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FILE NAME: General Motors (GM) DATE: 1964 May 25 DOC#: GM083 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Dr. Felton, U of CA School of Medicine, from the American Public Health Assoc. RE 1931 Annual Meeting THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, ,nc JOHN D. PORTERFIELD, M.D, President W ILSON T. SOWDER, M.D. Chairman of Executive Board D. JOHN LAUER, M.D. Treasurer BERWYN F. MATTISON, M.D. Executive Director 1790 BROADWAY NEW YORK 19, N. Y. MRS. W1LLIMINA R. WALSH Associate Director May 25, 1964 J. S. Felton, M.D. Professor of Occupational Health University of California School of The Center for the Health Sciences Los Angeles 24, California Medicine Dear Dr. Felton: In Dr. Mattison's absence I reply to your inquiry about Dr. Alice Hamilton and quote from the program of the 1931 Annual Meeting where Dr. Hamilton was honored at a dinner in the Windsor Hotel and toasted as well, evidently, to judge by the credit line: ' TUESDAY, 7:00 P.M. DINNER IN HONOR OF DR. ALICE HAMILTON Rose Room Presiding: Anthony J. Lanza, M.D., Medical Consultant, General Motors Corporation, New York, N.Y. Alice Hamilton, the Industrial Hygienist. C.-E. A. Winslow, Dr. P.H., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. * My Years in Industrial Hygiene. Alice Hamilton, M.D., Assistant Professor, Industrial Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. Vin d'honneur provided by the Local Committee under the patronage of the City of Montreal, the Province of Quebec and the Dominion of Canada. You undoubtedly have come across Journal references to awards given Dr. Hamilton, including a Lasker Award in 1947. Others were: 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association and meetings of Related Organizations, New York, N. Y., October 5-9, 1964 The American Journal of Public Health is the Official Publication of this Association J. S. Felton, M.D. -2- May 25, 1964 1953: Elizabeth Blackwell citation of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children 1956: Named "Medical Woman of the Year" by the Boston Chapter of the Medical Women's Assn. 1959: Honored on her 90th birthday by the creation of a fund bearing her name at the Harvard School of Public Health. Sincerely yours, Willimina R. Walsh Associate Director jw As you mentioned, tnere is no reference to this talk by the American Journal of Public Health, You may be aM e of it in publications of the Yale University press, 92A Pew Haven, A glance at a rather extensive bibl iography does not reveal it, however. Dr, Winslow in to find mention Yal e Station, of the Yale Press