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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
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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. ’ ’
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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.)
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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
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11:15am
"Showars of Bleeemga Broadcast
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8 00pm
Tuesday Fnday
Noon D e/P raye,
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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
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