Portland Observer
Batiste named to Board of Higher Education
Alvin Batiste, a long-time N.E. Port
land community activist, was named
recently by Governor Hob Straub to a
position on the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education.
Straub's office made the announcement
January 30th. The appointment is to be
effective March 15th and is subject to
Senate committee approval, although
Straub has recently challenged the va
lidity of an appointment rejection by the
Senate.
Board positions are non salaried. E x
penses are paid.
Batiste anticipates
spending at least two days per month at
Board meetings. His other Board duties
will be balanced among his family time,
his position at the Bonneville Power
Administration, and the numerous com
munity activities in which he partici
pates.
Batiste said he was "very pleased" with
the appointment and identified some of
his higher education concerns as: cost,
women's athletics, and building mainte
nance.
A L V IN B A T IS T E
"I'm anxious that the cost of higher
education doesn't get out of reach of the
average family." Batiste said.
1-arge
families are especially heavily burdened
by college costs, he said, using his own
family as an example. Alvin and Rosalie
Batiste have seven children who have
completed college or are presently en
rolled.
Batiste said he supports the tax relief
proposals, including the one by President
Carter, which Congress may consider
during its current session.
Batiste compares education to an in
vestment and points out the benefit an
education returns to the community. If
this were a business investment or
expense," Batiste explains, "methods for
tax relief would be available because the
government equates a growing business
investment with a healthy community,
and. of course, government revenue. An
investment in higher education has the
same effect, but the government does not
allow a sufficient relief.
Batiste voiced a criticism of the main
tenance condition of some higher educa
tion structures. Batiste would not iden
tify the buildings or the campus.
Batiste is disappointed in the progress
made at upbringing the quality of wo
men s athletic programs, describing the
progress as going at a snail's pace.' “It is
just not getting off the ground soon
enough." Batiste said. “It might take
some seed money from the state to get it
started
Batiste does not, however,
support the use of state funds for the
regular athletic programs at the univer
sity level.
Batiste also called for more relevancy
in higher education curriculum.
"The
community colleges have shown the
meeting of a relevant education. I hope
higher education can do the same."
Batiste said.
Batiste recently received the Interior
D e p a rtm e n t's M e rito rio u s Service
Award. In 1971 he received the Equal
Opportunity Honor Award. Batiste is
president of the Concordia Community
Association, an associate member of the
Association for Urban Technology and is
active in other community projects.
Thursday, February 18, 1978
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
The Oregon Association of Colored Women's Clubs will hold their Annual Black
History Program, Sunday, February 26. 1978 at M att Dishman Community Center.
2:00 to 5:30 p.m. The Theme: "Black Concepts. Designs and Contributions’ will
feature Black art. history, literature and music. The public is invited to attend.
N A ACP Meeting on Sunday, February 19, 1978 at 4:00 p.m. at the St. Paul Church
of God in Christ, 2859 N .E. Rodney. Discussion will be on the Union Avenue Project.
N A A C P 78 Kick-Off D rive will be held on Sunday, February 28, 1978 at 4:00 p.m. at
the M t. Olive Baptist Church.
There will be an Area 11 Citizen Advisory Committee, regular meeting -- 7:30 p.m.,
on February 21, 1978, Marysville School, 7733 S.E. Raymond Street.
The Portland Black Firefighters Association are having a Bazaar. February
18th 19th (Saturday and Sunday), from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., at the Salvation
Arm y Community Center (5430 N. Moore Street).
The North Portland Branch Library, 512 N. Killingsworth Street, will present world
renowned ges.tel singer W ill* Dorsey in a program of Afro-American music on
Saturday, February 25th, al 2:00 p.m. in celebration of Black History Week. Everyone
is invited to attend this free program celebrating Black History Week. For further
information call the North Portland Branch at 284 5822.
The Firehouse Theater presents “Life W ith Father," by Howard Lindsay and Russel
Crouse. Performed on Friday and Saturday, February 17th and 18th at 8:30 p.m. at
the Firehouse Theater located at 1436 S.W. Montgomery. Admission is $3, call
248-4737, Box Office hours 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
February 22nd
City Council hearing on amendments to comprehensive planning
process. Tentative, call 248 4280.
The Banfield Transitway Project Office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, located at the State Office Building, 5821 N .E . Glisan Street in Room
14, Portland. Persons may secure free project maps, lists of alternatives, costs, and
other background information there. I l unable to come to the office, call 238-8235 or
238-8226 for information.
Legal service aids elderly through agency maze
Three pnrgrams to provide legal assis
lance for elderly persons have been
announced in recent weeks by the Legal
Services Development Program for the
Elderly.
The programs include: an advocate
personal assistance service to assist
persons through the hearings process of
governmental bureaucracies, a volunteer
attorneys service to provide aid where a
practicing attorney is required in a legal
dispute, and a speakers service which
provides speakers from the Oregon Older
Lawyers Association to groups of elderly
persons.
The personal advocates, called parale
gals, are hot attorneys but are trained in
the sometimes confusing processes of
Medicare. Medicaid. Veterans Benefits,
Food Stamps, etc.
Ron Wyden, Development Programs
Coordinator, emphasized that not only
will these paralegals inform elderly peo
ple about their rights and how to secure
them, but will, if necessary, accompany
and act as spokesperson at bureaucratic
hearings.
Thus the 'legaleze' which
sometimes confound the non-legal logic of
benefits applicants will be neutralized,
according to Wyden.
The paralegals are volunteers and can
be contacted through senior centers such
as Project Able and the Northeast Urban
league Adult Center. Their availability
depends on their personal schedule. W y
den explained. Many are seniors but few
are themselves retired. Wyden named
Lucretia Hopcroft os the paralegal at
Project Able and M artha W arren at the
Urban League Center.
Peggy Lindquist, Development Pro
gram I^egal Resources Coordinator, out
lined the project’s* efforts to provide
attorney's services directly to low-income
elderly persons.
Attorneys are being
requested statewide, Ms. Lindquist said,
to contribute legal services through the
county bar organizations.
Ms. Lindquist described the speakers
programs of the Oregon Older Lawyers
Association. The Association, she said,
provides speakers who will give the
answers elderly persons need but are
reluctant to seek from a private attorney
because of cost. These are matters such
as wills, property or consumer problems,
taxes, for example.
Ms. Lindquist said the response to the
speakers program has been excellent.
She stressed community education as a
primary goal of the Development Pro
gram's Projects, explaining that if the
low-income elderly know of the availabi
lity of low or no cost legal assistance they
can hopefully avoid the crisis situations
which can be financially devastating.
The program is funded by a federal
grant to the State of Oregon.
It is
administered to the Oregon Office of
Elderly Affairs. Oregon Legal Services
Corporation is the program's parent
organization.
federal ptograms such as Social Security.
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