APRIL 1965 m A BERMUDA MONTHLY PUBLICATION Bermuda's Hope for Tomorrow '^Ibert Foley works on a lathe in the advanced woodwork shop. In the motor garage are:— Left to right, Ells­ worth Pearman, Bernard Dears, Renton Bean and Rodney Smith. Norman Pogson, Llewellyn Rewan and Dennis Prrrre, watch as Ellsworth Holdipp demon- ^ Wrates an electrical contact experiment. W Liying Room Furniture: • • 12-PIECE GROUPS £77.10.0 • SECTIONALS £145. 0.0 • 3-PIECE DAY-BED SUITES . £ 60. 0.0 All in Foam Rubber in o large selection of styles and colours. Bassett Furniture: • BEDROOM AND DINING ROOSA FURNITURE. .PRICED FROM £ 70. 0.0 Olympic: • TELEVISION FROM £ 87.10.0 • TV-RADIO-STEREO COMBINATIONS .. FROM £165. 0.0 WASHING MACHINES from £ 55.10.0 BERNINA SEWING MACHINES: Does Everything Without Discs £75.0.0 Tel: 1-4050 MOTOBLOCK Tel: 1-1280 BERMUDIANA ROAD — HAMILTON WHERE QUALITY AND STYLING MEET LOW PRICES IN-BOND UQUOR FOR BERMUDIANS U.S.A. Regulations now permit Bermudians to take in ONE GALLON of LIQUOR — TAX FREE for Gifts — in addition to their 1 bottle personal quota. We are happy to offer the some privileges to all Bermudians that we offer U.S. Visitors. A full selection of 5 Bottle Packages is available at IN BOND PRICES from 5 Bottles GOSLING BROS. LTD. $i6.oa SOMERSET HAMILTON ST. GEORGE'S 4-8122 1-2141 3-9110 Story Writers: WILL FRANCIS MAGAZINE VICKY E. SMITH VOLUME IV NUMBER 3 April, 1965 Overseas Correspondents: GRETCHEN F. JACKSON Boston Editor and Publisher Business Administrator MRS. DILTON MASTERS MR. FORD BAXTER CHARLES H. WEBB England RONALD & BEBE PERINCHIEF Telephone 2-2832 Long Island, N.Y. Contents Page EDITORIAL 3 t^ EDITORIAL Unrest THE VERSATILE M.C.P.'S WIFE 5 ON THE SPOT WITH FAME 7 FEATURES BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN HOLD Qarence SUCCESSFUL BRUNCH 10 On the spot with Fame TENNIS — ANYONE ! ! ! I 13 ^ SPECIAL FEATURES TECHNICAL'S PROUD STUDENTS HOLD OPEN Cab drivers having difficult times HOUSE 17 1965 GRAND SLAM A BIG SUCCESS 20 -jAj. PERSONALITIES A SOFT-SPOKEN, CONGENIAL BUSINESSMAN AND Mrs. Frances G. Burch COUNCILLOR 23 Mr. Cecil Dismont HOWARD ALUMNI PRESENT HOWARD PLAYERS 24 CLARENCE 29 -5^^ SPORT Tennis Anyone I ! ! ! ISLAND ADVENTURE 30 TAXI OPERATORS STILL HAVE DIFFICULT TIMES 33 1^ PICTORIAL Successful Grand Slam Open House at Technical Published in the middle of each month by FAME Magazine, Toddings Howard Players Building, Box 643, Hamilton, Bermuda. Telephone 2-2832. Cor­ respondence and Advertisement copy should be forwarded to this Business and Professional Women's address. Price 3/- copy, annual subscription, 1 year 35/-, half-year 17/6. Foreign subscription ($5.00). Printed Photo-Offset by the Brunch Bermuda Press, Ltd., Hamilton, Bermuda.. GOT YOUR CAR INSURANCE? You will never regret having WEBB'S do your job. WEBB'S UPHOLSTERY The on East Broadway Bermuda Fire and We con upholster anything from a Marine^l^lnsurance Footstool to on Automobile. Tel: 2-0444 Prompt Attention Tel. 1-2184 V • Give Her a Gift from our large The Elbow Glide Bar assortment of COSMETICS KNICK KNACK f and Restaurant is the place to go EAST BROADWAY for Easter goodies overlooking Hamilton Harbour Baskets Gr Buckets Stuffed Toys offer you filled & unfilled THEIR SPECIAL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS • FLOWERS Barbecue Spare Ribs To brighten up the house for and Chicken Sadler CORSAGES • JEWELRY also HATS EASTER CARDS STOCKINGS BUSINESSMEN'S LUNCHES along with KNICK KNACK SHOP FRONT STREET WATER STREET Fine Drinks and Soft Music HAMILTON ST. GEORGE'S Gerald DeShield, Manager II mil mill iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiUiiiuu.'' Page two FAME UNREST When a labour dispute starts as ago when this island was first colon­ Let no one think that Negroes much strife and turmoil as the strike ised. have just started to think this way. The by the Bermuda Industrial Union, it Masses of coloured Bermudians only difference now is that they say it is time the community in which it flocked to the aid of the B.I.U. be­ loudly enough for everyone to hear. takes place underwent an exanunation cause they saw it as a chance to help From about 1616 until 1834 Negroes in depth. correct the situation, which they all were slaves. Although there may have It should be clear to anyone who find to be oppressive. Some people been less of the whip and other phy­ is