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The Pi Gamma Mu Medal of Scholarship -- highest award conferred to distinguished life members.

Source: Social Science, official journal of Pi Gamma Mu (April 1937).

Copyright: Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Science, 1937. The contact address for the Society is 1001 Millington, Winfield, Kansas 67156. The uploader is a life member of this Society.

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