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Page 4 Portland/Observer Thursday. Tebniary 22, 1973 Ecology info available ’****«>»1 Experience Since 1887 we have been helping Real Oregonians with their f An environmental informa tion service incorporating re search data from more than 350 agencies, organizations and industries is now avails ble for public use at the PSU Environm ental Education Center. Called Shared Environmen tai Knowledge (SEK), the system is a guide to environ mental information gathered, stored and dissem inated throughout O regon, with particular emphasis on the tri county area. According to Laura Wil liamson. administrative as sistant to EEC Director Dr. Donald Stotler, the SEK indicates whom to contact Young Portland boy receives special treatment for his handicapps at the University of Oregon and where to look for envi Child Development and Rehabilitation Center. The public is Invited to visit the Center on February ronmental subjects is cov Colonel Cecil L. Patterson (right). Dean of the undergraduate ered, with data available in 24th. school of North Carolina Central University in Durham, various media forms (films, receives flag symbolizing acceptance of command of the lectures, reports, etc.). 3286th U.S. Army Reserve School. Colonel Patterson In addition to air and water becomes the first Black officer to command an Army Reserve pollution, such subjects as school. Presenting the colors is Major General Thomas land usage, consumer con Thorne, commander of the 120th Army Reserve Command. cerns, transportation prob On the left is the school’s outgoing commander. Colonel lems. urban problems and a past year. This new resi training facilities of its kind. On Saturday, February 24. variety of others ar covered Frank R. Poole. Jr. dential in-patient unit con As the administrative hub of citizens of Oregon will have by the SEK service. tains six hospital rooms, a an opportunity to learn first the statewide Crippled Chil nursing station and twelve hand about programs and dren’s Division, it o f f e r s hospital beds to house out complete diagnostic, evalua facilities available to t h e of-town children, as well as tion and schooling programs state’s handicapped children t h r e e one-bedroom apart for s e v e r a 1 hundred phy at the Child Development ments to accommodate par sically a n d / o r mentally and Rehabilitation Center on gram at Monroe is part of the ents. These apartments con handicapped O r e g o n chil the University of Oregon Nearly 40 pre-school chil ery school observation and Career Education program in another week of setting up tain one-way mirrors to en dren are attending classes in At the same time Medical School campus in dren. Portland Public Schools. It is the school, registering the able health professionals to it provides, under one um Portland. Staff members nutrition, emotional develop open to senior girls from any children and orienting the study parent-child interrela brella, a training center of will be on hand to conduct ment. and creative learning Portland High School. Cur mothers to the nursery school tionships in a home like en coordinated biological a n d tours and answer questions at James Monroe High School rently 45 girls are enrolled in schedule. The following 10 vironment. behavioral sciences for ele at a public open house from in Portland. week period involves actual the program. ven various medical, dental 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Since 1966, Monroe stu Mrs. Olga Irwin, director of Any Oregonian under the dents and staff have operated nursery school operation. and allied health professions. according to Dr. Victor D. During the operation of the the nursery school, said more age of 21 is eligible for a nursery school as part of In addition to classrooms, Menashe, director of the nursery school, Monroe stu than half of the nursery diagnostic s e r v i c e s and the curriculum offering stu therapy units, laboratories Crippled Children’s Division. dents spend two days a week school majors go on to do treatment at the Center if dents formal preparation in and offices, visitors to the The Center, opened two college work in related fields. the medical condition falls child care and child develop in the laboratory working open house will have the years ago, is one of the with children. They spend an within the scope of the ment. nation's f e w university-af first public look at the North additional two days in study Division's programs. Unit, just opened during the filiated demonstration and Currently the school offers a two-year major in the field of specific assignments and observations. Seniors com as part of the home econom ics division. Girls enrolling in pleting the course work in child care must complete the the major take a one-hour Red Cross multi media safely course during the first year. During the senior year, stu class and have first aid cards by the time they graduate. dents sign up for a three-hour wish to produce living abor Poor people, the elderly, Roger Breggin. M.D. In the course in child care including women, ghetto rioters. Black January issue of MH, the lion’s?" The nursery is operated prisoners, and children are quarterly magazine of the Breggin is Director of the the operation of the nursery without cost to the parents of school and day care center at dominating the statistics in National A ssociation for Project to Examine Psychia preschoolers, with the excep the new wave of psychiatric Mental Health, released to trie Technology at the Wash Monroe. The course work tion that they pay a nominal covers the full academic year surgery, according to Peter day, he says that “minorities ington School of Psychiatry, charge for the children’s wiil, of course, be the first to where he is also in private providing child care majors lunch. The students plan the with actual laboratory and suffer” in the rising number practice. He is also the daily lunch