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..Vä Portland Observer Thursday. June 8. 1978 Page 3 NA A CP prepares for Convention Crn * T Gudger American State Bank Corvallis Branch, was re-directed to Portland for May 19th-21st, m ark l-ess than one month from now, the . 89th Annual N A A C P National Conven lion will be held in Portland: the culmina lion of literally months of planning and coordination by the Portland Branch and the National Office of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Some 8,000 persons are expected to converge on the City of Roses, and the eyes of the nation will focus on a most prestigeous gathering of notables dedi cated to human and civil rights. Not since the Portland Trailblazers aacention to the pinnacle of the National Basketball Asso ciation has the spotlight been so bright. Indeed, some of the more illustrious visitors to the convention will bring their own. The Portland Branch of the N A A C P, established in 1914, has never been host-city for the convention, so the responsibility for planning and preparing for such an undertaking has been a challenging one. Some sixteen committees of volun teers. totaling some 300 persons, have been buzzing about since January (some even before then, and will probably continue throughout the duration. In addition, N A A C P National and Regional officers have used Oregon's borders like revolving doors: Mildred Roxborough, Assistant Director in charge of Conventions, has bounced back and forth from the agency's New York headquarters to Portland like a ping-pong ball with her staff and technical exper tise; National Exhibits Director, Geri Johnson and Western Regional Director, Virna Canton, have traversed the state's southern border nearly as much as last year's crop of northwest-bound California immigrants. Numerous pre-convention activities have set the stage for the July 3rd-7th grand finale: Judge Charles Johnson of Seattle, spoke before the Portland City Club in March to kick things off; Roxborough and company addressed the Blue RjJ>bon Committee shortly there after; at the April 16th Awards Banquet honoring local dignitaries and contribu tors to the Branch, Virqa Canson present ed the Youth Council w ith its charter and . introduced the gathering to AACT-SO, the A fro Academic Cultural Technologi- ■’ cal and Scientific Olympics - the new ' brainchild of Executive Director, Ben jamin Hooks to encourage and promote youth in academics and the arts. In M ay, James Brown, National Youth Director, followed Ms. Canson's introduc tion w ith guidelines encouraging the already-active Youth Council to promote participation in the competition. True to the old adage, “when it rains it pours." the N A A C P Northwest Area Conference, originally to be hosted by the It goes without saying organizing 300 volunteers to work as a multi-faceted unit is no easy chore, but the Local Branch, as commended by Ms. Roxborough. has fared well. To mention s few, convention commit tees are charged with a multitude and variety of tasks: a Souvenir Journal is being prepared to provide information to conferees about Oregon. The Souvenir Journal Committee sponsored a contest for young artists to design the cover which was won by Randy McKinley. The K it Committee is compiling ma terials - schedules, maps, etc.,-few aae£|i delegates; onft çommittee is making a r rangements for the use of some private homes for housing delegates; still other volunteer groups are gathering financial (Blue Ribbon Committee, and organisa it H 2 7 3 7 N.E. 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