1967 - PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR BRONZE MEDAL - MEDALLION - AWARD - Jacques Lipchitz
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RARE1967 - PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR BRONZE MEDAL - MEDALLION - AWARD - Jacques LipchitzMedal comes in its own fitted box-measures 3 inches across and is almost 1/2 inch thick.Marked on edge Medallic Art Company NY Bronze and signed Jacques Lipchitz SC.On the obverse is a stylized portrait of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.Reverse has Icarus and recipients name and date 1967.This is a very scarce medal indeed as only 140 Presidential Scholars were named each year-medal is basically as struckHISTORY OF MEDAL:The United States Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by Executive Order of the President, to recognize and honor some of our Nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Each year, up to 141 students are named as Presidential Scholars, one of the Nation's highest honors for high school students. In honoring the Presidential Scholars, the President of the United States symbolically honors all graduating high school seniors of high potential.From President Lyndon B. Johnson to President Barack Obama, the Presidential Scholars Program has honored more than 6,000 of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Initiated by President Johnson, the Presidential Scholars Program annually selects one male and one female student from each state (as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto
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