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February 28, 1969
THE SPELMAN SPOTLIGHT
Page 7
They're
Changed
Women
By Marilyn Hunt
would you like to
recruit top grads for
top jobs with a
top company?
FRIDAY,
MARCH 7
control; beautifies Sunoco service
stations throughout the land; and
recently broke through the billion
dollar a year barrier in sales! Sound
interesting? Sun is geared for
growth. Perhaps we could use you.
Write us for an appointment, write
for our book “Sunoco Career Oppor
tunities Guide,” or contact your Col
lege Placement Director to see Sun’s
representative when on campus. Sun
Oil Company. Industrial Relations
Dept. NE,1608 Walnut Street, Phila
delphia, Pa. 19103.
She is a changed woman.
She goes to breakfast now for
the first time in four years.
She’s never seen in the Snack
Shop anymore. She stands at
the bus stop on Broad Street
at 7:30 in the morning read
ing over a lecture she finished
at three a.m., scared to death
that her department head will
walk in during the middle of
it and criticize her for using
notes.
She worries about her dress
es being too short, her stock
ings running, the child who
got sick at fourth hour yester
day and the one who will show
his crush on her by getting
smart tomorrow. She feels
both young and old. Her stu
dents are so full of life yet so
submerged in emotional prob
lems. She has only a few
weeks left to give them all the
help that a novice teacher
feels compelled to give.
Yet the weekends can’t
come fast enough. There’s
planning to do, sleep to catch
up on and that bittersweet
frustration must be let out at
a groovy party. Soon the grade
doesn’t matter at all . . . oniy
the students. The classroom is
her world, her new world.
Spelman is just a place to
sleep, eat, and tell others
about funny experiences (like
the time she got carried to
detention hall because the hall
monitor didn’t believe she was
a teacher). That small, dull-
looking classroom lingering
somewhere between heaven
and hell, somewhere between
the water fountain and the
teachers’ lounge, between or
der and disorder . . . that
place will always be dear to
her . . . almost as dear as the
little devils who come there.
Yes, she’s a changed woman.
She’s a student teacher.
Hey, that’s our job! . . . and unless
somebody is trying to tell us some
thing, we don’t think we’re doing too
badly.
Sure, Sun Oil Company needs a
lot more people—in Exploration, Pro
duction, Manufacturing, Research,
Engineering, Sales, Accounting, Eco
nomics and Computer Operations.
But there are unusual attractions.
Besides excellent pay, generous stock
plan, and especially good and econom
ical living conditions in the Phila
delphia, Toledo and Dallas areas,
Sunoco is an exciting company to
work for.
This is the company that is pio
neering with Great Canadian Oil
Sands Ltd. the famed Athabasca oil
sands project in Northern Alberta—
a $235 million project that can multi
ply the world’s petroleum resources.
Also — that sponsors “Sunoco Spe
cials” and the Penske/Donohue team
in major auto racing championships
to competition-prove and develop
Sunoco products for the public; that
is planning a new $125 million proc
essing facility in Puerto Rico; ex
panded its Toledo Refinery to the tune
of $50 million; pursues a continuing
program for air and water pollution
An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F
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The
Spotlight
Black Women's Conference Planned
A conference on the Black
Woman in America scheduled
to begin on April 21 and end
April 25, is being sponsored
by the History and Sociology
Departments of Spelman Col
lege.
Marilyn Pryce Boghossien,
Chairman of the Planning
Committee says that the aim
of the conference is to ex
plore in depth (if possible)
the varied roles Black women
in this country have played in
the past, are playing now and
will assume in the future.
Some of the guest speakers
being invited are: Margaret
Walker, John Henry Clarke,
Kofi Lawrence, Dr. Richard
Long, LeRoi Jones, Abbey
Lincoln, Marian Wright, Betty
Stevens, Jocelyn McKissick,
Sylvia Jones, John Church-
field, Minister John Shabazz,
Joyce Lattimore and Kathleen
Cleaver.
Hopefully, the conference
will include all Black women
involved with the A.U. Center
as well as participants from
the community.