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Thursday, January 16, 1076
Women’s Resource Center
Teacher exams scheduled
offers classes, library, referral
Pleased over the $201 cheek Pacific University Concerned Black Students (CBS) is
presenting to the Marsh Hall rebuilding fund are (from left) Donald Shaw, Inglewood,
California, correspondence director for CBS; Dr. James V. Miller, Pacific President,
and Carmon Cunningham. 1224 N.E. Roselawn, Portland, CBS president. The funds
came from one of the presentations last fall of the CBS sponsored play. “River Niger".
Marsh Hall, the Pacific administration building, was built in 1895 and was severely
damaged by fire last March. The historic building is now being rebuilt. Pacific Photo
by Peg Oslund
Novelist visits Reed College
Black novelist and poet Ishmael Reed
will present a reading from his works at
Reed College Saturday evening, January
17th, at 8:00 p.m. in the faculty office
building lounge. There is no admission
«•i arge.
Nominated for both the National Book
Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Ishmael
Reed has spawned conflicting critical
opinions.
The works of Ishmael Reed include
four novels - The Free-Lance Pall
Bearers, Yellow Back Radio Broke Down,
Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of
l-ouisiana Red - as w e ll as two books of
poetry - Conjure and Chattanooga. He is
editor of 19 Necromancers from Now, an
anthology considered a breakthrough for
independent Afro-American writers of
the 1960s, and of Yardbird Reader.
Volume 1.
Born in Chattanooga.
Tennesse, he was raised in Buffalo, New
York, and has lived in Berkeley,
California.
The appearance of Ishmael Reed is part
of a Reed College program of special
independent activities called Paideia,
which replaces regular classes during
Januar/.
Neighborhood House shows arts
Step out of the rain into a colorful
Rainbow of Culture presented by Port
land Section of National Council of Jewish
Women at the Neighborhood House on
Wednesday, February 4th from 7:00 to
10:00 p.m.
The show will feature many forms of
fine arts from the local Jewish com
munity. Painters, potters, weavers, and
photographs will be on hand to present
fine shades of visual arts.
Musical
soloists, choral groups and wandering
minstrels will echo through the halls.
Ethnic folk dancing, mime and dramatic
presentations are also sketched into this
whirling merry-go-round of colorful ex
pression.
Enter for a fee of $1 per person and
begin in a terrarium of greenery. Partake
in refreshments designed to warm a
winter evening - Briscoe coffee, Russian
tea and pastry desserts. Continue on to
discover the rainbow's end.
In addition to the arts, a display of
historical ties between National Council
of Jewish Women and the Neighborhood
House and a glimpse of the Oregon Oral
Jewish History Project may provide
nostalgic memories.. Originally built as
an Americanization Center by NCJW in
1904, the Neighborhood House was the
hub of Council's service programs for
fifty years. The women of NCJW now
invite the public back to the Neighbor
hood House to find a pot of gold at the
1976 Rainbow of Culture.
The Women's Place Resource Center,
1915 N.E. Everett is open to all women.
The Center offers a drop in center;
referral service; for medical, legal,
counselling and other needs; lending
library; laundromat; skills file; rap
groups: speaker's bureau; newsletter;
and a quiet room for meditation and
message.
There are always many
projects going on at the center and people
with new ideas and energy are always
welcome. A meeting for all new people
interested in the center will be held
January 27th at 7:30
Currently the center is working on
coordinating classes, workshops and
other learning groups since the end of the
Women's Liberation School. The new
structure will provide a clearing house
for persons wanting either to learn or
share knowledge on any subject. A fee of
$5 for six months will allow a woman to
participate in as many activities as she
wants. Classes in street fighting/self
defense, astrology, assertiveness train
ing, photography and dar'.room are
scheduled to start in mid-Fr oruary. One
group, ongoing from the fall is an
exploration of fibers, e.g.; soft sculptor,
off loom weaving; this group meets
Thursdays at 7:30 at 1915 N.E. Everett.
Those interested in either taking or
coordinating a class should call 234 7044
between 11:00 and 6:00 weekdays.
Another project is the Feminist
Counsellors Investigation Group. These
women are interviewing feminist coun
sellors as to their fees, techniques, etc. so
that the files will be more complete and
helpful to women seeking counselling.
Files are always open and feedback is
solicited from anyone who has seen a
therapist in Portland; expereinces may
be shared anonymously. This group is
open to new members. If interested, call
U ura at 234 7044.
The Darkroom Collective has finished
construction of a small darkroom and is
now soliciting equipment, especially an
enlarger so that classes may be taught
and women already familiar with dark
room technique can develop their own
photographs. Meetings are held every
Monday at 7:30 at 1915 N.E. Everett and
new members are welcome. For more
information call Linda at 233 2383.
A Women's Housing Research Group is
being set up to investigate all aspects of
women's housing: procedures for buying
a home, landlord tenent contracts, dis
crimination against women in housing,
etc. This group is just getting started
and needs people to work with them. If
interested, ' please contact Nora at
774 2925.
