2011 August Lakewood

The desegregaT ion of dallas schools

In the words of neighbors who were there 40 years ago, this is how it all played out.

Opening August 1st

Located on the shores of White Rock Lake, C.C. Young offers Dallas seniors a constellation of services and opportunities. Construction is almost complete for The Overlook, our newest expansion, and we will OPEN AUGUST 2011. It is the latest residential addition to our ever-growing neighborhood and is retirement living at its finest. Extraordinary views, private ba lconies and a variety of dining venues are just the beginning at The Overlook. C. C. Young is where personal growth and development are encouraged and

One of the breathtaking views of White Rock Lake from the top of The Overlook

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FEATURES

Desegregation in Dallas

Two Bryan Adams High School students respond to the 1971 federal court order that mandated busing in a Sept. 8, 1971, Dallas Times Herald article. PHOTOBYMADELINESTEVENS

“Six food trucks will anchor the Arcadia Food Park on Lower Greenville (think silver Airstream trailers). Owner Madison Partners is in the process of signing three big names, one of whom is Twisted Root’s Jason Boso (who’s thinking about serving ribeye cheesesteaks under the name “Steak Me Home Tonight”).

Hetzel says there have been preliminary talks with The Grape’s Brian Luscher, but it’s far from a done deal.”

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There are several reasons to replace your aging, inefficient system now.

Manufacturers will be raising prices 5% before the year end, now is the time to take advantage of current pricing. Experts are predicting that energy prices will continue to rise. Efficient AC equipment will continue to pay dividends many years into the future as energy prices continue to rise. High Efficiency Systems carry much longer warranties these days, which saves you money later on repair costs. Federal Tax Credits will not last forever – take advantage of those savings while you can.

Hair-raising secrets

The complicated relationship between a man and his mane

I was in an elevator the other day when a guy with a buzz cut complimented me that I could get my hair to “stand up”.

“I wish I could get my hair to do that,” he said.

Not wanting to say my secret wasn’t my hair’s personal integrity but instead a $15 bottle of “product”, I thanked him and thought to myself: “I wish I had the guts to have a buzz cut so I wouldn’t constantly be terrorized by my hair’s insatiable demand for ever-more-expensive ‘product’ and attention.”

I spend more time worrying about my hair than any other portion of my body. That’s partly because I can’t do much in five minutes to “improve” the rest of me: Barring expensive surgery or months of hard work, I have to live with the hand I was dealt there.

But my hair offers a deceptively quick opportunity to be a better person. If I’m nice to it, and if I lovingly shampoo it and brush it and comb it, my hair might take the rest of my body’s plight into consideration and help say something positive about me to the rest of the world.

Then again, it might not. I keep telling myself my hair doesn’t have a mind of its own, but just a glance in the mirror tells me whether my hair is taking my pleas to heart, or if it’s simply blowing me off and doing its own thing.

It’s annoying, and sometimes downright mean, when my hair won’t cooperate, when it decides to force a little corner to stick straight up while coercing the rest of its pals to bend the other direction. And even when I bribe it with the best, most nourishing and most expensive “product”, my hair doesn’t always appreciate my thoughtfulness. At first, it may seem placated; sometimes it even does what

I ask of it. But then, just as quickly and often after it has gobbled up enough product to prevent a return, it turns on me again.

I hate to admit this about one of my own, but there are days when I know that if my hair could form a finger, it wouldn’t be indicating “I’m No. 1”.

There are several reasons to replace your aging, inefficient system now.

Manufacturers will be raising prices 5% before the year end, now is the time to take advantage of current pricing.

This kind of back-talk makes me insecure, and I find myself not paying attention to people talking with me. Instead, I’m preoccupied with my hair, which is trying to distract them and grab all of the attention for itself. Those days, even cutting it all off — just to show it — doesn’t seem like punishment enough.

Yet when I look at other peoples’ hair, it always looks the same every day, even when they complain they’re having a “bad hair” day. Why is their hair so cooperative?

So I ask myself: “Why do I care so much about what my hair thinks and does if no one else spends much time noticing it? Why can’t I just quit worrying about it?”

Experts are predicting that energy prices will continue to rise. Efficient AC equipment will continue to pay dividends many years into the future as energy prices continue to rise. High Efficiency Systems carry much longer warranties these days, which saves you money later on repair costs. Federal Tax Credits will not last forever – take advantage of those savings while you can.

But I can’t. It just won’t let me. It’s flapping in the breeze at me right now.

And even when I brgibe it with the best, most nourishing and mostg expensive “product”,g my hair doesn’t always appreciate my thoughtfulness.

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Remodeling Talk...

Maximize Value by Minimizing the Risks of LOW BIDS

In this economy, builders know the allure of low bids, so it’s important to discern price from value. Since most qualified builders pay about the same for products and services, what you get when you pay less is usually…less. It may be less material. Sometimes it’s less labor, or less training in best practices (critical, but completely at the discretion of the builder).

How to get more value for your budget:

INTERVIEW CONTRACTORS

Texas has no contractor licensing or industry regulations, so you’ll need to check levels of professionalism, experience, and training. Rank three candidates and make your calls from the bottom up. Discuss their experience and training, your budget, how you envision the process, and the final outcome.

1. Best ways to create real long-term value within your budget

2. If the proposal will include transparent itemized costs and profit

3. Contact information for previous clients who have had similar projects completed

4. How they have increased cost-efficiency over the years

5. What they have delivered at a range of price points for this type of project

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WHITE ROCK LAKE

LOCAL EVENT FEATURED IN NATIONAL MAGAZINE

07.05.11 Last August, on one of the hottest, sunniest days of the summer, something like 1,500 (arguably mentally unstable) people ran a half marathon, 13.1 miles, beginning at Norbuck Park near White Rock Lake.

A writer for Runner’s World magazine flew in from Long Island, N.Y., to test an array of fancy new gear intended to make exercise in extreme heat safer and easier.

It was hot — 90 degrees at the start and the temps kept crawling up. Writer John Hanc sported the number 108, representing the record high in Dallas in August.

A year later, the story appears in the publication’s August 2011 issue. Turns out that despite his access to a high-tech cooling vest and a personal assistant (Dallasite Matt Ganio, a Ph.D.

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SIGNS OF TROUBLE

A disturbing trend in this business, the “pyramid” is used by some businesses that aim to provide the lowest price to get your business, but lack the resources or ability to completely deliver on promises. Your deposit funds their next job. When deposits stop, the business is hit with liens from suppliers until it collapses, leaving you with a paid-for, but unfinished project. We have completed many of these, and the customers are always regretful.

Telltale signs of trouble include:

No office or place of business

Ads and sales pitches are focused on price

Answers to your questions are short on details, or evasive

Sketches and proposals are lacking in detail and precise language

Requests for sketches and customer contacts are denied

We hope these tips give you the confidence to select a builder that will deliver lasting value and maximize your budget while minimizing your risks. We’d love to be on your short list. Please call us to schedule an interview or an in-person visit to our design showroom right here in your neighborhood.

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COURTESY OF HOTTESTHALF.COM and researcher at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at UTSouthwestern) to track his hydration and core body temperature, among other aids, Hanc suffered from dehydration and mild heat exhaustion and finished five minutes short of his goal time.

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WE’RE MOBILE!

When you sign a 30-year mortgage, you marry your home. So shouldn’t you be highly compatible with your home, or dare we say… almost in love?

Such affection may sound fanatical, but a home tailored to your wants and needs is a home built to make you a little bit happier every single day. You’re hard-wired to appreciate the subtle differences. It’s why you have a favorite pair of jeans.

So how exactly is a custom home floorplan tailored for your lifestyle? If it’s done right, the builder will learn how you live, down to very granular detail. He’ll want to know who will live in the home, and he’ll ask about each of your needs, daily tasks, and style preferences. He’ll ask about how you entertain, what purposes you have in mind for different rooms, and how you move from one room to another.

He’ll want to understand the frustrations you’ve had with your previous homes, and he’ll make it his mission to turn those shortcomings into your new home’s strengths.

The better you know yourself, the more enjoyment you’ll find in a custom home. It’s more than just a place to live. It’s a place that rewards you for all the living and all the learning you’ve ever done before. If you’d like to know more about whether a custom home is right for you, call us. It’s never too early in the process to learn.

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LAKEWOOD SHOPPING CENTER SOLD

I see multi-story upscale retail and a parking garage a couple of years down the road [Advocate Back Talk blog, “Lakewood Shopping Center: What does the sale mean?”, June 22].

—PONDER PDQ

Maybe they will open another Italian restaurant?

—LAKEWOOD WRAT

I have to admit, I only drive past this shopping center on my way to Whole Foods, Ali Baba, Times Ten or a few other stores, but this shopping center already has its share of national brands (Radio Shack and Sports Clips, for example). The neighborhood has Starbucks, Papa John’s, etc. So it’s not some small-town fantasy neighborhood of exclusively local mom-and-pop stores. Hopefully Lincoln Property Co. will keep the tenant mix roughly the same, but by improving the building, attract the next Eno’s or Sushi Axiom, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, etc.

—DOWNTOWN_WORKER

I favor the sale. Some changes/updates to the center will be welcome. The key factor being how Lincoln may change the tenant mix going forward. I like the local, low-key orientation of tenancy as it exists now, but some improvements can be made. I don’t want a tenant base that is aimed at pulling in shoppers from much beyond the Lakewood/East Dallas radius. I don’t want to see nationally branded tenants. That would be a major negative, in my opinion.

—CITIZEN KANE

GROCERY SELF-CHECKOUT: A PASSING FAD?

When Albertsons removed the self-check lines at the Cityplace store last year, I asked why. I was told it was theft. [Advocate Back Talk blog, “Grocery self-checkout lines on the way out?”, July 8] I suspect all stores are losing to theft. The person assigned to monitor the self-check lanes is never there. Usually off talking to someone. The machines are constantly telling you to wait for assistance that isn’t there. I’ll miss the speed with which I can check and properly bag my own groceries.

—MONTEMALONE

I may be the only one, but I love the self-checkout feature. I use it whenever possible.

—AMC

Thank you, Albertson’s. I’ll now consider shopping at the Albertson’s at Mockingbird and Abrams again, which I stopped doing when you put in the self-checkout.

—JOHN M.

BOWLING ALLEY PROPOSED FOR LOWER GREENVILLE

This is a great idea [Advocate Back Talk blog, “Bowling alley proposed for Lower Greenville”, July 6] and a welcome addition to a mostly abandoned area of Greenville. Can’t wait!

—MIKE

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Great, but with rooftop time restrictions!

—MARC

This would be a fantastic addition to our neighborhood. I can’t wait. This would provide a nice entertainment option to anchor the Lower Greenville development. What I have seen is that owners plan a fantastic venue that is representative of the neighborhood. This is not another version of the booze-it-up bars currently in the neighborhood. We need to help make this happen and stop listening to a small group of neighborhood agitators. If they are looking for a more pastoral environment, they should move to Plano.

—RICKROGERS

PIZZERIAVENTI CLOSES

My husband and I were huge fans of this place [ Advocate Back Talk blog, “Pizzeria Venti has closed”, July 12]. We always found the staff to be polite and hardworking, not to mention the great food.

—KRIS

We only went once. We weren’t impressed with the food or the service. The wait staff seemed poorly trained. Hope something good happens with the space and that lawsuits/politics don’t stink up the shopping center.

—KELLIE

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There’s never a better time to be a girl than in the summer when we get to wear flirty little dresses. We’ll keep you cool and pretty!

