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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1971)
Jewest — Newspp • S ta .e U n iv e rs ity a l i a , O r e . 31 This is your paper, because you have demanded it. - Vol. J No. 16 Portland, Ore. Something of interest to everyone. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Black Dr. heads white hospital Thursday, Jon. 21, 1971 10‘ Per Copy Freedom Bank moves into New Headquarters Walter C. Reynolds, M.D., Portland's firs t, and only Portland general practitioner, black operated bank - the Free w ill be Installed as president of dom Bank of Finance has moved the Emanuel Hospital Medical Into new headquarters at 2737 Staff at Its annual banquet on N.E. Union Avenue. Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Co President V. F. Booker says lu m b ia - E d g e w a t e r Country the bank w ill continue to operate Club. Its Kllllngsw orth branch; and He succeeds W illiam Y. Bur plans are s till In the m ill to ton, M.D., in the post. D r. Bur build a newer structure on an ton w ill serve as toastmaster other site owned by the bank in tor the banquet. North Portland. Other new staff officers In The new headquarters was c lu d e Richard Hopkins, M.D., purchased from the firs t Na president-elect; Paul S t a r r , tional Bank In December of M.D., vice president; and Je rry 1969. F irst National Bank had / Glesy, M.D., secretary-trea been renting space from the surer. Freedom Bank until it was The Installation program w ill ready to move In. also Include Alfred E. Olson, President Booker says In the chairman of the Board of Eman nearly year and a half of opera uel Hospital; The Rev. W illiam FREEDOM BANK OF F INANCE new location Union tion, the biggest problems have F. Adlx, D.D., chaplain; and en & Graham Branch. been in attracting deposits and tertainment by the Mt. Hood finding qualified personnel; but Chapter, SPEBQSA. that these problems have been but the situation Is improving. 5 share lots, at >8.50 per share. D r. Reynolds, a graduate of working themselves out. Booker says the bank began to Booker says the Freedom the University of Oregon and Many potential employees, he show a p ro fit after only seven B a n k compares to Seattle's University o f Oregon Medical says had been hesitant to leave months of operation; and there WALTER C. REYN b l a c k - o p e r a t e d bank at this School, has been a member of Jobs with white-owned banks, is s till some stock available In stage of its development. OLDS, M .D., a g en eral the Emanuel Medical Staff since practitioner became pretti- 1953, following completion of dent of Emanuel Hoapital residency training at San Mateo Medical Staff He is a shin C o m m u n ity Hospital In San The cultural heritage of the Mateo, C alif. He Is a member ing example that color is no people of A frica and the Carib o f the American Academy of barrier, only ability count*. bean as reflected In their dance General Practice. and music w ill be presented by Percival Borde and Company of New York In a variety of a c tiv i ties scheduled throughout the city January 25-30. Borde's appearance launches Black Culture Month at Portland i S ta te U niversity, where black musicians, speakers and poets w ill be featured throughout the month of February. National ob servance of Black Culture Is February 6-13. Borde, another dancer and musician from his Company, w ill p r e s e n t "T he Talking D rum s" at two public perfor mances: Thursday, January 28 at 8 pun. at Jefferson High School and Saturday, January 30 at 8 p.m. at Lincoln High School. The a rtis t w ill spend most of the week giving lecture demon strations and teaching master dance classes In the Portland MR. HERNDON concentrates on the controls which Public Schools and at Reed Col manipulate the switches and signals. lege, Mt. Hood Community Col In the Tower beside the concerning trains a rrivin g and lege and Portland State Univer Railroad Track at N.W. 4th and departing from Portland Union sity. Hoyt Street, a voice comes over Station, receives and Issues Born and educated In T rin i a speaker, "Man down six, w ill T rain orders and clearances, as dad, Borde has researched the hang two, set him over to nine, well as handles Messages be cultural background of the West then to Private three and call tween Executives and Depart Indies and West and Central for a tra c k ." A bell rings, a red ment heads of the Portland T e r A frica in order to present the light flashes, a man plugs in a minal Railroad Co., and three heritage of these people in their phone and says " V C " - a busi Major Railroads serving Port dance, music, art and folklore. land. ness-like voice responds, "Copy He spent several years study a bunch." Sound strange? Not so ing and perform ing with Pearl to Robert H. (Bob) Herndon, Sr., Sounds simple, doesn't It? Prim us, leading authority on a form er Red-Cap at Portland Well, it Isn’t, but M r. Herndon, African dance and cultures, Union Station, who fo r nearly who was nearly sixty when he while doing graduate study In five years has been qualified to took on-the-job training to be p rim itiv e art at Columbia Uni operate the Interlocking Control come a Towerman and was a versity. Tower at Union Station and youthflil sixty four when he be PERCIVAL BORDE and Company will present "The In addition to college and uni since August, 1970, two months came a VC Operator, makes It Talking Drums, a musical and dance program highlight versity appearances, Borde has after the merging of two De seem so. We made some lnqul- performed at such festivals as ing the cultural heritage of the people of Africa and the partments has been a qualified r l e s and to the best of our the Caribbean A rts Festival In Caribbean, in two performances January 28 and January Operator of the "V C " O ffice. knowledge Bob Herndon Is the Puerto Rico, the V irgin Islands .W ), at Jefferson and Lincoln High Schools respectively. ( " V C " is the code name of the only Black man In this part of Festival in St. Croix, and Ja Both performances begin at 8 p.m. old Telegraph Office which has the Country who Is so employed. cob’s Pillow Dance Festival In been replaced with modern local What kind of a person is M r. Lee, Mass. He also participated O 'N eill Theatre Foundation. and Portland Public School Dis Teletype and a direct communi Herndon? According to M r. M. in the F irst Congress of African Presently a member of the tric t #1 with the assistance of cation system.) D. Nlckelsen, Chief Operator, Art and Culture In Salisbury, newly formed department of funds provided by the National As a Towerman M r. Herndon "H E IS FULLY QUALIFIED TO Southern Rhodesia In 1963. Afro-Am erican s t u d ie s at the Endowment for the Arts admin has the responsibility fo r han WORK ANY SHIFT AND IS A One of Borde’s own produc State University of New York In istered by the Oregon Arts dling the levers which control D E P E N D A B L E EMPLOYEE. tions, "B la ck Rhythm ," has Binghamton, Borde directed a Commission. the operation of switches and WHEN BOB IS CALLED TO been presented Off-Broadway at summer dance workshop at the Tickets for the public p e rfo r signals governing train move WORK WE KNOW WE CAN DE the C ircle In the Square and the University of Oregon In Eugene mances are available at the PSU ment. There are twenty two PEND ON H IM ." Gramercy A rts Theater with his last summer. box office located In Smith Me tracks plus three spur tracks Is that any way to run a to ll company of dancers, musi The Percival Borde and Com m orial Center, Stevens and Son between the Union Station and Railroad? M r. J. H. Jones, c ia n s and singers. He’s also pany week of African dance is and at the door p rio r to p e rfo r the Steel Bridge. Manager of the Portland T e rm i choreographed productions f o r being co-sponsored by Portland mances. Admission Is $1.00 for As an Operator he receives nal Railroad Co. believes It is, New York C ity’s Negro En State U niversity, Reed College, students and >2.00 for the gen and dispenses vita l Information and we heartily agree... semble Company and the Eugene Mt. Hood Community College eral public. r ■V P S U P resen t P e r c iv a l B ord e Clear board black operator