Awards Received

  1945 Dec 3 -- Received Certificate of Appreciation from War Department
for outstanding services rendered to the Rocket Development Program of
the Ordinance Department.

  1946 June -- Received Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from Clark
University for my contributions to rocket developments.

  1948 June 22 -- Received Presidential Medal For Merit Award for Rocket
Development Services.  On the same day I also received a watch from my
friend and associate, Mr. Stoddard.  A history of this watch and the
Medal For Merit Citation will be given at the end of this biography.

  1948 June 27 -- Received Honorary Doctor's Degree from Teela-Wooket
Archery School of which I was Dean for many years.

  1950 Jan 1 -- Was made Honorary Member of Life Member Club of
Telephone Pioneers of America.

  1950 Aug -- Received Maurice Thompson Medal of Honor from The National
Archery Association for Technical contributions to the Sport of Archery.

  1954 Oct 10 -- Received the John Price Wetherill Medal from
The Franklin Institute for contributions to Rocketry, Telephony, Sound
Recording, Archery and other fields.

Member of the following technical societies:

  National Geographic Society from 1909 to date.
  American Physical Society    1921-1951
  Acoustical Society of America (Charter Member) 1929 to date
  Institute of Radio Engineers   1929 to 1951
  Society of Motion Picture Engineers   1930 to 1951

Member of Other Societies

  Masonic Lodge - DePauw Lodge No 338   New Albany, Indiana   1915
  Received 50 year pin from Grand Lodge of Indiana, June 10, 1965,
    the presentation being made through Metropolitan Lodge No 273 of
    New York City.  Master E. D. Myers, a friend and neighbor for over
    35 years, made the presentation.
  Society of American Magicians, March, 1943 to date
  International Brotherhood of Magicians  1950 to date
  Life Member Club of Pioneers, Bell Telephone Laboratories,
   1950 to date

Honorary Member of the following Archery Clubs and Associations:

  New York Archers   March 10, 1935
  Nippon Archery Club of New York   May 30, 1935
  National Archery Association    August 1946
  Bell Laboratories Archery Club  Dec, 1949
  Centre Archers   March 9, 1951  (Rockville Center, NY)
  North Short Archers   1937   (Great Neck, L.I., NY)
  Eastern Archery Association   July 6, 1956
  Member of New Jersey Archery Association and
  Metropolitan Archery Association

Hobbies
  Archery, Photography, Magic, Fishing, Archaeology, Genealogy and
  Technical Study of Bows and Arrows.

Patents
  Submarine Mines 2,
  Pianos and Reproducing Pianos 2,
  Archery 2,
  Telephone Application 31,
  Rockets 37

Publications
  Ballistics 1,
  Electrical 6,
  Archery (Technical) 31,
  Archery (Historical) 16,
  Magnetic Recording 3,
  Cameras 1,
  Rockets 1
  Genealogy 2,
  Magic 1