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DEBUTANTES AND COWBOYS

D.C.Boutique is extending our SUMMER SALE thru the end of August! 25% to 45% all clothing and accessories for woman and children! Garland Rd. 214.324.3332 dcboutiqueonline.com

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THE T SHOP

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CHEESECAKE ROYALE

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JENNA B’S

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RANDOM

Wise Owls know that Random is the neighborhood headquarters for out of the ordinary gifts, greeting cards and home decor ideas. Find us on Facebook! Hillside Village 6465 E. Mockingbird Ln., #366 214.827.9499 www.ShopAtRandom.com

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Bo BB y Est Es started as athletic director and head football coach at Woodrow Wilson High s chool in 1998, when the school’s athletic programs were struggling. s ince then, Estes and his coaching staff have improved athletic programs at Woodrow across the board. We sat down with him recently to talk about the upcoming school year.

since 1998, you’ve had some pretty exciting athletes come through Woodrow.

Yes. Sergio Kindle [who now plays for the Baltimore Ravens] is probably our most famous. And then in basketball, we’ve had Anthony Randolph [who now plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves]. And we had Greg McCoy, who plays [football] for TCU now. We’ve been very fortunate that some great kids have rolled through Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow has had a lot of success in sports lately.

We’re one of the most successful programs in Dallas ISD. We’ve been a playoff team [in football] for seven out of the last nine seasons. When I got to Woodrow Wilson, they had not had great success. They were in a down cycle, and since 2003, we’ve been in the playoffs all but two years, and even in those two years, we were 5-5, and we were playing for a spot in the playoffs up to the last ballgame. For the last two years, every sport has either gone to regionals — tennis, golf, wrestling, track and cross-country — or we’ve gone to the playoffs — football, basketball, volleyball. Our soccer teams have been very successful. Stephanie Martin won state three years ago in the breaststroke. Grace Choi went to the state golf tournament just recently.

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BENJAMIN HAGER

IT’S A PUBLIC SCHOOL, SO OBVIOUSLY YOU DON’T RECRUIT ATHLETES. No. There’s no draft. We always joke about that. The reputation of your program and your school attracts kids, and we’ve been fortunate that Woodrow Wilson is really a neat school. It’s an urban school in a neighborhood setting. We have a really good choir program, and our extracurricular activities are appealing. Because of that, we’re not just a football school. We’re not just a basketball school or an athletics school. If you want to have a good overall high school experience, Woodrow Wilson provides that.

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF YOUR ATHLETIC PROGRAMS?

We’re trying to educate or coach the entire kid versus just the athlete. The Sergio Kindles and the Greg McCoys don’t come along that often. We want the athletic experience to be a building block for what the student is going to be as an adult.

THEREIS A LOT OF CROSSOVER BETWEEN SPORTS. KIDS WHO PLAY FOOTBALL ALSO PLAY GOLF, FOR EXAMPLE. TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT. Our school has 1,300 kids, and only 20 percent play sports, which is a lot for an urban school. But for us to be successful, our best athletes have to compete in other sports, especially the girls. If you’re good enough to shoot a basketball, you’re a good enough athlete to swing a golf club. The more things they do, the more experiences they have. And they get to hear a different voice. It produces more adult role models for you. You might not be listening to me any more, but you listen to the basketball coach or the track coach. We’re not preparing for the next NFL player, but we do hope that someday those guys will be doctors and lawyers and school board members and city councilmen. The cool thing about Woodrow Wilson is that we have coaches who understand that. We’re trying to enhance their education, not develop them into pro athletes.

FOOTBALL PRACTICES START INAUGUST. ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TEAM THIS YEAR?

Oh, yes. Every year, you’re excited. I guess, being a Texas Rangers fan, every year I think we’re going to win the World Series. But we’ve got some great kids coming back. Piers Christian is coming back as our quarterback. Andre Plata is in his senior year, and he’s one of the best athletes at Woodrow. Although we lost some really good football players, who are now going to be playing college football, we’ve got some great players returning, so the foundation blocks are there for a great season.

— RACHEL STONE

SADIE BELLA started out at the SPCA four years ago, but moved to Caruth Terrace after finding her owners. She’s a “dog by day, diva by night”, says owner ELISA OWENS.

WHAT GIVES?

Small ways that you can make a big difference for neighborhood nonprofits

VOLUNTEER

The Wilkinson Center, the East Dallasbased nonprofit whose mission is to help people out of poverty, is seeking volunteers. The center has a food pantry and offers a range of services to adults and children. Volunteers can teach adult classes such as money management, GED courses and English for speakers of other languages. They can help with after school programs or in the food pantry. Or they can help with clerical work. For more information, contact volunteer coordinator Chree Carr at 972.284.0301 or chree_carr@wilkinsoncenter.org.

—RACHEL STONE

OR BUY A BRICK

Whether you missed out on the hundred days of events celebrating the White Rock Lake Centennial, or you biked, boogied and beach-partied along with the rest of Dallas, there is still time to make a lasting mark on the city’s sparkling gem. Funds collected through purchase of a personalized brick via the “Pave the Way” campaign will be used by the White Rock Conservancy to keep the lake beautiful, and the bricks will be installed near the new spillway for generations to discover and enjoy. Prices range from $100-$1,000, and contributions are tax deductible. More information is available at whiterockdallas.org or by emailing centennial@whiterockdallas.org.

—CAROL TOLER

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A prized artist

“I have to write for 15 minutes every morning, or I don’t get my breakfast,” says Pulitzer-nominated author and Casa Linda resident David Menefee. “I learned early on, if you just write a page a day for a year, you’ll end up with a book.” Menefee’s methods have proven fruitful. With 15 book titles under his belt and more content generated on a daily basis, this neighborhood writer has penned everything from newspaper and magazine articles to novels, non-fiction books and screenplays. The former Dallas Times Herald and Parade writer with a deep-rooted love for the silent movie era recently was nominated for a Pulitzer for his non-fiction book “Wally: The True Wallace Reid Story”. With a forward from wellrespected Turner Classic Movies’ host Robert Osborne, “Wally” thoroughly chronicles the life of Reid, one of the

silent movie era’s most celebrated actors. “Ever since I saw my first silent film at 13 years old, I have been entranced by this era,” Menefee says. “The stars of this time were much larger than what we see today; their popularity was universal because they communicated in a variety of languages through subtitles. The reason that many may know of Mary Pickford or Charlie Chaplin but not of Wallace Reid is because, unfortunately, many of his films have been lost over time but his stardom was just as large as the others.” The book contains more than 200 rare photographs, most of which were restored by Menefee himself. “I enjoy photo restoration because it’s a relaxing break from writing,” says Menefee, who works

from his Casa Linda home. Next he is working on the “Margo Cranston” detective mystery series — a mental vacation wrought with imagination, as Menefee describes it. Menefee always has multiple writing projects brewing, and the process appears seamless for this seasoned writer. This is probably because he has truly found his niche. “The transition from periodical writing to book writing was not easy at first, and I could wallpaper my home with all of the rejections I got ... but the difference between writing articles and writing books — and the thing that I like most — is permanence. Books come back to haunt you,” Menefee says.

“The stars of this time were much larger than what we see today; their popularity was universal because they communicated in a variety of languages through subtitles.”

—MEGHAN RINEY

Smarter Real Estate

settling in

Beginning this month, some neighbors will move into a new home with a lake view never before enjoyed from a livingroom window. The six-story Overlook at C.C. Young offers 108 senior (age 55 plus) living units with huge windows overlooking White Rock Lake (not to mention spacious quarters, restaurants, a park and a beauty shop that will also be opened to the public). When the Overlook at C.C. Young was announced, not everyone in the neighborhood was excited about the proposed eight-story project. Recently appointed C.C. Young president and CEO Kent Shields was the operations manager at the time. “A tall building like that was unprecedented in the area, and a few of our neighbors were concerned that if we were approved, high rises would start popping up. Like those people, we are concerned about the lake and the park. We decided that, really, the answer was to improve communication. We reminded people that C.C. Young has been in Dallas since 1922; we’ve been at this location since 1963. We are invested in this neighborhood and don’t want to build anything that would detract from it.” Though there were some naysayers,

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C.C. Young enjoyed the support of most of the community and the current residents, Shields says. “Most of the neighborhood supported the project 80 percent of our residents are from the Lakewood and Lake Highlands areas. They want to be here because this is home. We are, in a way, obligated to build a place for these residents to live,” Shields says. “And the support from the existing residents for the project was overwhelming. When the city council held the zoning hearing, so many of our residents wanted to attend that we chartered three buses. They filled that little room. In the end, it was approved for six stories rather than eight.” A few years later, some of the opponents have had a change of heart, Shields says. “I am happy to report that some of those who were most concerned are now some of our biggest supporters. In fact, one of the women who voiced the most concern [has moved] her parent in.”

—Christina hughes BaBB

LeArN more about the Overlook and other residences and services at C.C. Young at ccyoung.org, or call the residential living department at 214.874.7474.

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BENJAMIN HAGER

a career launch

“Aidan is always taking things apart. For him, it’s just play,” says Lu Ann Shank of her son Aidan’s penchant for inventing. But neither she nor Aidan, who will be a Woodrow Wilson High School junior this fall, ever expected this “play” to pay off the way it has. Aidan’s invention of a T-shirt launcher-type instrument has landed him a plane ticket to New York and a chance to win $10,000 at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in October. What began as an assignment in his Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) class at school has turned out to be potentially life-changing. Aidan’s inspirational teacher, Tom Crabb, charged each student with creating a business plan, and Aidan took it a step further by creating a business plan for his original invention. Aidan initially invented what he calls his “cheer launcher” when he heard that his former teacher, the cheerleading sponsor, desperately needed something that could launch the squad’s spirit shells, which are candy-filled toilet paper tubes. He initially tried using PVC and hot glue; it didn’t work, but it got him thinking. The final prototype is a toy that has the ability to propel. It’s a cross bow and a slingshot made from PVC, and it can send the cheerleaders’ spirit shells flying. Armed with his trusty launcher and a PowerPoint business plan, Aidan made it through round after round of judges in the citywide and regional NFTE competitions. These wins earned him $1,000 and two weeks of entrepreneur camp this summer at the University of Texas-Dallas. “I’ve learned how school subjects connect to the real world ... like how English is good for public speaking, and math can help you run a business,” Aidan says. But the big prize may be only a few months away. If he wins, Aidan plans to put the money toward his patent and trademark. Eventually he wants to sell the cheer launchers to squads all over, each launcher uniquely painted in school colors. “I want to learn machining and molding and get access to more materials and tools,” Aidan says. “I want to make more stuff and be an inventor.”