menu, shop for field experience. of lobotomies. author of a recent novel. the food, cook it in the Students in the program Refuting the necessity and After The Good War. school's home econom ics spend the first two weeks usefulness of this type of Also featured in the Janu kitchen, serve it and clean up brain surgery, Breggin says, ary issue of MH are articles learning relationships be all as part of the laboratory tween chronological ages and “Psychosurgeons most often by James P. Comer, M.D., on experience. Menus are posted emotional, mental and social rationalize their work as an therapists for Black patients, so mothers can know what development of children. This effort to reduce the individual and Gloria Steinem on as their child will have for lunch. ‘anxiety’ or ’tension,’ without serting women’s rights in is followed by two weeks of The child care aide pro- preparation for actual nurs mentioning that this merely society, plus a four page color reflects an overall loss of portfolio of art by mental vitality.” patients. Breggin asks, “Do we dare MH is published in July. to treat man in so cyncial a October, January and April. manner, reducing his human The annual subscription price ity to solve his problems? Do is $10. Contact the National we wish to make life more A ssociation for Mental tolerable for a woman and for Health. 1800 N. Kent Street, those around her by taking Arlington, Virginia 22209. some of her life away? 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G ild development contributions awarded The Black Child Develop ment Institute (BCDI) pub lished a list today of Blacks that have made outstanding contributions :□ the area of Black child development. “It is important for Black people and the Black com munity,” said Ms. Evelyn Moore, Executive Director of BCDI in announcing the names on the lists, “to ac knowledge creative and bold efforts by Blacks, in their various fields, for the better ment of our children." On February 27, BCDI will sponsor an awards cele bration in Washington D.C. (at the M a d i s o n Hotel) where Congressmen William Clay (D-Mo.), Shirley Chis holm (DN.Y.), Barbara Jor dan (DTex.), and Augustus Hawkins (D-Cal.) will all re ceive awards for their legis lativc efforts, on both the federal and state levels, in behalf of B l a c k children. Toni Cade Bambara, Gwen dolyn Brooks and John Step toe will be given swards for their writings for and about Black children, and the Jackson Five for their contribution as entertainers. A special award will be given to the “Mothers for Equal Education" from Palo Alto, California f o r their work as parents. This will be the first annual awards celebration that BCDI plans to sponsor for individuals making exceptional contri butions to Black child de velopment. The Institute, started in 1070, serves exclusively as an advocate for Black chil dren. As a national or ganization, it provides tech nical assistance to l o c a l groups concerned with day care, nutritional and edu cational programs affecting Black children. One com ponent of the Institute moni tors public policy and legis lation - both s t a t e and federal -- which a f f e c t s B l a c k children. BCDI'g Black Adoptions Advocacy Project has held five con ferences across the nation, on the problems of homeless Black children and has been credited with starting the pendulum swinging in favor of Black homes for Black children. The wives of members of >he Congressional Black Cau- (us will serve as hostesses at the Celebration. Tickets are $25.00 per person. A Federal Minority Em ployment Opportunities Clin ic has been scheduled for March 1, to be held at Adams High School. 5700 N.E. 39th Avenue, in Port land. The clinic, initiated, spon sored and presented by the Clark County Community Congress from Vancouver, Washington, is designed to familarize minorities as to proper procedure in complet ing federal applications, in formation about Civil Service examinations and regulations as well as to unveil various em ploym ent opportunities and avenues toward federal employment placement. A segment of the clinic is to try and help both employ ment interviewers and appli cant» errsdicate lifestyle con flicts which in some cases, has resulted in minorities not being selected for positions, both within and outside Fed eral agencies, although they may be well qualified. E m p lo y m e n t in te r v ie w "role playing" will be another division of the clinic along with representatives from selected Federal agencies dis cussing employment p r o- grams, opportunities and ben efits available through posi tions with the U.S. Govern ment. Roy Harris, Executive Di rector for the Community Congress in Vancouver said that there ia no charge to people that want to attend or participate in the clinic. Two separate clinics are tentative ly scheduled for March 1 at Adams High School. Clinic number 1 - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Clinic number 2 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Those agencies who will be participating or have assisted in a cooperative effort to initiate the clinic are: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Civil Service Commission, National Alliance of Businessmen. So cial Security Administration. Nero Industries, State of Oregon. Youth Employment Service of Vancouver and several other agencies, or ganizations and educational institutions. Those persons that are interested in attending or participating in the clinic should register with Roy Harris at the Clark County Community Congress (694 3377, Vancouver) or Vicky Jones at Adams High School (288-7211) specifying which sessions you desire to attend and the number of people in your party so that adequate accomodations can be made. The clinics are open to all persons, particularly minori ties, including high school students, unemployed and underemployed persons and college students. 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