Message on the Presentation to Cornelius F. Kelley of the Gold Medal Award for Mining Achievement.
[Released October 22, 1929. Dated October 15, 1929]
My dear Mr. Bridgman:
The award of the Gold Medal of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America to Mr. Cornelius F. Kelley is a deserved tribute to his outstanding achievements in the mining profession. His life of usefulness has contributed in high degree to the stabilization of mining in the United States and has helped bring about its public recognition as a dependable industry. I take more than usual pleasure in extending my congratulations to Mr. Kelley and to the Society.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. G. Temple Bridgman, President, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, 2 Rector Street, New York, N.Y. ]
Note: The President's letter was read at the award dinner by Mr. Bridgman. Mr. Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, were joint recipients of the first award extended by the organization, in 1914.
Herbert Hoover, Message on the Presentation to Cornelius F. Kelley of the Gold Medal Award for Mining Achievement. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208746