The Presidential Medallion, as inscribed on its reverse side,
was "Presented to Right Reverend Monsignor John J. Dougherty by
the Board of Trustees on his Inauguration as President April 25,
1960." John Joseph Dougherty served as President of Seton Hall
University from 1959 to 1969. He was consecrated an auxiliary
bishop of Newark in 1963 and died in 1986. Struck by Herff Jones
of Providence, Rhode Island, the medallion bears the original
seal of Seton Hall as adopted by the Board of Trustees on May
17, 1864. The inscription around the rim of the medallion reads:
Universitas Setoniana A.D. MDCCCLXI, Religioni Ac Bonis Artibus,
"Seton Hall University, A.D. 1861, For Religion and the Liberal
Arts." The date indicates the year in which Seton Hall was
chartered by the State of New Jersey to grant "the usual
academic and other degrees granted by any other college in the
state." When Seton Hall became a university in 1950, the
inscription on the seal was changed from Collegium Setoniense to
Universitas Setoniana. T