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Portland Observer Thursday, May 11. 1978 Page 5
Black woman among first female airline pilots
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A Raisin Io The Sun" open« May 11th and will run on
weArnd» through May 27th. The « a t are: top row, from left to
right; Richard Jones, Michael Bradley. Debie Hicks, Clyde
Jones; bottom row, from left to right, Flooney, Antoinette
Jones, Lowery Gibson, Sandra Love, Sharon Scott, Harold
Hines and front, Randy Springer. Curtain in 8:15 at PSU Park
Theater.
PSU presents Hansberry’s 'Raisin in the Sen’
Lorraine Hansberry's drama "A Raisin
in the Sun" will be presented by the
Portland State University Black Cultural
Affairs Board. The award winning play,
directed by Rosemary Allen, Portland
actress, playwright and director, will
open at the PSU Park Theater on May
11th and will run Thursday, Friday and
Saturday through May 27th at 8:15 p.m.
"A Raisin in the Sun", which opened in
New York City in 1959, was one of the
first realistic plays about Black family
life. It tells the story of the Younger fa
mily's attempt to deal with conflicts
arising out of their inheritance of a large
sum of money and their efforts to better
their situation while retaining their dig
nity.
The cast includes: Sandra Love, Lo
wery Gibson. Richard Jones, Sharon
Smith, Flooney, Antoinette Jones, Ha
rold Hines. Clyde Jones, Debie Hicks,
Randy Springer, and Michael Bradley.
Several cast members are students at
PSU and PCC and others are amateur
and professional actors from the Portland
community.
For additional information call 229-
4452.
M & F features Black hair stylist
In Moe Mouton of Meier and Frank at
Lloyd Center, Portland has an expert.
Quietspoken, he’s a perfectionist and
trend setter who believes that everyone,
Black or white, has the right and the need
to look the best they can because the
outer image is the portrait of the inner
self image. He practices his art with
competence, caring and a sense of gratifi
cation in a good finished product.
Moe Mouton is quality and a touch of
class.
The best there could be
anywhere.
When seeing Moe Mouton for the first
time, one is reminded of the phrase
coined in the 60s. “Black is Beautiful.”
He's a feast for the senses. Tall, reed slim
body movements of quiet grace. This,
topped by a sensitive choir boy face
often serious, but occasionally gifting you
with a smile of exquisite radiance.
But Moe Mouton of Meier and Frank's
Beauty Works is first and foremost a
professional. This transmits itself in
stinctively and you know that you're in
good hands. Though only 27 years old, he
offers the best to be had in terms of
training and experience. Schooled and
fashion concepts; and Soul Scissors,
which specializes in Black trend-setting
styling.
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certified in Loa Angeles, he worked there
for several years before coming to Port
land and Lloyd's Meier and Frank, two
and a half years ago. His t raining includes
The Chadwick School, which features
highly specialized hair-cutting; Sassoon
classes, which train in the latest hair
Oregon roads face ru in
Measure 5 vote c ritic a l
Oregon roads—many of
2. The modest 2c gas tax
them old—are losing a
Increase and the fair 12
disastrous battle against In
percent weight-mile tax
flation, weather, pounding
Increase for trucks and
traffic, and lack of funds to
buses will assure funds
keep them repaired and
for vitally necessary
maintained
repair and maintenance.
Measure • —YRS can save
Highway experts warn that
roads
road
deterioration
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Passage of Measure 6 will
serious.
If
road-ruin
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not
aooompllsh two vitally im
reversed now, the cost to
portant road-saving tasks:
replaoe roads may be almost
1. Measure 6 DEMANDS
prohibitive within a few
that highway funds be
years Already maintenance
used FIRST for repair and
and operation costs are up
maintenance to reverse
73% since 1970.
deterioration.
Our roads need HELP
Vote Measure 5 Y E S
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He is intelligent, articulate and com
pletely dedicated to the profession he's
chosen a profession he considers to be a
pure art form. And in his hands, it is.
Though his area of expertise is Black
hair styling, his clientele is an integrated
one and consists of a large percentage of
men as well as women. He believes that
hair styling is an integral part of fashion
and one's self image and that every
person has a right to his or her own
individuality. He expresses pleasure in
the changes that have occured in Black
styling. With more sophisticated and
modified straightening methods, he feels
that cultural emphasis can be expressed
today, while at the same time offering
softness the ipore casual look that lends
itself better to contemporary trends and
ease for the novice in caring for the hair
at home between cuts. It's all in the cut.
And there are far too few people in
Portland who understand the complexi
ties of Black hair and the cut and care it
requires.
HOUSTON - Jill E. Brown taught high
school home economics for three years.
Now she has her First Officer wings from
Texas International Airlines and her
sights are on the rank of captain.
Miss Brown, 27, the first Black female
pilot for a major U.S. airline and one of
six new female First Officers for TI says
that cooking and sewing are still her
hobbies, but her dedication is to flying.
Since last June she hi s been a pilot for a
commuter airline in North Carolina.
“For a long time my goal has been to be
one of the first female captains for a
major commercial airline," Miss Brown
said.
She learned to fly at age seventeen as
part of a family project.
“Mom and Dad came home one day and
announced we were all taking flying
lessons," she said. “They believed there
had to be a better, faster way to get from
point A to point B then by car, so the
three of us learned to fly.”
