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This past academic year, highlights have included the establishment of a Board of Visitors; the appointment of two new campus deans, Marian Pettengill at IU South Bend and Penny Cass at IU Kokomo; recognition of the Community Health Nursing Department by the American Public Health Association; sponsoring two nurse recipients for IU honorary degrees, Hildegard Peplau at IUPUI and Elizabeth Carnegie at IU Southeast; and celebrating the induction in 1993 and 1994 of four more faculty into the American Academy of Nursing.
Perhaps each thought he had made a sufficient statement by having a black woman--Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, or Maya Angelou--perform at his ceremony.
Marian Anderson didn't sing here in 1939.
And yet, as I think about Marian Anderson and about my fellow passengers and about the female bus driver, I feel hopeful.
Previously thought too holy for mortal use, once established, there was no stopping it: Marie; Mairi; Mair; Ria; Marise; Moira; Marietta; Marion (or Marian ).