Armstrong – Table of Contents

January 1958, Armstrong was inducted into the Polio Hall of Fame in Warm Springs,
Georgia (see the chapter on Poliomyelitis). In February 1960 he was a signer of the First
Conference Report of the Lederle (Company) Advisory Board on Living Polio Virus
Vaccine (11).
Armstrong was also able to attend and participate in meetings of other
professional organizations to which he belonged. He attended the 46th reunion of the class
of 1915 at Johns Hopkins Medical School (11). On May 3, 1961, he represented Mount
Union College at the Inauguration of Dr. Thomas Henry Carroll as President of George
Washington University of Washington, DC (12). On October 23, 1963 he attended the
Centennial Banquet of the National Academy of Sciences at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in
Washington, DC (11). On November 29, 1962 Armstrong participated in a program
commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Infectious Disease Research in the United States
Public Health Service (13). The speakers included past and present members of the
Public Health Service as well as prominent invited guests. The Scientific Program was
held in the NIH Clinical Center Auditorium; the hospitality hour was in the Officers Mess
in the National Naval Medical Center across the road from the NIH. In the afternoon
program, Armstrong talked about “Virology in Retrospect”, followed by Nobel Laureate
Dr. John F. Enders who addressed the subject of “Virology in Prospect”.
Charles Armstrong, around the mid-1960s, became a person of interest for
historians. His associate and friend of many years, Dr. James P. Leake, also now retired,
was a volunteer at the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Leake was writing, doing
research and annotating subjects contained in Armstrong’s bibliography (1). On August
3, 1964, Armstrong received a letter from Dr. Saul Benison, then Professor of History at