not blinded by prejudice that the have said that this strike was a bid for sical oppressions on Negro slaves here cause of the unrest goes a long way power — a bid to overthrow the Gov­ than on Negro slaves elsewhere, the back in time. This community must emment. To say that it was a bid to system of slavery was just as demoral­ face facts, and understand that it can overthrow the Government is over­ ising. no longer pat itself on the back, and stating things quite a bit. But it no Another mistaken idea is that all say that it cannot happen here, while doubt was a bid for power. For as Negroes want is the opportunity to as­ America, the West Indies, Africa, and most coloured Bermudians view things sociate with white people. This is what Asia struggle with their social prob­ now, all power — economic, and poli­ probably has fooled some folks to think lems. It already has happened. Ber­ tical — is in white hands. that by lowering the barriers to white mudians, no matter how much tourists It is humiliating — oppressively hotels, theatres, jobs, restaurants and have been told otherwise, are no dif­ humiliating — to realise that for every­ soon schools, the Negro community ferent to people in other parts of the thing a Negro wants he must humbly should be quite satisfied. But the world. go and beg the white community. Even Negro knows full well that such places the achievements towards desegrega­ do not belong to anyone of his race. What makes Africans, West In­ tion that have been made so far are In the case of jobs, he knows that he dians, and other people react violently viewed by most coloured people as must constantiy be on his guard or out also will make Bermudians react vio­ mere handouts — mere crumbs — he goes — probably to be replaced by lently. And the longer the reaction is from the overladen table of the white a white person, even if that white per­ prevented from taking place, the more community. What the coloured com­ son comes from another country. violent it may be when it does occur, munity here wants is the power to Viewed this way, it should not be unless something is done in the mean­ spread its own table with things that difficult to see that the coloured com­ time to correct the situation. it can call its own. To say to Negroes munity here saw the BELCO's opposi­ A great many Bermudians appear now that they must not aggitate for tion to the B.I.U. as an attempt to to be unable to see it. But it is the this power, because it wiD upset the keep Negroes in a place of weakness. race question, the question of preju­ economic balance of this island, is not The American Negro has recentiy dice, discrimination and segregation good enough. coined the phrase, "white power struc­ that was at the heart of this uprising, No matter how much wealth this ture." It suggests that the white com­ despite the fact that it started out as island gains, as long as the present munity has so organised itself that it purely a labour dispute. If this alarms situation exists, the top of the econo­ is a structure of political, economic some of those who thought that be­ mic and political scale will be white and social power. Until that structure cause Front Street stores gave jobs to and the bottom of the scale will be in America is no longer white but grey, coloured people, because the theatres coloured. And even if things become America is going to be a strife-tom desegregated, and because a few other so financially bright that the poorest community. barriers were lowered, coloured Ber­ Bermudian is ten times better off than It is reasonable, therefore, to ex- mudians would be satisfied, then it is his social counter-parts in other parts pect that Bermuda will be any dif­ very good that such people were given of the world, blacks will still be bossed ferent — especially when one realises cause to think again. What Bermuda by whites, a black skin v^ill still be that the history of the coloured com­ is now being called upon to correct is viewed as a badge of inferiority, and munity here is so very similar to that a system that started out wrong from Negroes will still be aggitating for a of the American Negro? the beginning — more than 350 years change in the situation. FAME Page three KATH'S BEAUTYRAMA GRADUATE OF HOLLYWOOD ACADEMY OF HAIR AND BEAUTY CULTURE New York — U.S.A. 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