CENSUS

Jet, May 28, 2001

Died:

Carolyn R. Payton, 75, the Peace Corps' first woman and Black director, at her Washington home of a heart attack ... James Estes Baker, 66, who became the first Black American diplomat posted in South Africa during apartheid, from lung disease in New York ... Mercedier deFreitas Goodwin, 78, a distinguished Chicago educator, in Chicago ... Richard H. Austin, 87, the first Black to hold a state office in Michigan as its longest-serving secretary of state and the man credited with creating the country's first "motor voter" law, of a fatal heart attack at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit ... Harold "Happy" Hairston, 58, a starting forward on the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers team that won 33 games in a row--a professional record that has not been broken-and the NBA title, of respiratory illness resulting from prostate cancer at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.