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Visiting Associate Professor                  critical thinking skills, many                Lawyers
               of Rural Sociology at Cornell                 graduated and went on to

               University and has received                   become pillars of the                         Lawyers in the Class of
               numerous awards for her                       Indianapolis community.                       1969 represented a trend
               work, including                               Mary Susan currently                          among 60’s women who

               Distinguished Research                        teaches at the                                changed career fields after
               Award (NAFEO) Presidential                    Interdenominational                           first jobs
               Award, SRSA and Dr.                           Theological Center. She 50                    Phyllis Gray Hallmon,

               Emory O. Jackson                              year member of Alpha                          Esq. served as Chief of
               Journalism Award, South                       Kappa Alpha Sorority and                      Staff to two African-
               Atlantic Regional                             has been involved in                          American Congressmen
               Conference, Alpha Kappa                       numerous service projects                     from the deep South, both

               Alpha Sorority, Inc.                          across the country in seven                   Morehouse graduates,
                                                             chapters.
               Mary Susan Parker                                                                           Sanford Bishop (D, Georgia)

               Wheeler was a Social                                                                        and Earl Hilliard, (D, Al).

               Science Instructor at Martin                                                                Sherryl Jefferson
               University, an accredited                                                                   Harris, Esq., first an
               liberal arts college that                                                                   entrepreneur, she was the
               specialized in education of                                                                 first black  and first female

               low income adults, with the                                                                 attorney in the 12th Judicial
               average student being a 40                                                                  Circuit in Alabama and the
               year old single, female                                                                     first female assistant district

               mother. Challenging them to                                                                 attorney.. Gained acclaim as
               develop their writing and                                                                   an Assistant District Attorney
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