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DearM

On behalf of the Secretary-General, I should like to thank you for your letter dated 21 June 2000, in which you inform the Secretary-General that the National Institute of Social Sciences wishes to bestow upon him its Gold Medal Award. The Secretary-General is honoured and deeply appreciates that the Institute would like to present him with such a distinguished award.

Much as the Secretary-General would have liked to be present at this important event, I regret to inform you that prior official commitments would not allow him to do so.

The Secretary-General thanks you for your kind words and wishes you continued success in all your endeavors.

Gillian Martin Sorensen Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations

Mr. Arthur Ross New York (g nil Cw> JUN28

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THREE MANHATTANVILLE ROAD

PURCHASE, NEW YORK IO577-2MO (914) 696-9OOO

21st June 2000

Dear Kofi,

As a trustee of the National . haveh_ e signal honor of inviting^ you to accept its Gold Medal award. The Institute is an organization incorporated by an Act of Congress and usually awards its Gold Medal to the most distinguished of our Americans. By a unanimous decision of ^pur Boardli t was decidj^ the^unigue global leadership you have provided. _

We are proud indeed to have the opportunity of offering this to you. Your predecessors, as you will note from the attached booklet, include former Presidents and many of our most senior statesmen and distinguished citizens.

A_bladc_ti£dinrier will be held this year on Monday, 4th December at the Union Club,J.01^East 69th (corner of Park Avenue). Recipients of our Gold Medal are expected to discuss the high points of their career, or other such interesting subjects, for about five to ten minutes or so. We should be grateful indeed for a prompt reply. Yours, c.c. Mr. William R. Brinckerhoff Mrs. Ann B. Copeland

H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan Secretary General United Nations New York, N.Y. 10017

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JUN 2 8 20G3 I EXECUTIVE OFFICE j THE nF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL J NATIONAL INSTITUTE

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Founded, Boston, 1865 Chartered by An Act of Congress, January, 1899 he National Institute of Social Sciences is an honorary society of mostly American individuals of notable Tachievement devoted by service and philanthropy to the public weal. It celebrates its 100th Anniversary this year.

It had its origins in the awakening perception of social needs as Reconstruction began after the Civil War. In October, 1865, on a call by the Massachusetts Board of Charities, a meeting of some 300 public-spirited citizens, chaired by the Governor, John A. Andrew, established the American Social Science Association, to plan measures of public improvement. It was modeled on the British Social Science Association founded nine years earlier and organized into four departments: health, education, jurisprudence and finance. A fifth, social economy, was added nine years later.

Out of the American Social Science Association, leading American professional organizations were spawned and spun off: the American Bar Association, the American Historical Association, the National Conference on Social Welfare, the American Public Health Association and the National Prison Reform Association.

In 1899, the Association was incorporated by an Act of Congress as the present-day National Institute of Social Sciences, "for the purpose of promoting studies and researches in social science." This effort was led by James B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan, Daniel Coit Oilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University, and Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University.

That is the Institute its members proudly carry on today, each year presenting the Gold Medal Honor Award to a select group GOLD MEDALISTS of people who have made significant strides in advancing or maintaining the quality of American society. 7913-7999

The fields of accomplishment of our honorees range from gov- 1913 I9i9 ernment, education, philanthropy, and the arts, to medicine, Archer M. Huntington Samuel Gompers science, literature, and industry. Samuel L. Parrish William Henry Welch William Howard Taft 1920 Our membership is composed of people who have contributed themselves in these fields of endeavor. They assemble under Alexis Carrell 1914 H. Holbrook Curtis our aegis to honor and hear from those who have made truly Charles W. Eliot outstanding achievements in these disciplines. Wilfred T. Grenfell George W. Goethals Harry Pratt Judson Abraham Jacobi A list of the Gold Medal Award winners from 1913 to 1999 Henry Fairfield Osborn follows. Charles Frederick Chandler Calvin Coolidge Marie Curie Luther Burbank Cleveland H. Dodge Andrew Carnegie 1923 Charles B. Davenport Bruce E. Balding William H. Brinckerhoff Robert Bacon Aukland Geddes Emory R. Johnson Chairman President Mrs. H. Hartley Jenkins Adolph Lewisohn Jules J.Jusserand John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

