The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 62

Landers7 Taste Of Amerlca9 Bridal Couple 10 Jhjrfjam ittorning Hctalfr Women of By BETTY HODGES Herald style editor DuflMMi Morning HoraMJamio Francis Dr Barbara Ramsey Shaw pursues DNA riddles in Duke chemistry lab 0 I I i agement advisory services to small and new businesses directs the work on a 44-county eastern North Carolina business development project is responsible for handling requests for professional services from federal agencies and helps with the firm's continuing professional education A Durham native who was president of her graduating class at Hillside High School she went on to 1 school at NC Central University and went to work in 1969 for the Foundation for Community Development In 1977 she received a degree in business administration from the University of Rochester Her first work with the CPA firm she now serves was as head of its Atlanta office In 1986 she became a shareholder and was a partner before she was 40 has used the the nomination read lectern the blackboard and television to conduct Minority Enterprise Development Week been Mrs Grant said get involved with people who were supportive of my growth and She listed the partners in her firm her mother Mary Grant her sister Carolyn Grant and her brother Milton Grant I had good role she said members of my sorority who nominated me and the women of my church St AME She worked on plans for the Hayti Development development of the Fayetteville Street prop-erty next to the East-West Expressway at the same giving guidance to 350 small and minority businesses in eight southeastern states helped three black women start a highway and heavy construction business worked with an Indian organization that built housing for the elderly assisted two black women housedeaners form their own janitorial business and get a contract lent assistance to 35 people who became public accountants assisted a black woman in buying and operating an ice cream franchise and helped a highway construction contractor get credit would say a problem solver" she said Ms Boswell was honored in the public service category She works both in the Durham police uniform patrol division and as an undercover officer for the organized crime division in its fight against drug prostitution and gambling violations On patrol Ms Boswell's duties range from crime prevention and apprehension of criminals and offenders to preliminary crime scene investigation and testifying in court about the cases on which she works As an undercover officer made undercover drug buys acted as a prostitution decoy and a decoy in a rape investigation She's also worked as a member of the street crime unit known as the created to combat drug distribution ABC violations and prostitution On occasion she has dressed as a prostitute and walked the streets Chief TH Lassiter who nominated Ms Boswell for honors praised her for her energetic and dedicated work to bring about positive change for her arrest record for volunteering for more than her share of the work load for her refusal to seek or accept special consideration or protection because she is a woman and for giving off-duty time to undercover operations Lassiter cited her conviction rate and her vital role in the Zebras who he said made a difference which has had a lasting The police chief said that in her two and a half years on the police force Ms Boswell has more in her field than many (men and women) achieve in their entire See Women4E Durham Morning HoraMChuck Uddy Funeral director Ernestine Scarborough Bynum says she not thinking about retirement The 1987 Women of Achievement hono-rees are: a multi-talented artist a certified public accountant a police officer a restaurant proprietor a university dean a chemistry professor and the corporate officer of a funeral service They are Karen Havlshurst of Arrangements Inc Joyce Grant of the firm of Garrett Sullivan Davenport Bowie and Grant Betty Boswell of -'the Durham Police Department Lillian Bullock of Bar Cue Dr Mary Townes of NC Central University Dr Barbara Ramsay Shaw of Duke department of chemistry and Ernestine Scarborough Bynum of Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home The seven Silver Medallion winners will be honored March 18 at a luncheon at the Durham Civic Center They were chosen from a field of nominees numbering 33 Mrs Havighurst is honored in the arts and communications category and her qualifications are three-pronged She is a partner in the firm of Ar-'rangements a graphic designer and a performing harpist Ella Fountain Pratt spoke in her nomination of the zeal and knowledge and style Mrs Havighurst exhibited As a graphic designer the honoree went from designing book jackets and promotional brochures in New york to creating logos for such diverse customers as the Durham Arts Council and First Presbyterian Church and designing things like the Junior new cookbook In the Arrangements business she operates with 1 Ruth Ross she provides business educational instl- 1 iutions and individual clients with practical infor- mation and entertainment for their visitors and guests Among the projects have been large galas for events like the Arts annual street operas In a third realm Mrs Havighurst performs as a harpist with the NC Symphony Orchestra the Greensboro Symphony the Duke Symphony and the Durham Symphony Somehow she also finds time to perform frequently as soloist notably at Duke Christmas Eve Community Ser- vice Mrs Havighurst says she sees her work quite simply as a means of using the gifts been blessed with a fulfillmentof the obligation they represent Managing it all grit and get up and she said means getting up early and stay-1 lng up late staying with things 1 and She said not the least of her 4 blessings was a supportive fami-' ly her husband Duke law professor Clark Havighurst and children Marjorie and Perry Mrs Havighurst said she think of giving up any of the varied things she does given day is the she said "When the phone rings I predict what the next as-: signment will The backbone of her profes- sional life she feels is her schooling in design training that gives her a discerning eye in every project she undertakes And among her own considerable abilities is a capacity for or-ganization that helps her work on more than one thing at a time Mrs Grant is honored in the business and industry category She was nominated by the Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta public service so rarity As vice president of the largest black-owned CPA firm in the Southeast she supervises man- Durhtm Morning HorMdJIm Thornton Boswell takes turn in uniform undercover garb 1 Rustic Refuges Preserve Alaskan Culture Police officer Betty By DEAN FOSDICK roadhouses still operating around the state And today you get a bonus: history with every room At the Gakona Lodge and Trading Post you may even get a ghost Jerry and Barbara Strang appear to have inherited an invisible pipe-smoking foot-stomping music critic with their purchase of the roadhouse in 1975 The ghost may be a holdover from a spirited past but gone are the trappers traders and adventurers who used to beat a path to the door Gone too is Billy Mitchell the eventually grew up around roadhouses Tanana Ruby those kinds of places to be roadhouses were five rooms and a path They get better with the telling But they seemed to attract the Mother Teresa kinds of people They were good at seeing to needs cooking doctoring because they were But because of the airplane many of the most colorful roadhouses are gone Coghill says flew over the communities so they Many but not all A rustic tradition has been preserved over the decades at a score or so The roadhouses were a warm flow in the bitter winter night hey served as post offices and telegraph stations They also dispensed clean beds stiff drinks and juicy chunks of moose or caribou meat Hospitality Alaska style roadhouses were a part of our culture much like stagecoach stops were in the Old West "says Jack Coghill 61 an Alaska state senator who once ran a roadhouse the Tortella -Lodge in Nenana most successful operators had trading posts too Places where people could pick up their mail some supplies Many communities GAKONA Alaska (AP) Back around the turn of the century when a young Billy Mitchell was leading Army Signal Corps surveyors into the wilderness of Alaska to establish a telegraph system roadhouses al- ready were doing a thriving business More than two dozen of the rough-hewn establishments were spotted every 20 or 30 miles along major trails That was the distance covered by dog sleds in one day Zee Roadhouses5E Jerry Strange hoists moose steaks at his Gakona Alaska lodge 4.