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Students' rights concern mother of 4
Public service fills secretary’s life
By Robert Morris
Reporter
Heartfelt warmth and piercing
honesty in a person are an uncom
mon combination, but Brazos
County Court secretary Carolyn Da
vis admirably combines these two
qualities in her job and family.
She sits, nervously playing with
her plastic cigarette, a substitute for
the real thing which — along with
her nicotine gum — has become her
constant companion since she gave
up her 25-year smoking habit last
summer.
It’s times like these that her deter
mination, warmth, and genuine con
cern for people come shining
through.
Davis, 41, a county employee for
the last year, spends most of her
days on the job trying to appease
and inform students who are in
trouble because of traffic violations.
Davis characterizes the students’
anger as “mild distress,” a statement
that well represents her tolerance
for other people.
“I feel like I have a public service
to do — after all, I have four chil
dren who are of college age and
many times people don’t know what
their rights are,” Davis says. “When
they come in they are distressed and
angry and they want some help and
they don’t need to be treated rude
ly”
knowledge of the situation and abil
ity to help were very limited.
However, her persistent nature
drove her to find solutions to ques
tions she felt needed to be answered.
“Part of the problem is that we
spend an awful lot of time looking
around trying to place blame,” she
says. “It’s not anybody’s fault, actu
ally, unless you can blame the lacka
daisical attitude of the American
public.”
Davis is a very busy person —
large family, job, work on social is
sues — but she still tries to make
time for more.
“I’m interested; the world is not a
boring place,” Davis says.
With all her other activities, Davis
still places her priorities on her fam-
iiy-
“The most important thing to me
is to have my children grow up into
their own persons, free from paren
tal prejudices but with full use of the
knowledge that I can make available
to them,” Davis says.
This attitude comes from growing
up around her stepbrother, Gilbert
Shelton, whom Davis calls a free-
spirit, a free-thinker and the most
influential person on her life.
Davis admits to becoming more of
a cynic in the past year due to her
dealings with students who tend to
“lie about their particular extenuat
ing circumstances regarding the
payment of tickets.”
“But I tend to believe people till
they give me a reason not to.”
Davis’ ability to handle such tense
situations with relative ease is de
rived from her unwavering humani
tarian approach to life.
This is best illustrated by her ex
tensive work in helping juveniles in
volved with drugs.
Her efforts don’t stop at the
doorstep of the Brazos Valley Coun
cil on Alcohol and Drug Abuse,
where she does much of her volun
teer work; they extend into her own
home, where over the past year she
has housed two teen-age boys at dif
ferent times and worked with them
to make their lives drug-free.
He currently is a successful un
derground cartoonist living in Paris,
France.
Davis grew up in a family faced
with the split of one set of parents by
divorce, and the addition of four
stepchildren to the family, which
caused her to develop an open mind
and allowed her contact with a wide
range of thought, she says.
Her open mind causes Davis to
strive constantly for change, both in
her personal life and on a more eso
teric level in the world in general.
Photo by-Don. ,■ ’
Larg
Brazos County Court secretary Carolyn Davis looks up traffic tick
records for a caller.
“I’m by nature a person who
thrives on nervous energy,” Davis
says. “The status quo makes me cra
zy” .
It is this nervous energy which fu
els Davis’ desire to have the chance
to spend more time on her “extra
curricular activities” now that her
children have reached adult age. Yet
she has reservations about her new
found freedom.
Her volunteer activities also in
clude a major role in the organiza
tion of the ToughLove program in
Brazos County, a program which
works to straighten out problem
teen-agers.
Davis says her involvement in
both programs began while she was
trying to help her nephew make his
life free of drugs.
In the process, she found her
“T he hardest part of being a good
parent is realizing all the children
are grown,” she says. “When they
were younger it was hard because
you have to have real stamina to be a
good parent and you have to be will
ing to give yourself over to the task.
“Still, the hardest pgrt is breaking
the habit of being a parent when
they are ready to leave.”
Her unselfish nature is evident in
her choice of the job she would most
like to have.
“I would like to run the Depart
ment of Agriculture,” Davis says.
She cited the manner in which
pesticides are used on crops and
their effects on people as her major
concern.
She says her interest in this de
rives from her work with her hus
band (who is a chemist) on their own
gardens and the resulting knowl
edge she has gained f rom him.
“We grow food using techniques
that are out of the mainstream, and
get very good results,” she says.
Davis’ political beliefs are defi
nitely liberal, yet many of her ideas
about values and family are conser
vative.
She accounts for most of this by
citing her environment.
She grew up in Houston, but at
age 14 her family moved to the small
town of College Station.
mind upon her return to i
Station 11 years after she b;
During those 11 yean '.!
Station had changed little-"!
ing the conservative bastior |
Brazos.
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Davis says she felt uncoir,:
for quite a while in the nam
fines of a small town, butbeti
cuslomed to (and eventualli
with) the people around her
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After marrying her first husband
— a military man — at age 19, she
left College Station and began a life
of constant movement from which
she said she gained a great insight
into the world. She says that a year
she spent in Germany was one of the
most mind-expanding times of her
life.
The growth she experienced in
her travels was engraved on her
She sees the transition of ri
Station from town to rapid! ®
ing-t its changing the conrf|-
atmosphere and the attitude■
staunchly conservative peri
residents.
However, she says that M
personal standpoint, the dtfftr
good and will result in thrie
( Allege Station area becomiria^
and more like its mei ’
neighbors — Dallas, Austcl
Houston.
Davis, by her own account,!*
pendent to the point of dt|v
She likes to give her opinion if
back it up with knowledge.
By her thoughts and act -
vis certainly is someone wh
fluenced many people.
Protester sprays Mace on ‘Platoon’ viewers
DALLAS (AP) — A woman who leaped up
during the movie “Platoon,” began yelling about
the Vietnam War and then sprayed three people
with a can of Mace was held Sunday in the mental
illness ward of Parkland Memorial Hospital, po
lice said.
The crowd of 1,400 patrons at the Northpark
Theater dove for cover when someone cried out
that the woman had a gun. The weapon turned
out to be the Mace can, police said.
Lilia Charters, 32, was charged with misde
meanor assault, officer Robert McLeod said. Her
husband Billy Charters, 50, was charged with dis
orderly conduct after he tried to prevent officers
from arresting Mrs. Charters, McLeod said.
Two theater security guards and a man seated
near Mrs. Charters were hit by the chemical, po
lice said, but no one was seriously injured.
Officer Stephen O’Donnell said the Charters
were taken to police headquarters. Mrs. Charters
was placed in the mental illness ward after a
judge signed an order. Charters was being held
in lieu of a $213 bond on the disorder!'
charge and $03 for a speeding citation
said.
Theater-goers said Mrs. Charters to
shouting throughout the high-tensionM
patently irate at the actions of Americans
and sympathetic with the Viet Cong.
Witnesses said that during a villager
scene, Mrs. Charters held up acanoftlit
cal irritant and began spraying the crowd
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