2011 August Preston Hollow

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 Where the Spirit is Ageless.

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This was one of many photos in the Sept. 8, 1971, Dallas Morning News following the start of school and the beginning of busing. PHOTO BYMADELINESTEVENS

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”.

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?”

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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THE PATIO AT STRATOS

06.27.11 I know, it may seem as though patio weather has come and gone — who wants to eat outside when it’s 100-plus degrees out? I for one enjoy the summer nights, and one of the best restaurants to spend them is Statos Greek Taverna on Webb Chapel. The large patio has an upper deck, which has plenty of fans, lots of shaded greenery, white lights and HD TVs. Stratos tends to get pretty rowdy at night, so if you’re not into the belly dancing and live music, the patio is the perfect retreat. There’s also halfprice Greek wine after 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Sundays. —EMILY TOMAN

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t he city can’t possibly clean up all the graffiti that pops up on street signs and buildings every day. s o, Preston Hollow resident and attorney Jo HN Barr took matters into his own hands, covering it up on his own dime. t hat almost got him into trouble because, technically, it’s illegal paint on city property without consent. But instead of prosecuting him, city officials dubbed him Dallas’ graffiti czar. Barr isn’t fond of the authoritative title, but he does have some suggestions for the city council on how to eradicate graffiti — the responsibility, however, lies less with the government and more with its citizens.

What’s wrong with the term “graffiti czar”?

It’s counterproductive to the mission of eradicating graffiti. The very profile of a person that does graffiti falls into three categories. The first is the commercial street guy, so obviously there’s an agenda. The second is the prolific tagger who wants to put his name out there. And third is the urban artist. All of this is a counter culture outside the mainstream of society to denounce someone with power and authority. That’s the very thing they’re trying to play up against. It’s inaccurate [to call me a graffiti czar] because I have no power or authority to do anything but make suggestions to the city council. Those are the people with the power. I’m simply trying to make this place a better place to live.

You had already been cleaning up graffiti around the city. How did you go about doing that?

Burt Barr & Associates used to office out of Downtown until 2002 when I bought this building in Oak Cliff and remodeled it. We just enjoy the culture in Oak Cliff. The city does not have the resources to combat the vandalism I was witnessing. We own the whole block. We do the yard work on the block. The guys who work for me, I just told them to get in their pick-up trucks with a can of spray paint and cover up all the tagging that they found. The first month, it was a lot. Then, not as much. We did it for about four years.

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SO THE MORE YOU COVERED IT UP, THE LESS GRAFFITI THERE WAS?

Absolutely. The person putting the graffiti up only wants one thing — recognition. So, if you deprive them of that recognition by covering it up, the incentive for them to do it goes away. If you’re doing it every day, the people who are doing it have to put in more effort for not much reward.

THERE’S A MURAL ALONG FORESTLANE THAT WAS PAINTED BACK IN THE 1970S BY W.T.WHITE STUDENTS TO HELP COMBAT GRAFFITI. HOW CAN WE ENCOURAGE MORE OF THAT?

My vision is that we should offer an alternative to the tagger who aspires to be an artist — a venue where he is recognized. The main objection I have is the trespassing — doing it without consent. We would have a juried exhibition with qualified judges who can decide what is good urban art and what isn’t. Then we find places that are appropriate for the artwork. Once you start providing this to people, they have a venue. You can also recruit them to speak to young kids.

WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN OTHER CITIES DO TO HELP ERADICATE GRAFFITI?

I got on a plane and flew to New York, Philadelphia, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Phoenix ...I looked at what they were doing, and it’s a lot of what I mentioned. These ideas are not original ideas of mine.

WHERE DOES THE CITY OF DALLAS FALL SHORT?

The only programs I’m aware of are those led by a very good politician — Delia Jasso [District 1 councilman]. She has an excellent program where she goes into schools and tells young kids that it’s fundamentally wrong to write on someone else’s property. But what people need to understand is that government can’t make our town better. Only citizens can make our town better.

YOU DON’T SEE MUCH GRAFFITI IN PRESTON HOLLOW. WHYSHOULD WE CARE?

I’ll tell you why this is of interest to people in Preston Hollow. They pay higher taxes, and they pay much more of the cost of covering it up. And in order to maintain the tax base, we have to bring businesses to the community, and the vast majority of available land and emerging population is in the southern sector where graffiti is most prevalent. We should want to help clean up South Dallas and Pleasant Grove. Graffiti is a reflection of the social condition. If collectively we can get the community involved, we can make Dallas look like it did when I was a kid. It starts with HOAs and individuals. We have to change the mentality of people waiting on the government to fix their problems. This is not farfetched. If 30 people spent 30 minutes a day cleaning up graffiti, things would change tonight.

AND THAT’S NOT TOO IDEALISTIC?

Shame on the people who say that.

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the Subterranean aviators are, from left: michael rote, Brandon Schorsch, anders Elmgren and Jeff Wilke.

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE subterranean aviators

Singing songs about rebellious youth and teenage heartache, Subterranean Aviators definitely fits the rock-star profile. But these neighborhood guys have grown up a little since their first album, each coming to terms with the fact that it, well, wasn’t very good. “We were all just high-school kids messing around,” says bass player Brandon Schorsch. “Before, it was all about high-school angst and now, we explore more themes of the outside world.” The band has quite a local following — their fans raised $1,550 to help fund the next album, which has a more mature sound. Actually, it’s nothing like the previus one. The album drops late this month, plus the band landed a gig at the Dallas Music Festival Aug. 6. The group includes Hillcrest High School graduate Jeff Wilke on vocals and guitar along with former Park Cities-area residents Brandon Schorsch (bass), Michael Rote (vocals, guitar) and Anders Elmgren (drums). Wilke and Schorsch started the band in high school in 2006, later adding Rote and Elmgren. The guys started recording a few songs together in a friend’s home studio. The band made it onto a compilation CD by the local Zound Sounds School of Rock titled “Zound Sound Presents: Way Into Music, the Students Vol. 1”. They’ve kept the group going even as the members went their separate ways to college. They meet back in Dallas in the summer to perform around town. While they have a passion for their music, the guys aren’t interested in making a lot of money at it. “I just want to record stuff and give it to people,” Wilke says. —EMILY TOMAN

Subterranean Aviators performs Aug. 6 at the Prophet Bar as part of the Dallas Music Festival. TOLISTEN to the band, visit thesubterraneanaviators.com.

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... and fill the pantry for Brother Bill’s Helping Hand, which helps close the hunger gap in West Dallas. Sonny Bryan’s Smokehouse will host a drive Aug. 22-29. Guests receive 1 percent off their purchase for every one canned food item they donate, up to 20 cans. The restaurant will accept canned fruit, beans, corn, chili, tuna, chicken, stew and soup. Each week more than 220 families receive these free groceries through Brother Bill’s on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. For information, visit bbhh.org. Our neighborhood Sonny Bryan’s is at Preston and Forest.

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and support the Iris Society of Dallas, a nonprofit that promotes growing quality irises in the Dallas area and fosters communication and education to the community. North Haven Gardens will have its summer iris sale 9 a.m.-noon Aug. 6, and all proceeds benefit ISD. For more information, visit irises-dallas.org.

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... during Dallas CASA’s 15th annual Parade of Playhouses Aug. 5-21 at NorthPark Center. The event displays themed playhouses that raise awareness about abused and neglected children in foster care waiting for permanent homes. Visitors can buy raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the custom-built structures. Dallas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a nonprofit in which volunteers serve as voices for the thousands of children making their way through the Dallas County court system. For more information, visit dallascasa.org.

KNOW OF WAYS that neighbors can spend time, attend an event, or purchase or donate something to benefit a neighborhood nonprofit? Email your suggestion to launch@ advocatemag.com.