—MEGHAN RINEY

out&about

08.20.11 LAW JAM 3 $25-$36

They‘re not quitting their day jobs, but on Aug. 20, area attorneys and judges will showcase their musical talents and rock the stage of the Granada Theater. All comprising legal folk, seven bands — including Big Wheel, The Usuals, Black Dirt Tango, The Catdaddies, Blue Collar Crime, The Wrecking Crew and Texas Rock Association — will perform to benefit the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program. The organization, a joint effort between the Dallas Bar Association and Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, offers pro bono legal assistance to those who could not otherwise afford counsel. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and tickets are available online for $25 or $36 after Aug. 6. 3524 Greenville, 214.824.9933, dbalawjam.org

07.30-08.28 DALLAS

CITYSCAPE EXHIBIT $12-$15 An exhibit at the Museum of Nature and Science features a replica of the Dallas skyline made exclusively from LEGO bricks. After marveling at the Dallas skyscrapers (and even Cowboys Stadium), visitors can try their hand at their own LEGO constructions. 1318 S. Second, natureandscience.org

08.01-08.31 DOLLAR DAYS $1 Instead of the usual $12 for adults and $8 for kids, admission to the Dallas Arboretum is only a buck all month long. Be prepared to pay extra for parking. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 8525 Garland Road, 214.515.6500, dallasarboretum.org

—LAURA CHUCKRAY

08.03 MAYOR’S SUMMER READING

PROGRAM FREE The Lakewood Library will host two events for the young and the young at heart. At 10:30 a.m., spy magician James Wand will perform followed by a presentation by Urban Bee Wranglers at 2 p.m. 6121 Worth, 214.670.1376

08.03 THE FIXX $20-$25 To celebrate its seventh anniversary, the Granada Theater features The Fixx. The English music sensation boasts three No. 1 hits and millions of albums sold over the years. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. 3524 Greenville, 214.824.9933, granadatheater.com

08.04-08.06 FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT THEATERS $12-$16 The 13th annual event closes at the Bath House Cultural Center. The festival features one-act performances by eight of the city’s independent theaters: Second Thought, Rite of Passage, MaCa, WingSpan, Triple J Productions, Churchmouse, One Thirty and Upstart. 521 E. Lawther, 214.670.8749, bathhousecultural.com

08.10 DALLAS STORYTELLING GUILD MEETING FREE On the second Wednesday of each month, members of the Dallas Storytelling Guild gather to share stories at The Point at C.C. Young retirement community. 4847 W. Lawther, dallasstorytelling.org

08.13 & 08.27 WHITE ROCK LOCAL MARKET FREE Located behind Green Spot Market & fuels, the market hosts local vendors with wares ranging from seasonal fruits to fresh breads to handmade jewelry on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. 702 N. Buckner, whiterocklocalmarket.com

08.14 THE HOTTEST HALF $40-$75 Run On Texas presents The Hottest Half 10k and half marathon at White Rock Lake. The course begins at 7:30 a.m. from Norbuck Park, and organizers promise plenty of water to be stationed along the path. Registration costs $65 for the half or $40 for the 10k before Aug. 10, when prices increase to $75 and $45, respectively. E. Northwest Highway & Buckner, hottesthalf.com

08.17 DAYLIGHT TO DARKNESS The 5-mile Daylight to Darkness race at White Rock Lake starts at 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Bath House Cultural Center. Those interested in participating can register at Run On Texas at 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane, #114. Registration closes 10 minutes before the race. 500 E. Lawther, White Rock Lake, 972.231.1111, runontexas.com

08.20 DEEP ELLUM OUTDOOR MARKET FREE Take a stroll through the booths of this monthly event, which features handmade crafts, vintage items, live music and food vendors. 2820 Indiana, 972.898.9227, deepellummarket.com

08.26-08.28 LAKEWOOD SUMMER ARTS FAIRE $1-$2

Lakewood United Methodist Church hosts a fine arts show, live music, children’s entertainment and more. Tickets are $2 for ages 13 & up, $1 for ages 4-12, and free for children younger than 4. 2443 Abrams, 214.823.9623, lakewoodsummerartsfaire.org

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Delicious

A guide to dining & drinking in our neighborhood

DIVE VIBES

MExI cal I Do ES n’t look lIkE M uch from the outside, but inside this neighborhood dive are cheap eats and a friendly, low-key atmosphere. “You don’t have to wait an hour and half for a table,” owner Justin Morales says. “We want people to come in here and eat and get to know the neighborhood. You can even come in here and get a table for one and not feel weird about it.” His dad, Joshua, opened Mexicali in the shopping center at Northwest Highway and Jupiter 13 years ago, having worked in some of Dallas’ major Tex-Mex restaurants such as El Chico. He applied some of that knowledge to his own place. “We’re small, but we’re standing on their shoulders,” Morales says. “We use chili in a lot of our food. We just do Tex-Mex — not Mexican. Mexican tends to be just tacos with cilantro.” Popular dishes include quesadillas, fajitas and nachos. Mexicali also continues the Dallas tradition of the $4.50 enchilada special on Wednesdays — cheaper than most fast-food joints. In fact, there’s a $4.50 lunch special every day of the week. The most expensive items on the lunch menu are fajitas, which top out at a whopping $6.75. —Emily

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ASIAN MINT $$ OD FB WB Our Highland Park location, The Mint, offers an array of Asian-fused cuisine, specializing in Bangkok style dishes. We feature farm fresh ingredients, beautifully presented, coupled with a chic atmosphere and friendly service. Happy Hour is 5pm-6:30pm Mon.-Fri. – all beers and house wines are $3; $2 off appetizers, soups & salads. 4246 Oak Lawn Ave. 214.219.6469. The Asian Mint, along with its fused and sushi menus, also offers one of the best dessert bars in Dallas. 11617 N. Central Expwy. 214.363.6655. www.themintdallas.com

BACK COUNTRY BBQ $ WB Over 30 years of Texas-style BBQ. Family dining - 8 different meats, variety of homemade vegetables. Complete catering & custom cooking. Beer, wine, margaritas. 6940 Greenville Ave. 214.696.6940.

PIZZA LOUNGE $$ OD FB Voted Dallas best late night restaurant 2010 ! Pizza LOUNGE offers their own unique, made-from-scratch recipes featuring fresh made pizza dough and sauce. Appetizers, salads and deserts are also an option in their eclectic, funky atmosphere as you listen to off beat tunes. Open 11am. 7 days a week till late late night at 841 exposition ave, Dallas. 214.887.6900. Pizzaloungedallas.com and on facebook.

TEX MEX GRILL $ WB If you are looking for great Tex-Mex dining at reasonable prices try Tex Mex Grill and Cafe at the corner of Walnut Hill Lane and Plano Rd. Everything on the menu is quickly prepared using fresh ingredients. Lunch specials all day, everyday $4.99 with this ad. Private Party room, seats 40 people. Adult beverages are limited to margaritas and beer. Catering beginning at $6.50 per person. New Hours: Mon - Thurs 11 am - 9 pm, Fri - Sat 11 am - 10 pm CLOSED

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Wine drinkers are creatures of habit. Once we find like, it’s almost impossible to get us to try something different. That’s one reason why the wine business spends so much time and money on marketing gimmicks, cute wine labels and the like. They know how difficult it is to overcome our lethargy.

But wine should not be that way. There are, at best guess, more than 15,000 different wines on sale in the United States, so it’s not like we don’t have a lot of choices. And there is plenty of quality within that quantity. Wine, whether cheap or expensive, sweet or dry, red or white, has never been better.

Nevertheless, how many times have we said, “But like that,” when someone has suggested we try something new. I’m no different in that regard, and it sometimes takes all my professionalism to taste a wine I’m not going to like.

So, this month, try something that you don’t like. What’s the worst thing that can happen? You’ll discover a new wine? Here are a few suggestions:

Rene Barbier Mediterranean Red ($6). This red blend from Spain doesn’t have the bitter tannins and harsh acid of many red wines. In fact, chill this you’ll wonder why you didn’t try it before.

Too many wine drinkers know Texas wine stinks, even if they’ve never tried it. That’s open minded, isn’t it? Becker’s reserve merlot ($18), which won a gold medal at the recent Lone Star International, should change most minds. And this recommendation comes from someone who doesn’t much care for merlot.

Cupcake’s riesling from Washington ($12), another gold medal winner at Lone Star. It’s not sweet like white zinfandel, but the sweetness is a pleasant part of the wine.

—JEFF SIEGEL

WITH YOUR WINE

Grilled black bean burritos

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Yes, in moderation — a glass or two a day. Researchers still aren’t quite sure what all the benefits are and what causes them, but they seem to be centered around your heart and come from a compound called reseveratrol. Red wine seems to produce more resveratrol than white wine.

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A GRAY MATTER

Forty years ago, the Dallas Independent School District forcibly desegregated its schools. Many involved in the painful, frustrating and necessary process, which lasted more than three decades, are still around to share their stories.

NTIL 40 YEARS AGO THIS FALL, black students living in Dallas were relegated to a small portion of the city’s schools. The rest were reserved for white students. Even though the U.S.Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit outlawed segregation by race 17 years earlier, Dallas public schools hadn’t fully heard the message.

In 1971, however, after plenty of lip-service but little concrete action from public school administrators, a federal judge forced black and white students to integrate through busing.

It didn’t take long for the fallout to begin. Lives were disrupted. Students and parents threatened each other. Families both black and white fled their neighborhoods for suburban and private schools.

This story isn’t an attempt to analyze that history-altering process. Instead, 40 years after desegregation began, key neighborhood residents involved in the process look back on those years and tell us in their own words what the changes meant to them, our neighborhood and our city.

(Interviews have been edited and condensed.)

Ed Cloutman was beginning his career as an attorney in Dallas when Sam Tasby walked into his office in 1970 saying he wanted his two sons to be allowed to attend their neighborhood school. Cloutman filed the lawsuit and spent the next 33 years defending the cause of Tasby and all minority families and children in the Dallas school district. Cloutman lives in the Lakewood area and still practices law, spending most of his time representing labor cases.

CLOUTMAN: I grew up in Louisiana, and I never attended a school with African American children in it until I got to college. It was not a big deal where I grew up, just one of those things that was there. My parents were reasonably progressive for the time. There was lots of boisterous language about the early civil rights activists who would ride the busses or sit at the lunch counter, and mother and daddy would say, ‘Look, this is going to take a while, and there will be a lot of things said you shouldn’t believe wholeheartedly, and it will be awhile before our Negro friends are allowed to participate in the things we do, but it’s coming, so you should never talk badly about these friends.’ And there wasn’t any talk in my house for fear of my mother and my daddy. Those were unusual times. Different now, thank god.

Robert H. Thomas began representing the Dallas school district in the desegregation case in 1980, when the original attorney had to resign due to health issues. Thomas and his wife, Gail — currently the CEO of the Trinity Trust Foundation — live in Dallas, and he is a partner emeritus at Strasburger law firm.

THOMAS: The first case was Brown v. Topeka and was handed down in about 1954.TheSupreme Court said segregated public schools are unconstitutional. And nothing happened, actually. It just fell on deaf ears around the country. And then a couple of years later, the Supreme Courthandeddownanotherdecision that said, “We really mean it. You’ve got to desegregate the schools and do it with all deliberate speed.” Well, speed is in the eye of the beholder.

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Bob Johnston is an Adamson High School graduate, class of ’59, and taught at the school from 1962 to 1969. In 1970 he began working in the Dallas ISD communications department, and later became the board secretary for 17 years then special assistant to the superintendent from 1998 to 2000. He lives near White Rock Lake.

JOHNSTON: We had had a couple of court orders before 1971. One in 1955 — it wasn’t any big thing; it didn’t contain a lot of changes — and then a stair-step order in the late ’60s where we were to desegregate grade by grade beginning with the first grade and doing a grade a year. Then they came back and changed that, and we kept the stair-step, but it started in the high schools. Then they filed a new suit, and that brought about the big order in ’71.

CLOUTMAN: Mr. Tasby walked into my office in West Dallas in summer of ’70. It was late summer, and kids had gone back to school. His kids, Eddie Mitchell TasbyandPhillipWayneTasby,were then being assigned to Sequoyah Middle School and Pinkston High School, and he thought it was not fair because there were nearer schools to his home, and no buses available — they had to ride the city bus at his expense. He was a working guy. We started talking to other people, and by October, we had filed the lawsuit.

