Portland Observer, August 18, 1982 Pane 5
F re e s p e e c h f ig h t
c o n tin u e s
M an On The M ove
Ethnic and women’s studies pro
grams are under attack in Portland
and across the nation. In response,
tw o free speech case battles have
been fought in the west by a coali
tion o f local and national support
groups. The cases concern C la ra
Fraser and Merle W oo.
C lara Frnser, a veteran labor and
civil rights activist and founder o f
n a tio n a l R adical W o m en , won a
seven year old political ideology and
sex discrimination suit against Seat
tle C ity Light in State Superior
C o u rt in Seattle A u g . 9. Judge
Goodloe awarded her seven years*
back pay, reinstatement at Seattle
C ity Light and adequate attorney’s
fees, which will total, say support
ers, well over S 100,000.
by Kathryn H a ll Bogle
back pay but her victories were al
ways overturned. H er August 9th
appeal was of the split decision o f a
city hearing panel which ruled
against her in July, 1980.
M erlw W oo is a popular lecturer
in Asian American Studies at U .C
Berkeley, a widely published poet, a
socialist feminist and a member o f
Radical W om en and the Freedom
Socialist P arty. She has protested
the firings o f staff, tutors and facul
ty who are community activists and
has fought to keep the Ethnic
Studies Program intact.
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E ’ S M A N Y persons— that
do their w ork. The sunset and the
ocean have given me the m ood to
Thomas Boothe. O r, better,
he is a person with a great variety compose
of
around 25 pieces o f music,
interests.
principally for the flute.
“ M y w ife , R osalee— she’ s also
D aily, he sits with bank officers,
from St. Thomas— asked me to help
m ethodical, sober-minded, calcu
her with her own compelling inter
lating, unhurried and deliberative
est: ‘The House o f Exodus.’ I t ’s my
fo lk — usually. The people Boothe
wife’s concept o f something she can
works with fit the m ajor pattern o f
do to help alcoholics and persons on
bankers everyw here. T h ey have
drugs. She saw two persons in her
made a study o f how they (and even
own family trapped and involved—
quite possibly, you) can make mon
saw them ill and in death from alco
ey.
hol abuse.
But. Boothe is not a banker. He is
“ I ’ ve been in the background
a consultant in business m anage
with my w ife’s project because she
m ent. H e jo in e d A m erican State
looks upon House o f Exodus as her
Bank in the latter part o f 1975 as
own contribution o f something ben
Consultant and Director o f M arket
eficial to the world. She took formal
ing. He was head o f their staff train
training at U . o f Oregon and at U .
ing, was on hand to encourage the
o f Utah, and, in 1977, she opened a
nam e-change and accom plished
free clinic.
early w ork on the location choice
" In 1978 Rosalee received a grant
fo r the establishm ent o f its tw o
from M u ltn o m a h C o un ty w ith f i
branches. Bank owners w anted
nances to help. The County realized
com m u nity acceptance fo r the
that there was no other agency in
fledgling institution.
N .E . Portland for the treatment o f
A m erican B an k's Venerable
alcoholism . It was not u n til 1979
Booker has not been sorry. A m eri
that my w ife asked me to become
can Bank closed its year with assets.
more active in the affairs o f House
Boothe had w orked earlier as a
of Exodus.
consultant in business planning with
“ N ow the agency has become a
Oregon Bank and Portland Federal
business,” Boothe continued. “ We
Savings (now called Far-West).
have moved twice since then and we
Born in St. T h o m as . V irg in Is
now have a large building and access
lands, a tropical vacation land in the
to a whole block on N .E . A lberta.
beautiful Caribbean ocean, Boothe
There are 20 people on staff, includ
remembers his boyhood o f boating,
ing volunteer persons. W e have
fishing, and visiting the little retail
seven counsellors, four house man
stores set up for the tourist trade. It
agers, and tw o instructors who
was beautiful, Boothe recalls, but it
teach socialization, alcoholism, nu
was ru ral and slow and there was
trition and hygiene.’ ’
never enough money in most fam i
Clients pay on a sliding fee scale,
lies who stuck to the tra d itio n a l
according
to Boothe.
ways o f the islands.
