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Community agency changes name
The Board of Directors of Albina
Family and Community Services has
changed the name of the agency to
Center For Community Mental Health.
The Center For Community Mental
Health has established a new name to
indicate the broader and more compre
benstve services of professional counsel
ing and therapy services to individuals
and families that are now being offered.
These include parenting classes, coun
seling for children, day treatment ser
vices, consultation for groups and organi
zations and neighborhood development
services to enhance neighborhood living.
In its home, a fine old house at 6329
N .E. Union, the Center has become a
warm and comfortable place for these
many activities which are supported in
part by the United Way of the
Columbia/W illamette.
Mr. Leotis Matthews, President of the
Bob Jeffrey assigned to Atlanta
Washington. D.C. - Robert Jeffrey has
been appointed director of the agency’s
Atlanta Regional Office. Jeffrey current
ly heads the EEOC district office in
Seattle. Washington.
Acting chairman of EEO. Ethel Walsh
said that Jeffrey is "eminently qualified
for the directorship and will bring to that
office a wealth of investigative and
adminstrative experience.” She said that
the new regional director will be sworn
into office on Monday, November 15th. in
Atlanta.
A native of Fort Worth. Texas. Jeffrey
was appointed to his current post in 1973.
Beginning his EEOC career in 1968. he
served as deputy district director in
Memphis, and as supervisory investiga
tor in the San Francisco District Office
Earlier, he served as director of regional
Federally assisted programs for the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development in San Francisco.
Jeffrey did his undergraduate work at
Oakland City College and received his
teaching credentials from the University
of California in 1962 and an undergradu
ate degree from that institution in 1973.
He earned an M.A. in public administra
tion from Western University, Los
Angeles, in 1975.
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A recent cross burning on the campus |
of Oregon State University has brought r
new awareness to many students,
according to Dr. Robert W. Chick, Dean
of Students.
Last Friday, eight white students came
forward and admitted that they hao
burned the cross in front of the Black
Cultural Affairs office. The men, who
were members of the Avery Lodge Co-op,
said they were not aware of the
implications of burning a cross. They had
been involved in “RF-ing" - playing
tricks on - another living group and were
taking the cross to that house. On the
way they passed the Black Cultural
Affairs building and decided to burn it
there.
When the action became public,
the men revealed that they were guilty
and went to the school newspaper, the
Barometer, to tell their story. They met
with Dean Chick; Black Student Union
president Ron Slaughter; Reggie Sim
mons, director of the Black Culture
Center; and faculty advisors. After
discussing the action - with great
emotion - the men waived their right to a
formal hearing before the Disciplinary
Committee and allowed Dean Chick to
determine their discipline.
Dr. Chick emphasized that Black
students aaked that there be no harsh
treatment - that the students not be
suspended or expelled.
In the discussion between the Black
and white students, it waa determined
that the while students had not consider
ed the serious nature of their act and had
not understood the racial implications.
The University does not reveal the
discipline taken, but the students are still
in classes. Restitution of property
damaged - a sign was singed - is
required.
Dr. Chick said that although this was a
serious incident, “a lot of good can come
out of it in terms of increased interaction
among the students. I can’t overempha
size the positive attitude of the Black
students and how forgiving they were,
that the guilty students came forward
and identified themselves and asked for
rgiveness."
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ATTORNEY W ILLIA M ROBINSON
New attorney open* office
Hill receives heroism aw ard
Linell H ill was presented the city’s first
citizen’s award for heroism by Mayor Neil
Goldschmidt and Police Chief Bruce R.
Baker.
Hill received the award for saving the
life of a police officer, Calvin Anderson.
The incident began with an automobile
accident at Union and Fremont. When
Jerry Holley of Raineer refused to give
his license number and insurance com
pany to the other man involved in the
accident, an elderly man. H ill flagged
down a passing police car.
When Officer Anderson attempted to
get Holley into his squad car, a fight
errupted. H ill intervened when he saw
that the office would get the worst of it.
Hollley grabbed Anderson's gun and fired
it at Anderson’s chest, but the safety was
on and it did not fire.
H ill waa able to take the gun from
Holley, throw him against the curb and
hold him until Anderson could handcuff
him.
