Medals And Awards

The Board of Directors on April 18, 1940, adopted a resolution providing that "no person who has been awarded any one of the four medals-Douglas, Saunders, Lucas, and Rand-is eligible for consideration for any other of the four medals " Later in the year the rules for the award of these four medals were revised and, so far as practicable, made uniform The medalists are elected by the Board of Directors, on recommendation of special standing committees of award, appointees on which serve four-year terms and are engaged in the branch of industry represented by the respective awards Under the rules only members of the committees of award are eligible to propose candidates\ for the nomination