Cora Smith Breckenridge: to whom much is given ... (Close Up).(Brief Article)

Cora Smith Breckenridge is a firm believer that "To whom much is given, much is expected." From her childhood in East Chicago, IN, to her present position as the first African American trustee at Indiana University--not to mention the first speech-language pathologist to achieve this position--she has made this philosophy a part of her life.

Breckenridge came from what she describes as "a very poor family, but a very fine family." She graduated from Indiana University in 1959 with a bachelor's in speech-language pathology, received her master's in 1963, and ...

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