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Sure, she’s giving the photographer a getoutta-my face face, but owner CAROLANN DUFFIN insists her 4-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel BELLA is by far the sweetest girl she knows. “In spite of being born with a congenital malformed knee which keeps her from some things, she doesn’t let anything get in the way of her sweet disposition,” Duffin says.

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CAUGHT IN THE WEB

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Kyle Knight didn’t set out to be a blogger. She created the home decorating site Knight Moves in May 2009 as a way for friends and family to follow her as she settled into her new Preston Hollow home. “I have friends in L.A. and Chicago and all over, and they kept asking for photos of my new house,” Knight says. “I got tired of sending them.” It started as a closed blog that also allowed her to keep track of products and designs that she liked. Soon, other bloggers found her and promoted her stuff. People started leaving comments such as, “Where’d you get that coffee table?” and “What’s that paint color?” “People are just really curious,” Knight says. The blog not only attracted hundreds of followers, but it launched Knight’s design career. Readers began asking for her expertise — and they were willing to pay for it. She now works full-time with clients locally and across the country. Knight continues to blog about once a week, posting about trends and unique products that align with her personal design style — ideas that encourage a comfortable yet polished feel throughout a home. But it’s not a how-to blog, she says. “I don’t necessarily want to tell people what to do, but I do want to offer them some inspiration.” Knight has at least 678 followers and, although her blogging success came mostly by chance, she knows how to keep readers interested. “I was definitely an accidental blogger,” she says. “I never dreamed that anyone would actually read this thing. But to be successful, you have to write about something you’re passionate about and be c onsistent and prolific. It’s a big commitment, but it also opens you up to a cool community.”

out&about

08.28.11 JEWISH ARTS FEST $15-$20 The Jewish Community Center showcases the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of Judaism at its 13th annual Jewish Arts Fest, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. The event features a juried art and craft exhibition, which includes a range of works such as ceramics, glass, metals, gem stones, paintings and mixed media from highly acclaimed artists through the United States and Israel. Several performers will take the stage, including comedian Elon Gold who was a “Tonight Show” regular. Musicians and children’s choirs from neighborhood synagogues also will perform. The festival features four different speakers, crafts, booths from local Jewish organizations and Simcha Kosher catering. Admission is $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Children under 15 are $8-$10. Kids under 2 are free. 214.239.7115, 2301 Flora, jccdallas.org.

—E MIly ToMA n

08.05 THE LOST PINES $12$15 Uncle Calvin’s Coffeehouse presents The Lost Pines in concert at 8 p.m. The Austin-based band performs traditional bluegrass tunes. The Border Blasters will open the show. 9555 N. Central, 214.363.0044, unclecalvins.org

08.05 & 08.12 MAYOR’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM FREE The Mayor’s Summer Reading Program features two events this month at the Preston Royal Library — a fairytale puppet show at 10 a.m. Aug. 5 and a dance program at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 12. 5626 Royal, 214.670.7128

08.27 STEPHANIE’S DAY FREE NorthPark Center hosts live children’s entertainment, music and face painting 11 a.m.-4 p.m. to raise awareness about kids with autism and other special needs. 8687 N. Central, northparkcenter.com

08.28 FALL GARDENING FREE North Haven Gardens hosts a program on fall vegetable gardening at 1 p.m. Kato Dixon will explain how to grow broccoli, cilantro, dill, cauliflower and salad greens. 7700 Northaven, 214.363.5316, nhg.com

Delicious

A guide to dining & drinking in our neighborhood

all in the family

about 13 years ago, a tornado swept through North Dallas damaging everything in its path, including Kel’s Kitchen at Forest and Inwood. The roof blew off, and the cedar façade fell on top of parked cars. “It was scary,” owner Johnny Meredith says. “The place was packed, and people were still saying, ‘Where’s my hamburger?’ It didn’t faze them.” Since it opened in 1963, Kel’s has become a neighborhood institution, serving up breakfast, lunch and dinner from scratch — from staples such as chicken fried steak to less common diner fare like cheese enchiladas. Even the salad dressing is homemade, using family recipes and other ideas that are sort of “thrown together”. It all started in 1962 when Meredith’s father, a milk truck driver, decided to buy Ken’s Kitchen at Preston and Forest. He couldn’t afford a new neon sign, so he just changed one letter and thus, Kel’s Kitchen was born. Meredith started working in his dad’s restaurant at age 7. The diner relocated to Forest and Inwood in 1985. General manager Jimmie Harris has been working at Kel’s for more than 20 years and trained all the line cooks himself. “They can do this stuff in their sleep,” he says. And servers know their regulars so well they can place their orders before customers even walk in the door. Denny Kelly has been eating at Kel’s four to five times a week for the past 39 years. His favorite dish is one that probably doesn’t get as much notoriety — the oatmeal. “It’s just like my mom used to make,” Kelly says.

—Emily Toman

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three more neighborhood dives

1

M a’s Daughters’ Diner

o wned and operated by three generations, this local diner keeps it all in the family, offering made-from-scratch favorites on the cheap.

royal & harry hines

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2 Mecca

For a tried-and-true greasy spoon, try m ecca, which has been serving up home-cooked dishes since 1938. The cinnamon rolls, chicken fried steak and pies keep customers coming back.

lombardy & harry hines

214.352.0051 themeccarestaurant.com

food and wine online. Visit prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/dining.

3 Original Market Diner

Established as a drive-in in 1954, this local diner has changed hands over the years but eventually made its way back to the Greek family that started it all. Burgers, chocolate pie, milkshakes — you’ll find all the staples here.

wycliff & harry hines

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Pictured: Homemade banana pudding (right); General manager Jimmie Harris and owner Johnny Meredith (below)

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ASIAN MINT $$ODFB 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

CUPCAKE RIESLING ($12) WASHINGTON >

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 going to like.

So, this month, try something that 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 people’s 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

Another fast-food staple that is easy to make at home and actually tastes better. Not only does it pair with almost any kind of wine, but it’s a great way to use leftover rice or that can of black beans (or pinto beans) that has been sitting in the cupboard. And don’t be afraid to add chopped jalapeños, diced onion or even pitted olives.

Serves 4-6, takes 30 minutes

2 c cooked black beans

2 c cooked rice

1/2 to 1 c best quality green salsa

6 large flour tortillas, warmed

1 c grated cheese

1. Mix all ingredients, except the salsa and tortillas, in a bowl. Add the salsa a bit at a time, until you have a thick mixture that you can spoon onto the tortillas.

2.Spoon 1/6 of the mixture into the center of a tortilla. Wrap the tortilla into a log shape, folding the bottom over the mixture, then tucking in each side, and then folding the top over all.

3. Put a tablespoon of olive oil in a non-stick skillet, and warm over medium heat. Grill the burritos, a couple at a time, in the skillet, foldside down first. Cook on each side for 2 or 3 minutes or until each side is brown.

ask the WINE GUY?

ARE THERE REALLY HEALTH BENEFITS TO DRINKING WINE?

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.

—JEFF SIEGEL

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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 AGOTHISFALL, 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

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 — the president of the Trinity Trust Foundation — live in Bluffview, and he is a partner emeritus at Strasburger law firm.

THOMAS: The first case was Brown v. Topeka and was handed down in 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 Court handed down another decision 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.

Jan Sanders is the widow of Barefoot Sanders, the federal judge who assumed the desegregation court case in 1981. Their four children attended Hillcrest High School. Sanders still lives in Preston Hollow and remains active in the community.

SANDERS: Our second baby was born the day of Brown v. Board of Education, so then the DISD finally 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. 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.

