This fall the weather played a key factor in our meeting with a hurricane in Princeton and pending snow storm in Newark, we managed to have great speakers for both meetings.

In September Ed Albaugh presented the results from our meeting survey. Our December meeting was focused on mint and cooling compounds. Dr. Ross Sheldon of A.M. Todd spoke about the different mint growing regions, the different types of mint flavors, Mentha Piperita, Mentha Spicata and Arvensis mint oils. Dr. Mark Erman from Millenium Flavors gave us an overview of the cooling compounds. He included topics of discovery and marketing and patenting these items in different oral care and skin care products. His presentation is posted in John Leffingwell's website.

As luck would have it for our speakers, we honored John on becoming an honorary member of the Society this fall. These three speakers have worked together in the past and it was somewhat of a reunion for them to all be speakers at the same meeting.

Congratulations Jack!