Other Awards at Upjohn  

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The Control Division had awards in the 1980s and early 1990s including the Control Academy Award and the Control Achievement Award. Academy Awards were composed of two medallions - a solid silver and a gold plated bronze, the latter for display purposes. The first academy awards were presented to the recipients at a soiree on Mackinac Island. Other out-of-state locations followed. The achievement awards were all-bronze and smaller in size. Other Control awards not pictured here included the VP Award (a Crystal Eagle) and the Sysiphaen Labor Award (a Crystal Cland bowl).


     

     


I can remember a time when the Upjohn manufacturing division in Portage was handing out perfect attendance awards. Here's a clock and a blank wooden plaque.

 

 

       

 

Bill Calvert provides the following about the medal below: the words on it are "Medio Lanum".  Mediolanum is the Latin name for ancient Milan.  The image on the front is St. Ambrose, Governor of the province including Milan, and later Bishop of Milan. Both the image and the writing on the front of the medal are taken from a coin called the Ambrosino, a gold or silver coin, struck at Milan during the first republic (1250-1310), which bears the figure of St. Ambrose, patron saint of the city. 

The images on either side of the Ambrose figure may represent bees buzzing over a hive.  Bees are often included with St. Ambrose images, because of a legend that his father found his infant son's face covered with bees.  This was taken as a sign of his future eloquence, or speaking with a "honeyed tongue."   So maybe a sales award?


The other side of the medal, in Italian, reads: "Upjohn manufacturers of specialty medicines since 1886".

 

   
 

Supposedly the one below was for Project Mercury. Is that familiar to anyone?


     

 

 

       

 

Hey George, what the heck was The Quality Awareness Experience all about????

 



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