Portland Observar Thursday, Juna 14,1979 Paga 3
Jesuit senior accepts Yale scholarship
by Kathryn H. Bogle
Ronald Eugene Sykes, Jr. long ago
set some goals for himself. Ron, at
18 years o f age, has accomplished,
say, one o f these goals and is
preparing to take on the next set
toward achieving his ultimate vision
— years ahead yet.
Ronald is the first born son o f
Ronald Eugene Sykes, Sr. and his
wife Anne who live in the parish o f
the church o f the H oly Redeemer
which all in the family attend. Ron
has a younger brother, 12-year-old
Stanley w ho goes to M arkha m
E lem entary School, and a sister
K arla, a 19-year-old G rant H igh
graduate, presently attending the
University o f Oregon in the school o f
Communications.
Ron’ s goal is to be a physician. He
is quiet, modest, unassuming and
determined.
Ron wants this goal realized. He
wants this very much and is w illing to
center all his attention to his pur
pose.
Once Ron attended St. C ecilia
School, and he once was a student at
Ockley Green. Maybe during that
time he thought he might like to be a
lawyer — or a doctor, but being a
d o c to r was stronger
in
his
RONALD SYKES, JR.
imagination. For high school, Ron’ s
parents sent him to Jesuit H igh
School.
A t Jesuit, the priests and other in
structors told Ron and all the other
students that study, hard study, con
centrated, regular study was the
royal road to learning. A n d Ron
believed them. He wanted to learn to
be a doctor.
He studied tw o, three and even
fo ur hours after school. He bent to
his books. He closed his bedroom
door. He sat at his own desk in his
room and he read and studied.
Ron made the H onor R oll fo ur
years straight at Jesuit.
Ron became a m em ber o f the
National H onor Society. Ron’ s name
is carried in the 1979 e d itio n o f
W h o ’ s W h o in A m e ric a n H ig h
Schools.
R on’ s B iology teacher fe lt that
R o n ’ s dream to be a physician
should be encouraged. His parents
were u nd erstanding, h e lp fu l, e n -'
couraging and quietly proud o f their
children, all three o f them.
To break from study, Ron, now a
6 ’ 1” lad w eig hing 170 pounds,
played a little basketball fo r the
“ C ru s a d e rs ,” the Jesuit school
team. He played guard, or center,
most o f the time. He also played
racq ue tb all w ith his schoolm ates
when they a ll practiced at M u lt
nomah A thletic Club. And he learn
ed to do some calligraphy, choosing
the Roman Capital letters as his pre
ferred style. V io lin lessons lasted
only a while.
Ron also kept trim by run nin g
track just fo r his own enjoyment, not
in compe’ ition. His competition was
with himself.
In January o f this year, Ron began
to receive mail. A lot o f mail. From
colleges. S ta n fo rd , D a rtm o u th ,
P rin c e to n , Yale and o the rs. He
received a letter, a much-prized letter
from the National M erit Commenda
tion for Outstanding Negro Students.
A ll the colleges welcomed his ap
plication and offered inducements
for him to come to their campus. He
was graduated from Jesuit on May
20th.
His parents stood by. The decision
was to be Ron’s own.
Ronald Sykes, Jr. chose to attend
Yale University — expenses paid on
a four-year scholarship — renewable
each year. Ron w ill be entering Ber
nard College (a part o f Colum bia
U n iv e rs ity )
fo r
a
freshm an
p re pa ra to ry course especially fo r
Yale pre-med students durin g this
summer. He w ill fly to Bernard on
June 25th, and w ill enter Yale this
fa ll to begin the real pre-m ed
curriculum at Yale.
The goal o f Ronald Sykes, glowing
in the distance, comes closer.
From the sidelines: Cheers, Ron!
You’ re on the royal road. May your
path be smooth!
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Jefferson Class of '59 plans reunion
When the Class o f 1959, Jefferson
High School, meets fo r its twenty
year reunion Saturday. July 21st, it
w ill be no ordinary high school class
reunion, because it was no ordinary
class.
1959 was Jefferson High School’ s
50th Anniversary Year. During the
senior year o f the Class o f ’59, Jef
ferson High School won its second
consecutive state football champion
ship, the city basketball, golf, and
wrestling championships, the state
baseball ch a m p io n sh ip , and the
H ayward Relays tro p h y in track.
A lso that year, Je ffe rso n ’ s Rose
Festival
princess,
M a ry
Sue
W oolfolk, became Queen M ary Sue
I.
In the tw enty years since their
graduation, many alumni o f the class
o f 1959 have carried on that tradition
o f excellence.
T erry Baker, the 1959 A ll-S tate
q u a rte rb a c k ,
c o lle g ia te
A ll-
American and Heisman Trophy win
ner, went on to play pro football as
quarterback w ith the Los Angeles
Rams. He is currently an attorney in
Portland.
M ary Sue W o o lfo lk , 1959 Rose
Festival Queen, was named Miss
Eugene o f 1962 and was a semi
finalist in the Miss Oregon Pageant.
She was a stewardess w ith Pan
A m e rica n
A ir
L in es,
before
m a rry in g D r. D a rre ll B olen, a
P s y c h ia tris t. She now lives in
C alifornia.
A rt Eckman, Jefferson’ s student
PUSH adds school contracts
Secretary o f Health, Education,
and W elfare Joseph A. C alifano,
J r ., announced the aw ard o f a
$700,000 contract to PUSH for Ex
cellence, Inc., for support o f projects
to encourage the n a tio n 's urban
students in attaining academic ex
cellence.
