The Jefferson Gold Medal
The firm of Phipps & Bird, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia, has offered to the academies of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, certain gold medals and cash prizes to be awarded on a competitive basis. Each academy will award a gold medal, to be known as the Jefferson Gold Medal, to the author of an especially meritorious paper presented at its annual meeting. The papers that thus win gold medals will be sent to a central committee of one of the academies (in rotation) to be again evaluated in competition with one another and three cash prizes of $100.00, $25.00 and $25.00, respectively, will be awarded to the authors of these papers. This offer has been given tentative acceptance by the Research Committee of this Academy and awaits approval by this Council. It has been accepted also by the other academies tentatively or finally and will go into effect this year. So presumably, our Research Committee will award, not only our regular research prize of $50.00 this year, but also one of the Jefferson Gold Medals which will make the recipient eligible to compete for one of the cash prizes.
Council Minutes April 30,1936.
Proceedings 1935-1936, page 9-10.
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