I9i7 1924 George W. Crile Walter Hampden William Gorgas Charles Evans Hughes John Purroy Mitchell Mrs. C. Lorillard Spencer Michael Idorsky Pupin 1925 1918 Mrs. Edward H. Harriman Henry P. Davison William H. Park Herbert C. Hoover Elihu Root William J. Mayo Owen D. Young 7926 1931 193 7 I944 S. Parkes Cadman Grace Abbott James Rowland Angell Bernard M. Baruch Clarence Hungerford Mackay Richard Clarke Cabot Mrs. Edward W. Bok Mrs. Henry Pomeroy Davison Stephen Tyng Mather Grace Goodhue Coolidge J. Edgar Hoover James G. K McClure Mary Schenck Woolman Frank B. Kellogg Wesley Glair Mitchell 1945 1932 Vannevar Bush 1927 Edward E. Allen John W. Davis Mrs. John Henry Hammond George Pierce Baker James Howell Post Walter S. Gifford William Mather Lewis Walter Damrosch William C. Redfield Dorothy Thompson Harry Emerson Fosdick Gerard Swope 1946 J939 Adolph S. Ochs Virginia C. Gildersleeve Martha Berry I Robert Moses 933 William Church Osborne Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Newton D. Baker George Wharton Pepper 1928 Clifford W. Beers Liberty Hyde Bailey Evangeline Booth 1940 1947 Robert W. DeForest Carrie Chapman Gait Edward Johnson Willis R. Whitney James E. West Katherine F. Lenroot Wendell L. Willkie Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Eleanor Robson Belmont Walter B. Cannon 1929 1941 1948 Samuel Seabury Mrs. Valeria Langeloth Norman H. Davis Warren R. Austin Rose Livingston Mrs. J. Borden Harriman Basil O'Connor John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Alfred E. Smith Georgiana Farr Sibley James T. Shotwell Cornelius N. Bliss 1942 Daniel Willard Harvey Gushing 1949 Carter Glass Anne O'Hare McCormick Lillian M. Gilbreth George E. Vincent Donald M. Nelson George Catlett Marshall Rufus B. von KleinSmid 1930 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Anna Billings Gallup I936 George R. Minot Nicholas Murray Butler Madame Chiang Kai-shek 1950 William Lyon Phelps Mrs. Harrison Eustis Edwin Grant Conklin Sarah Gibson Blanding Marcella Sembrich William Edwin Hall Mildred H. McAfee Henry Bruere Nathan Straus J. Pierpont Morgan Juan Terry Trippe Carlos P. Romulo I95i i958 1965 1971 Lewis W. Douglas Marion Anderson Dorothy Buffam Chandler Joan Ganz Cooney John Foster Dulles Robert Bernard Anderson James A. Perkins Charles H. Malik Paul G. Hoffman Herbert Hoover, Jr. Maxwell D. Taylor Arthur K Watson Douglas MacArthur James R. Killian, Jr. Thomas J. Watson, Jr. 1966 Bayard Foster Pope I 959 Keith G. Funston 1972 Helen Hayes 1952 Lady Bird Johnson George H. W. Bush Laurance S. Rockefeller Helen Adams Keller Danny Kaye Mary French Rockefeller Jonas E. Salk Robert Abercrombie Lovett David Sarnoff Fulton J. Sheen JohnJ. McCloy 1960 Francis Spellman Harold Raymond Medina Rudolph Bing 7967 Gilbert Darlington John P. Flynn Grayson L. Kirk David Rockefeller Jean Kerr E. Roland Harriman Millicent C. Mclntosh John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. Paul Moore, Jr. Laurance S. Rockefeller Oveta Gulp Hobby 1961 Elliot L. Richardson Charles F. Kettering Nelson A. Rockefeller Marie Graves Bullock Winthrop Rockefeller Karl Menninger 1974 1954 The Rockefeller Family William C. Menninger Peter M. Dawkins Mrs. Lytle Hull Edward Durrell Stone Golda Meir Howard A. Rusk 1968 George P. Shultz Walter Bedell Smith 1962 Eugene R. Black Roy Wilkins Ralph J. Bunche Anne Morrow Lindbergh Mary I. Bunting Charles A. Lindbergh Samuel D. Leidesdorf Lucius D. Clay Ralph W. Sockman Nancy Hanks Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. John W. Gardner Elisabeth Luce Moore 1969 William E. Simon 1963 Frank Borman Donald K. Slayton 1956 Arthur H. Dean Theodore M. Hesburgh Lowell Thomas Henry T. Heald Katherine E. McBride Lester B. Pearson Lowell Thomas, Jr. Mary Pillsbury Lord Nathan M. Pusey Barbara Ward Clarence G. Michalis Frank Stan ton 1976 1964 1970 Barry Goldwater 195 7 Bob Hope Katharine Graham JohnJ. McCloy William F. Graham, Jr. Frederick R. Kappel Lauris Norstad Norman Vincent Peale Alfred M. Gruenther Dean Rusk William P. Rogers Peter G. Peterson Clare Booth Luce Margaret Chase Smith Eric Sevareid Barbara Walters 1994 J977 1982 1988 Louis Auchincloss Anne Armstrong Vernon E.Jordan,Jr. James McN. Hester Kent Barwick Milton Friedman Claiborne Pell Paul A. Volcker Mrs. Edward T. Chase Edwin Leather S. Dillon Ripley Caspar W. Weinberger Daniel Patrick Movnihan Dina Merrill Arthur Ross 1989 Cliff Robertson Lewis Thomas Robert MacCrate 1995 William Rockefeller i 8 Philippe L. de Montebello William B. Walsh 9 3 Peter M. Flanigan Philip Habib Paul H. Nitze Oseola McCarty John K. McKinley Alice Tully Anne Meyer Henrik Beer Patricia Neal 1990 John C. Whitehead Frank E. Taplin Arthur F. Burns Hugh R. K. Barber Marietta Tree 7996 Julia Child Mrs. Shelby Cullom Davis James R. Dumpson 1984 Shelby Cullom Davis Madeleine K. Albright Richard C. Holbrooke Lila Acheson Wallace J. Peter Grace Angler Biddle Duke C. Everett Koop, M.D. Kitty Carlisle Hart Moorhead C. Kennedy, Jr. 1979 James Levine Warren H. Phillips Thomas R. Pickering McGeorge Bundy Howard Phipps, Jr. James Dewey Watson Dorothy Sarnoff C. Douglas Dillon Jane Pickens Hoving 1985 7991 1997 Linus C. Pauling Hugh Bullock Brendan Gill Anthony Drexel Duke Vartan Gregorian Enid A. Haupt Richard G. Lugar 1980 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Joseph Verner Reed, Jr. Helen Coley Nauts Omar N. Bradley Beverly Sills William J. vanden Heuvel William B. Richardson Alexander M. Haig Brian E. Urquhart 1992 Henry R. Labouisse J995 W. McChesney Martin, Jr. 1986 William F. Buckley, Jr. John T. Casteen III William J. McGill I. I. Rabi Roy M. Goodman Abby M. O'Neill Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Juanita Kidd Stout Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. John D. Rockefeller IV Eudora Welty Richard Boies Stark 1981 Brooke R. Astor 1987 1993 1999 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. John Carter Brown Robin Chandler Duke John Kenneth Galbraidi Jean F. MacArthur Rudolph W. Giuliani Henry Clay Frick II Arnold J. Levine, M.D. Drew Middleton Vernon A. Walters Ellen Victoria Futter Paul A. Samuelson John W. Young Mrs. Harold P. Whitmore August Heckscher Strobe Talbott In addition to the Gold Medal Awards Dinner held each fall in The Centennial Book of the National Institute of Social New York City, the National Institute organizes other regular Sciences, The Moral Authority of Government, is available for events for smaller groups, to which members and guests are distribution to members and limited outside sale. invited: Over the years, the Institute has honored and heard from a The Issues Discussion Group in New York City features a series select group of people who have made significant strides in of lectures, discussion groups, and field trips focusing on cur- advancing or maintaining the quality of American society. rent-day social issues. (They are listed in this booklet.)

