Crawley said that she was walking with her husband, Bruce, when the jogger "moved right through me." Bruce didn't hear it but if he had, there would have been an incident, she said.

"All I wanted was a Snickers bar from the 7-Eleven," she said. But in a few seconds, they ran into the jogger again and Pamela Crawley lost it.

"I yelled at him, 'This is my city. Let's call the police.' "

She said an officer appeared and he was about 6 feet 4. "I thought this could actually get worse," she said.

"But in my moment of despair, the officer reached out to me and talked to me," she said. "He said, 'I'm so sorry this happened to you in 2006.' "

She said she calmed down. "I understood."

Crawley and University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann last night at the Pyramid Club received Distinguished Community Leadership awards from Operation Understanding, a youth organization that seeks, among other goals, to educate the public on issues of diversity.

Gutmann told of an experience that she had had with Nelson Mandela shortly after he was released from prison, where he had spent 27 years as a political prisoner.

She said that she and Mandela were addressing a gathering organized by the Institute for Democratic Alternatives for South Africa.

After all he had been through, Mandela treated the Afrikaners in the audience, the people who had jailed him, with complete respect.

He was asked how he could have no bitterness "toward the people who have perpetrated all these crimes on you."

"I could not wish what happened to me and my people on anyone, not on any human being," she said that Mandela had responded.

The nonprofit organization focuses on developing leaders in the African-American and Jewish communities, and educating the community at large on issues relating to diversity, cross-cultural understanding and tolerance.

Its executive director, Barbara Mattleman, said that Gutmann and Crawley "are particularly known for their commitment to youth in our city. *