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Francis J. Goldsmith, J.D., Washington, D.C.

Ben Freedman, M.D., Louisiana John G. Todd, Dr. P.H., Oklahoma

Jack Hatlen, Washington

William G. Walter, Ph.D., Montana William A. Broadway, North Carolina

Joseph H. Martin, California

Dale Treusdell, Uniformed Services

Sam Stephenson, Michigan John Fish, Washington Ward C. Duel, Illinois

Monroe T. Morgan, Dr. P.H., Tennessee

Not given

John J. McHugh, New York Vernon Sloulin, Montana

Not given

Bailus Walker, Jr., Ph.D., Massachusetts Trenton G. Davis, Dr. P.H., North Carolina Geswaldo A. Verrone, Dr. P.H., Uniformed Services

The Walter F. Snyder Award For Achievement in Attaining Environmental Quality

The Walter F. Snyder Award was conceived in memory of a man dedicated to the service of his fellow men. Snyder was a person who was committed to the belief that '", this world, this nation, this state, this district or town can, and must, be made a better, safer place in which to live. His ideals were founded on an amalgam of exact science and boundless optimism. He learned from his colleagues and taught others what he learned. For 10 years, Walter Snyder was director of the en- vironmental health program for the City of Toledo, Ohio, where he was convinced through his work and his academic studies that progress on vital problems of public

Walter F. Snyder health could best be resolved by bringing representatives of government, industry, and user groups together on neutral ground to reconcile their viewpoints and differences. On this premise, Snyder resigned his position in Toledo in 1944 and returned to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was instrumental in establishing the National Sanitation Foundation at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He served as its executive director from its beginning in 1944 until his death in 1965. Today, NSF is an independent, non-profit organization with a purpose of setting voluntary standards and evaluating equipment used in public health protection. Walter Snyder was known by his contemporaries for his insight, organizational creativity and leadership, and for his desire to work with and through people. Under Snyder's guidance, NSF provided a means for bringing new standards of sanitation to industry, and conducted supportive research. His principles of inter-group

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