Five from Garfield
| majors interested in Business
I Administration. Laurel is major­
ing in Biology with an interest in
| medicine. In High School, quite
: naturally, Garfield, they were
very active in gymnastics, track
and tield. Dunng her senior year,
Affairs.
At the University, Lou was Leslie was the High School
a hot shot basketball player. H i s
ter dash and tied tor the 100
senior year basketball team
meter hurdle championship.
finished second to ( al
(Berkeley) in the conference.
N o piker academically,
Lou belonged to the elite Oval
Club (upper classman's honor­
ary society). He w as secretary ot
the Lettermen's Club and secre­
tary to the Washington Alpha
Phi Alpha chapter (the same
fraternity as Thurgood Marshall).
irard J. S tone has
L o u 's wite, fieri, is also a
been an employee for
Garfield W ashington graduate
Pacific Northwest
who majored in Art and interior
— ...... 1 Bell tor the past nine
decorating, fieri w ashom in Lis
years. H e’s a District Staff Mana­
Vegas, Nevada and came to the
ger assigned to duties involving
the state ot Washington w ith
PhoneC enter Stores.
her family when she was in the
After he’d graduated from
sixth grade. Her mother (for­
Seattle's
Garfield High School,
merly Natalie Hollis), a native
Girard
went
on to get his B.A.
ot the state ot Nevada, was the
Both Leslie and Liurel expect to
degree in Education at the U ni­
first black bom in Lis Vegas.
participate in track and field at
versity' of Washington. He ended
Natalie's aunt, Minnie Hollis,
the University of Washington.
up with yet another degree, a
was the m other of the noted
In the 25th hi nir of a given
coveted
Master ot Business
poet Lingston Hughes.
day, Lou is involved with the
Administration
degree in
They have three daugh­
NAACP, as 7 reasurer ot the
Finance from the University of
ters, Natalie, Leslie, and Laurel, Central Area Mental Health
Southern California.
all students at the University ot Program, with the African sister
Girard, his wife Susan and
Washington. Natalie is in her
[ City Committee, the Tele­
their
three children live high
second year and Leslie and
phone Company Credit Union
above
Seattle’s G olden
Laurel (twins) are in their first
and the Consum er Credit
Gardens, a view dear to a Naval
year. Natalie and Leslie are pre- 1 Counseling service of Seattle.
Officer’s heart. (H e’s a Navy Lr.
C om m ander in the Reserve.)
But Girard has very little
time to take his ease. Two acti­
vities keep him hopping. First,
tonnnut J from {net tous page
caped. He became active in
he's a mem ber of the Seattle
The present we share to ­
Anti-Slave circles, wrote an ex­
School
District Citizen’s C o m ­
day, as American Blacks, could
pose ot slavery, went to England
mittee
for
Academic Excellence.
have been radically changed for where 150 pounds was raised to
Second,
he’s a Pacific
the worse had it not been for
buy his freedom.
Northwest regional representa­
one Frederick Augustus W ash­
He edited a weekly news­
tive for G raduate Studies in
ington Bailey who later changed paper dedicated to the end of
Business for a consortium con­
his name to Frederick
slavery. His T h e Life of
sisting
of W ashington U niver­
D ouglas when he escaped
Frederick Douglas, An
sity
in
St.
Louis; the Universities
slavery.
A m erican Slave, published in
of Wisconsin, Rochester, North
At the tender age ot eight,
1845 is one of those stories ex­
Carolina and, naturally,
Frederick Douglas had been
cised from American public
Southern California.
squeezed from the loving care
school history.
As if that w eren't enough,
ot his grandmother to work on
Douglas was an orator, an
Girard is active and interested
a plantation. He was sent to
advisor to President Grant, the
in almost all sports including
Baltimore where his master's
U.S. Minister to Haiti, a man
fishing on Puget Sound. For re­
wife taught him to read and
whose native intelligence tri­
laxation, he reads business and
write. He soon employed this
umphed over whatever defi­
financial
journals. Q uite a
skill to wilting out passes tor
ciencies he may have had in for­
model for youth.
runaway slaves.
mal education.
Douglas said that he was
Dunng the civil war he ad­
"kindly" treated but this did not vocated the use ot Black troops
deter him from attempting
in the Union Army. He literally
escape (in 1836). He was
raised himself out of the mire of
thwarted, put to work as a ship's beinga non-person to becom­
ing a personality who fused the |
caulker. Liter, disguised as a
sailor (there were many treed
abolitionist cause tor the eman- I
slaves who were sailors) he es­
cipation ot slaves.
graduate ot Seattle’s
Garfield High and ot
the University of
" Washington, Louis E.
C oaston is a District Staff
Manager assigned to Consum er
A
Garfield,
Again.
G
Frederick Douglas
o
T
ne from the Present
hurgood Marshall is
the first man of ac­
knowledged Black
-.... — ■ descent to ever sit on
the Supreme C ourt of the
United States. From 1940 to
1961 he was director of the
Legal and Detense Fund of the
NAACP.
President John Kennedy
appointed him Solicitor G ener­
al of the United States in 1961
and Lyndon Johnson appointed
him to the Supreme C ourt in
■s .•
1967 where he has served since.
An Episcopalian, A Mason and
a member ot the Alpha Phi A l­
pha Fraternity (the oldest Black
Fraternity), he is an alumnus ot
Howard University in W ash­
ington, D.C.
His achievements include
superintending the greatest
change in the litany of civil
nghts since the Magna Carta.
For we Blacks had never asked
tor alms or mercy only oppor­
tunity and justice.