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1C <br />"A Summing Up" <br />Guest Speaker: Dr. Trudier Harris-Lopez, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of <br />English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br />Ms. Annette Moore, Director of the Orange County Human Rights and Relations <br />Department, introduced Dr. Harris-Lopez. Dr. Flanis-Lopez challenged the Forum <br />participants in a brief, but dramatic lecture, to study closely the topics and themes of the <br />day's proceedings and to examine their hearts and minds for the unique and profound <br />ways in which by exercising the rights and responsibilities of community leaders they <br />could indeed overcome obstacles. <br />Dr. Harris-Lopez is the author of Sumner Snow, a collection of autobiographical essays <br />that describe with wit and poignancy her upbringing in the segregated city of Tuscaloosa, <br />Alabama during the fifties and sixties, and the preparation that provided her for claiming <br />later success in higher education and academic appointments, <br />"Sreccess, however, also meara alienation. Hggher° education for° a person bw•n to cotton <br />pickers, I discovered, is another kind of tightrope waling in which or:e Zearns to balance <br />the unfamiliar, bare literacy and super literacy, working class and middle class. I did <br />that in part by remembering one ofn:y mother 's. favor°ite verses; `Whosoever you ar•e, be <br />noble. Whatsoever you do, do it x~ell. Wlreneveryou speak, speak kindly. And have joy <br />wherever yo:r dwell. "' (Sunnner° Snow, pp.. 96-97) <br />Closing Remarks <br />Pat Vandiviere, HSAC Member, closed Forum 2003 with acknowledgements and <br />appreciation for all the efforts, enthusiasm, and energy instilled into the day's events and <br />activities.. <br />