Engineers to award their first welfare medal

At some time during the current year there will be presented by the American Association of Engineers, the first Clausen Medal, of which subsequent annual awards will be made to the engineer who, during the preceding year, “has accomplished distinguished service in the welfare cause social or economic or both.” The movement is sponsored by H. A. Wagner, a national director of the Association, and this year´s committee of judges of award is composed of such men as G. M. Butler, Dean and Director of Engineering University of Arizona; L.W. Baldwin, President of the Missouri Pacific Lines; J. W. Thomas, Vice-President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; C. F. Kettering, General Director of the General Motors Research Laboratories; Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, President of the University of Southern California; Michael J. Pupin, Research Laboratory Department of Physics, Columbia University; A. E. Morgan, President of Antiocli College; W. L. Saunders, Chairman of the Board, Ingersol-Rand, New York; G. C. Warren of Warren Brothers Company, Boston, and A. N. Talbot, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, University of Illinois. The medal is named in compliment of Henry W. Clausen, of Chicago, who has given the Association such commendable service for the past 15 years in various executive capacities. It bears the inscription “Award in recognition of a signal public service. Designed to mark the entrance of the American Association of Engineers into the field of welfare.”