W. H. Harrison receives Hoover medal

Continuing the practice of recent years, a joint evening session was held during the AIEE winter convention with the Institute of Radio Engineers which was meeting concurrently in New York. During the first portion of the program, presided over by AIEE President William E. Wickenden, the Hoover Medal was presented to AIEE Past President William Henry Harrison (F ´31) executive vice-president in charge of operation and engineering, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York, N. Y., and formerly major general, Army of the United States. The second portion of the program, under the chairmanship of IRE President W. L. Everitt (F ´36), was devoted to an address, “Some Electrical Engineering and General Aspects of the Atomic Bomb Project,” delivered by Major General Leslie R. Groves.