VOL. 6,NO. 6
AWARDOP INSTITUTE
OF
CREMISTS
1035
AWARD OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTS*
I n opening the recent meeting of the American Institute of Chemists, Dr. Frederick E. Breithut, the natirmal president, spoke as follows: The American Institute of Chemists welcomes you. We are here met to do honor to Francis Patrick Garvan and Mabel Brady Garvan. With .rharacteristic objectivity and self.&acement, Mr. and Mrs. Garvan have (asked that as little as possible be said about them personally and that as :much as possible be said about the importance of the science of chemistry to human welfare and progress. We shall respect their wishes. If human progress can be gaged by the extent to which-man has substituted mastery of his environment for slavery to it, then chemistry has played a major rBle in human advancement and the recipients of our medal have been true contributors to progress. If the noblest contribution of science to humanity is not so much the enhancement of man's material welfare and comfort hut the freeing of the human spirit from the bondage of ignorance, superstition, prejudice, and bigotry, then our medalists are true servants of science. They have amply demonstrated their worthiness to have bestowed upon them, with our heartfelt gratitude, this simple token, this symbol of our appreciation, which in the cold and formal language of our constitution is awarded "for noteworthy and outstanding service to the scie~ceof chemistry and the profession of chemistry in America." The nature of the outstanding service of Mr. and Mrs. Garvan and its noteworthiness will be detailed to you by wiser men than I. My sole function is to present the presiding officerof this meeting. Were I merely to catalog the achievements of our chairman, I might be accused of fulsome flattery by those unacquainted with the facts of his life, if such there be. But I am sure our chairman values more highly than all else, the respect, the d e d i o n , and the love of his colleagues which we so genuinely feel for him. Ladies and gentlemen, you surely must know my inadequate words are attempting to describe Dr. Charles Holmes Herty. *An amomcement of this award to Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Garvan was made in the February issue of T m s JOURNAL. 6,33740 (1929.) In the following pages are contained the addresses made on the -ion of the presentation of the medal to its recipients at the auditorium, Engineering Societies Buildii, New Yark City, May 4, 1929.
PARTICIPANTS rN PRESENTATION OB
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OP
H.S. Nieman. Secretary F. E. Breithut, President J. J. Abel J. W. Davis
Mabel Brady Garvan
CAEMISTS' AWARD, MAY4, 1929 J. H. Finley C.H.Herty Francis Patrick Garvan