“ W hen I was eight years o ld ,”
“ House of Exodus is seeing about
Boothe relates, “ my m other and I
1,000 persons a year,” says Boothe.
went to New York City to visit rela
" O u r clients are our products. We
tives there. They encouraged me to
are also a residential treatment cen
stay and go to school. So, you might
ter and can house clients. Some o f
say, I grew up in B ro o k ly n . O h ,
our clients are with us because o f a
there were occasional visits back
drug addiction or because o f some
home and to P uerto Rico, but we
other drug related problem.
learned to think o f B ro o klyn as
“ I'm p a rtic u la rly pleased w ith
home.
our active youth component. M any
“ I have my doctorate degree in
young people, including children,
biochemistry from New York Univer
need help, not necessarily fro m
sity,” Boothe said. " I am interested
drugs or alcohol problems. W e can
in cancer research (did a paper for
help raise their self-esteem by help
my thesis on this) and I w orked
ing them find jobs or involving them
eight years at the U . o f O . H ealth
with our youth theatre (w hich, by
Sciences Center in the opthalmology
the w ay, was funded by the U .S .
departm ent when I first came to
D cp t. o f L ab o r fo r the summer
Portland.”
months).
For relaxation, Thom as Boothe
“ Our Exodus Clean T e a m ," said
turns to his music. He plays flute,
B oothe, really w a rm in g up to his
drums, alto sax and guitar and holds
subject, “ is going just great. It
John Coltrane as his inspiration. He
really is a group o f citizens in te r
is o ften heard w ith the “ C alypso
ested in keeping our city clean. W e,
C a ra v a n ," an A fro-C u ban band—
and they, believe that a clean spirit,
or “ O y o y o ,” a group he co-chairs
clean p ro p erty , a clean mind and
w ith Chuks O g b u o b iri. B o o th e ’ s
body all produce a clean citizenry. A
musicianship gives him a treasured
clean community is the result."
memory when he recalls a very spe
In his "sp a re" time, Boothe has
cial night when he sat in w ith the
become a licensed pilot to fly small
Duke Ellington Band when E llin g
planes and helicopters. He also is
ton played at Harvey D ic k ’s R oar
president o f the Contractors M a n
ing Tw enties Room at the H o y t
agement Association, is a member
Hotel. He has also played with Billy
o f the Oregon Building Congress, a
L a rk in w ith the P o rtla n d O pera
member o f the P ortland C o m m er
Jazz ensembles, and enjoys playing
cial C lu b , a vice-president o f the
flute a eappella.
Royal Esquires, and is the treasurer
“ Restoration and peace come to
of the Albina Rotary Club. In addi
me in s o litu d e ,” B oothe said. “ I
tion, he has the greenest lawn in his
like to be w ith m oving water. I t ’ s
block. Ask him how he accom
good for the soul to be with Nature.
plishes that, and he touts the green
Sometimes I ride my motorbike up
ing potion he as a bio-chemist mixes
into the mountains and just let the
himself.
clouds, the butterflies and the quiet
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i I s I as. In« . 19*.’
more than four years o f fu ll tim e
teaching. The ruling is designed to
m aintain a constant turnover and
discourage unionization among lec
turers, the lowest rank in the teach
ing hierarchy. It also eliminates a
number o f experienced, popular and
progressive teachers like Woo.
Fraser was illeg a lly fired eight
years ago because o f her advocacy
o f affirm ative action and pro-labor
policies and her feminist, civil rights
and socialist convictions. She con
tested her firing and won decisions
in her favor from the Seattle C ity
Hum an Rights Department, the Se
attle M ayor and Hearing Examiner
o f her C ity hearing. Twice she was
aw arded thousands o f dollars in
Both cases have received nation
wide support from writers, fem in
ists, unionists, people o f color and
gays. Activists like Florence Ken
nedy, D ick G regory and G lo ria
Steinem were long-time supporters
of Clara Fraser’s case. Merle W oo,
who was fired in June 1982, has
gathered over 1,000 signatures pro
testing her firing and national sup
port grows daily. Congressman Ron
Dellum s o f C a lifo rn ia added his
support to the cases at the July 16
P o rtla n d Observer A chievem ent
Awards Banquet. A ctor Ed Asner
also announced his support recent
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