The Profession�s Academy Award Has No Winner-Again
The world’s best-known mining engineer must be spinning in his grave as the keeper of a gold medal in his honor–the Hoover Medal Board of Award–goes year after year tangled in procedural underwear (and maybe inter-association conflict), failing to give the medal. The board has been unable to award one of the engineering profession’s highest honors in three of the past seven years. And now it has put aside yet another time a deserving candidate for the medal, deciding to make no award in 2006.
I find this particularly offensive. I am the nominator of the candidate who should have been elected this year, if not in 2005 or 2004. The problem involves more than my personal frustration.