THOMAS: You knowthedifference between state and federal courts? People electjudges in thestatecourts,and judges in federal courts are appointed for a lifetime. That’s a major difference. So if

Jan Sander s is the widow of Barefoot Sanders, the federal judge who took over the desegregation court case in 1981. Sanders still lives in Dallas and remains active in the community.

SANDERS: The thing was that we had Jim Crow laws that were discriminatory, and from those laws we have the heritage — the culture of discrimination that affirmed those laws. People tolerated that this is just the way we live together — we have colored water fountains and white water fountains, we have colored waiting rooms and white waiting rooms, we have black schools and white schools. These were the cultures that emerged from the law. The culture might change but the law is static, so that’s what had to change in the courts. Some people have said, well, the community finally changed enough to accept this change, but the law part of it was very important. We are a nation of laws. People’s whims and prejudices come and go with the wind. They’re not as established as the law is, and the way our government is set up is to respect the law.

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a judge wants to get reelected, he’s not going to say, “We’re going to desegregate schools.”There were a few in California who did, but for the most part, certainly in the South, the state court judges said, “Huh-uh, can’t be done.” They would have been voted out the next election. So it wasn’t too long until the liberal lawyers figured out that the only place to force desegregation was in the federal courts.

CLOUTMAN: We were real sure we were going to win the initial round. The schools were well out of compliance with what the Supreme Court had said at the time. A huge round of cases were decided by the Supreme Court the year of our trial, and they were sort of the benchmarks: “You’ve got to do this, and you’ve got to do

it now. You can’t wait any longer.”

THOMAS: TheTasby case was filed in Judge Mac Taylor’s court, and he didn’t know what to do with it. You won’t believe this, but the school district says, “Well, if we want to have these students go to schoolwitheachother,whydon’twe install televisions in each classroom so schools in South Dallas can hook up with North Dallas classrooms, and they can conduct desegregation that way?” Is that not classy?

CLOUTMAN: It was $25 million just to install the cameras and the screens. Today that’d be closer to a half a billion, given inflation. We got that stopped in aboutaweek.TheplanJudgeTaylor [later] adopted involved a fair amount of

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busing for high school and middle school students and was sending some of the poorest kids from South Dallas and West Dallas into North Dallas schools where the economies were like night and day. They had more money, they had afterschool programs — it was sort of an invasion of sacred space by kids who were so poor and were not made to feel welcome.

JOHNSTON: Whenbusingstarted, thesuperintendentatthetime,Nolan Estes, had all of the central office administratorsgettheirschoolbusdriver’s licenses, and the first big school day of the busing order, he drove a school bus himself. [Estes] had hired monitors who rode the buses with the kids from South Dallas and then worked at the schools when they got out there so the kids knew somebody from their neighborhood. Dr. Estes also integrated leadership at the schools.Hebroughtinprincipalsand assistant principals of other ethnicities than all white, so that helped facilitate desegregation, too. One reason we used somanymonitorswasbecausethere were lots of folks in the black community who didn’t like the idea of their kids being bused out. They wanted integration, but they feared what would happen at the end of that bus ride, or whether or not they would get on the bus and go out to the school only to be put in a separate class. And that happened sometimes until somebody would find out about it and straighten it out.

CLOUTMAN: It was a horrible atmosphere for kids of all colors because it was organized mayhem in schools. The atmospheres were allowed by principals to fester. It was sort of like, “You want integration? I’ll show you integration.” Kids at Hillcrest, kids at Spruce were getting into constant fights. “This is the right thing; we’re going to do it,” was not something you heard from teachers and principals. That sort of thing happened for four years, and Dallas was growing then, and people were basically being told, “Don’t locate in the Dallas ISD because they have busing.” And it worked. It wasn’t so much we had white flight, but no white in-migration, and as white kids graduated, there was nobody to replace them. People with school-age children were not locating here.

SANDERS: Some of the very respected African American leaders were for busing, and at the end of it, they were against it. Why should these kids ride all the way across town to go to school with kids

down the street?

CLOUTMAN: The plan that was on the ground just wasn’t all that good, and that’s why we had appealed all of it. You argue these cases to three different judges, and one of the judges had gotten rather ill and just wouldn’t decide anything, so the case was just sitting [in appeals] from 1971 to 1975 — four school years and that led to a lot of uncertainty and led to a lot of people leaving the district.

THOMAS: One of the things that made it difficult was that we had such a large African-Americanpopulationsouthof Interstate 30 and none north of Interstate 30, so it made it very difficult to mix bodies or teachers or anything without crossing the expressway. That’s a historical fact and a historical problem we had with desegregation because of the long distance between blacks and whites.

CLOUTMAN: I was surprised by the amount of resistance. You read about it in a lot of places, but it seemed to dissipate, even in the Deep South. We were still dealing with it 10 years in. I guess you just can’t underestimate the racism in some people’s hearts. It’s just a hard thing to measure.

WOODROW AND LONG

In 1966, while most Dallasschools remained segregated, J.L. LongMiddle School, then an eighth- and ninth-grade junior high, began welcoming black students. Long and Woodrow alums from the late ’60s and ’70s still refer to the schools as being “naturally” integrated or desegregated, and the federal courts agreed with that assessment in their rulings.

Dennis Roe is a ’71 Woodrow graduate who lives in Dallas and is the secretary of the Woodrow Wilson High School Alumni Association.

ROE: When I started high school in 10th-grade, that was my first real experience with desegregation, as far as going to school with African-Americans. I lived in the Buckner Terrace area off St. Francis, Jim Miller and I-30. It was 100 percent white.The blacks we went to school with at Woodrow basically came in from a small areabetweenFairParkandInterstate 30, which was Highway 67 back then. Woodrow was naturally integrated, so we never had busing there.

[Integration]wasabigdeal,andit wasn’t.To a lot of the kids, it didn’t really matter. I know some parents who moved out of our neighborhood and into the

Bryan Adams [High School] attendance zone. There were parents who were very redneckandveryracistwho said, “I don’t want my kids to go to school with blacks.” It was a short-term solution. They eventually had to move out of town if they wanted to avoid it.

A lot of people adopted [integration] because of one person — a fellow by the name of John Paul McCrumbly. He lived on Gurley, a little street that runs north-south from I-30 to Fair Park. He still lives there today.

Jeff Patton attended Lipscomb Elementary while John Paul McCrumbly was at O.M. Roberts. They both found themselves at J.L. Long Junior High in fall 1966 and wound up being inseparable friends. The ’71 Woodrow graduates still live in the neighborhood and remain close friends.

PATTON: MeandJohnPaul,wewentto J.L.Longtheyeartheystartedintegrationin Dallas. I went to Lipscomb Elementary. Lakewood Elementary is the cliquish little elementary school to go to, so if you didn’t go to Lakewood, they don’t

know you at Long. So me and John Paul, we didn’t know anyone, so we just became friends.

MCCRUMBLY: When we got started, we just were kids going into a new environment. We didn’t have it so hard like some of the others. We didn’t have a lot of fights or that kind of stuff. There weren’t but 27 blacks at the time, so we got along pretty well. We just kind of blended in.

PATTON: There was never a minute’s trouble with integration at Long and Woodrow because John Paul was accepted, and John Paul was the sweetest person you’ve ever met. He’s the calmest, the gentlest, and he was the biggest human being anyone had ever seen. Here we are coming into J.L. Long Junior HighSchool, and the big guy in our group may weigh 150 pounds, and John Paul was 220, 6-feet-2-inches and fast as lightning.

ROE: He was so big, nobody could tackle him. He would drag three or four

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Jeff Patton and John Paul McCrumbly

guys over the goal line with him. And because of that one player, the blacks seemed to become very adopted at Long and eventually at Woodrow. At that time, we had only 35-40 blacks across grades 10-12. [John Paul] was sort of the rallying point of the blacks at our school because of his great athleticism something that had not been seen in our parts, ever. He played on the varsity team his sophomore year, which at that time was unheard of, but he was so good the coach moved him up. I played with John Paul, and we went to playoffs and almost played [the] state [championship]. All the blacks rallied around him, all the coaches loved him, all the players loved him. We didn’t treat him any differently than we treated ourselves. He was a great guy — fun to be around, very articulate and smart.

PATTON: John Paul, the reason he didn’t have any trouble was because he was John Paul — just a good human being. And he’s the football hero, and that helps you get accepted. And then the other big part was that Joe Geary, a gigantically prominent lawyer in Dallas [and former city councilman], and Henry Wade, the district attorney, had him over at their houses.

During his years at Woodrow, John Paul McCrumbly played alongside Kim Wade, son of longtime Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade, and spent time at the Wade family farm. This photo is from the Aug. 16, 1971, Dallas Morning News

A FRIEND OF MINE WAS DOING THIS IN MISSISSIPPI, ANDI WROTE HIM [IN 1970] AND TOLD HIM WE WERE DOING IT, AND HE SAID, “WELL, GREAT. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT’S GOING TO TAKE?” I THOUGHT, TRIAL BY SUMMER,ANAPPEAL BY NEXT YEAR, SHOULD BE DONE IN FIVE YEARS.

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33 YEARS — 1970-2003. Ed

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MCCRUMBLY: One time, I think I had a funeral to go to in junior high school, but we had a game, and I stayed atHenryWade’shouse. I met Mr. Wade through his wife, Mrs. Wade. We were at a football practice. I didn’t know who the Wades were, thentheyfinallytoldme whathewas. Mr. Wade made sure we all stayed in line. He treated us like we were his sons, just like we were his own children.

PATTON: Mydadwas Dr. Walter H. Patton, he’s an old-time doctor here in East Dallas and was the team doctor for Woodrow for 30 years. He had his office at the corner of Columbia and Abrams. My dad, he was a real unusual person for that day and time because in the ’50s and ’60s, I’m not saying everybody was a racist, but if you weren’t a racist, you kept your mouth

shut because the racists were mean and belligerent. My dad, he wouldn’t listen to any of that. We took John Paul to Wilshire Baptist Church — a Southern Baptist church that never had a black person in it, and we sat on the second row. After that we went to Lakewood Country Club for dinner. My dad got a three-page letter from Lakewood Country Club saying, “We appreciate your sympathy and empathy, but don’t do it at Lakewood Country Club.” There wasn’t no one who would take John Paul McCrumbly to Lakewood Country Club in 1968 but my father. That was the key — that three major players in the Lakewood area treated him like family. Anytime I went somewhere, John Paul was with me. So they knew if they invited me to a party, John Paul was with me. Because everybody didn’t have the same feelings toward blacks, I guarantee you.

ROE: I’m sure there were kids who had with the attitude of, “I’m not going to deal with them any more than I have to. They sit next to me in class, OK.”

It was just too early. It was the first year for some of these kids. You wouldn’t have seen a lot of socializing with the blacks back and forth if it wasn’t for athletics. It was a little different being in class with them. We could tell there were cultural differences and educational differences. We could tell from the clothes they wore it was a different atmosphere they came from. It took a lot of adaptation on both cultures’ part to get used to each other.

MCCRUMBLY: From what we heard about other schools, we thought there was a lot of stuff going on, but it didn’t happen at Woodrow. We all looked after each other. There wasn’t ever no squabbling. We all mixed in real good. Some of the black girls were on the drill team, and one was a majorette [in the band]. We’d go to football games and to the YMCA up the street after the football games — that was the big hangout. We partied and never had no fights or none of that. Jeff Patton and Kim Wade [Henry Wade’s son], they’d come by to pick me up, and we still socialize now.

The Dallas alliance

While the Tasby lawsuitstalledin the appellate courts, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce in 1974 created the multi-racial Dallas Alliance, which in 1975 spawned a task force charged with creating a plan to desegregate the schools.

