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PORTLAND OBSERVER
May 6, 1982
Volume XII, Number 30
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High school grads find times tough
by Allison Engel
Pacific News Service
T IL L A M O O K , O R E .— l l was
prom night at T illam ook H igh. But
the pride and festiveness o f previous
proms was wearing visibly thin this
year as students c o n fro n te d the
m eaning o f a c o m m u n ity in the
throes o f 20.2 per cent unem ploy
ment.
tend the prom at all. “ A lot o f guys
ju s t d o n ’ t have the m o n e y,” she
said.
Kim Burnham, 15, attended with
a new pair o f shoes and a heavy load
o f g u ilt. “ M y parents have sacri
ficed more than they ever did before
fo r us to be h a p p y ,” said K im ,
whose father has been unemployed
since October and whose mother has
gone to work part-tim e. “ M y Mom
hasn’ t had a new p a ir o f tennis
shoes in so long, and she needs them
because she works as a waitress. She
bought me a new p air o f shoes to
wear to the dance. I appreciate that
•wore than my parents know .”
These are hard tim es fo r T illa
m o o k, and fo r hundreds o f o ther
communities which are experiencing
record-high joblessness. But fo r the
young people in these communities
—those who have been taught that
security lies in hard, steady w o rk —
the hard times have a special poig
nancy. Many have experienced their
parents’ shock o f finding themselves
unemployed after decades o f hewing
to the hard w ork ethic. M any now
question the value o f that ethic and
are asking themselves whether they
have not become redundant before
they even have a chance to enter the
w o rk force. A nd m any are being
forced to fo r fe it the pleasures o f
Jackie M cH enry exhibit* m other'* love.
(Photo: Richard Brown)
H ow M other's Day was born
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the
Baltic Hymn o f the Republic, made
the firs t know n suggestion fo r a
M other's Day in the United States in
1872. She suggested that people ob
serve a M other's Day on June 2 as a
day dedicated to peace, l or several
years, she held an annual M other's
Day meeting in Boston.
Mary Towles Sasseen, a Kentucky
schoolteacher, started conducting
M other's Day celebrations in 1887,
Frank E. H c rin g o f South Bend,
In d ., launched a campaign fo r the
observance o f M o th e r's Day in
1904.
Three years later, Anna Jarvis o f
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G rafton, W. Va., and Philadelphia,
began a campaign for a nationwide
observance o f M o th e r's Day. She
chose the second Sunday in M ay,
and began the custom o f wearing a
c a rn a tio n . On M ay 10, 1908,
churches in G ra fto n and P hiladel
phia held M o th e r’ s Day celebra
tio n s . The service at Andrew s
M e th o d is t E piscopal C hurch in
G ra fto n honored the m em ory o f
A nna J a rv is ’ ow n m o th e r, M rs.
Anna Reeves Jarvis.
At the General Conference o f the
M e th o d is t E piscopal C hurch in
Minneapolis, M in n ., in 1912, a dele
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gate fro m A ndrew s C hurch in tro -
ducted a resolution recognizing A n
na Jarvis as the founder o f M other's
Day. It suggested that the second
Sunday in M ay be observed as
M other’s Day.
M o th e r’ s Day received nationa l
recognition on May 9, 1914. On that
day. President W o o d ro w W ilso n
signed a jo in t re s o lu tio n o f C o n
gress recommending that Congress
and the executive departm ents o f
the governm ent observe M o th e r’ s
Day. The follow ing year, the Presi
dent was a u th o rize d to p ro c la im
M other's Day as an annual national
observance.
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y o u th to become early b re a d w in
ners.
“ I know a lot o f graduates,” said
C hristine. “ They talked about big
dreams, about going to college. I see
a lot o f them working at gas stations
and restaurants. Some got married.
They had big dreams. But they got
shot dow n.”
In the h a rd -h it c o m m u n ity o f
Rom ulus, M ichigan, near D e tro it,
jo b placement counselor Alice Bar
ringer echoes the sentiment: “ I hear
o f a lo t o f kids w ho take o f f fo r
Texas. Then I hear o f them coming
back from Texas. I don’ t hear any
success stories.”
Even before they leave school, the
c h ild re n o f the unem ployed get a
painful education in the meaning o f
recession. In T illa m o o k, a tax levy
failed to pass in M arch and school
a d m in istra to rs are preparing c u t
backs in program s fo r next year.
Some extra-curricular activities w ill
probably be suspended.
