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1.3 schooling that African-Americans managed to create for themselves and their children that were beneficial. "I found one accornrt in the library. It was very Inter°esting, A book, Orange County: 17.51-19.52, which was publi-shed in 19.5.3 by UNC Izistor°iarzs and they noted at the time that in Chapel Hill, the supervisor, 3 principals, and 4 teachers in the Wlrite schools had graduate certificates, 2 principals Jrad principal certificates, 67 White teachers had "A" certificates, .5 with "B ", and only 2 had "C". Wlren they turned to the Negro schools as they were known then, they cor fessed that not wrly did the supervisor, 2 principals, and I teacher have graduate cer°tifzcates, but all of tJre 40 Negro teachers held "A" certificates ", Professor Bolger commented that the one concrete thing he would suggest the community be mindful of is to fight against what he observed in the rest of North Carolina and other urban systems as the re-emergence of one race schools - 90 percent and above Black or White and high poverty. Panel III -Education (Part B) Njeri Wainaina, Sophomore, Cedar Ridge High School Danny Page, Eighth Grader, Smith Middle School Carla Gilchrist, Teacher of the Year, Glenwood Elementary, CHCCS Victoria Mattison, Teacher of the Year, Pathways Elementary, OCS Facilitator: Sheila Sholes-Ross, Executive Director, Communities in Schools (CIS) of Orange County Ms. Gilchrist acknowledged that she wasn't born until nearly 20 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision and she began her schooling in Durham City Schools and later attended historically black universities in the state, It was hard for her to imagine what it must have been like to be a student of color in an integrated system. She spoke of wanting to understand the wealth of resources to be found in the community and how connections could be better made to serve students of color today. '7 an: speaking as a teacher -the connections that we are making with our students. Do our• students belong to us throughout the errtir~e,year? If they do belong to us, then we nre going about tl:e business of making then: citizens of the world. If they're oral, then we are talking about college. We m°e helping them matt°iculate through and we are pr°eparing them about this bzesbress olschool " Ms. Mattison indicated she canvassed the community and asked people for their thoughts and impressions about African-Americans and education in Orange County..