Claire Cunningham (above, right) was president of the Dallas Council of PTAs in 1975, when she was named to the Dallas Alliance task force. She had three daughters at Lakewood Elementary and J.L. Long, and had served as PTA president of both schools. Two of Cunningham’s daughters, including CheriFlynn (above, left), wound up graduating from Skyline High School, one of the magnet schools that emerged from desegregation court orders. Flynn now teaches art at Stonewall Jackson Elementary and still lives in the neighborhood. Cunningham lives in The Cloisters subdivision off Mockingbird Lane.

Cunningham: the Dallas Alliance was a fairly powerful group of business people, mostly men. the alliance decided it would be a good idea to see if they could be a friend of the court and come up with a plan. I was named to the task force because I was white, I was a woman, and I represented the PtA. there were six blacks on the task force, and there were seven Latin-Americans and one who was American Indian. Basically, it was a seven, seven,sevenratio. We hadbooksand pages and so forth of what each school looked like. We looked at the demographics and looked at all the possibilities. the

task was to try to come up with a plan that everyone would sign off on. It was to try to influence the court to create a plan that the city would buy without riots and as peacefully as possible. there had been situations all over the united states where there were riots. Our concern here was, could we do this and not cause civil unrest that would damage the schools, the city, the business atmosphere — that was high priority. Dallas was a nice place. I liked it. I wanted it to continue to be nice.

Johnston: Dallas really desegregated differently than a lot of cities because it was calm. We never had the riots and standoffs and things like that in other cities, largely because Dr. Estes was a master at getting the community into the schools. He organized the business community and the mayor, and everybody like that understood what disruptions would do to the city and the city’s reputation for business, so they got involved.

thomas: the city fathers were very, very careful to avoid the rioting and the fightingandeverythingthatoccurred in the other cities. We never lost a bond election. Every time, people voted to tax themselves because the city fathers said, “the school district needs this money, and we’re going to have a good integrated school district. We didn’t want an integratedschooldistrict,butwe’regoing to spend the money to do it.” It was a deliberateeffortonthepartofevery councilman and mayor and school board member to work together.

JOHNSTON: Now,we had people show up at school board meetings who complained and picketed and things like that, but it wasn’t like Little Rock where they called out the National Guard and that sort of thing. People remember it mostly through the media and the effect it had on their kids. If they had kids in school while busing was going on, they weren’t too wild about it.

CUNNINGHAM: I didn’twantany busing at all, if I could prevent it. And our final plan to leave kindergarten through third-grade in their local schools and only start busing in fourth-grade was a unique plan. It’s obvious what we were trying to do is get parents to start in a school and see what a good school it was. It didn’t work all the way — we had a lot of white flight — but it worked pretty well in Lakewood. People kept their kids in there at least through grade three.

FLYNN: That’swhyLakehill [PreparatorySchool]started. We had friends who said, “We’re not doing that.”

JOHNSTON: That’s really when we saw the first church schools spring up, and a lot of churches started schools or let schools be housed in their facilities. There hadn’t been much of that prior to the time the court order started. The mindset was that the black kids were roughandviolentanddidn’tbehave, and people feared that, even though it basically wasn’t true, but it’s hard to convince somebody.

FLYNN: I had left my white elementary of Lakewood and had spent two years at Long, fully integrated. So to be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t see what the big deal was. My younger sister at Lakewood had a differentexperience.Whatthey did at Lakewood, they didn’t bus kids in,buttheybusedteachersin.Long and Woodrow didn’t have kids bused in because it was naturally integrated, so it didn’t really have an effect on me.

CUNNINGHAM: There was no busing out of Lakewood, just busing into Lakewood.

FLYNN: And see, that was the difference — which neighborhoods were being asked to move. That part you wouldn’t get away with now. I don’t think there were any white kids bused to South Oak Cliff High School. You have to remember at the time, whites were the majority in this district.

CUNNINGHAM: The purpose of the magnet schools was to try to convince

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SANDERS: Our secondbabywas bornthedayofBrownv.Boardof Education,sothentheDISDfinally had a magnet program that she went to school at that was brand new 16 or 17 years later. So the deliberate speed was not very speedy in Dallas.

CUNNINGHAM: [The plan] didn’t totally succeed. There still were schools where, even despite the integration orders, some of the teachers weren’t that qualified initially. [Black teachers] were transferred

to try to integrate the facilities, and we discovered why some of the schools they were in were poor schools because they reallyweren’tveryqualified.Thatwas one of the early moves that happened at Lakewood, and Jill still fusses. She was in seventh grade when the court order went in, and she had, in one of her classes, just a horrible teacher. Fortunately, I taught English and I could back it up, but a lot of people missed out.

As I sat on that task force, I spent many a nightthinkingselfishly,“How is this going to affect Long, Lakewood, Woodrow?” I worriedaboutit a lot. I remember making a comment that I felt like I had been through labor negotiations or something every time I came home from one of those task force meetings because the negotiations were very tricky. The interesting part of that task force is that the original chairman, Jack Lowe [Sr.],hadtheconceptthatweshould never vote on anything, that we ought to talk until we came to a consensus. That was sometimes difficult, but it kept us from dividing down lines all the time. My comment has always been no one in the roomgoteverythingtheywanted,and they got a lot of stuff they didn’t want, but it was something we could all agree on.

INTEGRATION IN THE 1980S

Though Judge Taylor adopted the task force’s plan in 1976, the case was far from over.

THOMAS: I started in about 1980. The lawyer [before me] representing the Dallas publicschools,hisnamewasWarren Whitham, and he was a staunch segrega-

In protest of the Dallas school board’s consideration to close Woodrow and J.L. Long, students argue that their schools are already integrated, in this Sept. 7, 1975, Dallas Morning News photo.

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tionist. He wasn’t going to give up and let the judge tell his district what to do, and he just fought and fought and fought, and he had a heart attack, and his doctor told him, “Warren, you’ve got to get rid of this case. this case is going to kill you.”

I was president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1978, and we bought the Belo Mansion on 2101 Ross Avenue. It was an empty big home that had been a funeral home, but the lawyers of Dallas thought it would be neat to lease it as our headquarters.

By 1980, it was finished, and one of my partners said, “Bud, you owe us a lot of time. You’ve had a lot of time off; you’ve really got to get to work on something.”

And I said, “Anything you need done, I’m willing.” And about a month later he called me into his office and says, “Warren Whitham has had a heart attack, and they’ve asked our firm if we can furnish a lawyer to handle the case, and I think you’re the right guy for the job.” And I said, “Oh crap.”

I went to see Warren Whitham at his home, and I said, “Warren, I’m Bob thomas, and I’m going to try to take your place in the desegregation case.” And he says, “Alright but let me tell you this: Fight, fight, fight (coughing), fight …” and his wife comes in, and says, “I’m sorry, Mr. thomas, but you’ll have to leave.”

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And he said, “I’m so glad you asked me this question. No. Desegregation is coming. It’s here. It’s 1980, and we were told in 1954 that it had to be done. We want it done, but we want it done with a degree of sensitivity. We don’t want to alienate our employees, and the constituents and taxpayers of Dallas. We have to do this in an orderly manner where we don’t lose students, we don’t lose teachers, and we build up a fine desegregated school system.”

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Cloutman: A friend of mine was doing this in Mississippi, and I wrote him [in 1970] and told him we were doing it, and he said, ‘Well, great. How long do you think it’s going to take?’ I thought, trial by summer, an appeal by next year, should be done in five years. Wrong. 33 years — 1970-2003. Bob thomas and I were friends to the end in this case, mostly because we learned it was easier to get along than fuss at the courthouses.

thomas: Barefoot sanders came in just a little after I did because Judge taylor was in ill health, and he had to retire. Judge taylor called a meeting of all the federal judges in his office, and he said, “gentlemen, I want one of you judges to take it over for me. Which one of you wants to do it?” silence. “OK, tell you what we’re going to do.” He took six slips of paper with the names of the six judges in the room and put them in his hat and said, “I’m going to pull a name out of the hat, and you’re the new judge in the desegregation case.” And he pulls out the name and says, “Barefoot sanders.”

sanders: the truth of it was that none of the judges wanted it. Barefoot was, I can’t say delighted, but I would say eager to take it on. He saw it as an opportunity and went after it. Barefoot was very proud of his role in this case because he was born and raised in Dallas and educated in the public schools and saw the importance of individual rights. He had served in Washington to pass the voting rights act of 1965; he was in the Department of Justice at the time.

Cloutman: When we started this, we truly had two school systems in town. the black kids were going to school in inferior buildings with threeeditions-ago schoolbooks.

sanders: there in south Dallas they had bought the property of an unsuccessful shopping mall on the east side of freeway. It was just always fraught with problems and leaks because it wasn’t built as a school. I remember that they didn’t have a fence along the freeway where the playground was, and if a ball or something went off the field they could step into a freeway, so Barefoot just insisted they build a fence. they kept saying they would build it, they would build it. It wasn’t done until he insisted on it, and that was frustrating

about the case. The resistance was like taking a big locomotive and turning it around in another direction.

THOMAS: We had a bunch of black students in shabby buildings. I mean really crummy buildings. They were colored schools, and they had not been kept up.The roof leaked, and it was cold, and the campus wasn’t big enough, so the court said to supervise the buildings.

SANDERS: A lot of people in the community simply distilled the integration-segregation issue with students sitting in the classroom, and certainly that was a huge, important part of it, but that wasn’t all of it. A lot of the inequities in the Dallas ISD had to do with staff, facilities, boundaries. They were the vestiges of the Jim Crow laws, and so there were a lot of facets for him as the judge to get right.

JOHNSTON: In many cities, they were just body mixing. All of our orders were educational orders. Black kids at that time had poor test scores as it related to the white kids, and the goal in getting them together was to provide a quality education for all and raise the test scores as a result. The feeling we tried to get across to the community was the education element was important and necessary; the body mixing was an effect.

THOMAS: It finally dawned on the blacks, “We don’t want to ride the bus, either. Why don’t we just have better schools in our neighborhood?” So slowly the idea began to crystallize that maybe it’s better to have good schools than integrated schools. They would rather have more money spent on those black schools and have good teachers than ride the bus to someplace where they were not welcome.

So we created something called “learning centers” in 1984 and established three South Dallas learning centers that were approved by the court of appeals, and then established some West Dallas learning centers for the Hispanics. And see, the federal judge had control over the pocketbook.They could catch up education, if you will. They had computers before any of the white kids had computers.

CLOUTMAN: We supported the notion to have busing dismissed when learning centers got created and schools got expanded to offer a choice of desegregating options to kids. The loss of public support in parts of town and the fact it took so damn long nothing that takes

that long can not have some wheels falling off the bus, and they did.

THOMAS: Busing may have worked in Charlotte, N.C., and it might work in a little town like Mineola, Texas, but the problems are so much bigger in bigger cities.

JOHNSTON: There were school board members at the time who grew to resent the extra amounts of money being spent in other parts of town, but Nolan Estes and Linus Wright, both of their attitudes were: “It’s a court order, we don’t have a choice, we’re going to do it, and we’re going to do it right.” Nolan was a positive person — still is to this day — and I never heard him say a negative word about it, and I was with him for 10 years.

SANDERS: There was built, before [Barefoot] had the case, the Skyline magnet school, and there was not a counterpart in South Dallas. And that was the balance, that a second one should be built making it more equal for all the students to be able to opt into those magnets. So that was the origin of Townview [talented and gifted magnet school], and again the DISD drug their feet, and he made clear that he

wasn’t going to let go of the case until that was accomplished. He kept hoping he could finish the case and make a final ruling, and then the DISD would do something bad, like the way they would draw their school district lines that were designed to discriminate.

