Page 6 Portland Observer, November 5,1961
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Gloria Richards won First Place In Bast Fa-
Larry Warren was "Bast Mala" in costuma
mala section at 69 Productions Hallowaan contest,
dance.
Bast Pair were Tony and Rosta Pagnotta
who stole the show with these unique get-
ups.
Photo«: Richard J. Brown
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Bits and Pieces
by Ruth Spencer
According to management infor
mation the Portland Public School’s
total Black enrollment is 7,626 stu
dents; with a breakdown o f S, 176 el
ementary, 2,127 secondary and 323
special students. The Black enroll
ment in 1979 was 7,910 students.
Recovering at home are Mmes.
M arie A n thon y and M ary Scott-,
Messrs. George Jordan and Thomas
Vickers. The Reverend Jeff Sanders
o f Vancouver Avenue Baptist
Church is in Emanuel Hospital. Best
wishes!
Mmes. Zola Harris and Odessa
Mangum will attend the Women’s
Aglow Convention in Niagara Falls,
N .Y ., representing Maranatha
Church.
Mayor Ivancie has designated Sue
Keil as the City-Schools Liaison Of
ficer. Together with representatives
of City agencies such as the Bureaus
o f Planning, Parks, Human Re
sources and Community Develop
ment, Metropolitan Youth Commis
sion, Portland Development Com
mission and the Office of Neighbor
hood A ssociations, she provides
support, information and staff as
sistance to joint ventures of the City
o f Portland and the Portland
School District, and facilitates
steady channels o f communication.
She is a former school district em
ployee.
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Economists say there will be a
slight increase in the price we pay
for gas because the oil cartel has
Fixed the base price at $34 a barrel.
The Western Wood Products As
sociation reports that 58 per cent of
the employees in 756 Western saw
mills were laid off or working short
shifts this past week.
The Black United Front will host
a political convention for the Black
Community, November 13, 14, and
15 at Jefferson High School—Be
There!
The Epsilon Zeta Lambda Chap
ter o f Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Inc. has reorganized in Portland.
All Alpha men are requested to tele
phone 283-5675 for details.
Mrs. Ella Mae Gay has been se
lected as Allen Temple’s representa
tive for the NAACP's Grandmoth
ers’ Christmas Seal Contest. Mrs.
Lee Eunice Jones of Allen Temple is
last year’s winner.
The NAACP filed a suit Oct. I in
U.S. District Court against the Con
tra Costa County Sheriff (Rich
mond, California) charging a failure
to adequately protect three Black
families from racial harassment last
year.
vices for the elderly by avoiding un
necessary duplication o f services
and promoting state-wide advocacy
of programs for the elderly.
Moore is the executive assistant to
the president of the American Care
Center. He is a graduate o f Wood
bury University. Los Angeles, Cali
fornia.
Read the racing news from Port
land Meadows in the Observer and
get a free General Admissions Pass.
Coming soon!
Dr. Darrell Millner, Professor at
Portland State University, said:
“ The current waves of political con
servatism and economic retrench
ment that are flooding the country
today can create an atmosphere of
depression, even desperation in the
hearts and minds o f Black people
who care about the future o f the
race.”
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Cletus B. Moore, Jr., is one ot the
21 members named by Governor Vic
Atiyeh to his newly created Gover
nor’s Commission on Senior Ser
vices..
Duties of the 21-member commis
sion include coordinating state ser-
Ms. Lolita Darby, former Educa
tion Director o f the Seattle Urban
League has returned to Portland.
Ms. Darby worked as a classroom
teacher before moving to Seattle.
She reports that: “ It’s good to be
back.”
How to help your students
The Black United Front offers the
following suggestions o f what we
can do to help our children.
Responsibilities o f Black parents
to ward our children‘s schooling:
1. We must meet our children’s
teacher, principal, and other school
personnel at the beginning o f the
school year and then periodically
talk with them about our children’s
progress either in person or by tele
phone throughout the school year.
A parent who takes time to go up
to school and meet the teacher and
principal makes an impression on
that teacher and principal. Right or
wrong, they will often give that per
son’s children more attention. If it is
difficult for us to make visits to the
school because we are working, then
we must arrange to make at least
one visit at the beginning o f the
school year. This is the most import
ant time to go. It is the time when
the school personnel are forming
opinions of our children, including
the determination o f which chil
dren’s parents quote, “ care.” And
shouldn’t we want to meet right
away the people who will be in
charge of our children’s minds and
bodies six hours a day for an entire
school year? Think about it!
