Annual Report of the President JESSE H. STARKMAN December 3, 1968 It is on this occasion of our annual meeting that I present to you the annual report of your President for 1968, the 23rd year of our Society. "Growth" has been the keynote to our progress. in all areas in 1968. Today's meeting is an excellent example of the growth in interest of our members and friends in our technical programming. Each year we have heard our President announce that "this is the largest attended national meeting to date." Today is no exception. I am pleased to announce that this is the largest attended national meeting to date with a total registration of 1169. Our Program Chairman, Stephen Hoeh, has done a magnificent job in preparing this meeting, ably assisted by Arrange- ments Chairman Shaw Mudge and his very capable assistant, Mrs. Edwina Ramsey and by Rose Potraker, our office supervisor. This meeting is the culmination of an extremely successful series of technical meetings held this year. Program Chairman Jack Goodman joined forces with Jim Merritt, TGA Executive Vice-President, and Norman Grief, TGA Scientific Section Chairman, to produce a highly successful two-day meeting in Washington, D. C., in April. The "Joint Conference on Cosmetic Sciences" was the first joint meeting of the SocmT¾ oF Cost,TIn CI•msTs and the Toilet Goods Association ever held, and it was further enhanced by the official cooperation and participation of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. Many interesting and informative technical papers were presented by eminent representatives of the F.D.A. and our industry. Our annual two-day Seminar was held in Boston in September. General Chairman Win Lange and Seminar Arrangements Chairman Jim Dugan and their committee succeeded even beyond their expectations in having a very successful meeting. Almost 500 registrants 6.0

7O JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS enjoyed an interesting Seminar on Aerosol Technology. A split session was held on one day to enable one session to be devoted to a discussion of Marketing of Aerosols which was very well attended. Plans are al- ready being made for the Seminar to be held September, 1969, in St. Louis, Mo. A committee headed by Charles Fox and Paul Lauffer has already been hard at work planning the details for a new Technical Con- ference to be held next year, November 2-5, 1•)69, at Arden House in New York. This four-day conference will be concerned with instruction and discussion in the science of surface chemistry. It will be jointly sponsored by the SocmT¾ and Columbia College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and attendance will be limited to approximately one hundred persons. The theme will be "Surface Chemistry with Application to Cosmetic Science." Our SocmT¾ is continuing to grow in membersh•:p as well. Over 225 new members have been admitted to the SocieTY this year, and our membership committee, under the leadership of Chairman Herb Leve- town, has performed admirably in this time-consuming task. Our total membership now is almost 1500--a new high. A study of our member- ship classifications is now in progress, and a report will be available next year. The professional standards of the JOURNAL of the S.C.C. have in- creased tremendously, under the capable editorship of Dr. Karl Laden, to the point where we now have the greatest backlog of papers in our history waiting to be published in subsequent issues. We are indeed grateful to Dr. Laden and his hard-working editorial staff for their dili- gent efforts in making our JOURNAL one of the finest technical publica- tions in the world. We reaffirm our policy that the JOURNAL is one of the prime reasons for our existence as a professional group and that our JOURNAL exists for scientific rather than profit-making purposes. The business functions of the JouRN^L, under the direction of Len Stoller, have become more defined and clarified. Increasing printing costs, complex advertising problems, and financing constantly face us in our quest for a quality JOURN^L. With the retirement of Mrs. McGillivray, our hard-working Editorial Assistant, all of the JOURN•I, business func- tions will be combined in our New York office. We owe a special thank you to Mrs. McGillivray for her many years of untiring, devoted service to the S.C.C. and its JOURNAL. Much of the JOURN•I,'S success is at- tributable directly to her efforts. I must, at this time, pay tribute to Ken Hartley, our Treasurer, Agnes Korte, our Secretary, and Mrs. Rose Potraker, our Office Super-