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Ün!v re! ty cf Or :n I/.b: ary
Adams, Columbia/Whitaker closure considered
Adams High School and Colum
bia /W h ita ke r M iddle School are
among the schools included on the
most recent school closure/con-
solidation list by the school district’ s
School Closure Committee. Jeffer
son and Boise, which appeared on
earlier lists, are not included.
The committee stressed that this is
not the Final list they will present to
the school board and that more
schools could be added.
A ll the schools in the district were
rated in five areas: facilities and
costs, program , desegregation,
neighborhood support, student ser
vices. Several schools were listed for
non-closure because they are impor
tant to the desegregation program
and others because they have strong
community support.
Adams is included in the list for
potential closures because it is con
sidered to have too few students to
offer a comprehensive high school
program and the committee found
“ no neighborhood feeling” about
the advisibility o f closing the school.
The committee considers the closure
o f Adams and the use o f the
building for Columbia/Whitaker as
a valid alternative.
Other high schools under con
sideration for closing are Washing
to n /M o n ro e which has too few
students and has little neighborhood
support (according to the commit
tee). and Cleveland, which has poor
physical facilities and little neigh
borhood support.
Middle and elementary schools
still under consideration for closing
or consolidation are Glenhaven,
Sacajawea, Vestal, Foster, Wood-
mere, A rle ta , Lane, B rooklyn,
G ro u t, A bernathy, Buckman,
Hollyrood and Normandale.
On the west side only Sylvan and
Maplewood are named. Maplewood
probably w ill not be closed ■because
children were transferred there alter
M ultnom ah closed, although
Maplewood and neighboring Mary
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Rieke are both underenrolled.
The com m ittee w ill study
enrollm ent patterns that w ould
develop if any ot these schools were
closed or consolidated and w ill
present their findings to the public
and to the school board late in
January.
Committees to oppose closure of
their schools have been formed in
the Adams and Jefferson areas.
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Dentists join talents, careers
By Kathryn H all Bogle
Dr. Carlos W eekly examines a patient
(Photo: Richard J. Brown)
OABA calls leadership meeting
The third Call To Action Leader
ship Conference w ill be held
January 31, 1981, C alvin O. L.
Henry, President o f the Oregon
Assembly For Black A ffa irs, an
nounced. This one day conference
will be held at the Chumaree Rode-
way Inn., located at 3301 Market
Street N.E., in Salem. Registration
begins at 7:45 A .M ., and the fee is
$15.00
The purpose of this conference is
to bring together persons concerned
with the political development o f
the Black people of Oregon, to in
form them on pertinent issues which
will directly affect the vital interests
o f Black Oregonians during the
1980s, and to prepare a legislative
agenda with a strategy o f implemen
tation.
Oregon is expected to receive a
fifth congressional seat as a result o f
the 1980 Census. Thus, reappor
tionment will be the key issue con
fronting the 1981 Legislature. The
Legislature must enact a criteria for
reapportionment equity which con
sidered the interest o f Black
Oregonians. And Black leaders
must assist the Legislature in
developing the criteria. The con
ference will discuss this issue. Also
the legislative districts in northeast
Portland must be drawn with this
equity in mind.
Henry stated, “ A new feature is
being added to this one day con
ference. That is a Recognition 1 un-
cheon. At this. Recognition Lunch
eon, OABA will be honoring several
Blacks who have contributed to the
political development o f the Black
community statewide.’
Governor Vic Atiyeh will be the
luncheon speaker.
Dr. Samuel J. Brown, Jr., and
Dr. Carlos Weekly, dentists, have
joined together in a professional
association that works well for them
both.
Dr. Brown, whose commodius
offices the two dentists share, is a
1948 dentistry graduate o f Howard
U niversity. He has been in suc
cessful practice in Portland for 25
years.
Born and reared in Savannah,
Georgia, Dr. Brown had his first o f
fices in Marieta, Georgia. A d if
ferent experience in a totally d if
ferent environm ent came to D r.