Under the contract awarded by
H E W ’s O ffice o f Education, PUSH
for Excellence, Inc. — headed by the
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson — w ill
strengthen its three current programs
in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Kansas
C ity, Missouri, and initiate three ad
ditional projects in Denver, Chat
tanooga, and Memphis.
The
PUSH
fo r
Excellence
program encourages positive changes
in students, particularly the disad
vantaged, to enable them to acquire
basic skills and achieve academic ex
cellence. It emphasizes opportunity,
m otivation, responsibility, and ac
c o u n ta b ility fo r student learning
provided through home, school, and
community cooperation.
An estimated 90,000 students in 60
high schools in the six urban com
munities w ill benefit from the PUSH
fo r Excellence projects.
C u rre n tly , the PU S H fo r E x
cellence program is operating in 10
Chicago senior high schools, with a
total enrollment o f 20,000 students;
nine Los Angeles senior high
schools, with a total enrollment o f
18,000 students; and in one Kansas
C ity, M issouri, senior high school
with an enrollment o f 1,000 students.
In a d d itio n to federal fu nd ing ,
PUSH fo r Excellence projects are
supported by state and local govern
ments and private agencies.
PU SH fo r Excellence, In c .,
located in Chicago, is a complemen
ta ry o rg a n iz a tio n o f O p e ra tio n
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by Jackson in 1971.
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body president in 1959, and former
newscaster w ith KO 1N -TV, is now
Sports D ire ctor fo r W X IA -T V in
Atlanta. He was recently awarded
the 1979 Joseph P. Kennedy Foun
dation Special Olympics Award fo r
distinguished service to the mentally
retarded through sports.
L o u is W ild m a n , head p e r
cussionist w ith the Oregon Sym
phony, and fo rm e r professor o f
mathematics and head o f the music
d ep artm en t at W a rn e r-P a c ific
College, is now superintendent o f the
N orth River School D istrict. W ild
man is author o f a book on per
cussion, “ Pratical Understanding o f
the Percussion Section.”
Raye Renfro, now deceased, was
the state 100-yard dash champion,
and set a P1L record o f 24 touch-
downs as a fullback. He later played
football fo r Columbia Basin Junior
C ollege
b efo re jo in in g
Tom
DeSylvia, his coach at Jefferson, at
Portland State University in 1962.
Many more success stories w ill be
swapped Saturday night, July 21st,
when Jefferson’ s fiftie th graduating
class, the Class o f 1959, w ill meet at
the Jantzen Beach Thunderbird Inn.
A Social H our w ill begin at 6:00
p m ., followed by a buffet dinner at
8:00 and a short program and dan
cing at 9:00 p.m. Special music w ill
bring back memories o f 1959 fo r all
those attending.
Class members needing more in
form ation should call Chuck Long,
Class President, 282-5879, or Edra
Moore Riese, 659-2943.
Legislature changes ADC rules
Able-bodied adults in two-parent
households w ill have to seek em
ployment in lieu o f public assistance
i f the legislature approves the 1979-
81 budget o f A dult and Family Ser
vices Division. W O RTH (W ork or
T ra in in g
fo r
T w o -P a re n t
H ouseholds) is a state program
designed as an alternative to the
federal A D C -U N p ro g ra m . A p
proximately 5,000 families are affec
ted.
Highlights o f the program include:
- The prim ary responsibility fo r
finding a jo b is with the client
- Starting in November, help w ill
be provided in locating jobs. Public
services jobs w ill be offered.
- F A m ilie s w ill c o n tin u e to be
eligible fo r one m onth’ s emergency
assistance in any 12 month period.
- Children w ill continue to receive
medical care i f ihe fam ily income is
below A D C standards
- Families w ill remain eligible for
food stamps.
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South African Bishop visits
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not here when school is in session,”
said Father Cleary who, along with
the Bishop, belongs to the Order o f
the Redemptorists. Reverend Cleary
noted the H oly Redeemer School,
with a 33*% Black enrollment, would
give the Bishop a first-hand look at a
local, church-sponsored, interracial
educational setting.
Socially, the Bishop w ill spend an
evening dinner and conversation at
the home o f Edgar and Geri M it
chell.
Escort O ffic e r Joe W atson, ac-
companying the Bishop during the
entirety o f his U.S. visit, is a 55-year-
old native o f Drakes Beach, Virginia
and a 10-year veteran o f the depart
m ent’s escort corps. He is a pilot and
member o f N egro A irm e n In te r
national and the A irc ra ft Owner and
Pilot Association.
Bishop Naidoo w ill preach at the
fo llo w in g Masses: Saturday, June
16th, 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, June
17th, 7:30 a m ., 9:00 a .m ., and
Noon at H oly Redeemer Church, 25
N. Portland Boulevard.
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Portland State closes center
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Hicks w ill become director o f a
newly organized career center, which
w ill relate academ ics, social,
econom ic, life s ty le and o the r
variables to career planning. Rather
than merely seeking a degree without
career objections, students w ill be
h e lp fu l to relate th e ir school ex
perience to employment goals.
The continued role o f the univer
sity in the Black community is less
clear. The Black Studies Center —
located on campus — has also had a
shakey history and little commitment
from the university adm inistration.
Although designed to provide research
planning and support services — as is
the role o f the university in the white
c o m m u n ity — the Black Studies
Center has never been funded to
carry out that role.
What w ill PSU o ffe r in place o f
the Ed Center? W ill PSU spend funds
allocated fo r the Ed Center else
where? Is the demise o f the Ed Cen
ter the end o f the PSU presence in
A lb in a ? These are the questions
being asked o f PSU and o f the State
Board o f Higher Education.
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