What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine the gender of this litigant. Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity (e.g., the sex of "Chris" should be coded as "not ascertained").

Opinion:
Donald P. BARFIELD, Appellant, v. ANHEUSER BUSCH and Mike Parsons, Appellees.
No. 86-1124.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 13, 1987.
Decided April 7, 1987.
Rehearing Denied June 3,1987.
Robert G. Raleigh, Alton, Ill., for appellant.
H. Kent Munson, St. Louis, Mo., for ap-pellees.
Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant Donald Barfield brought suit against his former employer, Anheuser Busch, Inc., and against his former supervisor, Mike Parsons, claiming that they had discriminated against him by reason of his race in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (1982). The district court entered summary judgment for the defendants on the ground that the actions against them were barred by the statute of limitations. 617 F.Supp. 32 (1985). Barfield appeals this judgment. We affirm the district court’s decision.
Barfield, a black employee of Anheuser Busch, was suspended from work on March 30, 1979 when he became involved in a fist fight with his supervisor. Anheuser Busch allegedly notified Barfield in April, 1979 that his employment had been terminated, although Barfield denies having received this notification. Barfield twice met with company officials in an attempt to gain reinstatement. When the company refused to reinstate him, Barfield’s ease was submitted to arbitration. On December 10, 1979, the arbitrator issued an opinion in favor of the company. Barfield brought this action in August, 1984.
The district court held that Barfield’s claim was barred by the applicable five year statute of limitations. The court found that Barfield was fired in April, 1979 thus causing his claim to accrue. See Delaware State College v. Ricks, 449 U.S. 250, 258, 101 S.Ct. 498, 504, 66 L.Ed.2d 431 (1980). (Limitations period commences when the employment decision is made and communicated to the plaintiff.) The court also determined that arbitration of Bar-field’s dispute did not toll the limitations period. See id. at 261, 101 S.Ct. at 505.
On appeal Barfield argues that summary judgment was inappropriate because a material fact was in issue. Barfield claims that it was not satisfactorily established in district court that his employment had been terminated in April, 1979 thereby causing his claim to accrue. We have carefully studied the record, including the district court’s opinion and the briefs of the parties. We conclude that the district court’s findings are not clearly erroneous and that no error of law exists. Accordingly, we affirm on the basis of the district court’s opinion. See 8TH CIR.R. 14.
. The Honorable Clyde S. Cahill, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". What is the gender of this litigant?Use names to classify the party's sex only if there is little ambiguity.

Choices:
not ascertained
male - indication in opinion (e.g., use of masculine pronoun)
male - assumed because of name
female - indication in opinion of gender
female - assumed because of name

Answer: 1