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\ 4 UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES POSTAL ADDRESS ADRESSE POSTALE. UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. 10OI7 CABLE ADDRESS ADRESSE TELECRAPHIQU E: UNATIONS NEWYORK EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CABINET DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL REFERENCE: S-3840A - Tel: (212) 963-5495 ~ Fax: (212) 963-1185 11 September 2000 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 UR ROSS •XECUTJVE OFFICE OfTHESECRETARY4ENERAL j 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 Board lit 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 lejjJLii^1 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 presi- dent 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. 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