Item 0722 - President's Medal of Excellence from Bowie State University

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ZA COM MR-T-5-2-0722

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President's Medal of Excellence from Bowie State University

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  • 27 June 1990 (Creation)

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medal

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Verified by: Lucia Raadschelders ; Date verified: 4/01/12

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The President's Medal of Excellence conferred upon Mr Mandela from Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland, USA

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Bronze and silver medal inside black leather case with gold detailing. Case also includes a cream-coloured notecard, inside a cream coloured envelope addressed to "The Honorable Nelson Mandela." Card describes medal. It reads:
The President's Medal of Excellence
Presented to the Honorable Nelson Mandela on this Twenty-Seventh Day of June, Nineteen Hundred Ninety
The Medal of Excellence was commissioned by the University in 1989. It is composed of solid sterling silver on cast bronze, with a gold brocade on a black velvet collar.
This is the second presentation of the Medal. The first was made to the Reverend Benjamin Lawson Hooks, Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), on May Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred Ninety.

Back of card reads: James E Lyons, Sr.
President
Bowie State University
Bowie, Maryland 20715

Medal includes the Maryland state seal in silver, surrounded by the words "Bowie State University 1865, Medal of Excellence"

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NMF Archives ID: A0256

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Nelson Mandela Awards Database ID: A0256

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