Anybody with whom our children
spend 5 or 6 hours a day is going to
have a strong influence on his or her
development.
2. We should know what is in our
child’s school records.
We should find out from the
Board o f Education offices what
the procedure is for seeing our
child’s record folder. This is the
folder that follows the child from
year to year, and from school to
school. What is in that folder many
times determines how our child’s
teacher views our child. It may at
times influence whether the teacher
will have high or low expectations of
our children.
3. We must insist on competent
teachers for our children.
If we feel that our child’s teacher
is incompetent in his or her ability to
teach the basic curriculum, then we
must complain; we must not let our
child waste a year o f their educa
tion. We must demand that our
child be placed in a competent
teacher’s class. We need to be able
to state clearly why we judge the
teacher to be poor, and to organize
other parents to complain as a
group. If more parents complained
often enough about poor, unmoti
vating, uncaring, ineffective teach
ers, we’d have less o f them in the
schools harming our children.
We must also recognize and sup
port teachers that do a good job
with our children.
our children’s homework is com
pleted. We can sign it or write a
brief note on it so that the teacher
knows that we are monitoring our
children’s education.
6. We must really listen to our
children when they tell us about
their school day.
We must show them that we are
very interested in their school day.
We must show them that we are in
terested in their schooling. We can
show our interest by asking serious
questions about their day and really
listening to their answers. Ask what
happened in class, if the answer is
4. We must know the basic curric
“
nothing,” you should call or visit
ulum for the grade that our child is in
the
teacher as soon as possible.
and we must demand that Black
7. We must make sure that our
people’s correct history and culture
children have good behavior and are
be a part o f that curriculum for
paying attention in class.
every grade.
We must constantly teach our
We need to know what is expected
children
about the importance of
of our child in the grade that he or
education and we must continually
she is in. We must know not only
insist they have a serious attitude
what our children’s grades are but
about
their schooling. We must
understand how to interpret those
make
it
clear to them that we expect
grades. We must make sure that we
the highest achievement from them
and we must have consistent conse
understand exactly where our
quences for the disregard o f our
child’s achievement is in relation to
rules about their behavior in school.
the rest of the class.
8. We must get our children to
Sometimes we say, “ Oh Sammy is
school every day unless they are ill.
doing so well in school. He has
One day’s lessons build on the
learned how to do A .” What we
previous day’s and on to the follow
don’t know is that the children who
ing day’s lessons. When our chil
are really working on grade level are
dren miss a day or more o f school,
doing A, B and C! But we don’t
they have missed part o f the se
know the curriculum. We think that
quence of lessons. Often the teacher
A is just fine. We don't know what
doesn’t have the time to individually
to expect o f Sammy by the end of
catch up students who are absent a
the school year. Askt It is our right
lot, and so the child falls behind and
to know. We must ask to see all of
has gaps in the sequence of the les
the textbooks for that grade, and
sons.
make sure that we understand the
9. Proper nutrition.
outline of the material in each sub
Diet is very important. How chil
ject that our children are expected to
dren begin their day will affect how
have learned by the end o f the
they learn. Make sure they eat
school year.
breakfast. There are breakfast and
We must organize parent groups
hot lunch programs in some schools.
to pressure the Board of Education
Get that information from the prin
to hire Black historians to write an
cipal.
accurate history and culture curricu
10. We must participate in school
lum for grades kindergarten through related activities such as PTAs, Par
highschool.
ent Advisory Boards, School Boards,
5. We must ask tor homework for
etc.
our children.
We must get other parents who
We must check our children’s want to work for positive change in
homework. We must make sure that
the schools to join the parent group.
We must identify areas in our spe
cific schools which need change and
work on these areas o f concern.
Parent involvement is one o f the
most powerful weapons that we
have to get some positive reforms in
the public schools.
11. Responsibility.
Take time and read and respond
to notices brought home from
school. They may have information
that is important for your child.
12. Encourage children to use and
make use of the community library.
Make sure their reading includes
books about Black people.
Black parents must make sure our
children get a quality education. If
we don’t fight for our children, no
one else will. Listed are several steps
that as a parent you should take to
help your children in school. It’s
worth the effort—your children’s
future depends upon you.
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