Read the excerpt from outcasts united. tryouts were to be held on the field of the clarkston community center, an old brick and cream-colored clapboard building on indian creek drive. at the time, the center was run by an energetic african american named chris holliday and governed by a board of trustees made up mostly of longtime clarkston residents. but it was the refugee community that seemed to really embrace the center. the person point of view is used in this excerpt.