SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Burgess Lorinda (Last) (First) (Middle) 22 W FRONTAGE RD (Street) NORTHFIELD 60093 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 01/27/2021	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol STEPAN CO [ SCL ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

No securities are beneficially owned.

	Stephanie J. Pacitti, Attorney-in-Fact for Lorinda Burgess	02/02/2021
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of David Gerard Kabbes, Brian William
Bichkoff and Stephanie Jane Pacitti, signing singly, as
the undersigned?s true and lawful authorized representatives and
attorneys-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned?s
capacity as a director of Stepan Company (?the Company?), Forms 3, 4
and 5, and any and all amendments thereto, in accordance with
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
?1934 Act?), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the
execution of any such form or schedule and the timely filing of such
form or schedule with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission and any stock exchange or stock market or other authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned,
it being understood that the documents executed by such attorneys-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in
such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorneys-in-fact may approve in such attorneys-in-fact?s discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as
the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorneys-in-fact, or such attorneys-in-fact?s substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney
and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the
request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming
any of the undersigned?s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 or
any other provision of the 1934 Act.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect
to the undersigned?s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by
the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of February, 2021.


	/s/ Lorinda Burgess

	Lorinda Burgess