Brown when he became captain in
the U .S .A .F ., and found himself
stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska for a
17 month stretch. His wife, the late
Annetta T. Brown and their infant
daughter, C heryl, joined him
Alaska.
Discharge from the military came
in California but the family decided
on the northwest for their new home
and chose Portland.
Dr. Brown has a son, Samuel 111,
living in Portland. His daughter,
Cheryl Brown Glass, now lives in
California. A brother, who is also a
dentist, practices in Geary, Indiana.
A sister, who lives in Daytona
Beach, Florida, is a librarian there.
In the o ffice situ a tio n , Mrs.
Frank Turney, an ex-offender
and member o f the Northwest Ex-
offender Association, was forcibly
removed from the C ounty Com
mission’ s public hearing because o f
an alleged anonymous phone call.
Turney was at the meeting (Dec.
18) to protest the discrim inatory
handling of Black prisoners, and the
brutal punishment o f chains and
other degrading methods used at the
Rocky Butte Jail.
The call, supposedly inferred that
Turney had a gun. Disregarding the
fact that he is a well known per
sonality in the Multnomah County
Courthouse, member o f A C L U ’ s
Jail Committee, executive board
member o f the Ex-offender
Association, and former member of
the Multnomah County Community
Corrections Advisory Committee,
he was fo rc ib ly removed from a
packed house that included some
one-hundred students from David
Douglas High School.
Frank Turney reedy to teetlfy before the Multnomah County Com
mission on jail abuae.
(Photo: Thomaa Golden)
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As an example o f the type o f
treatment Turney was protesting, is
a hand written signed statement, by
Inm ate James G. Roberts II,
Rocky Butte ja il. Roberts states:
“ On December 5, 1980, they (o f
ficers) took me out o f my cell and
rammed my he-»d into the wall, put
Dr. Carlos Weekly, associate and
sharing dental offices w ith Dr.
Samuel J. Brown, Jr., is a June,
1980 graduae o f the University o f
Oregon Dental School. He was born
and brought up in Portland, the son
o f Mary and Willie C. Weekly. He
went to Holladay and Washington
High School and later received a
bachelor’ s degree in education from
Portland State University.
D r. W eekly is m arried to the
form er Edna McCree, herself a
graduate o f PSU in Education.
Aside from espousing the time-
honored maxim “ See your dentist
every year,” Dr. Weekly is vocal on
the subject o f education fo r all
children with some special messages
for Black children.
Understanding that costs fo r
higher education are mounting with
rapidity, Dr. Weekly points out that
“ Dental school (in Oregon) is
geared to the white m iddle class
male.
“ If you are poor and Black, you
will have to work and work hard to
keep abreast.”
Dr. Weekly confesses he hadn’ t,
as a youngster, yearned to be a den
tist. In fact, he recalls, he had no
special thing in m ind he wanted
strongly to do. There had been no
career dangled tantalizingly before
his eyes. No challenge to charge up
his imagination - until his last few
days at Portland State.
He was walking down the halls at
PSU when he saw it.
A placard caught his eye. It stop
ped Carlos Weekly in his tracks. He
stood there rooted and just stared.
And stared.
The sign said, “ How would you
like to have a career right on the
mouth?”
Carlos Weekly turned into that
office and began to ask questions
about going into dentistry.
Looking back over his 24 years of
going to school in Oregon, D r.
Weekly shares some cogent reflec
tions on his personal experiences:
" I f 1 had it to do over again, I ’d
learn how to study,” he begins. " I
d id n ’ t learn to study in grade
school. I didn’ t learn how in high
school. 1 went to school regularly. I
d id n ’ t make waves. I made no
trouble. I just went there.
“ I was classed as an “ under
achiever” in high school. It
probably was my label in grade
school too, as teachers usually ac
cept and treat children according to
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Textbooks foster discrimination
The nation's m ajor publishers
still are not portraying females and
racial minorities fairly in children’ s
textbook stories, say two educators
who have been analyzing school
books for the past decade.
