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FILE NAME: Metropolitan Life (ML) DATE: 1964 May 25 DOC#: ML169 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Dr. Felton RE Dinner in Honor of Dr. Alice Hamilton THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, mc 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 NE W Y O R K 1 9 , N. Y. MRS. W IUIM INA 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