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Show Sie I0¢ Serving more Keeping Hope Alive as We Fulfill the Dream and than 200,000 nel Sent JUNE 8, 1990 VOL. 1 NO. 3 First African-American female graduates from U of U law school by France A. Davis soloist of the Calvary Baptist Church. She is vice president of the Salt Lake Branch delegate to the National NAACP convention for several years. She recently, while still in law school, worked as special aide to Dr. Ronald Coleman and Dr. Howatd Ball in a unique Civil Ms. Graves enjoys the strong support of her mother, Augustine Morgan, her family, her church family, her community of friends, and all who know her. She has demonstrated her abilities to serve, her concern for Rights class at the University of Utah. the welfare She has just completed a single parents workshop. mitment to a better community for all. NAACP and has been selected as of others, Rev. Salt Lake City, May 30 — Price Gwynn III, 67, of Charlotte, North Carolina was elected moderator of the 202nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The moderator is the presiding officer and serves for one year and her com- Carolina - Charlotte. He is married to Katherine Loy; they have three sons and one grandchild. Gwynn said he had no “‘secret or hidden agenda”’ for the church but that he did have a plan. He said he had two messages for the laity: one of reassurance, the other of challenge and opportunity. He noted that average Presbyterians have never attended presbytery or served on a committee outside the local church, and they ask, “‘Do we have our act together up there?’’ and ‘‘Are the people in authority still in touch with their congregational life, with their roots, or are they disassociated from the rest of us?’’ He said he replies, ‘‘Our staff PRICE H. GWYNN Ill Gwynn was elected on the second ballot from a field of six candidates. He led on the first ballot with 248 votes, and won on the next with 322; 303 votes were needed to be elected. Three candidates tied for second on the first ballot with 101 votes: M. Douglas Harper, Houston, Texas; tinued, ‘“know that God intends to use overtime to prepare for this eventt,’’ powerful ways.’’ In referring to her moderatorial year as she moved across the country, said the Rev. Joan as she began her sermon every one of you in important and SalmonCampbell of the Presbyterian Church votes, respectively on the first ballot, and 7 and 6 respectively on the second. Gwynn is an elder at Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Charlotte. He is president and director of both Package Products Company and Engraph Inc. He is also lecturer at Queens College and marketing instructor at the of North which was distributed by elders from con- Salt Lake City, May 29 — ‘‘God and a host of angels have worked during a worship service and celebration of the Lord’s Supper. | SalmonCampbell, outgoing moderator of the General Assembly Congratulations, Shauna! University breaks the bread for holy communion, General Assembly celebrates communion Gwynn elected moderator on second ballot at Presbyterian assembly Henderson Joan SalmonCampbell gregations in Utah, during her sermon held during a worship service and celebration of the Lord’s Supper. people by and large are competent, they’re courageous, they earn their keep, but they don’t vote — only you commissioners do that.’” He pointed out that while differences among Presbyterians ‘‘are real and must be discussed,’’ commissioners ‘‘only have to agree on two things’’ to be able to work together: ‘‘the reality of the incarnation of Christ’’ and “‘the reality of the resurrection.”’ The second message, he said, is that Allen Maruyama, Denver, Colorado; change is no longer driven by and Herbert Meza, Jacksonville, technology ‘‘but by convictions, by Florida. On the second ballot, Meza belief, by faith. Ideas are now the received 92 votes, Maruyama 91, and Josiah Beeman, — power tools that are dictating the fate Harper 90. of nations. If we shoot ourselves in the Washington, D.C., and Fred A. Ryle, foot because of internecine warfare or Jr., Weatherford, Texas trailed on Cont. on page 3 | 22 and 32 received They both ballots. (USA), was referring to the 202nd General Assembly of the denomination. She told the approximately 4,500 worshippers that the General Assembly is more than a business meeting of the institution and corporation called the Presbyterian Church (USA). “‘It is more than a duty to be performed because we may be employed by some governing body within the church,”’ she said. ““We are here because of God’s grace and God’s will that something was to happen at this time.”’ The moderator told the commissioners to the assembly, ““You will probably say to yourself during these ten days, ‘Woe is me. I am lost. My ears have heard some things that sound ridiculous. What can I do? I am only a layperson, a youth, or seminary delegate, a pastor, or ecumenical delegate. I feel lost in all this excitement and deliberation,’ However it is that you come to this place,’’ she con- SalmonCampbell said, “‘My life has for their deliberations during the assembly: ‘*I encourage you to be particularly mindful of your behavior in thought, in words, and actions as been so impacted, so touched and ex- Christians within the Presbyterian and panded, that I know I will never be the same again. Something has taken a new hold on me — the presence and power of Jesus Christ.”’ Reformed tradition,’’ she said: “Be preoccupied by what it means that you are a Christian upon whom God Cont. on page 7 Settle rights dispute by June 8, judge tells Ute groups, tribe by Mike Gorrell Utah’s federal judges have given the Ute Indian Tribe and several Uterelated organizations until June 8 to resolve a dispute over hunting and fishing rights on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservations. ‘‘This is the closest thing to a domestic-relations quarrel I’ve seen,”’ an exasperated U.S. District Chief Judge Bruce S. Jenkins said last week during a two-hour hearing on three lawsuits against the tribe. ‘It’s as much a question of attitude as a question of law ... Do you want to settle this case or do you just want to keep quarreling?’’ he added. Judge Jenkins and fellow federal 2 Demo candidates propose series of debates to GOP Two Democratic candidates for the Salt Lake County Commission issued a challenge Thursday for a series of group debates with their Republican rivals seeking re-election. ‘We felt. that a debate involving all of the commission candidates together would offer voters a valuable opportunity to become educated about us,”’ said Randy Horiuchi and Jim Bradley. In a letter to commissioners Tom Shimizu and Bart Barker, the Democrats suggested the first debate focus on the future of the Salt Palace. David Marshall, aide to Mr. Shimizu, said the group debate idea “‘doesn’t strike me as particularly novel. A lot of joint appearances will happen’ before the election, he said. ‘““We don’t have to force the public to sit thorugh six months of our bickering,”’ he said. ‘“The public has a desire to know but they don’t have the desire to be saturated.’’ The outgoing moderator offered commissioners three specific helps Mr. Marshall said Commissioner Shimizu, who is challenged by Mr. Horiuchi, expects to begin debating in August and September. Mr. Barker, who is running against Mr. Bradley and faces an intra-party challenge by Henry Hilton, was unavailable for comment. judges J. Thomas Greene, David K. Winder, David Sam, and Aldon J. Anderson met jointly to obtain an outline of what the three lawsuits entailed and to determine where they may overlap. 2 In general, the lawsuits were spawned by a long-standing conflict between full-blooded members of the Ute Tribe and “‘mixed bloods,’’ peo- ple who have some Ute ancestry but not enough to qualify as full-blooded. A document in one lawsuit noted that relations between the two groups (mixed bloods and full bloods) have not always been the most _harmonious.’’ The two groups were legally distinguished from one another in 1954, when Congress passed the Ute Partition Act. | The act recognized that mixed bloods have rights equivalent to those of full bloods, but also noted the rights cannot be passed on to mixed bloods’ descendants. Court documents indicate there are now only 369 people who qualify as mixed bloods. _ The act gave mixed bloods 28 percent of those tribal assets that could be divided. It also stipulated that the Ute Tribe and an ‘‘authorized representative of the mixed bloods should manage jointly those assets that could not be divided, such as future royalties from gas, oil, and mineral rights. In 1956, the mixed bloods establish- ed the Affiliated Ute Citizens to represent their interests in dealings with the Ute Tribe. Later that year, those two Cont. on page 8 ta ¥ BT OA and e,e NE member ° Outside of the immediate area, Ms. Graves served in the United States capitol on a 1979 Senatorial Internship and travelled to Great Britain during the same year as part of a Criminal Justice Study tour. NS - choir e MARIE GRAVES Ca Her community activities include a Utah. SHAUNA (20 On Saturday, May 26, 1990, Miss Shauna Marie Graves was awarded her Juris Doctors Degree from the University of Utah Law School. The former Director of Black Affairs with the Governor’s Office. is the first African-American female native to Utah to earn such a degree: Ms. Graves plans to continue working in the office of the Utah Attorney General where she has worked since September 1989, to take and pass the bar exam, to practice law in the area of litigation, and to eventually sit on the federal bench. Ms. Graves earned a BA degree in Criminal Justice from Arizona State in 1980 and a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Utah in 1987. She is a graduate of West High School of Salt Lake City, |