My Years with Ludwig von Mises.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

tion as Distinguished Fellow. The Committee met with the Executive
Committee as an Electoral College of the Association and
elected you on March 7 as recipient of this honorable award.
The award of Distinguished Fellow was instituted by the Association
in 1965 and it may be granted annually to not more than two
economists of high distinction in the United States or Canada.
This was accompanied by a citation praising Lu's work. I hugged
and congratulated Lu and asked him how he felt about this great
distinction. "If it makes you happy," he answered, "I am happy."
Nine months after Lu had left me forever, I opened his desk and
found among his scripts a stamped and signed letter with an attached
copy addressed to Professor William J. Fellner, President
of the American Economic Association, dated March 20, 1969. It
read:
Dear Professor Fellner:
I heartily thank you and all the members of the Economic Association
for the great honor of being elected Distinguished Fellow of the
Association. With all good wishes for the future activities of the
Association and its members.
I forwarded the letter with a few accompanying words to Professor
Fellner, who very graciously thanked me with some kind words.
I will always wonder why Lu forgot, or neglected, to mail that
letter.
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