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Word: bennetta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commencement speaker, Walter Washington, mayor of Washington, D.C., said that universities can help solve our urban problems by learning how to "translate scholarly knowledge into practical action." Frequently departing from his prepared text, Washington (whose daughter Bennetta Jules-Rosette is in the senior class) noted that city administrations and colleges must work together to get anything done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffies Graduate, Wearing Armbands | 6/13/1968 | See Source »

...Spafford had come to the 1848 public declaration of independence for women, the Declaration of Women's Rights set forth in Seneca Falls, New York. She skimmed on to the present. Here Dr. Bennetta B. Washington, wife of Washington, D.C.'s Negro mayor, took over: "Women--Today and Tomorrow." She was now speaking to a bored and increasingly restless audience. The more bold slipped...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Lunch at the Waldorf | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Wilson Fellows from Radcliffe are: Miss Leslie S. Claff, Miss Ruth N. Dart, Mrs. Jane Z. Flinn, Miss Evelyn K. Galland, Mrs. Bennetta W. Jules-Rosette, Miss Beatrice S. Lorge, and Miss Nina M. Rattner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 24 Win Wilsons Without Stipends | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...post he held until he moved to New York last year. In both cities, he was known for his ability to bend supposedly unbendable bureaucratic rules to get new low-income housing built, and to bring a sense of esthetics to that ugly duckling of American architecture. His wife Bennetta, now head of the Women's Job Corps, was formerly principal of Cardozo High School in one of the district's worst poverty areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Two Firsts for Washington | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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