Minutes of the medal day meeting Wednesday, October 19, 1955

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE MINUTES

OF THE MEDAL

Wednesday, October

DAY MEETING

19, 1955

The annual Medal Day Ceremonies were held on Wednesday, mately 37.5 persons attended

the reception

and dinner in Franklin

October 19, 1955. ApproxiHall. The invocation was

delivered by the Reverend Philemon F. Sturges, Rector, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The dinner was concluded

Pennsylvania.

with a toast to Benjamin

Philadelphia,

Franklin

proposed

by

S. Wyman Rolph, President. Guests adjourned 8:30

P.M.

Minutes

to the Lecture Hall, where the President

called the meeting to order at

The Stated Monthly Meeting was held in conjunction

with the Medal Day exercises.

of the Stated

Meeting

in May were approved

as printed

in the June issue of the

JOURNAL. Ralph H. McClarren, twenty-six

Chairman

former Medalists

of the Committee

and representatives

on Science and the Arts, introduced

of ten former Company

Medalists

who were

present. Henry B. Allen, Executive 195S”--giving

highlights

Vice-President

of Institute

activities

and Secretary,

reported

on “The Institute

in

during the preceding year.

Following Dr. Allen’s report, presentation ceremonies were opened by a short message from The sponsor of each Medalist read the citation accompanying the award and

the President. introduced Medalist,

the Medalist. gave an interesting

The meeting adjuorned (The full proceedings

At the conclusion

of the awards,

Claude E. Shannon,

Ballantine

talk on “Game Playing Machines.” at lo:30 P.M. of Medal

Day will be published

in the December

issue of the

JOURNAL.) HENRY B. ALLEN, Secretary

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PROGRAM

.THE HOSTESSCOMMITTEE

Reception for Medalists .....................................

.THE REVERENDPHILEMON F. STURGES

Invocation ...................................

MEDALISTS,OFFICIALSAND GUESTS

Dinner ............................................ Toast to Benjamin Franklin ..............................

.S. WYMAN ROLPH,President

ADJOURNMENT TO LECTUREHILL .THE PRESIDENT

Greetings .......................................................... Stated Meeting of the Institute. ............................

.THE PRESIDENTPRESIDING

Introduction of Former Medalists .................................................... ............... RALPH H. MCCLARREX,Chuirmun, Committee on Science and The Arts HENRY B. ALLEN, Executive Vice-President The Institute in 1955. ........................

.‘hE PRESIDENT

Presentation of Awards .............................................. “Game Playing Machines” ......................................

To be Awarded a Cresson Medal (1848) F. PHILIP BOWDEN Reader in Physical Chemistry University of Cambridge Cambridge. England To be Awarded Longstreth Medals (1890) ROBERT W. BERRIMAN Emulsion Chemist Kodak Limited Wealdstone, Harrow. England RICHARD Y. CASE Assistant Manager & Chief Engineer Power Transmission Division United States Rubber Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CECIL WALLER Chief Emulsion Chemist Ilford Limited Ilford, London. England To be Awarded a Levy Medal (1923) DAVID ALBERTHUFFMAN Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge. Massachusetts

.CLAUDEE. SHANNON

To be Awarded a Henderson Medal (1924) CARLETONK. STEINS Mechanical Engineer The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To be Awarded Wetherill Medals (1925) RENE A. HICONNET Research Engineer Graphic Arts Research Foundation. Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts LOUIS M. MOYROUD Research Engineer Graphic Arts Research Foundation, Inc. Cambridge. Massachusetts JACQUES Y. P. SEJOURNET Directeur Gt%ral Comptoir Industriel d’Etirage & Profilage de M&aux Paris. France To be Awarded a Brown Medal (1938) CHARLES S. LEOPOLD Consulting Engineer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To be Awarded a Ballantine Medal (1946) CLAUDE ELWOOD SHANNON Research Mathematician Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc. Murray Hill, New Jersey