Steve Kenny moved to Dallas from New York in 1966 and began attending Dealey Elementary. He had just finished his ninth-grade year at Franklin Junior High (now Middle School) when the desegregation order was implemented. Kenny graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1974, worked for the Dallas Morning News for many years and recently moved back to New York, where he works for the New York Times

KENNY: When it became clear that the federal government wanted schools to desegregate, after 10 years of Brown vs. Board of Education and we’re talking true segregation in ’64, when black kids could only go to five high schools in Dallas — Lincoln, Roosevelt, Madison, Pinkston and Booker T. Washington, which was at one point the only black school in the city — and that was by law, no matter where they lived. That was going to have to end.

Ed Cloutman was beginning hiscareer as an attorney 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 allminorityfamilies and children in the Dallas school district.Cloutmanstill practices law in Dallas, spending most of his time representing labor cases.

CLOUTMAN: Mr. Tasby walked intomyofficeinWestDallas in the summer of ’70. It was latesummer,andkidshad gone back to school. His kids, Eddie Mitchell Tasby and Phillip Wayne Tasby, 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 knowthe difference between state and federal courts? People elect judges in the state courts, and judges in federal courts are appointed for a lifetime.That’s a major difference. So if a judgewantstogetreelected,he’snot going to say, “We’re going to desegregate schools.” He 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 wererealsurewe 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.”

KENNY: Basically the ruling was sort of the beginning of the end of the traditional white oligarchy that controlled Dallas, that they couldn’t stop this plan. The white business community went by the name the “Citizens Council”, which was almost a political party. The Citizens Council ran a slate of candidates every race, and they almost always won. And of course, the Citizens Council was basically all white.

What happened was the Citizens Council went to the leaders of the black community and said, “We’re going to end segregation in Dallas, but we’re going to do it very peacefully, and we want your cooperation. We are going to integrate the schools by neighborhood.”

So if you were a black student living in the Hillcrest district, you could go to Hillcrest. But when this lawsuit was filed, it said this integrationwasn’tgoodenoughbecause the schools that were in minority neighborhoods were inferior to schools in the white neighborhoods,which I thinkwastrue. The buildings were crumbling, the teachers weren’t as good, and the money wasn’t going there like it was to the white schools.

I think then there was nothing that the CitizensCouncilcoulddotostopthat change. Now I don’t think anyone would arguethatbusinessinterestsstill run

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Dallas, but this old-timey club of the white Citizens Council, I think basically this was sort of the end of their total control over the city.

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 school with each other, why don’t we 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 about a week.

KENNY: I remember the summer of 1971 as a very complicated summer. After Dallas schools were ruled segregated and had to be changed, the court came up with a plan, and it was a very radical plan where almost every high school in the city would have been affected in one way or another.

At the time, every high school had these six or seven feeder schools. I was a George B. Dealey [Elementary] student at Royal and Hillcrest, and under that plan, Dealey students would have been bused to Crozier Tech, which is a school that no longer exists but was part of the original Dallas High School in downtown Dallas. And in my neighborhood, Dealey people, there was just utter panic, and the vast majority of parents said they were not going to allow their children to go to Crozier Tech, which was a mostly minority school.

Ken Barth graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1972. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Sparkman and have served in their neighborhood schools by starting science clubs, being active in booster clubs and heading up PTAs. Their son graduated from W.T. White and their daughter from Booker T. Washington.

BARTH: Thomas Jefferson at the time was integrated — 60 percent white, 20 percent black and 20 percent Hispanic would be just a wild guess.There was a pocket of homes between Lemmon, Inwood, Lovers and Mockingbird, and that pocket was already in the Thomas Jefferson district. They attended Sudie Williams Elementary, then Cary Junior High.

To be honest with you, it kind of flew under our radar. I don’t really remember many of the parents being that upset about it. The biggest thing that

happened to us is we used to be known as the Thomas Jefferson Rebels, and then we changed it to Thomas Jefferson Patriots. I remember that being a little bit of a stink.

But you know, I remember it all being pretty damn smooth, to be honest with you. But once it happened, you started noticing the white population moving away quickly.

KENNY: Overnight, applications to Greenhill, St. Mark’s, Hockaday, all the private schools just went through the roof, and a couple of new private schools were born overnight. People were just not going to allow their children to be bused to what they considered inferior schools where there was a minority population.

Marty French graduated from W.T. White in 1979, and she is the school’s current PTA president. Her son graduated from DISD’s Townview magnet high school, and her daughter graduated from W.T. White.

FRENCH: My husband’s family lived in the Withers area. He would have continued in the Dallas schools, but he had a younger sister, and his parents were some of the founding parents of Trinity Christian Academy. When Trinity was started, they needed more students to justify the school, so my husband wound up going to Trinity.

Kathy Bateman attended Dealey Elementary, then entered FranklinJunior High when busing began at the school. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1976. Her four sons attended W.T. White High School, and the youngest graduated this past spring.

BATEMAN: Some of my friends’ parents decided that they weren’t going to go to Franklin; they were going to go to private school. I had friends who were the first child, and they left and went to a Christian school or Hockaday. I think my parents were anticipating the change, but they weren’t going to send me somewhere else. My mom volunteered at both the junior high and high school when I was there, so she

Black students are bused to W.T. White High School in this March 22, 1976 Dallas Morning News photo.

A COUPLE OF NEW PRIVATE SCHOOLS WERE BORN OVERNIGHT. PEOPLE WERE JUST NOT GOING TO ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO BEBUSED TO WHAT THEY CONSIDERED INFERIOR SCHOOLS WHERE THERE WAS A MINORITY POPULATION.

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was always around. I think maybe that was her way of making sure everything was OK.

Kenny: someone asked my mother if I would be able to walk the neighborhood with a petition to get people to sign against [the plan], which I did do at the time. I was 14, about to turn 15, and I didn’t want to go to Crozier tech. I was looking forward to my 10thgrade year at Hillcrest.

I was being raised by a single mother and had a brother and a sister, and we didn’t have any money even though we lived in Hillcrest, which was considered a rich district so there was no option of private schoolforme. I reallydidn’tthink through the politics or anything about this, and for several weeks, I walked theneighborhoodwiththispetition and almost everyone I knew did sign, but those that didn’t were quite vocal and tried to educate me about why they thought the ruling wasn’t such a bad thing because Dallas was terribly segregated,andschoolsinminority neighborhoods were inferior, and this needed to change.

then what eventually happened was the original plan was overturned. they came up with an alternative plan, which the court accepted, and this plan would basically exempt a lot of the white schools from having to get on buses. Hillcrest feeder schools could still all go to Hillcrest. then the plan was an elementary from the North Dallas [High school] district, Ray, that served the projects in the area around Lemmon Avenue and Hall street on the east side of Central (which have been mostly replaced since then), those kids were bused to Hillcrest.

Cloutman: theplanJudge tayloradopted involved a fair amount of 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.

Kenny: When the kids from Ray did get to Hillcrest, it was really a clash of cultures. Not a lot of kids from North Dallas had ever been around a lot of black people. I think a lot of families in NorthDallashad a black maid that would come once ortwice a week,butyou didn’treallyassociate a lot with black people; you just didn’t see them a lot, andyoudidn’tseemany

Hispanics, either. It was a very segregated, “Leave It to Beaver” white neighborhood.

I look back now, and we were a little concerned, but it was our high school, and I think how terrified the kids from Ray must have been to get on that bus and go to Hillcrest High school and to be this very small group of kids who not only were of a different race in an era where that was much more important than it is now, but they also came from a totally different culture and class background. Hillcrest had a reputation of being the Jewish high school. It was known among other schools as “Hebrew High”, and Franklin was called “Little Israel”.

