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Page S Portland Observer January 1.1981 rown, Weekly join careers (Continued from Page 1 Col 6) the labels on th eir records. Most teachers make no further effort to inspire such a child to learn. “ Edna and I both knew that upon entering high school there was a new separation for some o f the children. In that way? W e ll, I know as an “ under a c h ie v e r’ * I was given abridged copies o f some books to read while other classes were given the original.” W arm in g up to his them e, D r. Weekly is o f the opinion that “ kids can be geared to failure;** “ That because the firs t few years o f schooling are so im p o rta n t, ed ucatio n in A lb in a should be upgraded;’ * "C h ild ren are not being taught to study, no how to study.** As for higher education and the bleak future he sees for additional Black people being graduated from University o f Oregon Dental Schol, D r. Weekly stated that at the time o f his June graduation, there was one Black senior and one Black junior enrolled there. There was no second year Black student and there was no freshman enrolled. Dr. Carloa W eakly w atches as Dr. Samuel Brown prepares a patient's mouth. (Photo: Richard J. Brown) Says D r . W e e k ly , “ I went through the M in o rity Recruitment Program and there was no active recruiting done. I was one o f the two Black graduates in 1980. There were five Black graduates preceding me since the school opened! And the 1980 Commencement address con tained opinions against government affirm ative action programs inten ded to reach out to those not yet m otivated!” D r. Weekly recalled that he went through high school without science and without mathematics and that these subjects had to be acquired later. A hampering deficiency which had to be overcome. Where did the inspiration come to go to higher education? D r. Weekly credits his parents. They told him: “ I f you want to be better, BE bet te r!” The U .S . N avy was a help too, says D r. W eekly. When he came out o f the N a v y w ith service in the Philipines, the only jobs he could, get were m e n ia l and h ard - like cleaning fish, breaking glass in a Cell Talk By Asmar A bdul Seifullah aka Joe West »40404 lowriders, and New York slicksters, all corraled in to this concrete pasture. Here they will be transfor med into the living dead...here as the sunny days o f youth cloud with bitterness o f tim e ’ s foreverness. They will die inside. Their souls will cry blood salted tears as tim e becomes the watcher, the keeper o f Once again the ranks o f Oregon State Penitentiary are swelling with Black prisoners. Brothers are tu r ning up out o f nowhere and one has to wonder where they’re all coming from. They enter the jaws o f this con crete monster smiling and grinning as i f it were a boy’ s camp. L ittle thought seem to be given to the years o f solitude that await them. They come here from all parts o f the country; Georgia homeboys, L .A . dreams. Sometime after their arrival - it might take a year or more - they will began to understand that this isn’t a vacation, that their life and sanity is at stake. The days will assault them HUGHES MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH I ‘ REV. AUSTIN V. RAY, MINISTER 111 N.E. FAILING Dial A Prayer 284 0684 Worship 11:00am Church School 9 45am Office 281 2332 Specializing In Individual • Marriage and Family • Group I herapy "The C hurch W here NO S trang er Feels S trange NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH REVEREND A. BERNARD DEVERS, PASTOR THE CHURCH DESIGNED TO MEET YOUR NEED 9:30am ,0:30am Sunday School Morning Worship Evening Service 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays Communion 1st Sunday Wed -F a m ily Prayer Meeting and Bible Study Friday - Brotherhood Fellowship Service with Morning Star 3rd Sunday 7:00pm 5 00pm 7:30pm 7:00pm Prayer and Pastor Pho 281 6476 Church Phone 281 0163 3725 N. Gantenbein Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97227 ST. ANDREWS CATHOLIC CHURCH 806 NE ALBERTA STREET Reverend Bertram Griffin, Pastor 2814429 Masses 5:00pm Vigil — Saturday 10:00am Choir — Sunday 12:00pm Folk - Sunday ST. ANDREW COMMUNITY SCHOOL 4919 NE 9th Ave Phone: 284 1620 Sr. K athleen B tu p fe r. Principal Grades 1 thru 8 ALLEN TEMPLE CME CHURCH Corner of 8th and Skidm ore Sunday School 9:30am Sunday Worship 11:00am Christian Youth Fellowship 6:00pm (second and fourth Sundays) Reverend Thomas L. Strayhand, Minister with a maddening rush o f despair. Darkness will engulf the sun and the fire o f desire will burn in the loin o f their manhood. As the mind tries to understand this curious tu rn o f events, frustration and frenzy will settle deep in the soul. T im e w ill spin like a carousel without music or bobbing horses. Each hour w ill mean