Medal day meeting

• Book ID: 104132832
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1941
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 762 KB
• Volume: 232
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(41)90954-7

✦ Synopsis

Medal Day at The Franklin Institute was inaugurated just fifteen years ago. Since that time, on the third Wednesday in May, scientists and laity have gathered together to do honor to men who have achieved distinction in their special fields.

The exercises for 1941 were held on Wednesday, May twenty-first. The meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. Philip C. Staples. He asked the Secretary, Dr. Henry Butler Allen, for a report of business. Dr. Allen having stated that other business had been set aside to give place to the award of medals, Dr. Staples announced that the meeting was really a report on the work of the Committee on Science and the Arts, and stated that the men who were the recipients of the various medals in the past were not always men of great national fame at the time they received medals here. The search of the Committee has been for men, younger men, who have begun in science and technology to find themselves in their positions in their fields--to find the springboard of their greater careers. Few of them were as we know them today but were men, modest in their claims, who were beginning to make their mark. The encouragement given to these men through awards is a service for which the Institute was founded: "the promotion of the mechanic arts and the dissem'ination of scientific knowledge."

Dr. Staples, after pointing out that we had some distinguished guests with us, called upon the sponsors to present the Medalists for their awards.