In Nomine T. R.

"For Distinguished Service," read the golden, three-inch medals awarded by the Roosevelt Memorial Association last week, presented by President Coolidge, to Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, George Bird Grinnell of Manhattan and Miss Martha Berry, of Possum Trot, Ga.*

The Pinchot award was for long service in the preservation of natural resources and domain. -- Mr. Grinnell was honored for "conspicuous success" in securing Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks to the public.

Miss Berry had been summoned because, in 1902, she, a young lady polished by Boston schooling for the social world, received six mountain ragamuffins in her log cabin on Mount Berry, read them Bible stories, taught them, added to their numbers, built up the present Berry School, an industrial institution with 95 buildings and 650 pupils, boys and girls.

There mountaineer children of all ages above 15, live in simple quarters built by the boys themselves, and care entirely for their own needs, so that teachers' hire is the only expense. Farming and dairying, cooking and sewing are the arts which the young mountaineers take home with them.

In 1910, just returned from Africa, President Roosevelt spoke at the Berry School, told how Miss Berry had gone to him at the White House to get introductions to philanthropists: "When Miss Berry turned up ... there were a good many statesmen in the room with her. I looked at the letter of introduction, then glanced at the pamphlet; then I saw Miss Berry at once, and when they tried to interrupt me, I said: 'Let them wait.' "

*The 1924 awards: To Elihu Root (lawyer, public official); Oliver Wendell Holmes (jurist); Charles W. Eliot (educator).

The 1923 awards: To Louisa Lee Schuyler (social worker); Henry Fairfield Osborn (natural historian) ; Leonard Wood (soldier).