted by Mrs. Edwina Ramsey who really has become an adopted member of our Society. Both of these individ- uals managed all of the hotel details associated with our meetings and have done so well as we see here today. As is the custom of the retiring President, I have just completed a tour of all of the chapters. We now have six chapters and each year we will see the extension of our Society into other geographical areas. Someday, it will become impossible for the President to visit all of the chapters at the end of each year, but it will always be essential for him to maintain some personal contact with them. The chapter is the operat- ing unit of our Society in closest contact with the membership. I am always impressed by the tremendous feeling of cordiality and by the optimum combination of technical and social intermixing seen at chapter meetings giving everyone an opportunity to achieve some degree of recognition among his fellow scientists in this great industry. Almost all of your officers and directors are former chapter chairmen. We hope that it can no longer be said that there is a political schism between our National organization and its chapters. Your National Board of Di- rectors looks on the chapter as a major area for leadership training in our Society and for the development of new activities which can be explored experimentally on a pilot basis in anticipation of their ultimate adoption as National activities. This year with the help of Jesse Starkman, your President-Elect, a new chapter was chartered in St. Louis with Warren Hintz as its chairman. Other chapters are being considered in Cincin- nati, Minneapolis and in the south. We believe that the motivation for forming or dividing a chapter must originate locally and not nationally, if it is to survive as a healthy operating unit of our organization.