Margaret Lumpkin and Gwyneth
Britton, professors of education at
Oregon State U niversity, have
pioneered the use o f scientific
methods to determine such biases as
gender, race and career in m ajor
textbooks.
Their latest study o f 10 current
series o f reading texts show little
significant improvement since the
Turney attacks Rocky Butte abuse
By Nathaniel Scott
Genevieve Chaney, a recent
graduate in dental hygiene, looks af
ter the dental hygiene o f children.
Miss Ina Hart serves both dentists as
receptionist and keeps appointments
running smoothly.
me in waste ( waist) and leg irons
on me and left me in the old
segregation unit with nothing on bui
under shorts for eight hours.”
He went on to say that after the
eight hour period was up, the irons
were removed and he was given a
pair o f coveralls and spent another
twenty-seven hours in a part o f the
ja il th a t’ s supposed to be closed,
“ the old segregation unit.”
Turney returned to the com
missioner's meeting December 23,
and made some recommendations
to the board.
1. An internal investigation into
the use o f the bar arm and choke
holds. The choke hold is the ap
plication o f pressure on the neck,
which constricts the functioning o f
the carotid artery.
Recently, U.S. D istrict Judge
Robert M. Takasugi in Los Angeles,
ordered the Los Angeles Police
Department to lim it the use o f the
bar arm and choke hold until they
are properly trained how to use
them.
2. Less discriminatory method of
handling Black prisoners.
Turney’ s contention is that the
handling o f prisoners directly in
fluences their behavior upon re
entry into society.
He is considering legal action
against all parties involved in the
fracas at the courthouse.
early 1970s, in either numerical
proportion or role qu a lity, for
females and minorities.
Females, in their latest survey,
comprise 16 percent o f the major
characters in major textbook stories
about children. That is the same
percentage Lum pkin and B ritton
arrived at in an earlier study o f
1974-76 books, and a 2 percent in
crease over books published from
1958-70.
“ The quality o f roles o f female
characters has not changed much
either -- women are still dull and in
competent,” said Britton. “ There
are too many women in pink collar
roles, such as waiteress, secretary
and clerk. There are too few leader
ship roles and far too many sub
sidiary and secondary roles, rather
than equal roles.”
W hile the number o f female
characters remained constant in the
professors’ last two studies, the per
centage o f racial minority characters
- both men and women - dropped.
In the 1974-76 textbooks studied,
m inority women were accorded 4
percent o f the character roles and
minority men 12 percent. But in the
current study, both categories have
dropped back and arc identical to
the 1958-70 levels o f 2 and 9 per
cent, respectively.
“ M inorities, with a total o f 16
percent representation in the 74-76
study, were starting to achieve some
semblance o f equality, at least in the
proportion o f roles given them ,”
said Lumpkin. “ But they’ve slipped
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Barrett to study in Atlanta
Spencer Barrett w ill leave Port
land this week to attend In te r
d e n o m in a tio n a l T h e o lo g ic a l
Seminary in Atlanta, where he will
major in divinity and social services.
Barrett is a 1980 graduate of the
U n v ie rs ity ' o f P o rtla n d . A fte r
com ing to Oregon from West
Virginia, he attended Jackson High
School where he was student body
president during his senior year, was
drum major for the marching band
and played the trombone. While in
high school he lettered in tennis,
played a leading role in the high
school drama, and attended Boy’ s
State.
While attending the University o f
Portland, Barrett worked part time
for the Metropolitan Youth Com
mission and did an internship with
the Northeast Youth Service Center.
Barrett became a Licentiate in
the A frica n M ethodist Episcopal
Church in 1976 and was ordained a
Deacon in 1978. He is Sunday
School superintendent and associate
minister of Bethel AME Church.
He is the son o f Richard and
Joanne Barrett.
SPENCER BARRETT
Since his ju n io r year in high
school, Barrett has been a graphic
arts, camera person for the Obser
ver, responsible for screening pic
tures and m aking negatives in
preparation fo r p rin tin g o f the
newspaper.