Bob Johnston began working in the Dallas ISD communications department in 1970, and was the board secretary for 17 years and special assistant to the superintendent from1998 to 2000.

Johnston: When busing started, the superintendent at the time, Nolan Estes, had all of the central office administrators get their school bus driver’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.

One reason we used so many monitors was because there 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.

Kenny: Within Hillcrest there wasn’t a lot of mixing, except maybe on the football team, because there was an internal segregation in Hillcrest even after busing. You had your accelerated classes, what would be known as AP now, and those were still almost all white. Black kids within Hillcrest still were encouraged to take shop instead of debate.

Bateman: I remember at Franklin, you didn’t go to the bathroom during class periods. You only went in between. I remember there were lots of fights, and I guess I was surprised that there were a lot of girl fights. It was kind of frightening because you were going from this elementary school environment where you were all in a cocoon, and then you were thrown in this mix in junior high where there was all this animosity.

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Kenny: there were fights, and especially concern among girls. I remember policewomen being stationed in the girls’ restrooms because there would be fights there. this was the year of the big afros, and the black kids would have these really long-teethed metal combs, which I think they called picks, which they would use to fluff up their afros. this sounds funny, but there was a fear among a lot of the white kids that they could use these as weapons, and there was a debate as to whether they should be allowed to use these in school.

Bateman: there was just a lot of frustration. the kids who were bused into Franklin weren’t happy because they were having to take a bus all the way across town, and they were separated from their friends. they were mad, and I knew why they were mad — because they didn’t feel like they should have to be bused across town.

I look back at it, and I think, “they should have been

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able to get the same education, and no one should have been forced to go to either place.” But I realize that was part of integration because everyone lived in separate neighborhoods.

thomas: One of the things that made it difficult was that we had such a large African American population south of 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.

Bateman: I think those first few years were really difficult because no one was really meshing yet, and that took a few years to happen. In high school, it was a lot better. Everybody seemed to get along, and we were adjusting to mixing, but I still felt it wasn’t right for people to be bused across town.

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: It was a horrible atmosphere for kids of all colors because it was organized mayhem in schools. the atmospheres were allowed by

Segregation had to end, or at leaSt thiSSort of unequal treatment of minority education had to end somehow, and if dallaS waSn’t going to Stop it or change it on itS own, the federal government had to act. But we’re still feeling repercussions today.

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.

“Thisistherightthing;we’regoing to do it,” was not something you heard from teachers and principals. 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.

KENNY: Dallas in the ’60s and early ’70s was a very odd place, maybe the oddest city in the country because of the Kennedy assassination. Dallas had this reputation for being a very, very right-wing city,andaftertheKennedyassassination, the whole city was blamed for killing Kennedy.

Dallaswas a pariahcity.Economic development just stopped. No one wanted to move here. It was vilified throughout

the country, that there was something rampant about Dallas that had caused Kennedy to be killed here. So the white business community went out of their way then to try to protect Dallas from some of the upheavals that occurred throughout the country in the rest of the ’60s.

THOMAS: The city fathers were very, very careful to avoid the rioting and the fighting and everything that occurred 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 integrated school district, but we’re going to spend the money to do it.” It was a deliberate effort on the part of every councilman and mayor and school board member to work together.

KENNY: There were riots in Detroit, there were riots in Newark, and there were lots of riots everywhere, but there were no riots in Dallas. Dallas didn’t want any of that seen on national TV. Dallas already had a problem with public relations, and Dallas has always been sensitive to its public relations, so there was going to be none of that.

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.

Mary “Petey” Goode’s oldest daughter entered Nathan Adams Elementary as a firstgrader in 1976 and stayed until her fourth-grade year when she was bused to Walnut Hill Elementary. All of Goode’s children graduated from W.T. White High School, and today she is the office manager at Nathan Adams, where she has worked for 24 years.

GOODE: When they bused our oldest daughter to Walnut Hill, that was my first

Students in the Carver Elementary zone enter W.T. White High School on the first day of school in 1971. The photo in the Sept. 8, 1971 Dallas Morning News featured the headline: “Giant Step for Youth: Bus Takes Student to Another World”.

experience with the busing issue. It was a culture shock, for sure. I remember her class picture when she came home that first year — she and maybe one other girl were the only white children in her class. she did fairly well. Her daddy, on the other hand, didn’t adjust too well. He liked a more protective environment, and I kind of did, too. We were used to having her close at hand, and she wasn’t as close because we lived just a few blocks from Nathan Adams, and she had to ride a bus all the way to Walnut Hill.

French: All of the south Dallas kids who came to Marsh and W.t. White were not being forced. At my grade level [W.t. White class of ’79], it was voluntary transfers. My younger sister, Jeray, was the one that was forced busing. that was in third-grade, I believe. they started off by just alternating grades, so third grade at our school, gooch, was shipped down to a school in south Dallas, and the third-graders in south Dallas were shipped up to our school, and it was every other grade.

stability to my daughter,” she said, “at least she can pick up with her friends.” she was worried enough that she made me go take the entrance exam at greenhill. I took the test, I got in, and I looked at her and said, “I don’t want to make new friends again” — friends I’m still friends with today.

so I am now an eighth-grader, and I went to school at E.D. Walker the year it opens. I thought it was the most awesome place. then in ninth grade we went to Marsh. Marsh is a big school, and it seemed like the desegregation was more apparent at that school. My mom said, “Are you sure, Dawn?” And I said, “Yes, I want to stick with my friends.”

Looking back, I can’t come up with one time I was afraid, one thing I thought was strange. I rememberthatpeopleseemedtobe making a bigger deal out of it than it truly was. I knew girls I had gone to Withers with who enrolled at ursuline and at Hockaday, and I stayed the course because of my friends and my personal experience.

Goode: Our daughter went fourth and fifth at Walnut Hill, and then we took her out and joined the white flight group. she went to good shepherd [Episcopal school]insixth,seventhandeighth. Marsh Middle school had something of a reputation for being a little rough, and we just felt like she would be more protected in that private school.

We actually lived one block from our elementary school. I remember my sister coming home from her school every day in tears — girls pulling her hair because she wore glasses. My parents ended up putting my sister in a private school six weeks later because they were worried about her mental health.

It was hard on my parents. they were actually supportive of the desegregation order. My dad was a professional football player. He played for the Kansas City Chiefs; he signed with the Dallas texans and played one season when they switched the teams. We lived in Kansas City for a little while, and there’s family pictures of get-togethers with football players and their wives and kids running around, and there was always a couple of black players and their wives. My mom really felt bad about being one of the white flight parents at the time.

Dawn Hall moved to Dallas and attended Withers Elementary as a sixthgrader in 1969-70, then moved to Germany the next year when her father was promoted. In 1971, he died suddenly of a heart attack, and Hall’s mother took her daughter back to her friends in Dallas. She graduated from W.T. White in 1977, and her son and daughter are both Hillcrest graduates.

hall: In that interim time between Withers and going to the school in germany was desegregation, and Dallas was all abuzz. the Realtor asked my mother, “Are you sure?” My mom was certain. “If I can give one thing of

theproblemwithprivateschoolis abouteighth-grade,wediscoveredwe were spending her college money, and she wasn’t getting any better of an education than at public school. that’s why we put her back in W.t. White for high school. It was great, and I don’t know if that had been several years to acclimate and have the African American students get used to the white students and vice versa, but she ended up with some really good intermix at W.t. White and did quite well with it.

hall: there really were no problems. there was this sort of peaceful coexistence. I did sense that, yes, though we were in school together, there was not much intermixing because we were in totally different neighborhoods. I couldn’t walk home with this person.

Barth: I live in an area called sparkman, and we have black people, white people and Mexican people. Our kids are starting to go to school together and come home and play together. that’s not the case when a kid jumps on a bus for an hour and a half to go to school.