Miss Brown, a native of Baltimore,
Maryland, grew up in AnneArundel
County. She received her bachelor of
science in home economics and education
from the University of Maryland, College
Park. Her parents, Elaine and Gilbert
Brown reside in a suburb of Baltimore,
where her mother is an art resource
teacher in the Baltimore City Schools and
her father is a general contractor and
custom builder. Throughout college and
as a home-economics teacher she conti
nued to fly and in 1975 started on her
instrument rating and commercial li
cense. In April of that year an article in
Ebony magazine caught her attention and
ultimately cost the country one teacher
and gave it another airline pilot.
The article was about Wheeler Airlines
in Raleigh, North Carolina, the first
scheduled Black owned and operated
airline in the nation.
“In the article Mr. (Warren H.) Wheel
er said out of 44,000 commercial pilots,
only about 110 were Black,” Miss Brown
said. “He felt Blacks were not attuned to
aviation, not just as pilots, but to the
whole industry.
"The article offered me encourage
ment. I contacted Mr. Wheeler and said I
had read the story and wanted an inter
view over Easter vacation. The circum
stances of my interview were rather
unusual.”
She said Wheeler called her right
back and asked how she would like to
take a flight on a 737 the next day and
talk to him then. Wheeler, then a co-pilot
and now a captain for Piedmont Airlines
in addition to owning his own commuter
line, picked up Miss Brown and her
mother at Norfolk, Virginia Municipal
Airport, where they had flown in their
family plane.
“He (Wheeler) had to do three touch-
JILL BROWN
and go landings in the 737 and Mom and 1
went along,” she said. “Then we went
sailing on Chesapeake Bay and my
interview was held on Mr. Wheeler's
sailboat. We talked all day.
“Just before we left, Mr. Wheeler
asked ‘Anything else?’ and I said 'Tell me
if I have a job this summer.’ He said yes."
Miss Brown got her multi-engine rating
and took the job at W heeler Airlines as
an occasional pilot without pay just to get
the experience. When she wasn't flying
that summer she worked as a reserva
tionist and earned about $300.
Then last August she became a resi
dent pilot for Wheeler in Raleigh, North
Carolina, flying Beech 99 aircraft.
As a pilot for a small commuter line,
she had to do everything. She worked
reservations, wrote passenger tickets,
hooked up battery carts to the planes and
even loaded baggage.
“I swear that everyone was an encyclo
pedia or brick salesman and I had to load
the bags by myself," she said. “It’s
surprising how strong I became."
Miss Brown said Wheeler always un
derstood that her ultimate goal was to fly
for a large commercial airline. Early l his
year she sent a request for applications to
several major carriers and Texas Inter
national was the first to respond. Two
interviews later, she was accepted in TI's
pilot training class.
“It’s uncanny that two years ago 1 read
a story about W heeler Airlines and Mr.
W heeler in Ebony and got a job. This
March I read another story in Ebony
about a Black TI vice president. Evans
McKay (staff vice president for person
nel, development and legal) and here I
am."
Rangel seek Ralph Bunche memorial funding
Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D
NY) recently introduced a joint résolu
tion authorizing the appropriation of
$220,000 for the acquisition of a monu
ment to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and its
erection in the United Nations Plaza Park
in New York City.
Rangel, who represents the Harlem,
East Harlem, and Upper West Side
communities of New York, stated in this
resolution that Dr. Bunche, one of the
most distinguished citizens of the United
States, and the world, has been aptly
called "a successful practitioner of man's
noblest profession, the quest for
PEACE.”
The monument. Peace Form One, was
conceived in memory of Dr. Bunche as a
symbol of man's renunciation of war and
corruption. It has been approved and
endorsed by the family and friends of
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations Arts
Committee, the Visual Arts Committee o f
New York and New York City's Parks
Commission.
The erection of Peace Form ()ne in one
of New York’s public parks will contri
bute importantly to the artistic beauty
and timeliness of art with perspectives o f
historical greatness, hope for future
prosperity and peace, and tribute to
Ralph J. Bunche w hose illustrious career
was a dedication to these achievements.
TI
Test gives credits
A citywide credit by examination test
will be given to Portland Public Schools'
students at Lincoln High School on
Saturday, May 20th.
All eighth grade and high school
students are entitled to apply in any one
of eighteen separate courses, provided
they have parental permission.
Applications need to be approved by
the school principal. In order to pass a
test, a student must show mastery in a
subject comparable to that of a student
who has been enrolled for one entire year
and has done better than average work.
The intent of credit by examination
testing is to:
(1) Challenge students to work in a
subject area at their ability and
achievement level.
(2) Enable students who demonstrate
mastery to earn credits towards
graduation.
(3) Allow for early graduation.
Students may earn a maximum of two
credits per year and six credits maximum
between eighth grade and high school
graduation.
Applications forms and descriptions of
each course to be tested are available in
every school with an eighth grade and all
high schools. *
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Moe Mouton, gifted hair stylist of Meier A Frank Beauty Salon at Lloyd Center,
recently lound himself consecutively booked with two glamorous members of past
Oregon royalty; much to his delight. Ms. Brenda Knapper, on the right, was the
representative from Oregon to the 1975 Miss World Pageant Ms. Debbie Hicks, left
was elected Miss Oregon World, 1976. Ms. Knapper is a fashion buyer for Meier &
rrank. Ms. Hicks it a member of the staff of Commissioner ( Karies Jordan.
Our gifted stylist at:
meier & frank
Lloyd Center
3rd floor
Beauty Works
288-4313