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Portland Observer
Thursday. June 8. 1978
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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
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charter to Council President, Brenda Knapper and Council Advisor, Ora Nunley.
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support, a 300 voice choir and new
members for the organization's rolls.
The Entertainm ent Committee, orga
nizer of the Awards Banquet, will be in
high gear throughout the convention as
will the Car Contest Committee, or at
least the one lucky delegate who will win
a 1978 Oldsmobile.
All pre-convention activities will be
recorded in print, film and artifact by the
Documentation Committee.
It would require a calculator to accu
rately account for all the speeches made,
awards given, dinners and lunches eaten,
Alka Seltzer taken, phone calls made,
letters w ritten , committees met. dona
tions sought and T ri-X bought.
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