Page 14 Portland Observar O ctober 4. 1979
Richard Brown: Man with a camera
by Kathryn Boyle
T
Richard Brown
Potential
leaders
honored
M ore than 85 P otential Black
Leaders in Urban Communities o f
the Pacific Noithwest w ill be
honored by the Northwest Confer
ence o f Black Public Officials. The
presentations will be made on Oc
tober 20th at the Red Lion Inn ad
jacent to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport
at 7:30 p.m.
The affair marks the culmination
o f a process started after the winter
conference in February.
Selection Committees were in
structed to nominate people who
possess the qualities o f leadership
needed in the 1980s. Those who were
nom inated and approved by the
general session o f the Northwest
Conference o f Black Public Officials
in July were:
Portland: Art Barfield, Nick Bar
nett, Carol Bryant, Herb Cawthor-
ne, Danny Copeland, Evie Crowell,
Cleo F ra n k lin , Ron H erndon,
Lucious Hicks, Armando Laguardia,
Ethel Lee, Robert Phillips, George
Rankins, Roosevelt Robinson,
Robert Stein, Dr. Virgus Street, An
na Street, Benita Stoughter, Ben
Talley, Kay Toran, Florice Walker,
Charlotte Williams, Pina Williams,
Zoe Wilson and Jeanna Woolley.
Seattle: Rev. Edgar Boyd, Jim
Brow n, Edward Davis, Robert
L.Davis, Rev. Jerome Dorsey, Dr.
Joe D rake, Pat Fisher, Robert
Flowers, Bruce Harrell, Veltry John
son, Joe Jones, L y lia Joyner,
H ow ard Lavert, Linda M a rtin ,
Rossie N orris, A nthony Orange,
Kenneth Pounds, Michael Preston,
Carolyn Purnell, Thelma Simmons,
Rev. Ronald Sims, Pat Stuart, Ed
ward Taylor, Lt. Joe Toliver, Ike
Turker, Clarence Williams, James L.
Williams, Ronald R. Woods, James
Yarby.
Greater Thurston County: David
Boyd, James Buckley, Bernard Dew,
Linda H ow ell, LeN ora Hughes,
Merritt Long, Robert Shorter, Prin
cess Jackson-Smith, Stone Tomas,
Samuel Turner.
Tacoma: Versa Alexander, Lynett
Baugh, Dr. Leon Block, Delois
Brow n, A lberta Canada, Ruth
Daniels, Rev. Therman Davis, Jr.,
Tom H ily a rd , H aywood K eith,
Beverly Johnson, James L. McGhee,
Jerry McLaughlin, Phil Minor, Lillie
M orris, Carol Patton, Jcromia S.
Queen, O tis R obinson, Zakiya
Stewart, Henry Thomas, H arriet
Williams and Ronald Wiiliams.
Bremerton: Linda McGensie
For further information call Ms.
Mozell Brown, 625-245* or 625-
2456.
So soys the VA...
DATELINE
OANGER'
By John Saunders
and Al Me W turns
“ Man with a Camera” probably
fits Mr. Richard J. Brown as an ad
ded descriptive title , although he
does have other interests as well.
Brown, a New Yorker by birth,
in Portland only a few years, has had
extensive world travel as a career
soldier. As a member o f the U.S. A ir
Force, which he joined in 1956, he
completed 20 years in the servcie o f
his country.
In the service he worked as an A ir
craft Radio Repairman and as an
Airborne Missuc Guidance and Con
trol Technician, and a.jO as a missile
Quality C ontrol Inspector. During
his 20 years with the A ir Force, his
travels took him to Canada, the
P hilip pin es, Vietnam Germ any
Bulgaria, England, Switzerland and
Turkey and most o f the rest o f
Europe.
Always the camera has been in
reach.
• •••
People are also the hobby o f this
quiet spoken, strong individual who
carries a deep sensitivity o f others
within his depths. In his portfolio are
photographs he has made o f the
‘ plain’ people o f the world in all their
varied backgrounds and their human
conditions and responses, and
always Brown has captured the
essence ol that being in that circum
stance.
In Portland, Richard Brown, is a
Civil Engineering Technician on the
Program Services Staff o f the state
office o f the Soil Conservation Ser
vice. Here he computes and tabulates
for conservation practices which in
cludes dams, channels, culverts and
reinforcement o f concrete hydraulic
structures.
He
also
checks
mathematical computations made by
others for accuracy.
Brown is married. He and his wife,
Carolyn and their daughter, Serena,
occupy an older home which he is
remodeling to suit their needs and
tastes.
He is a collector. He likes stamps,
coins, house plants, and sportscars.
Once he drove a sportrscar slaloms in
Germany. But he remains true to his
camera.
Someday Brown would like to
teach photography to children. Just
now he is lo o kin g fo rw a rd to
working with teachers at the Black
Educational Center. Particularly he
is interested in an outdoor
classroom , designed by the Soil
Conservation Service for the Black
Educational Center.
The Observer is fortunate to have
R ichard Brown as one o f its
photographers. (Please see page 1)
No wait for wedding
The procedures fo r obtaining a
marriage license changed October
4rd.
In the past, applicants have had to
wait for seven days from the time
they applied for a marriage license
until it was issued. Now the seven
day w aiting period is eliminated.
Couples b ring ing in completed
medical forms and accompanied by a
witness can receive their license the
same day. The license does not
become valid until three days after it
is issued.
A nother new provision is that
naturopaths can permor pre-marital
examinations.
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