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Page 10 Portland Observer Thursday, August 31, 1978 i° mSi Semler Optical >ifc & by Ruth Spencer The YM CA Jr. Dram a C lub Teen Theater Workshop presented “ Whatever Happened to Soul, Rock and R o ll, and the R e vo lu tio n ” August 25th, at the King Neigh borhood Facility Cafetorium. Im provisations portraying rock and roll music and revolutionary thought from 1960 to 1970 were depicted by the drama group as a culmination of their summer workshop. The drama group was directed by Ms. Rosemary Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Green and th e ir young daughters were the guests o f Mrs. Emma Chiles, August 26th. M r. Green is Mrs. Chiles’ nephew. Mrs. Coretta King believes that, fifteen years after Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “ 1 Have A D re a m " speech, there has been tremendous progress toward equality, but the dream will not be realized u n til there is a fu ll em ployment economy. The highest annual salary fo r a Black woman a d m inistrator w orking fo r the Portland Public Schools is $30.200 as a vice principal; the highest for a white woman ad ministrator is $34,000 as a principal. The three coordinating principals in the district have the lowest principal salaries; a ll are Black, two are women. N early sixty m illio n young Americans ranging from kindergar ten to college age w ill enter the nation’s schools in September. The largest single class w ill be the 4,268,000 high school seniors. This is because most o f the class was born in 1961, the year of the largest number o f births in American history. According to the American Coun cil o f L ife Insurance a typical Am erican homemaker is w orth $17,000 a year to her family. I f a family wanted to hire specialists to handle a housewife’ s chores they would have to pay $333.69 a week. Several researchers have written about school in tegration and m inority student tokenism. Their discouraging conclusions are that tokenism is psychologically difficult fo r Black children. W ith o u t the number to constitute a critical mass. Black students can come to think o f themselves as an unwanted append age. White students can overlook the Black presence and even perceive it as a temporary situation. Once the Black percentage reaches twenty to twenty-five percent, Blacks become a significant part of the school. They are now numerous enough to be filtered throughout the entire school structure. They are no longer “ last in the shuffle” . Substantial m inority group representation does not guarantee intergroup harmony, but is clearly a prerequisite fo r in tegration. Workshop assess NAACP Convention impact A special one day conference en titled “ NAACP Annual Convention: An Assessment W ith Docum en ta ry." w ill be held on Saturday, Sep tember 2, 1978 at the P ortland Sheraton Hotel. Sponsored by Basic- Career Developm ent, this post convention public forum is designed to assess the impact and influences of the convention on the greater Port land community race relations. Humanists and officials represent ing the educational, business and governmental sectors w ill serve as panel members along w ith com munity leaders and members o f the NAACP Portland Branch. Topics to be discussed w ill range from education and race relations to housing and economic development. for four years. Since the Labor Center Optical Office has been closed. Dr. Hatten assures his former patients that all patient records w ill be on file and available in his office at Semler's for the continuation o f their eye care service whenever needed. "The opportunity to be centrally located to serve my former patients, as well as to be a part o f the Semler Staff is very much appreciated, and 1 find the facilities at their Optometric Offices to be very modern and that their available selection o f frames and lenses is up-to-date in styling for patients o f all ages,” Dr. Hatten stated. Following the decentralization o f Portland's many Union Headquarter O ffices, D r. Marc H atten, Op tometrist, who for the past five years operated the now discontinued Labor Center Optical Offices in the Labor Center, has announced that he has joined the Portland Staff o f Dr. Larry Semler, Optometrists, with o f fices at S.W. 3rd and Yamhill. A 1941 graduate o f Optometry at the North Pacific College in Port land. Dr. Hatten enlisted in the U.S. Army that same year. He returned to private practice with offices in the St. Johns area from 1946 to 1949. He then moved to San Diego where he maintained his optometric practice Fryers Among the participants will be Dr. Wilson Record, a sociologist noted for his work in race relations and Dr. Bill Little, Director o f Black Studies at Portland State University. Also serving as panel members w ill be Evie Crowell and Darrell M illner, both candidates for the vacant Port land Public School Board seat to be relinquished by Gladys McCoy. A slide presentation w ill be pre sented by high school students par ticipating in the Albina Historical Research Project. A video presen ta tio n depicting the convention speech given by Benjamin Hooks, recorded by P atricia Smith and Gregory Talton w ill also be shown. A multi-media presentation is also scheduled. 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This program is sponsored by the YMCA, not by the YWCA as stated in the article. © S p a re rib s © B e e f Sausage <#>Link Sausage College granh Financial assistance is still avail able for those wishing to attend Port land Community College fall term. That aid takes the form o f grants, loans and jobs. Awards for financial assistance are based on the ability to pay. "N o one should stay out of school because there is a lack of funds," said finan cial aids coordinator Olaf Johnson. The college will assist with the necessary paperwork to help the student show the need for financial help based upon a review of family income, assets and other resources. Special grants are available to veterans and in some vocational areas, such as nursing. Students may use a form o f deferred tuition or other loan plans. The college arranges jobs through a work-study program where stu dents often have an opportunity to earn in the department where they are learning an occupational skill. 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