I AM indeed sorry that 1 cannot be present at the dinner given in your honor by the Society of the Genesee in New York this evening but I warmly share in spirit in this tribute to your outstanding service to country and humanity as great industrialist, philanthropist and patron of education, music and public health.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. George Eastman, in care of Thomas J. Watson, 270 Broadway, New York City]
Note: The message was read at the 32d annual dinner of the society, held in the Hotel Commodore in New York City. Mr. Eastman was chairman of the board of Eastman Kodak Co.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Annual Dinner of the Society of the Genesee Honoring George Eastman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207211