NINETEENTH MEDAL AWARD 77 Inspector was required to have a degree in Chemistry. After working in Denver, Boston, and New York he became one of FDA's original cosmetic and color chemists in Washington in 1939. Most of you will recall that it was in that year that legislation became effective which brought cosmetics under Federal control for the first time. From early 1939 to late 1947 Dr. Clark moved up through various classifications of Chemist to that of Chief Chemist of the Division of Cosmetics. In November of 1947 he was made Chief of the Division, and he has continued to occupy that position for more than 20 years. His present title is Director of the Division of Color and Cosmetic Chem- istry, of the Food and Drug Administration. Before I get further into the story of his official life, there are a few other important events you should know about. The first is that Dr. Clark married Mabel Donley of Omaha, Nebr., in 1940. We are very happy to have her with us tonight. Mrs. Clark was Chief Librarian at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Washington for many years and prior to her retirement two years ago she was a Research Informa- tion Specialist in the Department of Commerce. I understand she is now boatswain and first mate on their Sea Skif. The second important event is that our medalist earned his Doctors Degree while working full time on his official job, and those of you who have traveled that road will appreciate that this was no small achieve- ment. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 1948 by Georgetown University in Washington, D. C. And to complete the biographical information, I should like to tell you that our medalist is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Chemical Society, The Association of Official Analytical Chemists, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and, as previously men- tioned, an honorary member of the SOCmT¾ or COS•ETm CH•STS. He has served as a Member of the Section on Colors of the Joint FAO/ WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, as a Member of the Board of U. S. Civil Service examiners, and as a Lecturer in Cosmetic Law at the Food Law Institute here in New York. And for those of you who may be thinking that Dr. Clark's life has been all work and no play, I can tell you that he has found time for fishing and boating, not only in this country but in Canada, Mexico, and the West Indies. He lives near the water on an island called Turkey Point near Chesapeake Bay. Now, to return to his official work and to the reason for his selection as recipient for the highest honor of our Society. As I have already

78 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS said, Dr. Clark has a long, active career in the Food and Drug Adminis- tration, and during that time he has served under five Food and Drug Commissioners, and innumerable Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries, etc., of The Department of Agriculture and The Department of Health, Edu- cation, and Welfare. So I am sure you will agree that Dr. Clark fully meets the first criterion for the Medalist which is "that he shall have actively engaged in the art and science of cosmetics." The second criterion for the award is that the recipients work must have achieved outstanding significance over a period of years. As a chemist in the Division of Cosmetics, Dr. Clark carried out pioneering research in the development of methods for the analysis of colors and cosmetics. He was particularly successful in utilizing new techniques and new instrumentation that were just becoming available when he started his official career. He has published more than 20 papers cov- ering his own research. As Director of the Division of Color and Cosmetics it has been Dr. Clark's continuing responsibility to direct and supervise a research program for the development of methods that can be used for enforce- ment purposes by the Food and Drug Administration and by State Organizations as well as for control by industry scientists. He has 20 chemists working under his direction at the present time. These chemists have published more than 200 papers covering a very broad spectrum of subjects. A substantial proportion of the methods that are now used to determine the purity and composition of colors and cosmetics were developed by Dr. Clark and the scientists working under his direction. These methods appear in two chapters of the Book of Methods of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists, and are used throughout the world. Many of them also appear in a book entitled "Cosmetic Analysis" compiled to Dr. Newburger, a Member of Dr. Clark's Division. In addition to these publications, Dr. Clark and his colleagues have devel- oped many analytical manuals that are used by analyst in the Food and Drug Administration and State enforcement agencies. At the present time the scientists in the Division of Color and Cosmetics are utilizing the most sophisticated instrumentation and analytical techniques for the chemical characterization of complex formulations. These include X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, emission spectrometry, chromato- graphic procedures of all types, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrography. The significance of this work to consumers and the cosmetic industry cannot be overestimated, for it is not only making