Club Begins New Year
With Focus On Growth
BY MAE R. DELANEY
Special Ta Tfcc CAROLINIAN
International Training in Com
muinication, an educational
organization for adults which focuses
heavily on individual member par
ticipation and leadership activities
and responsibilities, can be observed
at its best in the Raleigh club.
President Bertha Summerville for
mally initiated the new year's ac
tivities recently at the Richard B.
Harrison Library. She unveiled her
theme, “ITC—'The Challenge—Our
Opportunity to Grow.” The concen
tration for this specific meeting was
“Training for Impromptu Speaking. ’
Carrie Brock and Debra Bowden
assisted the president with the open
ing ceremonies: the former with the
invocation and the latter with the
pledge of allegiance.
Visiting in the meeting were
Juanita Bright, who later accepted
membership in the organisation, and
Joyce Myrick.
After a brief business session,
President Summerville introduced
the program for the evening, which
highlighted quick thinking and self
expression. The topic was “I Was
Flexible This Week Because...” Each
speaker was required to lift three
reasons to support flexibility in the
open-ended discussion.
Following tne program, the presi
dent detailed her goals and objectives
for the year. She also presented her
calendar of events with timelines.
The new events include community
projects, including the November
food drive and a potluck dinner and
toy drive in December. Members
pledged their support for the new ef
forts. Continuing activities listed the
annual speech contest for March.
Martha Ricks was the timer and
Mae DeLaney was the evaluator.
The next regular meeting is
scheduled for Sept. 19 at the Richard
8. Harrison Library at 7 p.m. There
ire spaces for eight more new
nembers. Interested persons may
:all President Bertha Summerville at
f87-4622.
Woman Wins Battle To
Be Designated "Black”
DENVER, Colo. (AP)-A light
skinned woman has won her battle to
be designated black, even though her
parents listed her as white on her
birth certificate in an attempt to help
her overcome racial bias.
A judge last Wednesday directed
Kansas officials to issue a new birth
certificate for 39-year-old Mary
Christine Walker, who was born in
Great Bend, Kan.
“I’m glad it’s over,” said the
former Denver Public School teacher
who always called herself black.
“I’m very thrilled.”
Her attorney, Penfield Tate, II,
said Kansas’ current birth cer
tificates do not designate race, so her
new one will have no race on it at all.
“But that is fine with us,” he said.
The order came from U.S. District
Judge John Brooks of Denver, who
heard Walker’s plea to stop the illu
sion that she was white, a well
intentioned deception she said her
parents started.
Her father, who’s black, and her
mother, who had a white mother and
a black father, endowed their
daughter with a fair complexion,
green eyes and a light brown hair that
would allow perpetuation of the
secret.
“My parents wanted their kids to
make it, and they picked the easiest
way possible,” Walker said. “They
knew what it was to be black. They
knew the problems."
At that time, passing for white was
risky but financially rewarding for
blacks who had the physical and emo
tional ability, she said.
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“Mom really stressed the white
world on the kids—education, man
ners—and she was very paranoid
about the secret getting out,” Walker
said
But she said she couldn’t blame her
parents.
“I resent that this society is set up
in such a way that someone would
have to pass (for another race). It’s a
disgrace that this country is so screw
ed up racially. Because it really is,”
she said.
Walker said that, living as a black,
she never was bothered by the
heritage of deception except when ap
plying for work. Prospective
employers would point out the
discrepancy between the “white” on
her birth certificate and the “black”
she had filled in as race on an applica
tion, accusing her of lying to take ad
vantage of policies that encourage
minority hiring.
Her claim ot civil rights
discrimination following the incident
was rejected, too, because of the birth
certificate.
“The federal government put in
writing that I was not black,” and
that was too much, she said. “It just
hurt that this was the federal govern
ment [saying] the hisory of my fami
ly didn’t mean anything.”
So she decided to pursue the
change.
“This is like emancipation for me.
So I won’t have to go through this
again,” she said. “I don’t want to be
put in a box I don’t fit in.”
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demonstrating students, Journalists
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the segregated elections which are
being held in South Africa. President
Frederik W. de Klerk said police had
arrested nine “guerrillas” who plan
ned to disrupt parliamentary elec
tions Wednesday.
Police in Johannesburg banned and
then fired tear gas and rubber bullets
at hundreds of students who
reassembled each time they were
dispersed.
An estimated 5,000 mixed-race high
school students in the citv boycotted
classes to protest the elections.
Police raided the Johannesburg
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the action.
Twelve journalists In Capa Town
were arreeted for protaothji media
regulations under the state of
emergency.
In Durban, five activists were de
tained by police for visiting a whites
only beach.
De Klerk announced in a speech at
a police college that nine African Na
tional Congress guerrillas and 10 col
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