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DEC 4 1974, DEC 5 1974 Support for Emily Griffith - Dan J. McQuaid, 91, lobbies Thursday for a memorial stained-glass window in the Colorado Senate Chambers to be dedicated in memory of Emily Griffith, founder of the Opportunity School in Denver. He was one of several speakers endorsing the Griffith memorial. The six-member committee hearing the issue gave five votes to Miss Griffith; three to the late Virginia Neal Blue, former state treasurer; two for "Aunt" Clara Brown, a former slave who brought other blacks to Colorado out of slavery, and one each for Elizabeth Eyre Pellet, a sterling, Colo., Newspaper publisher and member of the state board of education. Credit: Denver Post (Denver Post via Getty Images)