Portland Observer Thursday, April 12, 1979 Page 3
Portland Profile
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JOANNE WINCHESTER
Music, sports involve senior
Joanne Winchester, a graduating
senior at Grant High School is the
daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. Earl Win
chester, who introduced her to Port
land friends at the Links, Inc. Star
light C otillion at the Sheraton Hotel
in February.
At age seventeen, Joanne is one o f
the younger students to be graduated
and it is certain that she is one o f the
more active in the life o f the school.
She is an enthusiastic participant in
sports and holds a place on the
volleyball and track teams at Grant.
Joanne has a love o f music and
plays clarinet and sometimes bass
clarinet in Grant’s Concert and Pep
bands. She is a member o f the
“ Royal Blue,” a jazz ensemble at her
school.
This young lady also possesses an
alto singing voice that is heard with
the Grant High Senior C hoir and
which also won a place for her with
the A ll-C ity Honor Choir. During
the recent spring vacation Joanne
was one o f those chosen from candi
date singers fro m high schools
around the State o f Oregon to attend
the All-Northwest Choir which was
gathered for a four-day songfest in
Billings, Montana.
Weekends find Joanne busy with
activities at Bethel A .M .E . Church,
principally in their Young People’ s
Division which she headed as presi
dent last year.
Summers have tra d itio n a lly in
cluded camping trips with her family
to the sea coast and to the forest
areas. One summer Joanne spent
working with the U.S. Conservation
Corps in the Malhuer County Forest
learning methods o f conservation o f
wildlife found there in their natural
habitat. This experience has inspired
Joanne to study Forest Management
in college and she has chosen Oregon
State College to enter in the fall.
Joannne is aware o f an introspec
tive side o f herself and she is capable
o f dashing o ff lines o f poetry to
release feelings and thoughts. She
allow s us to share her attitudes
spoken here in a poem she calls
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“ Study the newspapers and maga
zines and c ritic a lly analyze their
writing styles. Try to pattern yourself
after the ones that impress you with
clarity, conciseness, and readability.
It’s important to read the papers to
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“ M inority students shouldn’t lim it
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and can handle most situations.
Don’ t give the editor the impression
that m inority news is all you can do.
There is a continual learning process,
and at 26 there is still a lot to learn.”
In approximately twenty years we
hope to see in the Journal, “ Chief
Editor,” Pete McConnell.
U n til next week remember,
“ Childrens attitudes and morals are
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children and see what we think o f
ourselves.”
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You sing your heart out
Night and day
You do your best
Most people say
You’ re scared now
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What do you hear?
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by Joanne Winchester
Birthday Message
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the South.
in the area o f organizing, I hasten
to call your a tte n tio n to three
crucially important campaigns, cam
paigns which hold special signifi
cance for Black workers. First, there
is the on-going strike by thousands
o f Black workers at the Newport
News Shipyards in Virginia. These
workers, members o f the United
Steelworkers o f America, were forced
to strike by a company which refuses
to recognize their right to jo in a
union and negotiate for better wages
and working conditions. As the com
pany cleverly evades the real issues
by filing appeal after appeal with the
courts, the workers at Newport News
continue to suffer.
Similarly, the J.P. Stevens Com
pany and the W inn-Dixie supermar
ket chain continue to block their em
ployees from freely organizing into
unions. The injustices at these two
companies are well known, thus, I
urge you to support the boycott o f
Winn-Dixie stores, and the boycott
o f all J.P. Stevens products.
In addition to taking an active in
terest in the struggles o f Black
workers, we must also intensify our
activity in the political arena. Last
Novem ber, fo r instance. Black
people in Missouri and Philadelphia
Thus far my writings are amateur
compared to those o f our Black role
model for this week. His writings
reflect training as well as individual
style. A n admirable quality fo r a
young man o f 26.
The personnel department o f one
o f the C ity’ s largest newspapers re
cognizes his capability as a writer
and his intellect as an individual, for
four years ago he became an em
ployee o f the Oregon Journal.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Pete
McConnell became a resident o f Port
land in 1957. He graduated from
North Catholic High School in 1970
and in 1974 from the University o f
Oregon with a B.S. Degree in Jour
nalism.
Shortly after he graduated he felt
very fortunate to be able to acquire a
job with the Journal. The first three
months he was a copy aide. From a
copy aide he went on to be a music
critic and then to his present position
as a reporter covering Washington
County, and more recently general
news.
In 1977, along with Journal staff
w rite r Oz H o p kin s, M cC onnell
taught a general newswriting class
out o f Portland State University.
The classes were held at the Martin
Luther King Neighborhood Facility.
His hobbies include tennis, basket
ball and listening to jazz. Believe it
or n ot, he spends a lo t o f tim e
reading newspapers.
This is what he has to say to per
sons with an interest in journalism.
“ I w ould urge young people in
terested in journalism to create as
many w riting opportunities as they
can, and to pursue all markets for
publications.
d ra m a tic a lly dem onstrated the
power o f the united Black vote. In
Missouri, Black voters overwhelming
ly opposed an anti-labor question on
the b a llo t; and in P hiladelp hia
Blacks united together in opposing a
proposed change in the city charter.
Yet despite these tw o impressive
examples, Black voters throughout
the country seem to be withdrawing
from politics.
While I can surely sympathize with
those who despair o f political in
volvem ent, I cannot condone
surrender or retreat. To do so would
be to grant a political “ blank check”
to our enemies. By w ithdraw ing
from the voting booth, we are, in ef
fect inviting our enemies to roll-back
every advance o f the last 45 years.
We and our children, we and our
g ra n d c h ild re n , cannot a ffo rd to
abandon the fight. We must con
tinue, indeed we must strengthen our
political position by registering and
voting in even greater numbers than
ever before. Our participation in the
upcoming political battles w ill, to a
very large extent, determine the out
come o f our long years o f
de d ica tio n , and sacrifice. You,
brothers and sisters, w ill make the
difference between ultimate victory
or bitter defeat. Please, jo in the good
fight.
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