A Support Committee for Diane Davis
has been formed and will meet Thursday,
January 8th at 7:30 at 1915 N.E. Everett.
The group is working on fund raising in
hopes that an appeal of her manslaughter
conviction will be won.
If those
interested in helping or wanting more
information, please call Diana at 234
7044.
The National Teacher Examinations
(NTE) will be given at Portland State
University on February 21st.
Scores from the examinations are used
by many states for certification of
teachers, by many school systems for
selection, tenure status and identification
of leadership qualities and by many
colleges as part of their graduation
requirements. About 100,000 candidates
took the examinations last year.
Educational Testing Service, which
prepares and administers the tests, says
they are designed to measure knowledge
gained from professional and general
education and in 27 subject matter fields.
Bulletins of information describing
registration procedures and containing
registration forms may be obtained
from the National Teacher Examinations,
Educational Testing Service, Box 911,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
(More information is available from
Jean Edwards, a special education
professor at PSU.)
CALENDAR
January 15th
Fibers Class, 7:30 p.m.
January 19th
Darkroom Collective
Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
January 22nd -- Fibers Class, 7:30 p.m.
January 26th
Darkroom Collective
Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
January 27th Meeting for New People
Interested in the Resource Center, 7:30
p.m.
January 29th
Fibers Class. 7:30 p.m.
Seotftle: $6J8 on hour.
Children’s art selected
The art work of six youngsters, grades
one and two, were chosen as finalists in
Oregon’s 1977 Children's Christmas Seal
Design project, sponsored by the Ameri
can Lung Association and the National
Art Education Association.
The final posters will be sent off to
New York, where in February 54
paintings, one from each state and four
territories, will be chosen. The final
choices will make up the 1977 national
Christmas Seal-sheet.
Finalists were: Tony Gould, age seven,
grade two. Mill Park School, Portland;
Scott Wright, grade one, Petter Boscow
School. Hillsboro; Cindy Veenstra, age
eight, grade two, Gilbert Park School,
Portland; Rusty Knoebel, age six, grade
one, Glen D. Hale School, Eagle Point:
and Mike Bennett, age six, grade one,
Glen D. Hale School, Eagle Point.
Selections, from the more than 210
entries from all over the state of Oregon
done by children K 3, were made Friday
morning at the Standard Plaza em
ployee's lounge in Portland.
Judges were: William Glaeser, Oregon
College of Education, Monmouth, presi
dent, Oregon Art Education Association;
Daniel Cannon, Ed.D., Oregon College of
Education. Monmouth, president. Arts in
Oregon Council; Polly Eyerly, Portland.
Curator of Education, Portland Art
Museum.
It's really amazing to think
you can talk to someone in Seat
tle for so long—for so little.
But you can.
Simply dial direct before 8
a m., and you’ll pav only $6.78,
plus tax, for a full hour of
conversation.*
Low rates like this apply on
calls to cities all across the
country, when you call during
off-hours.
So, go ahead. Reach out and
touch someone you love bright
and early tomorrow morning
By long distance.
It’s a great way to start the
day.
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Pacific Northwest Bell
The 1977 Christmas Seal sheet will be
the second lime seals will have been
produced by the elementary school
children of the nation. This past year
(1975) was the nation's first children's
seal art project. It was widely acclaimed
as a collectible. The 1977 date was rhosen
for the second project as two years is
needed to allow for production schedules.
Last Days!
The Greatest
White Sale on
Earth at JCPenney.
Every sheet
in our stock
is on sale.
Now is your chance to save on every
sheet in our stock. Select either muslin
or percale in an assortment of beautiful
decorator solid and print designs.
Come in and save on sheets right now
at JC Penney.
Sale prices effective
thru Sat., Jan. 17.
JCPenney
JOE HARRIS
Harris seeks
mayor’s spot
Joe Harris has announced his candi
dacy for the office of Mayor of Portland.
A lifetime resident of Portland and a
graduate of Roosevelt High School,
Harris is active in anti poverty and
minority organizations. He is currently a
board member of thp Albina Action
Center, the National Association of
Community Development, and is an.
honorary member of Youth Clubs of
Portland. He is a member of Mount
Olivet Baptist Church. He is the father of
an eight year old son.
Harris promises the "biggest campaign
of all times in Portland," and will attempt
to register people to vote.
If elected, Harris intends to remove
Police Chief Bruce Baker and all racist
police officers and to remove shotguns
from patrol cars. “I know many people,
includng myself, who have been harassed
by racist police officers," he said. He
plans, also, to open communication
between city hall and all citizens.
He promises to visit all communities
regularly, in order to insure the proper
use of federal funds to assist those in
need. He will broaden affirmative action
programs to provide employment for
those who wish to work.
Harris indicated that if elected he will
stop the "bickering" on the City Council,
"which is the reason they don't get
anything done." He also promises to
donate half his salary to poverty
programs.
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