Hello fellow Society members.

I hope as the summer is quickly ending everyone had a fun and safe season.

I am looking forward to a productive and fun year as your president. I want to start off the year by thanking all those members that contacted me over the summer to volunteer their services, we all know how many volunteers it takes to maintain an active organization. Thanks so much!

IFT in Anaheim was very well attended. The speaker, Kim Magin was from Monsanto and she kept all attendees awake at 7:30 in the morning. Her talk was based on modern biotechnology in Agriculture what the future looks like in biotech
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We have good programs scheduled for this year, look for the program committee's report on the following pages. My many thanks for an exciting slate of educational and entertaining speakers.

I urge all our members to use our website www.flavorchemist.org. We have updated the pages to include job openings. Remember to utilize this for members only benefit. Encourage your companies to post any openings. We encourage all our members to update their record when you have an address change, we really want to find you! Contact Tony Moore for an access password if you have never used the webpage.

We are trying to have the flavor history book updated this year. Anyone with information they would like to contribute about those companies that have experienced changes since 1995, I know there is a lot of company news out there, I'm looking for your help.

See you all at the September 12th meeting in Princeton

Sincerely,

Joan Harvey
SFC President

from left to right: Eileen Brady, Dennis Kucharczyk, Joan Harvey,
Robert Vogt, Veronica McBurnie