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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1970)
» á Northwest s Newest Most Provocative — Newspaper This is your paper, because you have demanded it -------------------------------------------------- _ y ” u e rn a n o e o it . — Something of interest to everyone. V o l. 1 N o . 9 Portland, Ore. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER D ropouts helped P o rtla n d handles difficu lt problem fr u ir u a a re Four years ago, .1 dropouts In P o r t la n d were the hopeless cases, doomed to poverty and the welfare ro lls . Through a unique series of joint strategy of the Portland P u b lic School, the Portland Council of Churches, and other public and private funds, the un- e m p lo y a b le , educational de prived men and women of the inner city now have chance to enter the mainstream of A m eri can life . The lack of motivation to suc ceed In school increases greatly as young men and women from impoverished homes enter high school. ’ ’ When he gets to be a junior in high school, the poor young ster is often far behind the other in reading and language s k ills ,” said one of the Albina Youth Opportunity School o ffi cia l. "O ften, he Is much older than the other as well, for he has been put back several tim es. He loses his hope for the future and drops out.” Youth experts throughout the city echo the same feeling that v o c a t io n a l training and Job placement are only solutions to the many social and economic problems of the dropout. Opportunity S c W in cooperation with the AYOS Portland Public O W nctN ol 2871092’ Albina \ o u t h O p p o rtu n ity SofTool gives dropouts a sec ond chance in life. Unlike other structured school the Albina Youth Oppor tunity School is quite different, yet unique and very effective. There is a closeness on a one to one basis, the teacher is a big brother. Out of 31 students sent back to the public school system only 4 have returned in a year. Some of the Albina Youth Opportunity (students) are enrolled in col lege and doing a creditable Job. We must remember that these kids were thiough as fa r as so ciety was concerned but Albina Youth Opportunity School gave them a second chance for gain ful employment an education and a whole outlook upon life . The school is staff with the following person; Charles Leech, Dick Celsi, Rance S p ruill, Leon Johnson and Dan Robinson. T w o V iew s On M ilitan cy Two black academicians d if fered sharply over the state of American black m ilitancy at a recent symposium on interna tional ra cia l tensions and iden tity . Harvard Professor Martin Kllson, a p olitica l scientist, stated that there were recent indications that all-black p o liti cal organizations were on the decline. The reason, he said, is failure to recognize the neces sity of allying with whites. Speaking at Vanderbilt Univer sity, he said, ’ ’ Blacks clearly lack the resources for viable all-black polltican and in stitu tional self-determ ination.” "Many blacks dislike and hate the very guts of whites and vice- versa...but they sim ulta- r •'ously recognize that they need whites and vice-versa...Those nationalist Negro groups who propound (otherwise) Indulge in sheer fantasy, albeit psycholog ica lly satisfying,” Kilson said. C R IM IN A L J U S T IC E W O R KSHO P: Four leaders in various fields o f crim ina l justice activities conferred about conclusions o f a C rim in a l Justice W orkshop session at Portland C om m unity College. H olding the workshop-aemion report is Oregon Supreme Court Associate justice V irg il laing try. Seated right is H o yt Cupp, W a r den, Oregon State Penitentiary. Standing d ire ctly behind Cupp is Phil Mason, N a tio n a l Urban C oalition, and standing behind Langtry is C hief Don M cNam ara, Portland Police Dept. Thursday, Nov. 26, 1970 10c Per C o p y Simon Estes billed by P ortlan d Opera S im o n Estes, distinguished bass-baritone of the M etropoli tan Opera, w ill return to Port land for the next production of the Portland Opera Association, as Rocco in Beethoven's great masterpiece, "F id e lio ,” Jan uary 21 and 23, 1971. Estes was catapulted to fame when he won the th ird place in the firs t Tchaikovsky Vocal Competition in Moscow. Upon his return to the United States he was honored at a special re ception at the White House by President Johnson. P rio r to this event, he also won a prize in the coveted Munich International Music Competition. The hand s o m e six foot one-inch bass- baritone was honored by the City of New York with a citation from Mayor John V. Lindsey, and by George Whitmore, Mayor of the City of Des Moines, Iowa. A graduate of the University of Iowa, Estes attended the J u il- lia rd School of Music. He has sung at Tanglewood and the Hol lywood Bowl, and filled major operatic commitments with the Deutsche Oera in B erlin, as well as the Lubeck Opera and Hamburg Opera. He created two roles in Gunther Schuller's new opera, "The V isitation .” Estes w ill be part of an inter - n a t io n a l cast fo r ’ ’ Fidelio” w h ic h includes Klara Barlow, SIMON ESTES W illiam O lvis, Joshua Hecht, Harold Enns, and others. There w ill be another in the special matinee series on Sunday, Jan uary 24, with some changes of cast, at popular prices. A ll per formances w ill be conducted by Stefan Minde, with staging by James Lucas. Tickets are now on sale at the box office of the Civic Auditorium , also Stevens & Son in the Lloyd Center and Meier and Frank. T en an ts and Hud n eg o tia te The National Tenants O rgani- do not make required repairs in z a t io n has successfully nego 48 hours. Besides NTO and tiated with the UJS. Department HUD, the National Association of Housing and Urban Develop of Housing and Renewal O ffi ment for a "m odel lease and cials was a party to the agree grievance procedure" for all m e n t. NTO’s national confer existing and future public hous e n c e in Winston-Salem, N.C., ing. The agreement, which s till this week (Nov. 19-22) w ill have must be cleared by HUD higher- a theme of "A Decent Home; ups before going into effect, w ill The Struggle in the 7 0 's ." guarantee public housing tenants Among those expected to a hearing, with legal counsel, address the 1,000 delegates before an im partial board p rio r from NTO’s 170 affiliated chap to eviction. Conditions are spe ters w ill be NTO chairman cified under which evictions can Jesse Gray; Julian Bond; How occur. Public housing also is ard F u lle r of Malcolm X L ib e r made subject to existing local ation U niversity; and two HUD housing codes and tenants are assistant secretaries, Sam Sim guaranteed the right to withold mons and Norman Watson. th e ir rents if housing managers PCC makes p la n s for north cam pus A long-range plan for Port Ki Ison's r e m a r k s evoked land Community College from pointed disagreement from a the present into 1980 was pre Fisk U n i v e r s i t y sociologist, sented to the Oregon State Gerald McW orter, who accused Board of Education (Friday, Kllson of m isinterpreting re a li Nov. 20). ty by taking "s o rt of quick Ivy League fancy footsteps” through The plan calls for develop h i s t o r y . "T he theoretical un ment of a West Campus, de derpinnings of Brother K lls o n ," signed for 2,500 fu ll-tim e stu M c W o r t e r said, " is basically dents, in Washington County, almost as if God had pronounced and a North Campus, for anoth that we be a ll linked together, er 2,500 students. PCC’ s pres so that there’s no other possible ent interim fa cilitie s at the alternatlve...The last question I Portland International A irport have on all this is, where is Pro w ill become a specializing a ir fessor Kilson on the question of industries center with space for revolution?” about 550 in aviation-connected programs. M ajor emphases in the cu r riculum and program develop ments within the plan fa ll on de velopmental and remedial edu cation for high school dropouts who tum to PCC as the "open d o o r" for educational opportu n i t y ; career-vocational pro grams developing entry-level skills and competencies; adult e d u c a tio n programs offering basic education, transition anu upgrading within occupations, and enrichment; and college transfer programs.