H ill served as an auxiliary Portland
policeman from 1967 to 1969. Accepting
the plaque he said, “I waa in the situation
and I reacted.”
William Robinson, formerly of Lawson,
Georgia, has opened a law office at 3715
N. Williams Avenue.
Robinson attended high school in his
hometown of Lawson and junior college
in Terrell, Texas, where he was gradu
ated in 1962.
He then, at the request of Reverend
Thomas O. Jackson, Albina Church of
Christ, moved to Portland to further his
education.
A fter arriving in Portland, in May of
1962, Robinson went to work for Nabisco.
M r. Robinson completed his college
career, after studying two years, at
University of Portland.
In 1972, he enrolled at the Lewis and
Clark Law School and was graduated in
the summer of 1976. He passed the bar in
July 1976 and entered private practice
October 15th, 1976.
Robinson explained his choice of
Portland, “Portland only has one Black
attorney in private practice, and this is
the area, I think, needs help the most.
“I plan to do a general practice, so
consequently I will do some criminal law,
some civil law and some business law and
just a general area of law.”
Robinson is the father of two. a boy and
a girl. He’s a native of Georgia that
enjoys Oregon very much.
Liberation Day - November 2
Why vote? John Lewis, director of the
Voter Education Project and civil rights
activist, put is thia way, “I f there were a
single message I could send to Black
Americana to continue the civil rights
struggle, to advance the interests of
m inorities, and
to achieve
our
long-sought goals, I would urge my
brothers and sisters to regard Tuesday,
November 2nd, as a “day of liberation”
and to vote aa if our lives and future
depend on it. They do.”
“The right to vote was won not so very
long ago by Black and white people who
had a vision of overcoming the discrimin
ation and decades of abuse which we, aa a
people, had suffered. It was a concrete
goal for which many of ua shed our own
blood and some gave even their lives.”
“In 1965, after countless jailings.
beatings and abuses, we won the Voting
Rights Act and the right to vote in the
southern United States. That law has
been described as the single most
important and effective piece of civil
rights legislation of this century. If, in
1976, we, aa Black people, do not take
advents,1' of that law and exerciae the
right to vote, we are traitors to the cause
for which our brothers and sisters,
mothers and fathers died.”
“Black Americana must have the
sophistication to know that the vote is a
revolutionary tool which can be used to
transform our communities, to improve
our education, to win jobs and meaningful
employment, and to equalize the services
of government and the opportunities
which have been so long denied.”
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8AM UEX JACKSON, JR.
Board of Directors, and Ocie Trotter,
MSW, the Executive Director of the
newly named Center for Community
Mental Health, are pictured above.
Together they commemorate the name
change by replacing the old sign with a
new sign that shows the Center's
handsome new logo and name. The name
change serves as an introduction to the
new and more comprehensive services
provided by the Center.
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(Photo: Dan Long)
Samuel A. Jackson, Jr., expressed his
opinion on why American citiaens should
vote:
“Why vote? Why not vote? I vote
because there have been years of blood.
sweat and tears by thousands of Black
people to gain this simple privilege. I
believe that those people who don’t vote
have no grounds to complain about how
they are governed; or to complain about
who ia governing.”
"Since our government here in Ameri
ca is supposed to be of the people, by the
people, and for the people; I can see no
meaningful reason for not voting in every
election. I, for one, am glad we have a
choice."
Jackson is railcar buyer for FMC
Corporation and is active in the commun
ity, including serving aa Assistant
District Administrator of Little League.
Angus Duncan, director of Carter's
Oregon campaign and an assistant to the
Mayor, said, “The Preaidential race will
be close in Oregon; it ia important that
people vote.
I t ia important in a broader sense for
the Black community, that the rest of us
be made aware that the Black community
is willing to exert its power through the
election process.
"One way to get response from elected
officials ia to support those you favor and
to vote against those you oppose. No
group will be listened to if it does not
exert that power.
“In city hall and at the White House
they are aware of who votes - it is no
secret."
“The Carter campaign haa supported
the voter registration done in Albina with
manpower and with money because we
know Blacks will vote with intelligence
and because it ia important that the
community be willing to express itself
politically. A strong vote would be an
encouraging sign that political organizing
should continue.”
ANGUS DUNCAN
(Photo: Dan Long)