THOMAS: If [Barefoot Sanders] wanted to talk to the superintendent, he would call me and say, “Get the superintendent in my office this afternoon. I readallofthesequotesinthe Dallas Morning News opposing things I have ordered.” And then the next time I met with my client, he would say, “Will you tell the judge to stop reading the Dallas Morning News ?”

SANDERS: Barefoot was in public life from the time we were married. He was a state legislator, U.S. attorney. I grew up in my adulthood with the idea that we were subject to some hate calls. I just didn’t let it bother me.

People would call the court and say, “Well, you just tell Judge Sanders that I’m never going to vote for him again,” because they’d been a friend and supporter of Barefoot Sanders, not knowing that a fed-

Jeff Patton

THERE WAS NEVER A MINUTE’STROUBLE WITH INTEGRATION ATLONG AND WOODROW BECAUSE JOHN PAUL WAS ACCEPTED, AND JOHN PAUL WAS THE SWEETESTPERSON YOU’VE EVER MET ... AND HE WAS THE BIGGEST HUMAN BEING ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN.

John Paul McCrumbly easily mixes in the Woodrow Wilson High School social crowd in this photo from the 1968-69 yearbook.

eral judge was not elected. [Laughing] Hetookitas,“they’regoingtobe disappointed.” He always said, “I’ve got people mad at me on both sides. I guess I must be doing something right.”

THOMAS: the lawsuitwasfiled against the school district and the superintendent and every member of the school board, so all of these individuals were subject to the court jurisdiction, and if you were elected to the school board or hired as the superintendent, you were part of the lawsuit.

We brought in an African American superintendentfromIllinois,andhe was a niceguy,andhisnamewas Marvin Edwards. He lasted about two years, then he said, “I am going back to Illinois. this is the craziest damn city I’ve ever seen.” He was good, but he didn’t like all of this infighting.

We had a reception over at the [Fair Park] Hall of state to say goodbye and farewell and thanks for being with us, and I went through the receiving line and said, “thank you, Dr. Edwards. It was a pleasure working with you.”

And he said, “Bob, the first thing I want you to do tomorrow is write to the court and tell them it’s no longer tasby vs. Edwards. get my name out of this case.”

DiD busing Desegregate DisD?

When BarefootSandersdismissed the Tasby case in2003, Dallas ISD had an entirely different demographic makeup — 6 percent white, 31 percent black and 61 percent Hispanic, compared to the respective 54-36-10 percent makeup, in 1971.

THOMAS: Did it work? that’s a good question. It complies with the law. the dismissalcouldhavebeenappealed, but [sanders] was very careful in writing his order of dismissal and was very well-respected and was a liberal judge, and everybody knew that it had been dismissedbyBarefoot sandersand therefore it was going to stay dismissed. He wrote in his opinion, “I have done my best, but Dallas is a growing city, a changing city, and everything changes.”

ClOuTMAn: It worked moreso than not, of that I’m pretty sure. I say that again from the perspective of the children that we were representing. I don’t think it hurt any white kids any more than they had to get over the first hurdles, the bumps, and that probably did cause a distraction that was unnecessary, but what it did for black kids and brown kids,

it required, in a whole lot of detail, the district to do things that otherwise it wouldn’t have done.

THOMAS: We’ve had white flight and you can’t force people to stay in schools. There’s Plano, there’s Richardson, there’s Duncanville and DeSoto, so now we’re only 5 percent white and 55 percent Hispanic, and [Sanders] said, “What more can I do? I’ve held onto the white that we do have — Woodrow Wilson is integrated, and to a large extent W.T. White — and that’s all I think can be done.” And now we have to learn with what we have, the reality of life, which is you can’t force people to ride a bus. If they don’t want to ride a bus, they’ll leave.

JOHNSTON: Whentheytalkedabout“white flight” in that whole period, it was a handy thing to say it was because of desegregation, but a lot of it was demographics — older people buy homes, they age out, die off and new younger ones move in who have kids, so the schools turn over. This just sped up the process.

CLOUTMAN: It is partly economic. If you can’t afford a house in Lakewood, you’re probably not

going to live there. But there was a time when [former mayor] Ron Kirk and people like Ron Kirk couldn’t have lived there, and while that has changed some, it hasn’t changed a lot. Dallas is slow to change that.

JOHNSTON: I think it would have happened anyway as people aged in the neighborhood, but at the time, nobody realized that. It kind of reminds me of 20 years ago, Dr. Bill Webster, our chief demographer, said in the year 2010, the district would be majority Hispanic.

Nobody believed it then, but it happened a lot sooner than that. That’s really been the biggest change in the schools — the rapid growth in the Hispanic population. When I first started in the school administration, I think there was probably a 15-20 percent Hispanic population, and now it’s almost 80 percent.

CLOUTMAN: We were the first district in the state to have bilingual education — not because the state required it, but the federal court did. [Desegregation] produced the magnet schools, which are some of the best we’ve ever had academic-wise and art-wise.

THOMAS: Some people say we went too fast,

This Dallas Morning News map from the March 11, 1976, newspaper shows the racial makeup of five areas in Dallas ISD in an article examining the latest busing plan.

some people say we went too slow, but we got to the destination, and desegregation got to be equal opportunity, equal education. It’s clearly the most worthwhile thing I’ve ever been involved in. To shepherd this thing to where it is today, and it ain’t perfect, but it’s peaceful and it’s quiet.

PATTON: I’mnotgoingtosayit’s gone, but in the realm of most people’s reality, there is no more racism. We used to play poker at Lakewood Country Club with these 30-year-old guys, and they don’t even know what racism is, so it’s a dying breed.

I tell people it’s kind of like going fishing:There’s never been a person born a racist, never been a person born a fisherman.Somebody had to teach him to fish, and somebody had to teach him to hate. So if it’s dying out, there won’t be no more rookies.

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it is so fresh that she has yet to see a full report on the cause of death. Amy Anderson, joined by 9-year-old daughter bryn, lost her baby, Zane, to sudden infant death syndrome and, just last year, her only brother to suicide. hank tonnesen, a 99-year-old white rock area resident, still cries when he talks about dottie, his wife of 74 years who died in 2007.

sadness is indeed present as they share their stories, but it mingles with smiles, laughter and love.

this is as it should be, says laurie taylor, co-founder, along with hibdon, of the grief and

loss Center of North texas.

“Agony and joy can live in the heart at the same time,” taylor says. “You don’t get over it. t ime does not heal it. instead you learn to live with the loss and it becomes part of the fabric of your life.”

taylor is a grief and loss specialist certified in thanatology, the study of death, dying and bereavement. more important, group members will tell you, she is passionate about helping others who are reeling from the loss of a loved one. she and hibdon started the center because they believe it is a much-needed public service.

“eachperson’sgriefprocessisdifferent,” taylor says. “while there are commonalities when people mourn the loss of a loved one, it’s a very personal experience. our goal with the center is to act as a companion and provide support throughout the grieving process.”

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LongbeforeorganizingtheGrief and Loss Center, Taylor was an angel to suffering church members. When 3-month-oldZaneAndersondied, Taylor was the first person to show up at the Anderson home. “It made such a difference,” Amy Anderson says. “She led me through the most basic steps.” Taylor also sat in the room with little Zane’s body until the coroner arrived “It was such an honor,” Taylor says of the experience.

Itisimportant,saysTaylor,that people be allowed to grieve. “Amy has a big, beautiful, healthy baby boy — she wakes up one day and he is dead in his crib. Tell her to be strong? No. She does not have to be strong.”

Tonnesen,whosewifeDottiehas been gone for four years, says that he just last week cleared the clothes from her closet. It’s OK, says Taylor. Sometimes we want to rush to help people rid themselves of the memory of a lost loved one, but that is not necessary, she explains. “Keep the clothes, the photos, the memories, as long as you want to”, she says.

ShepointsoutthatTonnesen’s is a typeof“disenfranchisedgrief”. This, she explains, is the sort of grief thatweoftendon’tacknowledge. Disenfranchisedgriefmightinclude the loss of an elderly spouse, grandparents, a miscarriage, or the death of a gay partner, she says. “We need to honor this grief — can you imagine losing the person who was one half of your life for 74 years and then having people discount your loss because she ‘had a long life’ or they ‘had a good long life together’?”

Tonneson, who met Laurie Taylor at a church-related event, says that after he shared his story with her, she sent

him cards every week for two years. His voice cracks as he recalls the kindness. “I don’t know if I would have made it without them,” Tonneson says of the group. “It opened my eyes to the pain others were feeling too. I thought I had problems, but there were other people suffering more than me.”

Yvette Patten says she felt as if she had been hit by a brick, when her son Preston died suddenly in his bed. Taylor sat beside Yvette the first day as she wrote her boy’s obituary. Patten says she was in a “block of ice” that only began to thaw when she started interacting with other group members.

AFTER THE CASSEROLES

Taylor explains the usual progression ofeventsfollowingdeath:Peopleare moved to help. They show up with casseroles and put the memorial services ontheircalendars,offercondolences they perform these necessary actions with a goodheart andthenthey return their “grief box” to the shelf and move on with their lives. When all the activity settles, the person who has lost a loved one has barely begun to thaw out. “They don’t even have a grief box,” she says. “Their grief is scattered ... they are all over the place.”

She aimsto “companion”people through their lives, which have been permanently changed by their losses.

Mostpeople,includingverygoodhearted ones, don’t understand grief and therefore might do or say hurtful things.

Yvette Patten recalls people turning the other way when they saw her in the grocerystore,probablybecausethey didn’t know what to say. Or they might talk to her but avoid the topic of her late son Preston altogether.

“I want to hear my child’s name,” she says.

There are three safe things you can say to a bereaved person, Taylor says (and Yvette Patten nods in agreement):

1. “I love you.” 2. “I am so sorry.” 3. “I am praying for you”, or “you are in my thoughts.”

THE GIFT

Those who have experienced tremendous loss may be best equipped to help others going through the same. Take JenniferHibdon,forexample.Her father, Jim, was a respected professor at the University of Oklahoma. Mom,

French, M.D. Is one of a very few urologists in North Texas to have completed a fellowship in male infertility and microsurgery.

Mina,hadservedasanOklahoma staterepresentative.Theyhadbeen married 65 years when they shockingly decided to end their own lives. Only one year later, Hibdon is a founder, board member and active participant in the Grief and Loss Center.

You don’t get over something like this, she says, but rather you learn how to weave the experience into your life.

She is a publicist, if you will, for the organization, because she wants others to understand that it is possible to get through the pain. Most people don’thave a placetoturn,Taylor points out, and she notes that unresolved grief can be a cause of many problems in life.

TheGrief and Loss Center of North Texas offers groups that deal with suicide, death of a spouse, parent or child and even living losses such as divorce. There are usually just a few people in each group, separated by type of experience.

Taylor also works with children. Bryn Anderson, 9, whose brother Zane died whenhewas a baby,alsolosther uncle, Mom Amy’s brother, to suicide. “Knowing that other people have been though it makes it easier,” Bryn says.

“I worry about how these things will

Classes are free. All groups will meet at Wilshire Baptist Church, 4316 Abrams. For more information, contact Laurie Taylor at 214-354-0669, or by e-mail at ltaylor@ mygriefandloss.org.

shape her as she grows,” Amy Anderson says, “but I feel confident about what Laurie has been able to do for her.”

