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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.
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