another heartbreak - another excursion in to pain , loneliness - “ waiting.” It is believed that man is an adap table creature but no man adapts to confinement. The freeness o f man’s soul, his evolvem ent fro m lesser times forces him to reject the steelness o f prison. Inherently man needs love and the gro w th o f emotions that are denied while in carcerated. He must always be able to see rainbows and chase fireflies. The adventurer in man must explore new worlds and build likeness o f himself or his God inside o f him. The child inside o f man must play sometime, it must laugh and frolic in the richness o f being alive. After a few years in prison, a part o f you becomes tainted and fo u l. You begin to hate the sunrise and curse the mother that birthed you. You question the validity o f law and its’ enforcem ent and you wonder where the h u m a n ity o f man has evaporated to. Life knots up inside o f you lik e a festering ucler; it throbs and pulsates in the hunger o f yearning. You dream o f old loves, you rem em ber the last kiss, the sm ell, the taste o f her as you lie waiting for another vision, another climax o f birth! Tim e in its timeless ness swirls in a pool o f dark waters and you find yourself locked in a whirlpool o f sorrow. You swear to yourself that if this hell should ever come to an end, you’ ll never again gamble a loser's game. Y ou pray, you exhort your God for mercy, you wonder i f anything or anyone has hurt the way you hurt in this eternal time capsule. You wait and wait and the waiting kills you daily, hourly you die in a million different ways. So subtle are the changes taking place w ithin you, that before you realize it you’re someone else. The you has become lost in a collage o f screaming faces. There isn’ t a re fle c tio n in the m irro r anym ore and you cry fo r a ll the things you were, all tho people you could have been but all is lost...lost! “ F ou rth tie r ninth c e ll/w h e re my life is spent in a death lik e / zom bie lik e state o f p a in fu l un- certaintly/w here the outside world revolves around the outside w orld/ leaving me to ponder the endless horizon o f tim e /tim e le s s endless tim e/m y mind turns to the ineptness o f m a n /in h a lin g cancer/w atching smoke rings rise & d is a p p e a r/a h -if only 1 were smoke/perhaps I could rise & d is a p p e a r/^ slip th ro u g h , the gates o f heaven. ’ ’ geeeaeeea x I i X a X X X I e recycling p la n t, and other monotonous laboring jobs. D r. Weekly declares he is willing and even eager to talk to any class o f young people, be it school or church s itu a tio n , to encourage young people to work to better themselves. The young dentist seems to be saying, “ Open (your m ind) wide. This will not hurt long!” THE REVEREND J. GORDON McPHERSON (early 20th Century pioneer in Utah, Washington and California! Political activist and humanitarian Founder and Editor of ten periodicals in the West (Briefly cited in History of Utah Journalism (c) 1938, etc...) Founded annual September heritage observance In Seattle (Tw enty A m erican institutions w ill receive a bibliography of McPherson in the W est. The bibliography, compiled by J.M . Gates, is scheduled to be limited to thirty copies.) ■eaeaei •■ •I X X I E X O D U S (¿ÇtàicafuHuiSa n d r f t s i/m e s i/ W erdet ! 1518 N E KILLINGSWORTH PORTLAND. OREGÙN 9721 1 i 284-7997 FROM THE FRONT DOOR I ■ X 1 I I ! e e : I By Tom Boothe From the Front Door, I wish to thank ail of my readers; those who have appreciated my philosophical aspirations, those who have phoned,* written and spoke with me in person to inspire and encourage me over the past year. A special thanks to those who have faithfully attended the Tuesday night Forums, making it one of our community's most successful gatherings. TO ALL OF YOU FROM ALL OF US AT THE HOUSE OF EXODUS WE SINCERELY WISH YOU A You are Welcome to Worship at THE ARK OF SAFETY CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST ' 'A warm spirit o f Jello wship always ’ ’ The Honorable Bishop U V. Peterson, D .D . "The Holiner* Preeoher," Pastor Sunday Sunday School vcxhmg WfXirup fcISem 11:15am "Showars of Bleeemga Broadcast 3 30-4 30 KLIQ 1 2 K > 8 30pm VPW W Evangabstrc Worship 8 00pm Tuesday Fnday Noon D e/P raye, I 9 Tuesday Bible Band Jr. Church Wednesday Choe Rehearsal Friday The Pastor Speaks 84 NE K illingsworth 281 0499 7 30pm 7 00pm 7 30pm Far away in the vasteness o f space, star shine. They twinkle like lights holding the secrets o f dreams. They stand to g eth er, yet apart...each having its own glow, its own life and death. Some o f them become suns o f other worlds while others race across the sky and fall into the nothingness o f invisibility. “ One last question remain to haunt the solitary man - what becomes o f falling stars?” HAPPY NEW YEAR! W W MBM J
