Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

62.  The N.Y trip -

     Thurs night - To Vendome - leave car. - Taxi to station. Call youngsters then to our train. Both tired but excited - (For so long have I wanted to take Bertha to N.Y. with me).

     Friday a.m. - To Shelten - our room not what I had hoped for, but a little embarrasing (sic) to change, since Frank had engaged it. To Frank's for breakfast - pleasant to see him + be at his apartment -

     Head back for hotel, but go for a walk instead - looking in windows on Park Ave - flower shops etc - then to Rockefeller center + St. Patricks Cathedral.

     A light lunch at the Shelten, then dress +, by subway to the Academy (at 156th out along the River) - By this time I was in agony again over getting up to speak and longed for it to be over.

     During an organ prelude (Comes Autumn Time - Sowerby) the members of the Institute and the Academy filed in to their chairs on the stage, and sat down. (also the new members to be installed in each group) - Those receiving awards occupied the front rows below the stage.

     Unfortunately for me, my award was almost at the end. The ceremony opened with an address by the academy president Walter Damrosch, then followed in order.

(a)  Induction of the new academy members (John Alden Carpenter, Barry Faulkner, John Sloan, Henry R. Sheply,  Eugene Spencher) by William Lym Phelps (who could not attend, + someone substituted, whose identity eludes me) -

b.   Ditto of New Institute Members - (Art Thes, Benton, Alexander Brook, John Steuart Curry, DuBois, Eric Gugler, John Marin,