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MLK Breakfast Inspires and Educates BY DAVE HALPERIN In a ceremony as inspiring as it was educational, entertaining, and apropos, World of Wellesley held its annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast at Sun Life Financial on January 16. Dance performances by the Wellesley High School Thunder Step Squad, gospel singing by the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church Choir, and speeches by members of World of Wellesley members and other town leaders in honor of Martin Luther King Day and outgoing WOW Chairman Richard McGhee served as a prelude to the morning's featured speaker, Dr. Fayneese Miller. Dr. Miller, Dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont, was a choice that coincided with a year-long celebration of education now taking place in Wellesley to honor the town's historical and contemporary support of education - the latest example of which is the opening of the new high school. Dr. Miller, speaking from a podium next to a large poster of Dr. King, recounted her child-
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hood in Danville, Virginia during a time of racial discrimination but also civil rights activism and social change. She recalled playing her own role in that change, and how it revolved around education. In her high school she joined every club she was able to join, in part because those clubs met in the living rooms of her classmates' houses, places where AfricanAmericans had never been, she said.
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"I'll tell you why I Dr. Fayneese Miller was the featured speaker. Photo by Dave Halperin was in those clubs," people out, so I would just walk is the first person of color to serve she said. "I had a right to be in to the library, and I think that gave in her current position at UVM. those clubs." me a lot of strength," she said. But, she said, "I can tell you that Dr. Miller said that Danville's "So I like to say to people, 'my being a first is not something I'm white leadership found ways to head may have been a little proud of." maintain segregation after pas- bloody, but it was unbowed, and sage of the Civil Rights Act by even today it is unbowed.'" "Being a first, somebody has to having two libraries, one of which walk through that door, but don't Dr. Miller's story continued with levied charges too steep for most ever pat yourself on the back just her success in academia and the black Danville residents to afford because you're the first, because many racial divides she has and which was miles away from if you ... don't bring others along crossed. She was the first Africanwhere most people lived. American woman ever to be MLK BREAKFAST "It was another way of keeping tenured at Brown University and continued on page 3
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On Wednesday, January 18, School Committee member KC Kato held a small meeting at the School Department offices within Wellesley Middle School to discuss the progress in the search for a new superintendent. The meeting was focused primarily on finalizing a 12-person advisory committee. The committee will review résumés, participate in interviews and assist in selecting finalists throughout the superintendent search. The Advisory Search Committee, a subcommittee of the School Committee, has so far received more than 70 letters of interest from individuals wanting to assist in the search. Kato expressed the importance of assembling a diverse group of recognizable individuals in order to represent various interests, as well as to gain the confidence and trust of residents throughout the process.
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