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• Marilyn Hunt, editor-in-chief of the Spotlight, won first prize in the essay division of the
Reader’s Digest-United Negro College Fund Creative Writing Contest.

• In Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Company, 416 F. 2d 711 (7th Cir.1969), the Seventh

Circuit Court of Appeals rules that women meeting the physical requirements can work
in many jobs that had been for men only.

• In her parting word to her classmates, Bettianne Childers, out-going SSGA President

informed her Spelman sisters that “Neither blind,
nor half-blind people can lead a revolution or be

good followers. We must be sure that we are

awake enough to see for ourselves and choose
our own paths. After all, it is our life and our

education.”