PRESIDENT COOTJDGE BESTOWS LINDBERGEI AWARD 



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Photograph by Benjamin A, Stewart 



MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAE GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ARRIVING TO RECEIVE TICKETS 



FOR THE LINDBERGH RECEPTION 



Long before the announced hour for the distribution of tickets, members of The Society 

 began to gather before the doors of the headquarters on Sixteenth Street. Requests for more 

 than 30,000 tickets were received. Disappointment of many was regrettable, but inevitable. 



character had withstood the glare of ptib- 

 hcity and the acid test of hero-worship- 

 ing adulation." 



The President concluded by handing to 

 Colonel Lindbergh the medal which has 

 been bestowed on only seven other men 

 in the 40 years of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society's existence and saying, 

 "To-night I have the utmost gratification 

 in awarding you this further recognition 

 of achievement, the Hubbard Medal of 

 the National Geographic Society." 



Then occurred an incident which is vir- 

 tually without precedent, when the Pres- 

 ident, in addition to presenting the Hub- 



bard Medal on behalf of the National 

 Geographic Society, paid the young ex- 

 plorer the gracious personal tribute of 

 introducing him to the audience. 



The applause which greeted the two 

 figures on the platform, America's fore- 

 most hero and America's foremost citi- 

 zen, persisted for several minutes Ijefore 

 Colonel Lindl^ergh was able to make his 

 acknowledgment. Meanwhile a battery 

 of motion-picture cameras and news pho- 

 tographers added a picturesque touch by 

 snapping photographs at high speed with 

 a clicking that soimded like a miniature 

 Battle of the Marne. The stage was illu- 