Taylor insists that it is her honor to walk with the group members in their darkhoursandtogettosharethe memory of loved-ones lost. “I feel like I know Dottie Tonnesen, and Mina and Jim Hibdon,”

Many of the dead, Preston, little Zane andAmyAnderson’sbrotherBrad Newsom, she knew personally.

This is not an exact science, Anderson points out. “When it comes to dealing with death, there is no manual. That is why this center is so important.”

VISITTHE GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER

Creative Water Gardens

WOODROW IB WORLD SCHOOL ... NOWWHAT?

International designation really neighborhood schools

WoodrowWilsonHighSchool spenttwoyearsandtensofthousandsofdollars(mostofitdonations)tobecomeanInternational World School.

Whentheschoolyearstartsin about 120 freshmen will enter Woodrowas“pre-IB”,meaningthey to take challenging courses and an IB diploma. The curriculum so tough and the standards so high only about 80 percent of them will the IB diploma.

what is the point of an IB educa-

is about developing critical thinksays Kathy Scherler, who oversees the IB program at Woodrow. “They’re not interested in a student who can regurgitate a fact.”

Standardizedtestingandlearning how to navigate a multiple-choice test has led students to neglect some of those critical-thinking skills, she says.

An IB diploma, which students earn during their junior and senior years, requires students to choose three higher-level courses and three standard-level courses each semester. So students who enjoy math, for example, can take IB courses in higher math. And they can take standard courses — equivalent to Advanced Placement classes — say, in history.

They also must write a 4,000-word essay on the topic of their choice and perform 150 hours of community service. And at the end of each class, they take written exams graded by IB examiners throughout the world. So even if students pass classes on their grade

reports, they must still pass the exam to earn IB credit.

An IB diploma comes with up to 24 hours of credit at some colleges, so an IB graduate potentially can enter college as a sophomore. students who finish the coursework but aren’t awarded an IB diploma can still receive an IB certificateforexamscompletedand apply for credit at college, too.

District 2 school board member Mike Morath graduated with an IB diploma from garlandHigh schoolin1995. He was one of about 15 students in his class to receive the diploma, and another 100 or so received certificates, he says.

“the difference, more than anything else, is writing,” he says. “My senior year, I wasturningout a four-page paper every week.”

After studying days, nights and weekends on end for IB exams, the workload in college seemed like a breeze, he says. And there was a financial payoff.

Morathbecame a NationalMerit scholar and finished college in two and a half years, which he figures saved about $20,000.

“Iwasabletodomorethanmy peers,” he says. “I took 18 hours and worked20hours a week. thework wasn’t any different than what I had been doing [in high school].”

the demanding coursework is not for everyone, and it can be distressing even for the brightest kids.

tara Woodruff of Forest Hills says her daughter, who will be a sophomore this school year, is “an over-achiever”. And as such, she says she was a little disappointed to see Bs on her report card for the first time after she took several pre-IB courses at Woodrow.

“WithIB,there’s a projectduein every course every six weeks,” Woodruff says. “But the cool thing is, if they’re learningaboutAfricaingeography, they’re also learning about it in history and literature. It’s a holistic approach to learning.”

Being an IB World school also is good public relations for the school, and it already has drawn students from private schools.

suzanne Bass had enrolled her son Nathan in private schools his entire life until last school year, when she says a friend convinced her to “take a risk” on the pre-IB program at Woodrow.

The curriculumischallengingfor Nathan, who took a physics class over thesummer,shesays.ButBasssays the advantages of IB can be even greater than those of a top-notch private school. Students are encouraged to travel, and they can communicate online with IB students worldwide.

“It’s a tough,toughprogram.You’ve really got to dedicate yourself to do the work,” Bass says. “But you’re getting to know students all over the world. He will reaptremendousbenefitsandhave a worldwide connection.”

J.L. Long Middle School, which feeds to Woodrow, has been accepted as a candidate in the IB Middle Years Program. The Middle Years Program is not a curriculum so much as a philosophy. Teachers throughout the school will begin grooming students to be IB learners. That is, they will try to instill in them the traits required for success in IB. According to the International Baccalaureate Organization, successfulIBstudentsare:inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced and reflective. Scherler is workingwithneighborhoodelementary schools to get the IB Early Years Program, “so we can get a full continuum of IB,” she says.

IB costs students about $500 a year in testing and registration fees, but the nonprofitWoodrowCommunityFoundation raisesmoneyforstudentswhocannot afford the fees. The foundation also helps fund Woodrow’s costs to maintain the IB program, which are about $10,000 a year. AndScherlerreceiveshelpfromIBto write and apply for grants to help pay for IB-specific teacher training.

Onependinggrant,fromthe U.S. DepartmentofEducation,wouldallow any student at Woodrow to take two IB courses per semester and receive an IB Career Certificate in the study area of their choice.

“We’re trying to open the door wider for all Woodrow students to reach their goals past high school,” Scherler says.

Even when students don’t achieve an IB diploma, studies show that students who take IB courses are more likely to attend college and score higher on college entrance exams such as the S.A.T.

“We dohavekidswhocomeinand struggle,”Scherlersays.“Butbecause they struggle, they learn to achieve.”

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Remodeled 1926 Tudor overlooking Golf Course

a MorMon in tHe WHite House?

DO HOUSES OF WORSHIp AFFECT HOUSES OF STATE ?

“No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

So states the last clause of Article VI of the United States Constitution.

But so stating does not make it so. Candidates of any religion or none cannot be prohibited from running for office on the strength of this law, but voters are not thereby obligated to disregard a candidate’s faith when entering the voting booth. Voters themselves must be convinced that a candidate’s religion does or doesn’t matter enough to compel their support or withhold it.

Two Mormon candidates have entered the 2012 presidential sweepstakes. Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts, is a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has even served as bishop (lay pastor — Mormons do not have paid clergy) of his local church from 1982-1985. Jon Huntsman, formerly both governor of Utah and ambassador to China, talks of his Mormon “roots” and deflects critics by saying he draws inspiration from many faiths.

Nevertheless, American voters are questioning what a Mormon in the White House would mean for a republic that has been theoretically open to all religions or none but practically closed to all but variants of Christians.

Should it matter that a person’s religious beliefs vary from the norm of the country’s religious beliefs? It might, but how we frame the matter might be more important.

When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he addressed the fears of many Americans that his faith would demand that he defer to the pope over the Constitution. In a speech in Texas to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, he said he believed “in an America where religious intolerance will one day end.” He laid out an approach focused on the separation of church and state, balancing religion and politics in a way that satisfied enough voters in the day but has frustrated others since that day because it seems to privatize religious belief in a way that leaves it irrelevant in the public square.

Faith matters. It matters publicly as well as privately, because while from the spiritual side faith is a divine gift and not a human achievement, from the human side it is the way we all believers and nonbelievers alike — attempt to arrange the furniture in the room of reality to make life most livable. So we want our political leaders to have a vision for America that coincides enough with our Constitutional ideals that we will stay tethered to that stake.

Leadership is about vision, and faith informs the way we envision the future. This is true for orthodox Christians, heterodox Christians, Jews of all stripes, Mormons, Muslims, religions of any name and atheists, too. So whatever questions we raise about how Mormon beliefs will impact a U.S presidency, we should ask about any other candidate.

For instance, many Christians are concerned about those tenets of Mormonism that seems strange, such as celestial marriage, baptism for the dead, and the origin and authority of the Book of Mormon. Fair enough. But the strangeness of doctrine is not unique to Mormons.

Jeff Weiss, former religion writer for the Dallas Morning News, coined this maxim: Every religion seems sane to insiders and crazy to outsiders. But in an increasingly pluralistic country, religious outsiders will have a greater say in who gets elected to public office.

The trick for any candidate then is to show how his or her core religious beliefs will inform a vision of America that considers every citizen first-class. We should want a president who goes beyond Kennedy’s hope for religious tolerance to liberty and justice for all.

Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits.” Fruits are the visible outcome of a vital faith. We may better judge candidates by their record in houses of state than by their doctrine in houses of worship.

BaP tist

laKeside BaPtist / 9150 Garland Rd / 214.324.1425

pastor Jeff Donnell / Worship 10:50 am www.lbc-dallas.org

WilsHire BaPtist / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100

pastor George A. Mason ph.D. / Worship 8:30 & 11:00am

Bible Study 9:40 am / www.wilshirebc.org

disciPles of cHrist

e ast dallas cHristian cHurcH / 629 N. peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / THE TABLE Worship Gathering 9:30 am

Worship 8:30 & 10:50 am / Rev. Deborah Morgan / www.edcc.org

ePiscoPal

tHe catHedral cHurcH of st. MattHeW / 5100 Ross Ave.

Sunday Traditional: 8:00 & 10:30 am / Christian Education 9:30 am

Hispanic Service 12:30 / 214.823.8134 / www.episcopalcathedral.org

tHe ePiscoPal cHurcH of tHe ascension / 8787 Greenville Ave.

Sunday School 9:00 am / Worship 8:00 & 10:15 am 214.340.4196 / more at www.ascensiondallas.org

l ut H eran

first united lutHeran cHurcH / 6202 E Mockingbird Ln.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am / Call for class schedule. 214.821.5929 / www.dallaslutheran.org

Zion lutHeran cHurcH & scHool / 6121 E Lovers Ln.

Sunday: Sunday School 9:15 am, Worship 8:00 am, 10:30 am, & 6:00 pm / 214.363.1639 / www.ziondallas.org

M et Hodist

MunGer Place cHurcH / 5200 Bryan St / 214.823.9929

Contemporary Worship, Sundays, 11:00 am

Additional information and events at mungerplacechurch.org

WHite rocK united MetHodist / www.wrumc.org

1450 Oldgate Lane / 214.324.3661

Sunday Worship 10:50 am / Rev. George Fisk

Pres B yterian

nortHParK PresByterian cHurcH / 214.363.5457 9555 N. Central Expwy. / www.northparkpres.org

pastor: Rev. Brent Barry / 8:30 & 11:00 am Sunday Services

nortHridGe PresByterian cHurcH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Welcomes you to Worship

Summer Schedule: Worship 10:00 am / Childcare provided.

st. andreW’s PresByterian / Skillman & Monticello Rev. Rob Leischner. / www.standrewsdallas.org

214.821.9989 / Sunday School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am

George Mason is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church. the Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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Art for A cAuSE

Northridge Presbyterian Church held an art show for The Stew Pot. The Lakewood church donates almost 25 percent of its operating costs to nonprofits including The Stew Pot, which serves as a resource center for homeless and at-risk people in Dallas. About $3,000 in art was sold. Among the artists were Steven m cGee and Joseph Leon h aynes , pictured here with Northridge associate pastor Susan Sytsma b rat

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THE BURGLAR HURLED THE BIKE OVER THE FENCE.

Miriam Quinn likes riding bikes with her kids. It’s a great recreational activity she and her family can do together. They might pedal through their own Lakewood Heights neighborhood or head to White Rock Lake for an afternoon cruising around the beautiful surroundings.

“It’s recreational,” Quinn says of their

The Victim: Miriam Quinn

The Crime: Burglary of a garage

Date: Wednesday, June 1

Time: 2:15 p.m.

Location: 6700 block of Kenwood

pastime. “We go to White Rock on Saturday orSunday afternoons. Unfortunately, we can’t go now until I get a new bike.”

That’s because her bike was recently stolen by quite the brazen criminal.

“We were in the house, and he leaped the front fence and went into the garage,” she says. “We were getting ready to go out to an event, and that’s why the garage was open.”

Quinn says her fence is between 8 and 10 feet high, and scaling it would be quite an effort. She says the man then grabbed her

Trek bike (valued at $400), threw it over the fence, and vaulted over the fence himself.