It used to be that sparkman was a one-school neighborhood. Everybody went to Caillet, Cary then thomas Jefferson. We played together on the weekends, we hung out together, everybody was right there in my world. When Ken Barth was growing up, if 50

Dawn Hall and her children, Burke and Katherine

kids lived in Sparkman, 49 were going to Thomas Jefferson and one was going to private school. Ten years down the road, probably 20 went to Thomas Jefferson and 30 went to private school.

Nowyou’vefragmentedtheneighborhood. Everybody’s not on the same page anymore.AndtouseSparkmanas a microcosm, you had the same thing everywhere. To me, that wasn’t a good thing. Today, with the same 50 kids, 10 are in public school, and the other 40 are at various private schools around the area. At Sparkman board meetings we’re all together, and at PTA meetings we’re all apart.

the same things, you don’t really have a perspective of how other people are. And even though I didn’t know where these kids were coming from or know what they had to go through to get to school each day, they would tell us stories and open up.

In the restrooms, it would be interesting when we would be brushing our hair. They had the rakes and the big afros, and we would say, “How do you get your hair to do that, and how do you get makeup to show up on your face?” It was more just novelideasthatwedidn’tknowabout each other.

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Hall: I do remember feeling sorry for these kids who were bused because it does seem like it was forced upon them. When desegregation happened, this whole neighborhood, they’re busing kids, and it sounded so terrible. Why do they have to get up earlier than I do? Because a judge said so? I remember thinking that as a student. My experience is very different from my children’s because for our kids, it was diverse from day one.

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FrencH: The schools are certainly very diverse now. We’re in an opposite situation. My kids have always been the minorities at the school. The black students were the minority back then, probably 10 percent of [W.T. White], and some of the families lived in our neighborhood. Certainly, the black students who lived in our areas were still very rare back then. I’m pleased to see them at our high school reunions and such.

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Bateman: At [Hillcrest] reunions, I don’t see a lot of people coming back who were bused in, which I think is sad. I wonder what happened to a lot of those people. You neverknowiftheeducationwas really better for them being bused over to Hillcrest, or if they would have had a much happier life if they hadn’t been bused.

I do feel like because I went through that experience I can relate better to all different types of people. When you live in an environment that is totally surrounded by people who are just like you, always doing

I think those kinds of experiences, just bathroomtalk,youlearnaboutthings that you wouldn’t just by meeting someone later in life. So I kind of learned about the world, that you need to look beyond a face to know what’s going on with a person. You don’t know what people go through just to get to school and just to get an education.

Years after the initial busing orders, the case continued to drag on in court, first being appealed by the defense attorneys, then finding its way to a new DISD attorney, then landing in the lap of a judge who refused to dismiss it until he felt justice had been done.

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

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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 waspresidentoftheDallasBar 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,

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“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.”

I had just met the superintendent of schools — his name was Linus Wright, the new superintendent from Houston — and I walked out of Warren Whitham’s home and went to the nearest 7-Eleven and used a pay phone to call the superintendent, and said, “I need to come talk to you.”

And I told him the story of meeting with Mr. Whitham in his home, and said, “Is that what you want me to do? Do you want me to fight, fight, fight?” 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.”

And so that’s what I did for 23 years.

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. BobThomas 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 JudgeTaylor was in ill health and had to retire. Judge Taylor called a meet-

ing 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 three-editions-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.

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. WRONG.

33 YEARS — 1970-2003.

Ed Cloutman

Ed Cloutman

SANDERS: A lot of people in the community simply distilled the integrationsegregation 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.

KENNY: One of your first questions when you run into a person in Dallas at that point was, “Where did you go to high school?” Because it immediately placed you in a certain neighborhood, and you could say things about that and you made certain assumptions about that person. I know when people asked me and I said Hillcrest, they immediately would think, “Oh, spoiled rich kid.” Though that wasn’t necessarily true in my case, that was the way people thought.

You just sort of knew what was a white school and what was a black school, and the ruling was to really kind of stop that because the black schools were not very good.They were heavy on vocational education and not heavy on academics, and it was an intentional effort to steer black students into blue-collar careers and steer white students into college. It was a very unfair system.

JOHNSTON: Inmanycities,they were just body mixing. All of our orders wereeducationalorders.Blackkids 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 theeducationelementwasimportant and necessary; the body mixing was an effect.

THOMAS: It finally dawned on the blacks, “We don’t want to ride the bus, either.Whydon’twejusthavebetter schools in our neighborhood?” So slowly the idea began to crystallize that maybe it’sbettertohavegoodschoolsthan integratedschools.Theywouldrather 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 approvedbythecourtofappeals,and then established some West Dallas learn-

ing 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 tohavebusingdismissedwhenlearning 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: Therewasbuilt,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.

SothatwastheoriginofTownview [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 read all of these quotes in the 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 on. 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 federal judge was not elected. [Laughing] He took it as, “they’re going to be disappointed.” He always said, “I’ve got people mad at me on both sides. I guess I must be doing something right.”

Thomas: the lawsuit was filed 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 superintendent from Illinois, and he was a nice guy, and his name was 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.”

When Barefoot Sanders dismissed the Tasby case in 2003, 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 dismissal could have been appealed, but [sanders] was very careful in writing his order of dismissal and was very wellrespectedandwas a liberaljudge,and everybody knew that it had been dismissed by Barefoot sanders and 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 more so than not. Of that I’m pretty sure. I say that again from the perspective of the children who 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.

Kenny: I think the forced busing rulings nationwide, not only in Dallas, led to the rise of magnet schools, which no one had heard of before the ’70s. this was a way for public schools to try to stop white flight, to create these schools by interest, like the arts magnet or the science and math schools, these centers that would attract talented kids and keep white families in the district and talented minority families in the district, too.

there wasn’t just white flight. I know that black families moved out to Desoto or Duncanville to get away from deteriorating schools in south Dallas and south Oak Cliff. so magnet schools were an attempt to keep middle class and talented students in the district.

sanders: Of course we all want the best for our own children and [should] recognize that other families have that same wish. Hillcrest High school, where our kids graduated, the immediate surrounding area is predominantly Anglo, but I would not be surprised if Hillcrest was majority minority now, as most of the schools are. And I would say to parents that that’s the real world. that is the world that this child is going to be moving into. We’re doing a lot of international trade, we’re becoming a global economy, and if we can’t understand people different from ourselves, well, we’re not going to be able to function in that.

Goode: It’s a different perspective nowadays. My children, by the time the youngest got into school, they really didn’t see color. It was manifested in several ways. We had a contest about which movie star or athlete would you like to be, and we had all kids of crossovers. to me, it really brought home that they didn’t see color, and that’s a good thing, but

it took a while to get there.

Kenny: From a standpoint of 40 years later, something had to happen. Dallas was doing a disservice to itself by the way it operated its school district with schools that were superior versus schools in minority neighborhoods that were inferior. the overnight and sort-of wrenching aspect of the federal justice department coming in and forcing a change so quickly, it ended up destroying some neighbor-

Segregation can’t be fixed by forced buSing in education. deseGreGaTion Can only happen when people live ToGeTher in neiGhborhoods. ... it takeS generationS to solve problems like thiS.

Ken Barth

hoods and protecting others.

It was unfair, and it led to divisions and resentments that have played out ever since. Things had to change, but I’m not sure the way that it was done was the best way possible. It’s one of the reasons I think it’s a city that is still around 50 percent white, but only 5 percent white in the school district. When parents move to the city, and they’re afraid to send their children to schools in the City of Dallas, I think that hurts the entire area, and I think that some of that can be laid at the fact of the way the busing was handled.

