New-York tribune., 1921-07-11
Is Phone Company
E mployees Given
Medals foa. Heroisnl
Girl Operator, Two Wall
Street Workers and Four
in Terminal Fire Among
Winners of Vail Prize

Fifteen New York Telephone Company
employees, chosen from all sections in
which the company operates, are in
cluded in the first award, announced
yesterday, of the Theodore N. Vail
memorial medal. The medal is given to
! Bell telephone workers for noteworthy
public service in 1920, the award being
made possible by the establishment Of
a Theodore N. Vail Memorial Fund by
the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and by Mrs. Vail to COM
the founder and builder of the sys-
tenn. Two hundred bronze medals,
eight silver medals, each accompanied
by $3.50, and two gold medals, each ac-
companied by $500 will be presented
yearly.
Awards of bronze medals to New
Iork Telephone Company workers are
Miss Olive Whitley, Central Avenue,
Lancaster, n. 1.-For carrying On an
investigation of an unusual telephone
call for help and issuing Instructions
to the police which led to the saving Of
the life of woman who was being Sc
verely beaten.
Il. II. Rugen, IA Deyo Street, Glen
dale, n. Y.-For noteworthy service IN
New York City on September l6, 1920.
at the time of the Wall Street disaster.
John w. Prince, 507 East 185th Street,
New York.--For noteworthy service in
New York City on September 49, 1920.
at the time of the Wall Street disaster.
Daniel Joseph Ross, 214 Ninth Street.
Brooklyn.
William Muir, 1S9 East Thirty-second
Street, Brooklyn.
Joseph F. Van Cleef, 81 Neck Road,
BrooklvSl.
Willipm A. McLennon, IT'S Fifty-frst
Street, Brooklyn.
For extraordinary heroism of these
TOUR telephone men on April 10, 1920,
at Brooklyn, at the time of the Bush
Terminal fire.
Edward c. Fornoff, 27 Baldwin Street,
bloomfield, N. j.; for extraordinary
bravery at Highland Beach, N. j., on
July u, 1920, when he assisted in the
rescue of three bathers.
'" H. Van Brunt. 40 Slocum Place,
Long Branch, N. j.. for applying his
knowledge of first aid in the resuscita-
tion of an unconscious bather.
b. A. Emerson, 454 Kingsland Ave
nue., Lyndhurst, n. j.. for noteworthy
service at Hoboken, N. j.. on May i
1920 in applying his knowledge of first
AID IN the treatment of injuries to g
fellow worker. thereby saving his life
c. l.. Jorgensen, 22s Twenty-first
street, lrvlngton, N. j.; for noteworthy
service at South Orange, n. j., on April
-. 1920, in applying his knowledge OF
first aid to resuscitate fellow worker
overcome by gas in manhole.
Carl V. Van Binsberger 61 Grove
Street, Hackensack, N. j.; for heroism
at Westwood, N. j., on August 13, 1920,
in eFecting the rescue of an electric
company lineman who had been rem
dered unconscious by shock.
P. w. Oldfeld, 10 Gray Street, Pough
keepsie. N. Y; for noteworthy service
and extraordinary presence of mind at
Wappinger's Falls, N. Y. on August
p, 1920. Finding an electric com
pssny's liheman hanging from the top
of a pole by his safety-strap, Oldfeld
reached him by the extension ladder
carried on his car and brought the
victim to the ground
Griswold 0. Cooper, Geneva, N. Y.
(posthumously awarded; for extraor-
dinary bravery aye and noble sacrifice on
June 27, 1920, at Keuka Lake, N. Y. in
saving q youth from drowning and
giving his own life in the rescue of an
other
Frank j. Smith, a4A West Forty
fifth Street, Bayonne, N. j.; for note
worthy service and extraordinary
bravery on August /, 1920, while on
vacation at Stroudsburg, Pa, in the
rescue of a young woman near death
from drowning