“I still don’t know how they got over the fence,” she says. “The police said it was crazy that he could jump that high.”

The man had been seen in the neighborhood previously, Quinn says, and police began looking for him in the area.

“The worst part is not the bike, it’s that some strange person was in your house,” she says. “I guess the lesson is never, ever leave your garage door open unless you’re right there next to it.”

Sgt. Keitric Jones of the Northeast Patrol Division says an arrest hasn’t been made in the case, and no similar crimes have been reported in the area since the beginning of the year. Jones offer some advice if residents see someone out of place in your neighborhood.

“The best thing to do in a case like this is to notify all the neighbors about the suspicious person. That is why it is important to have a good crime watch group,” he says. “Keeping the neighborhood informed and aware makes it very difficult for a person looking to commit some type of crime to be successful.” —SEAN CHAFFIN

AMOUNT OF DAMAGE DONE TO A PONTIAC G6AFTERSOMEONE POURED BLEACH ON THE FRONTEND OF THE CAR OVERNIGHT AT ANAPARTMENT IN THE 6000 BLOCK OF UNIVERSITY $500

07.06

5400

SOURCE: Dallas Police Department

community

HENDASALMERON of Lakewood succeeded in getting a bill she had been pushing since January turned into a law. “Henda’s Law” requires mammography clinics to notify patients about the risks of dense breast tissue.

DALLAS CITY PLAN COMMISSION recently approved plans for 348 high-end Tradition Senior Living apartments on the 12.8-acre site of the former Signature Point apartments on the southeast corner of Lovers Lane at Matilda. Also approved were plans for a smaller assisted living facility and a 50,000-square-foot retail pad, plus a separate 336-unit apartment complex with an underground parking garage. Another developer, Richardson-based Carbon Landmark Development, is on board to build the second apartment complex, which would not be exclusively for seniors. Plans for both apartment complexes allow for as many as four stories — 54 feet for the senior living complex and almost 57 feet for the other apartments. Setbacks, the minimum distance a building must be from the curb, are 25 feet at Lovers, 15 feet at Amesbury and 20 feet at Milton.

education

RUTH VAIL, Woodrow Wilson High School principal, has resigned to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Vail is a legacy Wildcat, having graduated from Woodrow herself. She has spent 15 years with Dallas ISD and was instrumental in bringing the International Baccalaureate (IB) program to Woodrow.

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DATE WHEN SUSPECTSFORCED THEIR WAY INTO A HOME, THEN ASSAULTED AND ROBBED THE RESIDENT AT GUNPOINT IN THE 1200 BLOCK OF ABRAMS,STEALING A $2,500 LES PAUL GUITAR ANDAN $800 SOUND MIXER ALONG WITH HIS COFFEE TABLE, WALLET AND ID

BLOCK OF EAST GRAND WHERE SOMEONE BROKE INTO A NIGHTCLUBAND TOOK A PLASMA TV AND THE CHANGE FROM THE POOL TABLE DISPENSER

ARCADIA FOOD PARK COMING SOON ON FORMER THEATRE SITE

Since the Arcadia Theatre burned down in 2005, we’ve awaited movement on this site. According to Madison Partners’ Jon Hetzel, construction begins in the next couple of months to transform this blank canvas at Greenville and Bell into a family-friendly food truck park with a vintage vibe. Six food trucks will anchor the Arcadia Food Park (think silver Airstream trailers). Madison Partners is in the process of signing three big names as we speak, one of whom we know is Twisted Root ’s Jason Boso (who’s thinking about serving rib-eye cheesesteaks under the name “Steak Me Home Tonight”). Hetzel says there have been preliminary talks with The Grape ’s Brian Luscher, but it’s far from a done deal. Regardless of who inhabits the trucks, the idea is to have a variety of food from local Dallas chefs and to keep the price point low. The trucks will sign on to serve lunch and dinner, with the option of also offering breakfast. Eventually, Hetzel believes the park will have electric cars running delivery in the neighborhood. There will be one beer and wine truck with possible frozen sangria thrown in the mix for good measure. The dog-friendly park should to be open at the beginning of next year and will also feature a large seating area and a playground. Oh, and you can’t miss it — Hetzel says the old Arcadia Theatre sign has been purchased from local collector Dan Holzschuh and will be returned to the park, in all its glory.

IS FOR LOVERS OPENS

In other Greenville news, college student respite recently turned 33. Though the lease is up on the original Greenville location, Pat Snuffer assures us he’s working with the landlord to stay put. Pho recently opened farther north on Greenville in at Greenville and Lovers. This Vietnamese café is the first restaurant from owner Diana Tang, whose parents opened Garland’s in the ’80s and most recently owned in Frisco. Dine here for healthy, authentic Vietnamese cuisine including pho, banh mi and summer rolls.

We would be remiss if we didn’t mention the recent unexpected sale of a portion Lakewood Shopping Center to Lincoln Property Company. Lincoln, which owns The Village apartment empire, bought the northeast portion of the center, centered around the Dixie House, from the Corrigan family, which built it and has owned it for more than 70 years. According to Robert Dozier, executive vice president of Lincoln Retail Group, the company has not finalized plans for renovations and hopes to have some decisions made later this year. We did notice that Yumilicious Frozen Yogurt just opened in the center, but this is the only change for now.

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a casual atmosphere. “There will be a full bar with specialty cocktails and a good selection of beer and wine,” Kenny says. “The moderately priced food menu will have fresh and seasonal offerings, with an attempt to use as many local and natural ingredients as possible. Renovations are underway, and the target opening is late August/September.” The menu is similar to that of Capitol Pub but further evolved: pork belly buns, duck fat fries, wild game flatbread and cheese plates prepared for pairing. Park’s back patio area, Bar Celine, will remain open and virtually untouched except for a name change to

COMING SOON: KROGER FRESH FARE, BINZARIO BOUTIQUE

Work just began on the new Kroger Fresh Fare grocery at Haskell and Capitol, slated for a grand opening in summer 2012. Director of affairs Kroger Southwest, Gary Huddleston, says the location was chosen to service the untapped Uptown area. Fresh Fare seems to be Kroger’s answer to HEB’s Central Market, offering a grocery experience that is more intimate with a focus on produce and chef-prepared meals. The new store will have an olive bar, tortillaria with freshly made tortillas, sushi and a mezzanine with seating for dine-in customers. Binzario is moving from Ervay to Ross. After five years on Ervay, this custom bridal and eveningwear boutique will reveal its new space at the grand opening Aug. 27. Co-owner André Belle says the new storefront will allow the boutique to stock a selection of designer gowns from Monique L’huillier, Alfred Angelo, Maggie Sottero and more. The focus will remain on custom dress design, giving each client the opportunity to walk in with a sketch, picture or just an idea of her dream dress and walk away with a reality. The price point ranges anywhere from $400 to $12,000 based on fabric selections and other variables. And if you just need a pair of jeans hemmed or a dress taken in, they do that, too.

YOGA STUDIO OPENS

A new yoga studio, has opened near Green Spot Market We’re fortunate to have a handful of wonderful yoga studios around us, but what sets this one apart is its pre-natal and “Mommy and Me” classes. Other classes include Power Flow and Yoga Flow.

NEW TACO JOINT CLAIMS TO BE ‘BORDERLESS’

PARK RESTAURANT REPLACED BY NEW CONCEPT FROM CAPITOL PUB OWNERS

Park Restaurant has decided to close, but its spot has been snapped up by the owners of Capitol Pub Owner Peter Kenny plans to turn the former Park space into , a modern, urban pub with

Velvet Taco opens this month in the former Church’s Chicken spot at Central and Henderson. In the land of muchos tacos, experienced restaurateur Mark Brezinski — of Pei Wei, Bengal Coast and more — knows that you can’t just open any old taco stand in this town. That’s why he and the folks at Front Burner Restaurants have designed Velvet Taco as the antithesis to the authentic Mexico City taqueria. The tacos at Velvet Taco are derived from a global influence, resulting in what Brezinski calls the “borderless taco”. “We have tacos with an Asian influence, Indian influence — you name it,” Brezinski says. “Our tacos appeal to a diverse crowd. That way everyone can find their favorite taco.” The menu includes calamari steak tacos with habanero pineapple salsa. Or how about the tacos with paneer and roasted tomato chutney? Velvet taco also serves breakfast tacos all day long.

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—MEGHAN RINEY

“I’ve been here for 35 years, and I’m getting older than God, so I guess that’s a good enough reason.”

Sue Sinclair, 87-year-old owner of Lakewood Lighting in Mockingbird and Abrams’ Hillside Village, when asked why she made the decision to close

You’re not in Pizza Hut anYmore

Dear Mike:

Pretty weird, huh, that our paths should cross again? You probably don’t remember, but I interviewed you about 10 years ago, when you ran Pizza Hut and I wrote for a trade magazine called Pizza Today. You didn’t seem all that thrilled to be doing the interview (though you had a very impressive office in that high-rise up on the Tollway). I’ll warn you now: Get used to doing interviews. Big-time company bosses don’t have to do many, but the mayor of the ninth-largest city in the country does them all the time. Even when the interviewers seem annoying.

That’s one of the many differences you’ll find between being mayor and running a company. It’s funny — so many people run for public office thinking that running a government is like running a business, and when they get in, they find the two have very little in common. For one thing, you actually have to pay attention to the stockholders. Which would be us, the voters. We stockholders can be persistent, even those of us who don’t have columns and blogs.

I cautioned your predecessor about this, but it didn’t make any difference. He was intent on using the city to further his political career, and look what happened. Not only are we broke, but we’re in debt up to our Calatrava bridge. Check that out when

you go over the next budget — debt service totals 13.2 percent. In 2006-2007, it was 10.6 percent. Somehow, in the middle of the worst recession in at least 40 years, we found a way to not only spend money that we didn’t have, but to spend more of it. What would have happened if you had done that at Pizza Hut?

I know your friends on the Citizens Council will tell you not to worry about this, and that everything will be fine as soon as the recession ends. But fine is a relative term. There have been tremendous structural changes in the U.S. economy, thanks to the recession and the end of the manufacturing economy. Call it an information economy or a high-tech economy or a post-modern economy, but the rules that your friends used to make their millions don’t apply anymore.

For instance, you talk about bringing

companies to Dallas. That’s fine and good, but there aren’t any companies to bring anymore, at least not in the way you mean. The days when General Motors would open a plant in Arlington with thousands of high-paying jobs are gone. These days, it’s about call centers and Walmarts and a couple of hundred minimum wage jobs. That won’t be enough to help Dallas grow.

The other problem that no one Downtown wants to notice is that the city’s growth is predicated on adding retail and residential — hence the Forward Dallas! zoning plan. Again, 10 years ago, that might have worked. But not today. The recession has changed the way Americans spend money, and keying growth to building more places to buy things is decidedly old-fashioned. Don’t take my word for it; the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that strip center vacancy rates are at their highest levels since 1990. And if you don’t believe the Journal, drive up and down Greenville Avenue north of Mockingbird. There’s a lot of Class A space there, Mike, and what do we have? Fast-food restaurants and empty storefronts. And it’s going to get worse when Walmart’s Sam’s Club leaves later this year.

I’ll tell you the same thing I told your predecessor, Mike. We’re in this together. And, regardless of what you may have heard about people like me (or may even think yourself), we each want the same things economic growth and a city that serves all of its citizens fairly. That’s not too much to ask for, is it?

Sincerely,

Jeff Siegel

Not only are we brpoke, but we’re in debt up top our Calatrava bridge. Chepck that out when you go ovepr the next budget.