Segregation had to end, or at least this sort of unequal treatment of minority education had to end somehow, and if Dallas wasn’t going to stop it or change it on its own, the federal government had to act. But we’re still feeling repercussions today.

BARTH: Everything I’ve read seems to me there were very serious qualitative issues as to what went on in the white schools and in the black and Hispanic schools, so it forced everybody to deal with it. But after that, you let the genie out of the bottle and started having a lot of white flight, and as a consequence, you’ve been trying ever since to bring the neighborhoods together.

Somuchofwhatwedonowadays, we’re segmented and segregated in our society. We become fearful of people who don’t have the same lifestyles, the same education, the same income level. I feel like it is human nature to live with people that are like you are. Segregation can’t be fixed by forced busing in education. Desegregationcanonlyhappenwhen people live together in neighborhoods.

That’s what desegregation was trying to solve, and what is solving it is the ability of folks to better their situation socioeconomically so they can all move in together. As people start coming back from private to public school, then you’re going to see what they were trying to accomplish so many years ago. It takes generations to solve problems like this.

THOMAS: Some people say we went too fast, 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.

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PrEstoN hollow Early ChilDhooD Pta starts off the year with its general meeting at 9 a.m. Aug. 22 at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church. New members are invited to join the moms group, which offers playgroups, educational programs and a book club. For more information, visit phecpta.org.

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people

Dr. P. GrEGory warDEN, university distinguished professor of art history and associate dean for academic affairs at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity and the title of Cavaliere (knight) in the name of the President of the Italian Republic. The award was presented by Fabrizio Nava, the Consul General of Italy in Houston, at the Italian Club of Dallas as part of a ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Italian Republic on June 2 and the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy that was proclaimed on March 17, 1861.

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ReUNItING (aNd It feel S SO GOOd)

L ESSONS LEARNED FROM A HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

As I write this month’s column I am preparing to go to my high school reunion.

Since you asked, it’s my 45th.

Of course, I’ve engaged in the usual reunion humor, telling my friends that “I’m going up to see all those old people.” Of course, they’re saying the same about me.

As I anticipate the gathering of old friends and memories, I’ve had a country song running through my head. Garth Brooks sings about his reunion, where he runs into his old girlfriend. He remembers how fervently he prayed that they would spend the rest of their lives together, and how crazy in love he was. Then he thinks of his wife and children, launching into the refrain: “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayer.”

I like the wit of the song, but I also like the theology. Thank God, indeed! I am ever grateful to God that, in his great wisdom, God knew better than to answer my misguided prayers.

However, I do find attending class reunions instructive. They are learning experiences. For those of you who have reunions this summer, let me catalogue a few of the lessons:

• There are few blessings better than old friends — the folks who “knew you when.” I’m happy to say that our class has a way of picking up right where we left off five years ago, even after all these years.

• They did, indeed “know you when.” Reunions teach you humility. If you’ve become a little too impressed with yourself and your accomplishments, your old friends will burst your bubble and remind you of the days when you were the nerd you were back then.

• When people decide that they are old, they get old. Of course, there are the unavoidable health issues that plague some, but why is it that some seem to stay forever young while others have given up on youthfulness and aged much faster? It has been wisely said that we’d all be better off if we didn’t know how old we are. The numbers, in general, are not helpful.

• The popular “big men on campus” don’t always fare well in the long run. Their glory days are always in the past, and the present is constantly disappointing.

• Often the happiest, most productive, most interesting people are the quiet ones who didn’t make many waves in high school. They spent their time actually doing their homework, and didn’t care much about calling attention to themselves.

• Time passes quickly. Tempus fugit. As one of the two clergy members of our class, it often falls to me to read the names of class members who have died. The first ones gave their lives in Vietnam. The latest ones succumbed to regrettable health problems. The Psalmist said that we do well to count our own days because the accounting of our time can make us wise.

• The later reunions are a lot more fun than the first ones. Early on, people try to impress each other with what they’ve accomplished, or how much money they make. At the later ones, we’re much nicer and more grateful. We’re much easier on each other.

I’m just grateful for those nametags that have our yearbook picture on them. Otherwise my old girlfriends wouldn’t know who I am!

Now — what shall I wear?

The popular “big m”en on campus” don’t always fare well in the long run. Their” glory days are always” in the past, and the present is constantl”y disappointing.

Blair Monie is senior pastor of the Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church (phpc.org). the Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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KITCHEN AND BATHROOM SPECIALISTS

JCI Remodeling: From Simple Updates to Full Remodeling Services. Competitive Pricing! JCIRemodeling.com 972-948-5361

PREVIEW CONSTRUCTION INC.

HardiPlank 50 Yr. Cement Siding, Energy Star Windows. Kitchens-Baths-Additions & More. 214-348-3836. See Photo Gallery at: www.previewconstruction.com

RODZ HOME IMPROVEMENT All Home Repairs, Add-Ons, Rehabs. 214-952-8963

SQUARE NAIL WOODWORKING Cabinet Refacing, Built-ins, Entertainment/ Computer Centers. Jim. 214-324-7398 www.squarenailwoodworking.com

TK COMPLETE REMODELING Carpentry, Doors, Paint. Window Clean 972-533-2872

972-216-1961

TACL-B01349OE

APPLIANCE REPAIR

APPLIANCE REPAIR SPECIALIST

Repair, Sales. 214-321-4228

JESSE’S A/C & APPLIANCE SERVICE

TACLB13304C All Makes/Models. 214-660-8898

A K S

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CARPENTRY

LAKEWOOD

AV CABINET EXPERTS New/Redo, Cabt. Grade/ Fine Furniture, Install TV/Electronics, Match Exist. Finish. Custom TV Lifts & Frames. 972-962-4847

Cleaning ServiCeS

15.00 OFF - HOUSE CLEANING BY DEBBIE Free estimates. References. 972-333-7942

A CLEANING SERVICES

mcprofessionalcleaning.com 469-951-2948

ALTOGETHER CLEAN 214-929-8413

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CINDY’S HOUSE CLEANING 15 yrs exp. Resd/Com. Refs. Dependable. 214-490-0133

CLEAN FREAKS Since 2005. Free Estimates. DallasCleanFreaks.com Call Today! 214-821-8888

DIANE’S CLEANING SERVICE Residential & Make Ready. Free Estimates. 214-549-5299

MAID 4 YOU Bonded & Insured.Park Cities/M Street Refs. Call Us First. Joyce. 214-232-9629

MESS MASTERS Earth friendly housecleaning. 469-235-7272. www.messmasters.com Since ‘91

SUNSHINE HOUSE CLEANING

Cleaning To Perfection. Reasonable Rates. Insured/ Bonded. 214-490-6659

THE MAIDS Angie’s List Service Award! Discounts at www.maids.com Free Quotes. 972-278-2551

WANTED: HOUSES TO CLEAN

20 yrs. exp., Reliable, Great Prices, Excellent Refs., Free Estimates. No Crews. Sunny 214-724-2555

WINDOW MAN WINDOW CLEANING.COM Residential Specialists. BBB. 214-718-3134

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ConCrete/ maSonry/paving

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Chris 214-770-5001

EDMONDSPAVING.COM Asphalt & Concrete Driveway-Sidewalk-Patio-Repair 214-957-3216

FLAGSTONE PATIOS, Retaining Walls, BBQ’s, Veneer, Flower Bed Edging, All Stone work. Chris 214-770-5001

MASONRY Brick/Stone Repairs. Don 214-704-1722

STAMPED CONCRETE Driveways, Patios, Walk Ways, Acid Staining, Resealing. 972-672-5359

eleCtriCal ServiCeS

ACCURATE ELECTRIC

All Jobs.TECL# 27297. Steve. Accurateelectrician.com 214-718-9648

ANTHONY’S ELECTRIC Master Electrician. TECL24948 anthonyselectricofdallas .com Family Owned/Operated. Insd. 214-328-1333