Recent speakers, covering a variety of fields, have included: In this, our Centennial Year, it has seemed most appropriate to Steven J. Katona, President of the College of the Atlantic; ask our past honorees and other distinguished representatives David Micklos, Director of the DNA Learning Center at Cold from the learned professions to come forward, to make state- Spring Harbor Laboratory; Dr. Ray Raymond, Political Officer ments and present their views on the issues and problems which at the British Consulate in New York; and John Jay Iselin, face us all in the next century — because what these people President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of say and do can affect these issues and problems. Science and Art. The resulting modest volume has been published by a noted The Florida Chapter, headquartered in Palm Beach, has grown social sciences publisher, Transaction. Entitled The Moral in recent years through a stimulating program of luncheons Authority of Government, it addresses a subject which pervades and discussion groups during the winter months. and deeply concerns all segments of our society today. It is comprised of short papers prepared by forty-eight different In recent years, speakers have included Dr. Moorhead Kennedy, contributors in a number of disciplines. They have spoken out former Iran hostage; Clement Conger, former Curator of the forcefully on the subject — in unison, but not necessarily in State Department Diplomatic Reception Rooms; Richard W. agreement! Murphy, former Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; and John T. Casteen III, President of the However, where possible, we have attempted to derive a clear University of Virginia. message from their statements on the accountability of government, and what government can do in a leadership role to find new and more effective approaches to solving our problems.