But many students have already
dropped out o f the programs. Some
high school g irls recently q u it the
school m usical because they
c o u ld n ’ t a ffo r d the long dresses
needed fo r costum es. W hen the
g ir ls ’ b asketba ll team to o k th ird
place in the state this year, m any
students couldn’ t attend the out-of-
town tournament because the char
tered fan bus cost $3. Attendance at
dances like the prom , which require
fo rm a l w ear, is d o w n , and the
search for after-school jobs is defin
itely up, say school administrators.
Said Joyce Gleiss, a school coun
selor in the D e tro it suburb o f
W oodhaven: ’ ’ There are kids here
who w ork t il m id n ig h t and 2 a.m .
There are even kids w o rk in g fu ll
time and going to school.”
Increasingly, she said, students
are using the m oney they earn to
help put food on the table. “ It is not
uncom m on fo r parents to te ll me
that their child is the only one in the
fam ily w orking.”
Absenteeism is up, as are the
number o f sleepy students, she said.
“ I see students w ith fa llin g grades,
not able to come in fo r help sessions
because they c a n ’ t stay a fte r
school.”
Karla M iller, 17, had to take a job
at a clothing shop to save money for
college, since her parents are unem
ployed. In order to w ork, she had to
quit the flag corps, a group she was
in fo r two years. She said the jo b al
so has affected her grades. “ I had a
B average, and now i t ’s about a C .”
Dating also is scaled dow n— few
er movies, dances, restaurant d in
ners. K a rla and her unem ployed
b o y frie n d m o stly ju s t w atch T V
these days.
“ O n ly a h a n d fu l o f k id s ” ate
going on the tra d itio n a l senior trip
to F lorida, said C arol P raw dzik, a
counselor at Carlson High School in
G ib ra lte r, another D etroit suburb.
O f 250 seniors, p ro b a b ly o n ly 50
w ill go, she said.
C ounselor A lic e B a rrin g e r o f
Romulus H igh said she sees adults
com peting fo r jo b s once reserved
fo r youth, particularly homemakers
w ho are ta k in g lo w -p a y in g , p a rt-
tim e sales jo b s. Students are also
w o rk in g n ight s h ifts as aides o r
orderlies in nursing homes. “ Wlien-
ever th e re ’ s a p la n t clo sin g , kids
po u r in to my o ffic e lo o k in g fo r
jo b s , saying, ‘ M y fa m ily re a lly
needs the money.’ They don’t seem
to correlate that there are even less
jobs as adults are laid o ff.”
(Please turn to page 4, column 4}
C om m unity discusses options
The m ediation groups represent
ing the School District and the com
m unity presented fo u r options to a
public meeting at Tubm an M iddle
School Tuesday night.
The m eeting was the fir s t o f a
series o f three—-the second to be at
Boise on Wednesday and the th ird
at King on T hursday— designed to
give in fo rm a tio n and receive input
from parents.
Bob H ughes, m e d ia to r fo r the
U.S. Justice D epartm ent, said the
fo u r options presented were those
that both sides had agreed to pre
sent. Others had been discussed but
were not acceptable to one side or
the other.
Plans presented were:
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Boise 1
Tubm an w ould be located at the
Boise b u ild in g . The 125 Boise 6-8
grade students w o u ld attend T ub-
m an; the 333 Boise P-K students
would attend Eliot.
E lio t w ould have 333 Boise stu
dents and 40 Eliot resident students,
leaving space fo r 200 transfer stu
dents.
C a p a city o f the m iddle school
would be 750.
The ca p ita l o u tla y w o u ld S3.2
m illio n to renovate Boise; S300.000
to expand E lio t’ s capacity from 475
to 600. These w o u ld include five
portable classrooms.
T ra n s p o rta tio n costs w o u ld be
$145,000 in c lu d in g S125.000 fo r
Tubman students.
Boise Plan 2
T ubm an w o u ld be located at
Boise. Boise 6-8 students w ould go
to T ubm an. B oise’ s K-5 students
w o u ld be assigned to E lio t and
Beach.
This plan w ould place 213 Boise
and 40 Eliot children in E lio t, leav
ing space for 347 transfer students.
Capital outlay would be $3.5 m il
lio n , w ith tra n s p o rta tio n cost o f
$245,000.
Boise Plan 3
T ubm an w o u ld be located at
Boise. Boise 6-8 students w ould go
to T u bm an. Boise P-5 students
would go to Tubman Boise P-5 stu
dents w o u ld go to Beach, E lio t,
Hum boldt, Irvington, King.
(Please turn to page 4, column 4)
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