DALLAS ELECTRICIAN- SINCE 1975 214-340-0770 EL 00957 kirkwoodelectric.net

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MASTER ELECTRICIAN Lic #TECL 55703. Resd/Comcl. Bonded. Contr Lic# TECL23423. Trinity Electrical Services. David 214-802-0436

SWITCH ELECTRIC Lic. #E19800 24/7 Calls 30 yrs exp. Federal panel chgs. 214-629-0391

TEXAS ELECTRICAL • 214-289-0639

Prompt, Quality Services. Days, Evenings & Weekends. 34 Yrs Exp. TECL 24668

TH ELECTRIC Reasonable Rates. Licensed & Insured. Ted. E257 214-808-3658

FenCing & DeCkS

#1 COWBOY FENCE & IRON CO. Est. ‘91. 214-692-1991 www.cowboyfenceandiron.com

4 QUALITY FENCING

Specializing in Wood, New or Repair. Free Estimates. Call Mike 214-507-9322.

A FATHER, SON & GRANDSON TEAM Fences, Gates, Decks. Haven 214-327-0560

AMBASSADOR FENCE INC.

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CREATIVE METAL SOLUTIONS LLC

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KIRKWOOD FENCE & DECK New & Repair. Free Estimates. Nathan Kirkwood. 214-341-0699

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Flooring

STAINED & SCORED CONCRETE FLOORS

New/Remodel. Res/Com. Int/Ext. Refin. 15 Yrs. TheConcreteStudio.com

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STAINED CONCRETE FLOORS

New/Remodel. Staining & Waxing. Int/Ext. Nick Hastings. 214-341-5993

SUPER QUALITY WOOD FLOORS Jim Crittendon, 214-821-6593

WORLEY TILE & FLOORING Custom Marble Install. 214-779-3842

Beautiful Flooring since 1975

WHITE ROCK FLOORS Hardwoods Carpet Ceramic Tile Ask

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BILL’S COMPUTER REPAIR

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ConCrete/ maSonry/paving

BRICK, BLOCK, Stone, Concrete, Stucco. Gonzalez Masonry. 214-395-1319

CAZARES CONCRETE Concrete retaining walls, Patios, Driveways, Removal, Sidewalks. 214-202-8958 Free estimates.

WHITE ROCK ELECTRIC All Electrical Services. Lic/Insd. E795. 214-850-4891

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CHIMNEY SWEEP Dampers/Brick & Stone Repair. DFW Metro. Don 214-704-1722

Flooring & Carpeting

DALLAS HARDWOODS 214-724-0936

Installation, Repair, Refinish, Wax, Hand Scrape. Residential, Commercial. Sports Floors. 25 Yrs.

SHARP FLOORS 214-227-2841

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LAKE HIGHLANDS GLASS & MIRROR custom mirrors • shower enclosures store fronts • casements 214-349-8160

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LANDMARK ENERGY SOLUTIONS

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ROCK GLASS CO Replace, repair: windows, mirrors, showers, screens. 972-907-0944

FIBERGLASS REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

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Handyman services

A HELPING HAND No Job Too Small. Free Estimates. Repairs /Remodels.Chris.214-693-0678

A NEIGHBORHOOD HANDYMAN

Electrical, Plumbing & Carpentry. Call Tim 214-824-4620; 214-597-4501

A+ HANDYMAN KARL Home Repairs, Remodels & Restoration. 214-699-8093

ALL JOBS BIG/SMALL

38 years exp. Ron Payne 214-755-9147

ALL STAR HOME CARE Carpentry, Glass, Tile, Paint, Doors, Sheetrock Repair, and more. 25 yrs. exp. References. Derry 214-505-4830

BO HANDYMAN Kitchens, baths, doors, cabinets, custom carpentry, drywall & painting 214-437-9730

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” To Do’s Done Right. www.handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

HANDYMAN MATTERS

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HANDYMAN SPECIALIST Residential/ Commercial. Large, small jobs, repair list, renovations. Refs. 214-489-0635

HOMETOWN HANDYMAN All phases of construction. No job too small 214-327-4606

HONEST, SKILLED SERVICE With a Smile. General Repairs/ Maintenance. 214-215-2582

RENT A MAN HANDYMAN

One call does it all! 214-289-0307

WANTED: ODD JOBS & TO DO LISTS Allen’s Handyman & Home Repair 214-288-4232

House PaintinG

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#1 GET MORE PAY LES Painting. 85% Referrals. Free Est. 214-348-5070

A TEXTURE & FINISH SPECIALIST Since 1977. Int/Ext. Kirk’s Works 972-672-4681

ABRAHAM PAINT SERVICE A Women Owned Business 25 Yrs. Int/Ext. Wall Reprs. Discounts On Whole Interiors and Exteriors 214-682-1541

BENJAMIN’S PAINTING SERVICE Quality Work At Reasonable Prices. 214-725-6768

PHILLIPS PAINTING Interior & Exterior; 14 Years Serving Dallas. Free Estimate and 3-year Warranty. We Do Faux! PhillipsPainting.com 972-867-9792

RAMON’S INT/EXT PAINT Sheetrock, Repairs. 214-679-4513

TOP COAT Professional. Reliable. References. TopCoatOfTexas.com 214-770-2863

VIP PAINTING & DRYWALL Int/Ext. Sheetrock Repair, Resurfacing Tubs, Counters, Tile Repairs. 972-613-2585

WHITE ROCK INTERIORS Paint & Remodel References. Mark Reindel 214-321-5280

Painting · Remodeling

NAT-90143-1

interior desiGn

A LADY’S TOUCH WALLPAPERING

Texture, Paint & Repair. 27 yrs. exp. Free Est. Call Martha 972-712-2465; 972-832-3396

DESIGNER CONSULTATION 1 Hr. Session $95. Trained / Reg. ASID Designer Carl 214-288-3298

HAND CARVED STONE fireplaces, fine art, architectural stone & restoration. DavisCornell.com 214-693-1795

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Licensed/CID/ASID 214-500-0600

LILLI DESIGN Residential Design & Renovations

NCIDQ Cert. 10 yrs exp. www.Lilli-design.com Katie Reynolds, RID 214-370-8221

KitcHen/BatH/ tile/Grout

A KITCHEN & BATH Remodeling Company. One Call Does It All! 972-742-3858

ALL SURFACE REFINISHING 214-631-8719. Tub/Tile/Refinishing. allsurfacerefinishing.com

BATHTUB, COUNTERTOP & TILE

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FENN CONSTRUCTION Any Tile Anywhere. www.dallastileman.com 214-343-4645

HANDY DAN “The Handyman” Remodels Done Right. handy-dan.com 214-252-1628

www.amistadcsc.com 214-870-3939

BRIAN GREAM PAINTING & RENOVATIONS LLC • Interior/Exterior

STONE AGE COUNTER TOPS Granite, Marble, Tile, Kitchen/Bath Remodels. CJ-972-276-9943 cjrocksthehouse1@verizon.net

TOM HOLT TILE 30 Yrs Experience In Tile, Backsplashes & Floors. Refs. Avail. 214-770-3444

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$25 OFF - ALL ABOUT TREES, INC. Removals, Pruning. Certified Arborist. 972-697-3956

A BETTER TREE COMPANY • JUST TREES Complete tree services including Tree & Landscape Lighting! Call Mark 214-332-3444

A&B LANDSCAPING Full Lawn Care, Landscaping, Tree Trimming, Fireplaces & Stonework. Lic #0283917- Degreed Horticulturist 214-534-3816

ALL SPRINKLER SYSTEMS REPAIRED Arthur Adams, B.S. Biology $55 hr. Serving Dallas 25 yrs. LI 3449. 214-660-4860

ALTON MARTIN LANDSCAPING Spectacular Curbside Appeal! Excellent refs. 214-760-0825

AYALA’S LANDSCAPING SERVICE Call the Land Expert Today! Insured. 214-773-4781

B.J.’S LANDSCAPING Complete Lawn & Garden Maintenance. Seasonal Color/Perennials. Certified. 16 Yrs. Exp. Res/Com. 214-336-4673

BLOUNTS TREE SERVICE Summer Special 20% Off Tree Work.45 yrs exp. Insured. 214-275-5727

BUSSEYS LAWN CARE

Weekly Service $30 Most Jobs. 214-725-9678

CASTRO TREE SERVICE Quality Work at Great Rates. Free est. Insured. 214-337-7097

CHUPIK TREE SERVICE

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COLE’S LAWN CARE • 214-327-3923 Quality Service with a Personal Touch.

