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DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170228
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PEOPLE

Powell was voted the honor in February by the 1,200 member schools of the National Association for Campus Activities in Columbia, S.C. She also won the jazz category.

The award was established in 1982 to bring national recognition to entertainers who appear frequently at colleges and universities. In 1984, the award went to The Police. Huey Lewis and the News won it in 1985.

Powell is the first female entertainer and the first black person to receive the award, according to Mark Hellman, her agent in Nashville.

She and her band will perform as part of Festival in the Park on June 1 in Elmwood Park.

Marilyn Quayle on Wednesday urged entire families to take part in the race for cancer research.

"Let's face it, more than one life is touched when breast cancer rears its ugly head," Quayle told the House subcommittee on health and long-term care.

The topic of breast cancer is a personal one for Quayle, who lost her mother, Mary Tucker, to the disease at age 56. She has said that her mother might have been spared a painful death had the disease been detected earlier.

Quayle also urged members of the panel and invited the public to participate in the "Race for the Cure," a 5 kilometer run or walk June 16 in Washington to benefit cancer research, detection and education.

Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif., chairman of the House panel, noted recent health statistics that indicate 43,000 women may die of breast cancer in 1990.