To obtain a copy of The Moral Authority of Government, call one of the Institute offices listed in this booklet. The Board of Directors and Officers of the National Institute Membership. Over the last century, several thousand of of Social Sciences are elected for one-year terms at the Annual America's leading citizens have been elected to membership Meeting of Members held in May. The Institute is operated by in the National Institute of Social Sciences because of their its Officers, and by committees approved by the Board on the accomplishments, locally, nationally, and internationally that recommendation of the President. The 1999-2000 slate is as have benefited humanity; also because they share the Institute's follows: concern with the nation's condition. Hon. J. Sinclair Armstrong Dr. Richard Boies Stark Membership is open, and new candidates are welcome. The Chairman Emeritus Vice-President proposer and seconder, filing the nomination with the Secre- Mr. Bruce E. Balding Mrs. Adele Smithers-Fornaci tary, should state the candidate's particular services for the Chairman Vice-President benefit of humanity or notable achievements in the various Mrs. John P. Lins J. Michael Loening, Esq. fields of service to society. Members are encouraged to partici- Vice-Chairman Treasurer pate in the Institute's events and Committee activities. Mr. William H. Brinckerhoff Dr. Moorhead Kennedy President Secretary For further information on the National Institute of Social Sciences, Miss Eleanor J. Greenan Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie please contact us at one of the following locations: Vice-President Chairman, Centennial Committee

Mrs. Eugene R. Ball Mrs. Clarence F. Michalis New York Office: Florida Chapter: 114 Clinton Street 381 South Lake Drive Mrs. William Jay Brennan, Jr. Mr. Arthur Ross Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201 Palm Beach, Florida 33480 Mrs. Anne Tracy Bricker Mr. Hermann C. Schwab 718-858-2544 561-655-1920 Mrs. Ann Bellah Copeland Mr. William H. Told, Jr. Mrs. Fletcher Hodges III Mrs. Bruce E. Wallis Mrs. J. Michael Loening Mr. Leslie L. Youngblood, Jr.