Portland Obaarvar Juna IS. 1881 Paga S
Reflections o f a Queen
Grassroot News N .W . • By now
the last roses have wilted and people
have cleaned the mud o ff their shoes
from this year’ s C arnival. The
C ourt that this com m unity w ill
remember the most is the 1980-81
court. From the grassroots o f N.E.
P ortland, the qu a lifica tio n s o f
Robin M arks captured the public
and catapulted the senior from Lin
coln to rein as Portland's queen,
from Lincoln to rein as Portland's
queen.
C urrently, Robin, 19, is gearing
up fo r her sophomore year at the
University o f Arizona. "M y area of
study is still Aerospace Engineering.
I'm going to stay in Engineering un
til 1 obtain a Bachelor’ s degree.
R obin’ s rein was during a very
precarious period in P o rtla n d ’ s
history. Nationally, the attempt on
the life o f Vernon Jordan, Director
of the Urban League was still fresh
in the air because w ithin a week of
his visit to Portland, the shooting
occured. A lso pressing was the
proposed School Boycott where
5,000 students stayed home to show
support for the boycott. Grassroot
News asked Robin if any o f this af
fected the Rosarian perception o f
her or was it ever perceived: “ It was
never an issue w ith the C ourt be
cause during my rein, and before,
we were involved in our Court ac
tivities. So, unless we read the paper
we really weren’t aware o f what was
going on outside. My personal reac
tion was that some o f the issues I
was for, and some I was against but
I chose not to be involved.”
D uring the last coronation , as
she gave her crown to the current
queen, R o b in ’ s statement to the
C o u rt impressed
some and
depressed others. She summarized
that p o rtio n o f .her address.
"B a s ic a lly , my speech was ju st a
thank-you speech. I said that I was
the firs t Black queen to have ever
been selected in 72 years o f existence
o f the Rose Festival. I thanked the
Rose Festival along with the mem
bers o f my fam ily, community and
all organizations because they
showed their appreciation and sup
port. When 1 became Queen I never
looked at my experience as being the
firs t Black queen but rather as
someone who could best represent
the Portland Rose Festival. Later, 1
looked back at being the first Black
Queen and it hasn’t hit me yet, if it’ s
suppose to hit me harder.”
The Rose Festival is tied into the
Portland school system which for a
significant number o f inner city
youths was quite in sig n ifica n t in
terms o f education received, yet
Robin excelled. " M y interest were
always math and science and toward
the end o f my junior year, I looked
for a career field that included math
and science. Engineering was
dominant in this area and airplanes
have always been one o f my
fascinations.”
One o f R obin’ s m ajor achieve
ments is in the area o f Track and
Field. " I did a bit better at the
U niversity o f A rizona than I an
ticipated. My first goal was just to
make it to the nationals. Two weeks
ago, in A u stin , Texas, 1 won the
national title in the 400 meter
hurdles. That wasn’ t expected.
Locally, in my senior year, I won
the dual, district and state titles.”
Included in R obin’ s peer group
are a highly visable bunch o f youth
A rtharee named M anager
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who aren’ t that m otivated and
whose vision stops at the here and
now. Their conversation is centered
around gaming and making it on
others. " I wish I could take those
individuals somewhere else where
other peers are doing something. In
A rizona, you see Blacks getting
their thing together and you see
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those who aren’ t. I t ’ s out there if
you really go for it. My advice to my
peers is to be yourself, go fo r the
stars and reach for the top.”
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named National Product Manager
for Boise Cascade Paper Group. He
is responsible fo r the Business
Forums product line.
Artharee attended L in fie ld
College in M c M in n v ille , Oregon
and was chosen to be a member of
"O u ts ta n d in g Young Men o f
America” in 1980.
Artharee has been a sales repre
sentative fo r Boise Cascade fo r
seven years.
Boise Cascade is an integrated
forest products company engaging
principally in the manufacture, dis
tribution and sale o f paper, packag
ing and office products, wood pro
ducts and building materials, and
in the grow ing and harvesting o f
timber to support these operations.
Its manufacturing and distribution
fa cilitie s and its tim ber lands are
located p rim a rily in the United
States and Canada.
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OPENING
The Black Educational Center
w ill sponsor a 2 day conference
title d , "W h o W ill Speak For Us?
Preparing Black Children to Meet
the Challenges o f the F u tu re ," on
June 26 and 27, 1981 at 1639 and
1640 NE Alberta St.
The conference w ill focus on
strategies to involve the total com
munity in developing models to im
prove the quality o f life fo r Black
children from infancy through the
teen years. D errick A. Bell, Jr.,
Dean o f Law School at the Univer
sity o f Oregon w ill be the keynote
speaker.
D errick A. Bell, J r., has been
both a practitioner and a teacher in
the field o f civil rights. A professor
o f law at Harvard University from
1969 through 1980, he also litigated
c iv il rights cases throughout the
South during the 1960s.
He has written at length on racism
and poverty and specifically the
long-term effects o f the Brown
decisions.
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He served
as dire cto r o f the
Western Center on Law and
Poverty, a project which provided
recruitm ent,
tra in in g ,
and
budgetary and technical assistance
to the seven legal services programs
in the Southern California area.
W orkshop topics include: Black
Operated Adoption Programs; Op
tions in the W o rld o f W ork;
Education
vs.
T ra in in g ;
Psychological Development; Black
H istory and C u ltu re ; Education,
Employment and Training; Parental
Involvement in Education; Combat
ting Social Oppression; and In
novative
C om m unity
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Cawthorne threatens suit
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the local level and redirects the
thinking o f those who had only a
half-hearted com m itm ent in the
first place. Therefore, i f we are to
get good education and employment
opportun ities and d ig n ity in this
com m unity, under these circum
stances, we are going to have to
stick together and struggle together.
" I ’ m encouraged by the en
couragement I’ ve received.
The basis o f the suit, which w ill
be a federal court civil rights suit
under the 14th Amendment, is:
1) The district policy adopted in
1965 involved mandatory disposal
o f Black students at prim ary and
middle school level to predominate-
ly white schools and prevented the
return to neighborhood schools.
There was no counter-balancing
policy requiring white students to
transfer to Black schools.
2) The natural and foreseeable
consequence o f this program was
the eventual destruction o f enroll
ment problems fo r predominately
Black schools.
3) Closure o f W ashington/
Monroe and Adams would have a
disproporionate effect on Black
students in the d is tric t. The dis
proportionate impact on Blacks was
a natural, probable, and foreseeable
consequence o f past practices and
policies
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respect
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The suit asks that:
1) The Court assume jurisdiction
o f cause
2) The Court declare the action to
close both Washington/Monroe and
Adams to be discrimination against
Black students
3) The C ourt infer a permanent
in ju n c tio n restraining closure o f
both schools (but not o f either
school)
4) The C ourt direct the School
Board to develop a school closure
policy that does not have a dis
proportion ate im pact on Black
students.
Cawthorne said he w ill file the
suit as p la in tiff, but that he hopes
others with greviences will come for
ward and join as plaintiffs in a class
ac.tion suit.
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The M ultnom ah C ounty C om
mission w ill consider attachment o f
penalities for persons who refuse to
obey the order o f a Sheriff to leave
an o ffic ia l emergency zone. The
hearing w ill be held at the C ourt
House, Room 602, on June 25th, at
9:00 a.m.
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