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Robert A. Spelman Washington...
Atlanta's Spelman College harmonized with an apt duet of famous singers as it granted honorary fine arts degrees. One was to Opera Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 53, a Spelman alumna who polished her coloratura with a Marian Anderson Scholarship. The other, fittingly, was awarded the legendary Anderson herself, now 77. Hailed as "the most famous and best loved contralto of our time," Anderson received a standing ovation for her long, path-marking career. Responded she in a brief, upbeat acceptance: "It's all waiting for you out there, and you can make your lives what you want them...
Marian Wright Edelman, 35. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Marian Wright became the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. In 1968 she went to Washington, soon became chief counsel to Ralph Abernathy's Poor People's Campaign. Later, as director of the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm, she pressed the Government to enforce federal agency guidelines in desegregation cases. With husband Peter (see below), Mrs. Edelman moved to Boston in 1970, is now director of the Children's Defense Fund, a broadened outgrowth of her Washington work...
Died. Dr. Joseph W. Spelman, 52, pathologist who as Philadelphia medical examiner gained national attention by urging an autopsy of Mary Jo Kopechne, the secretary who lost her life while on an outing with Senator Edward Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.; of stomach cancer; in Philadelphia. A onetime Vermont state pathologist, Spelman once shocked the state by claiming publicly that 90% of all murders committed in Vermont went unprosecuted because of the slipshod methods of reporting deaths. In Philadelphia, he started a poison-information center, helped establish a suicide-control center and tried to spare the feelings of bereaved relatives...
...served as Deputy Director of the Peace Corps in the Philippines and as Director of the Institute of Human Relations at the University of Wisconsin, and is now Vice President of the Danforth foundation. The 38 year-old Dr. Harding is chairman of the History and Sociology Department at Spelman College; and the Rec. Bloy is Executive Director of the Church Society for College Work...