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Johnny Henderson recently be-
gan his duties as marketing direc-
tor at Oak Lawn Community Ser-
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sought to assure the community members
that OLCS remains committed to its base in
the gay and lesbian community.
They clearly believe that the new board
members who began their terms this month
will help them achieve that goal. "This year
there’s been a pretty large turnover on the
board," Stone pointed out. Fifty percent ofthe
board members are new; the board now
stahds at 18 members, although leaders hope
to expand that number to 22.
“One of the criteria [in selecting board
members) was to find people active in other
aspects ofthe (gay and lesbian] community,"
Hickerson pointed out. “That was specifically
to address our image and to put us back into
grassroots contact. That will help us know
where we need to be for the community in
the future."
The board now is comprised of about half
women and half men, “which was another of
our goals,” Stone stated.
OLCS officials also announced the hiring of
Johnny Flenderson as marketing director. He
will coordinate fundraising and help develop
a marketing plan for OLCS, and will also serve
as public information officer.
Henderson and Stone both hope the
changes they’re making at the agency will
help OLCS marshal I more of the community’s
limited financial and human resources.
“In the past we’ve not been faced with a
situation of telling a client no,” Hickerson
said. But he added that unless the agency’s
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natives are successful, “We may be facing that
sort of situation.
“The two greatest needs we have right now
are. of course, money and human resources
in the form of v olunteers. That’s what we’ve
got to have to make it all happen,” he
concluded.
Houston PD hires
first woman chief
WATSON HAS BEEN WITH HPD FOR 17 YEARS
By TAMMYE NASH
*T<he city of Houston shattered precedent
X last week by naming a woman to replace
Lee P. Brown as chief of that city’s 4,000
member'police force. Elizabeth M. Watson,
who began her 17-year career with the HPD
riding a beat, became the first woman to head
the police force of one ofthe nation’s top 20
cities on Jan. 19.
Brown, who left Houston to take over as
New York City's police commissioner, had
clashed sharply with the HPD’s rank-and file
officers over a number of issues, including
salary matters. Watson said that compensation
is the “first and foremost" of the issues she
will address as chief.
The nomination by Houston Mayor Kathy
Whitmire was seen as a bold step by most
observers.
“This is like the first woman in Congress,
the first woman in the state legislature or the
first woman C.E.O. of a Fortune 500 com
pany," commented Dr. Susan Martin, who has
just completed a study of woman in the field
for the Police Foundation in Washington.
“Police work is typically one of the most
male-dominated occupations. For a woman
to achieve the position of chief in one ofthe
largest departments in the country is a major
event," she told the New York Times.
Prior to Watson’s appointment, the largest
police force in the country to be headed by a
woman was that of Portland, Ore. Penny
Harrington was chief of the 750-member
Portland PD for six months before resigning
amid allegations that her husband had alerted
a suspect in a major cocaine case.
Whitmire, the first woman mayor of Hou
ston — the the largest city in the country with
a woman mayor — admitted some “trepida
tion” about appointing Watson as HPD chief,
but added that she had had the same trep
idation when she appointed Watson to the
position of chief of Houston’s West Side
Command Station.
“I was concerned about the support she
would get [as chief of the West Side Com-
mand Station], and she received very strong
support from that predominantly male staff. I
expect her to receive the same support [as
chief of the whole department]," Whitmire
stated.
Watson herself commented that she is
“deeply committed to policing, and if in the
course of doing that 1 serve as a role model for
other women, I am doubly honored.”
Watson comes from a family of police
officers, and her husband is a sergeant in
Houston’s traffic division. She joined HPD in
1972, and on her wedding day in 1976 was
promoted to the rank of detective, in 1981,
she became a lieutenant. In 1984. Watson was
the first woman to be named a captain on the
force, and in 1987 the first woman named as a
deputy chief.
Mark R. Clark, president of the Houston
Police Officers Association, noted that “I can’t
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