sentences:  He served as president of the American Heart Association in
  1955, as vice president from 1950 to 1951, and as a member of the Board of Directors in 1944.He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association in 1957, the Gold Heart Award in 1959, and the
  Albert Lasker Award in 1960.Two Americans received the Purdue Frederick Medical Achievement Travel
  Awards in 1958 for “outstanding medical and scientific activities” — Drs C. Walton Lillehei and Edgar V. Allen.