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HOLISTIC TREE CARE

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HOLMAN IRRIGATION

Sprinkler & Valve Repair/ Rebuild Older Systems. Lic. #1742. 214-398-8061

MOW YOUR YARD $27 White Rock Landscaping 214-415-8434

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RONS LAWN Organic Solutions. Not Environmental Pollution. Landscape & Maintenance 972-222-LAWN (5296)

SPRINKLERS, LANDSCAPING, Stone Work, Drainage. Installed and Repaired. Call Kevin at 214-535-3352,Lic#7840. www.bigdirrigation.com

TAYLOR MADE IRRIGATION

Repairs, service, drains. 27 yrs exp. Ll 6295. Backflow Testing Cell-469-853-2326. John

TREE WIZARDS Trim Surgery Removal. 15 Yrs Exp. Insured. Free Est. 214-680-5885

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Sewers • Drains • Bonded

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ARRIAGA PLUMBING: Faucet, Sewer, Sink Repairs. Water/Slab Leaks. Shower Pans. Gas Testing. Remodels, Water Heaters, Stoppages. Insured. Lic 20754 214-321-0589, 214-738-7116

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JUSTIN’S PLUMBING SERVICE

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REPAIRS, Fixtures, General Plumbing. Senior Discounts. Campbell Plumbing. 214-321-5943

SPECK PLUMBING Licensed & Insured C 214-562-2360 • H 214-660-8378

STAGGS PLUMBING • 972-742-3858 No Repairs Too Big or Too Small Master Plumber. M-17697

Slab Leak Specialists – inquire about reroute instead of jackhammering • All Plumbing Repairs • Licensed/Insured 214-727-4040

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TIN STAR LEAVES PRESTON CENTER, EXPANDS ELSEWHERE

Tin Star Taco Bar has officially closed its location at The Plaza at Preston Center, but Tin Star president Michael D. Rangel says the taco shop is still doing well and is scouting sites at Firewheel Town Center in Garland and on Greenville Avenue. “With the remodel of Preston Center, the Corner Bakery spot was being removed to make room for a parking garage,” says Rangel. “Corner Bakery bought out our lease and franchise agreement in order to take over our spot. All other [Tin Star] locations will remain open. We just opened a new location in Stonebriar Mall and are about to start construction on another Arlington location.” Corner Bakery is slated to open this month in its new Plaza spot.

Business buzz:

“The Family Place really touches all aspects. Do you know there are support groups helping not only the victims of mental, emotional and physical abuse, but the abuser can attend their own separate rehab sessions?

Dr. Tattoff, a celebrity-owned tattoo removal and laser hair removal clinic, has opened in Preston Forest Village on the southwest corner of Preston and Forest. Dr. Tattoff’s national medical director, Dr. Will Kirby, has been featured by People, CNN, ABC, Dr. 90210 and more. “We founded Dr. Tattoff to give people a safe and affordable option for tattoo removal and laser hair removal, and we look forward to serving the Dallas community,” Dr. Kirby says. “We’re fortunate enough to live in a day and age where we can literally erase the mistakes of your past.”

That is very impressive.”

Honey Rosenthal of Ellen Terry Realtors, which celebrates its 30th birthday this year by increasing support to charities, schools and the community

Much to the dismay of its loyal clientele, The Cultured Cup at the Plaza at Preston Center has closed its storefront to concentrate on online sales. Co-owner Phil Krampetz says its growth has been on the wholesale and online sides, so the idea of paying for a storefront began to make less and less sense. “Our new website is linked to PayPal and is very easy and safe,” Krampetz says. “However, our longtime customers should feel free to just email or call us with their order. We will offer free shipping anywhere in Dallas for at least the first six months.”

This month, Meso Maya opens its doors at Preston and Forest in the former Chic from Barcelona space. This authentic Mexican restaurant serves cuisine from a variety of regions, including a traditional Mayan dish of achiote-marinated pork shoulder with black beans from Southern Mexico. Executive chef Nico Sanchez — with a résumé that includes Cuba Libre and The Porch — has prepared a menu full of handmade corn tortillas, creamy cacao and a specialty mole negro. “There’s a lot of Tex-Mex out there, and people are ready for the next step … real Mexican food with adobo sauces and dried chiles,” Sanchez says. Expect most meals to stay under $20 and an atmosphere that is stylish, but relaxed.

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Ralph Hamm and his wife enjoy playing golf together. they enjoy the competition and time outdoors at some of the nice golf courses in the area.

unfortunately, a thief recently grabbed some of the Hamms’ clubs as part of their loot — and took their car, too.

“I walked in and saw that some guys had broken in,” Hamm says. “they didn’t tear

The victim: Ralph hamm

The crime: burglary

date: Wednesday, June 8

Time: between June 8 (8:30 a.m.) and June 12 (8 p.m.)

location: 5700 blcok of Watson

anything up, but they headed straight for the tVs. they also took the car.”

the burglar broke a rear patio door to enter the house while the Hamms had been out of town. Hamm says it was quite a shock to come home to a burglary.

“It’s very disruptive, disturbing and intrusive,” he says.

the burglar took in quite a haul, including computer equipment, three big-screen

name: Mark Lutz

years on the force: 20

My neighborhood: My primary sector is the 650s, which contain four beats south of Forest Lane, west to Inwood Road, east to Central Expressway and north of Northwest Highway. The area includes small businesses as well as the robust NorthPark Center. Crime is statistically and consistently lower than many other areas of Dallas due to the strong partnership between the citizens and police.

Q: home burglaries have jumped 7 percent this year. What’s the criminals’ most common point of entry? a: Rear doors and windows. and in many cases, these are left unlocked.

Con Ta CT T he nor Th Cen T ral p oli Ce sTaTion aT 214.670.7253.

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televisions, crystal decanters, jewelry, a toaster, leather jacket, several bottles of liquor and two sets of golf clubs, including a backup set of Hamm’s and his wife’s set. Luckily, Hamm says his best set of clubs wasn’t taken and that the burglar left behind other valuables, so it could have been worse. the burglar also made off with the family’s 2008 Infiniti.

the Hamms have lived in their home since 1998, and this is their first brush with crime. One positive was that the car was recovered the next day without any damage. the total property lost was valued at more than $13,000.

Dallas Police Lt. Richard Dwyer of the North Central Patrol Division advises residents to always notify their neighbors when they leave town, and also hold newspaper and mail delivery so as not to tip off thieves. In this case, things turned out well with police catching a suspect.

“North Central patrol officers spotted the car at a motel off Central Expressway and LBJ,” Dwyer says. “they arrested the subject and recovered some of the stolen property.” —SEAN

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