Medal day meeting

• Book ID: 104133602
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1943
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 235
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(43)91491-7

✦ Synopsis

At 5:3 °on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 2[, The Franklin Institute began its program of exercises which ended in the award of certificates and medals to several distinguished guests. This was a distinct departure from other years, when the awards were made in the afternoon and a dinner in honor of recipients was held at night. In an effort to conserve time in these busy days, all activity was conducted in the evening, the affair was informal, and the program was ended by 9:45 e.:,a. Several members of the Institute who were unable to attend the dinner arrived for the presentation of awards which began at approximately 8 p,.~.

A list of events, together with awards presented, is given herewith.

Immediately after the dinner the president. Mr. Charles S. Redding, called the meeting to order and stated that, inasmuch as it was a regular monthly meeting of The Franklin Institute, he wished to announce that the minutes of the previous meeting had been printed in full in the JOURNAL for April and that they would stand approved as printed, tmless ol,jeetion were raised. No challenge was offered and the minutes were declared approved.