The Chair’s message for...
March 2010
March 2010
Dear CT-SCC Members,
This past holiday season, I visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, NY. The Baseball Hall of Fame is founded on the myth that
US Civil War Hero Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball in a
cow pasture within the village in 1839, which is the site of Doubleday
Field. There is considerable evidence that disputes this claim. It seems
that the Baseball Hall of Fame was founded in Cooperstown to increase
tourism in the area which had long suffered economically during the Great
Depression and the Prohibition that had devastated the hops industry.
Unlike the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Connecticut chapter of the Society
of Cosmetic Chemists is founded on a sound principle, the advancement
of cosmetic science. The Connecticut chapter uses our monthly events to
promote and disseminate scientific information.
For the first half of the year, the Connecticut chapter is promoting our
scientific presentations as the “GREEN SERIES”. At our first installment of
the “GREEN SERIES”, at Unilever in January, Chris Johnson from Kinetik
Technologies gave us an informative presentation regarding the
challenges of natural formulating. Chris’ explanation of natural
preservatives and the mechanisms of these preservatives was very
educational. Thank you Chris for a very meaningful and thought provoking
presentation.
For our March 16th event, “GREEN SERIES II”, the Connecticut chapter will
meet at Marisa’s Ristorante in Trumbull. This is a new venue for our
chapter. Our featured speaker will be Howard Epstein, PhD from EMD
Chemicals. His topic will be: “How do we know natural and naturally-
derived materials are functional?”
Our last “GREEN SERIES” event, back by popular demand, we will be
having the CT-SCC 2nd Annual Golf Outing on April 26 at the Great River
Golf Course in Milford. Check out our website for more details.
Lastly I wanted to thank the companies for their tabletop displays at
Unilever: CP Kelco, Univar, BioChemica, DeWolf Chemical, Essential
Ingredients, Carrubba, American Distilling, Taos Inc, Natural Sourcing,
Sonneborn, Seppic, and Cognis. The information was of great help to us
with our GREEN formulation challenges. Thank you for supporting the
Connecticut chapter.
Many baseball historians have debunked the Baseball Hall of Fame myth;
however this myth remains powerful in the American imagination because
of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Baseball Hall of Fame
itself. After his death, Abner Doubleday left behind many letters and
papers, however none of them describe the game of baseball. There was
not a shred of evidence that he considered himself a prominent person in
the evolution of the game. The Connecticut chapter has many pieces of
evidence that promote the advancement of cosmetic science, come to our
March 16th event and take away your own evidence.
John Mahon
Society of Cosmetic Chemists – Connecticut Chapter Chair 2010
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