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University leader dies at 50
■ Hill will be remembered
as a community-builder
dedicated to getting kids to
attend college
By Maggie Young
Oregon Daily Emerald
Former University Upward
Bound program coordinator
Pearl M. Hill died of heart failure
Wednesday at the age of 50.
From 1972 until 1992, when
funding was cut, Hill served as
the director of the University Up
ward Bound program, a federally
funded program that encourages
college enrollment to at-risk stu
dents.
“Pearl M. Hill will be remem
bered as an indomitable spirit, a
fierce, strong, proud and deter
mined black woman,” Carla
Gary, former Upward Bound
counselor at the University and
sister-in-law said. “She was a
force to be reckoned with.”
Bom on April 7,1949, Hill was
raised in Portland, by her parents
Vincent and Jessie Hill.
As a high school student she
took part in Upward Bound and
had been involved ever since.
She began a career in the Up
ward Bound program as a coun
selor in 1968 and continued
working for the organization at
various levels until 1992.
She received her Bachelor of
Science in Sociology from the
University in 1971 and her Mas
ter of Science in Counseling Psy
chology in 1973.
Hill was actively involved in
the United Way Board, the Mar
tin Luther King Jr. Planning
Committee and the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People. On campus,
Hill was a very important con
nection for students, said Jan
Oliver, associate vice president
for institutional affairs and close
friend.
“Pearl was a natural communi
ty-builder,” Oliver said. “She
had a way of bringing people to
gether.”
The community doesn’t have
another person who would be
there for the kids, close friend
Anita Johnson said.
“She worked tirelessly for
kids because she wanted to
make sure that kids had the op
portunity to get an education,”
Johnson said. “She was a col
lege-bound minded person. She
wanted to make sure that every
child could go to college and.
succeed.”
In 1979 Carla Gary, director of
the office of multicultural affairs,
worked under Hill as an Upward
Bound counselor. She will re
member Pearl for her sheer com
mitment to the power of educa
tion to change lives.
“Her effect was so profound, it
was like a ripple on a pond,”
Gary said. “Her life’s work is an
inspiration for all of us to make a
difference in the lives of people
we come into contact with, espe
cially those who have less oppor
tunity than the rest.”
The funeral service will be
held on Tuesday at 1 p.m. at
United First Methodist Church,
at 1376 Olive St.
She is survived by daughter
Marla Hill of Seattle, Wash., her
brother Samuel G. Hill of Eu
gene, foster sisters Renae Allen,
and Michelle Allen of Portland
and Denise Allen of Seattle,
Wash.
Students silent but not voiceless
■ Deaf and hearing
impaired students face
challenges in hearing
oriented classrooms
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
Imagine sitting in a classroom
in silence — silence, not because
nobody is talking, but because
you are deaf.
Andrea Roberts, a junior ma
joring in English, is one of only
about five identified deaf stu
dents on campus. A hearing aid
that utilizes the little hearing
Roberts has and reading lips
closely enable her to get an edu
cation designed for people who
can hear.
“Sometimes it can be embar
rassing since I often times mis
take what is said by people
around me,” Roberts said. Her
sense of humor, however, helps
her laugh rather than get frus
trated in those situations, she
said.
“Sometimes it doesn’t make
sense at all and we produce
some hilarious results,” Roberts
said.
Molly Sirois, assistant coun
selor for students with disabili
ties, said Roberts is the only deaf
student at the University who
currently takes advantage of in
terpreting services provided by
academic advising. Sirois said
interpreting services is just one
of the options deaf or hearing im
paired students can use to access
University programs.
The size of the deaf communi
ty on campus has declined over
past years or students are choos
ing not to identify themselves as
deaf, which can be considered
an entire culture of people, she
said.
Jo Larsen-Muhr, sign lan
guage instructor at the College
of Education, was born to deaf
parents and knows that the
word deaf encompasses an en
tire culture rather than just lack
of hearing.
Larsen-Muhr learned how to
speak English after learning how
to communicate using sign lan
guage. She wants to raise aware
ness of sign language, deafness
and the deaf culture because of
the experiences she had as a
child.
She frequently tries to invite
guest speakers, including
Roberts, to her classes to re
verse sides and have the hear
ing students be the outsiders
when she and the guest speaker
communicate fluently in sign
language.
For Roberts, visiting Larsen
Muhr’s classes provides an op
portunity to communicate with
students who have some sign
language skills and are aware of
the problems and isolation deaf
students often face.
Larsen-Muhr said that the
hearing population usually ex
pects deaf people to make efforts
to communicate.
Roberts learned to use sign lan
guage after she experienced a
lack of acceptance by other deaf
people. Her parents raised her as
a speaking deaf person with the
help of cued speech, which in
volves utilizing all the hearing
and speaking abilities a deaf per
son might have.
“She [Roberts] has an idea of
how it feels to learn sign lan
guage as a second language,”
Larsen-Muhr said.
Sirois said that although acad
emic advising makes every effort
to accommodate deaf students,
they have a harder time getting
their higher education. She said
that the education system targets
hearing students, and it is there
fore harder for deaf students to
be accommodated in learning
conditions not designed to meet
their needs.
“I don’t think that accommo
dations are enough to make it an
equal kind of opportunity,”
Sirois said. However, many in
structors do take extra measures
to make learning for deaf stu
dents easier by using visual pre
sentations in their lectures, Sirois
said.
Sirois and Larsen-Muhr said
that developing the deaf com
munity on campus is like a
“catch-22.” Deaf students look
for a group of deaf people on a
campus and in the community
when choosing a university.
However, the existence of deaf
students on a campus is a pre
requisite to draw more stu
dents.
Larsen-Muhr hopes that deaf
people will have a broader
choice of options on this campus
in the future when it comes to
services, the interpretation of
speeches and events and tele
phones.
“Deaf people should not have
to make a special request,” she
said.
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