Our president, Dr Albert Ganado, has received another tribute in 2017. He has been honoured with the Academic Excellence Award from the Faculty of Law at the University of Malta. The ceremony was held on 1st December 2017. No one is more deserving than him. The award appropriately reflects the endless hours he has spent studying and writing practically all his life not only about cartography but also on art, history, law, and philately making him, to quote Dr Mangion in the Times of Malta article of 2 December, he wrote that Dr Ganado is: ‘a multi-faceted person of unbounded culture and knowledge’.