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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1983)
I * W «V w « OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SIDELINES bv Kathrvn Hall Houle Music program chairperson was Louise Pritchett. Pastor Bernard Engs and his wife Adrienne Engs, headed the Salem host com m ittee. In P ortland D r. Johnson was houseguest of Oregon State President Grace Osborne, wife o f the Rev. Louis Osborne Sr., min ister at Faith Tabernacle. T H E C E L E B R A T IO N com an invited guest speaker. Each pro gram will start at 7:00 p.m. Minis ters o f the wider Portland commu nity have been chosen to be among the speakers. Evelyn Collins, who, with Grace, her mother, (now de ceased), founded the center in 1954, has arranged (he week-long celebra tion with the assistance of her faith ful staff of 20. "W hen we first started the Center memorating the 25th anniver so long ago. Mother and I wanted to sary o f the founding o f the Grace take care o f the children in the Collins Memorial Center began on neighborhood by o fferin g a fte r April 18 and is to continue through school activities with us in our A p ril 24th. The celebration takes home. We offered quiet games and the form o f open houses held each reading upstairs and the more active evening at the center at 128 N .E . games, like marbles, down in our Russell Street (next door to Prince basement,” Collins said. Hall). Each evening there will be a short "T h e idea caught on quickly and program featuring the children of soon we had all the children we the center in song and recitation and could handle. When we had 32 visit- ing us regularly, wc moved the kids to a nearby park fo r the games. About that time we started a Bible study class. It was Christian, but in terdenom inational, and we have kept it that way all through the years. "T he center kept growing," Col lins continued. "M o th er and I had to invite friends in to help us and that is the way we formed our first executive board. We now take care o f 50-60 children each day. Our doors are open to infants from six weeks to children I I years old, which o f course includes the latch key children. We open every morn ing at 6:30 and close at 6:00 p.m. The late Mrs. Isaac Payne was one of our first board members and Mr. Payne still works with us. We hope that all o f our friends o f the past will come to see us during this week. " 'Alum ni Night* is to be Friday evening of April 21. That's when we expect our biggest turnout. We ex pect to have a music program with the M aranatha choir; Caroline Ooldsby will sing and an old trio I used to sing with will sing together again. Jessie Brazzle and Stan Pet ers are the other singers with me.” Ministers taking part in the series o f the open house events are; Pas tors Herbert Richards, Fred Flow ers, Nathan Barnett, Richard Hun ter, J. Robert W alker and James Faulkner. Bill Ringer "choirs'* will perform for the center too. On Friday evening, " A lu m n i Night" Commissioner Charles Jor dan w ill be the speaker, and w ill serve tastes o f his famous banana pudding. The open house will con- tine through Saturday and Sunday evenings, April 23rd and 24th. FLORI ROBERTS: FRENCH RIVIERA COLORS Th« M ood of Romance waa portrayed for full figured woman by the above modal (Photo: Richard Brown) H E ••M O O D o f Rom ance" back, to the sides and up to here. came to Portland Friday even It was a colorful show with bright ing. April IS, at the Red Lion Inn at colors like cerise and saffron ap Jantzen Beach. It came on the pearing as a solid or in color blocks breeze o f the 25th anniversary o f o f three. Perrenial com bination Ebony Fashion Fair welcomed by black and white was seen often. Fall the Portland Chapter of Links, Inc., colors were forecast as topaz, and by about 1400 or 1500 patrons amethyst, and sapphire. Fabrics will who jammed the ballroom to capa be in new combinations of your col city. ors in plaids and tweeds. Your Geri Christian, Link general chair mood can be expressed in design for the EFF, received compliments and color: French wine with black right and left for the Links' presen velvet bows or a top made o f silver tation of a fun-packed evening in a bugle beads. hostelry providing every conven For the first time, EFF showed a ience. " W e believe this is a record not-so-slender model, wearing their for us this year in spile of the econ beautiful clothes. Kim Nelson, o f om y," said Christian. Chicago, was the luscious, majestic The glamour and the glitter of the tan beauty chosen to represent the show kept every eye on the runway girls with added avoirdupois. The as the slim, sleek models strolled the audience loved her and her dimpled boards. The E FF style of promen plumpness. Applause was strong ade is a trademark and hard to copy and continuous whenever she ap but after a summer o f practice and peared. nearly 200 shows in the itinerary the The E FF helped the Portland 12 models o f the season have it Chapter o f Links raise money for down pat. C om m entator for the Raphael House, Portland O p p o r Portland show this year was Pamela tunities Industrialization Center, the Brame of Buckingham. Pennsylvan United Negro College Fund and the ia. Links Educational Fund. These ben The garments, by French, Japan eficiaries join over 30 organizations ese, Italian and American designers, that the local chapter o f Links has had no boundaries for origin. De befriended. signs and gowns and furs were by Several door prizes sent the win Dior, Ungaro, Givenchy, Yves Saint ners home extra happy. " M o r e " Laurent, Balestro, C arlo Palazzi, cigarettes gave every smoker a pack M issoni, V alen tino and B iagiotti of cigarettes. mixed in with dozens more. Ameri The grand door prize, donated by can houses represented were Albert American Airlines, went to Gerald Capraro, Bill Blass, Gottex, Kansai and Nancy Caldwell. Gerry, an as Yam am oto, Jackie O , Lucie Ann, sistant branch manager at the East Stephen Burrows, W illie Smith and Morrison branch of Pacific Western Oscar de la Renta, to mention a few. Bank, was ecstatic. "W e are excited There were 200 gowns to see in and happy— you could have styles romantic, pioneer, ethnic, for knocked me over with a feather,” afternoon, evening, form at wear. he said. "W e won tickets for two to There were striking colorful suits Mexico City, courtesy o f American for the streets of metropolitan cities, Airlines. We will go sometime dur there were bathing suits for the ing the summer, but we can hardly beaches o f the w orld. Hats were believe it yet." worn, tiny cloche style or cartwheel Assisting Geri Christian with EFF or something innovative in a " V - arrangements were Bernice Mac lin e " that may not catch on until Rae, Rosemary Anderson, Jacque Century 21. lyn Brown, June Brown Clementyne Comment from the audience ran Guy, Jewell Johns, Geneva Jones, to pleasure that this year’s show dis Carmen! Walker and Yvonne W il played some clothing that could be liams. worn in P o rtla n d — if the wallet could supply the wherewith. Gener H E O R E G O N State Associa al outline to guide the fashion selec tion o f Ministers* Wives met in tion was repeated by garment after their fourth annual conference held garment: wide emphasis at the top recently in Salem at the State Street of the garment narrowing to a slim Church o f God. Keynote address, skirt. Skirt length is an individual “ Love Must Be Special," was given choice. Just below-the-knee seemed by the national president o f Minis more prevalent than others, though, ters' Wives, Dr. Muriel L. Johnson for the young, there were lots o f of Roosevelt, New York. mini-skirt lengths. A pre-convention reception and There were slits and slashes front. musicale, held at A llen Temple T .1 Hash Roofing Co. Roofing of all kinds. Guarantee 90 days thru 1 year. 4011 N.E. Union Ave. 287-8474 Ml» NeeeHa» The Face Designer Case, 10.00 with a 6 50 Flori Roberts purchase has make-up for day and night including translucent powder, lipstick and gloss. 2 blushers, 4 eyeshadows with applicators Discover it, and Flori s French Riviera colors—the most richly romantic shades imaginable: French Lilac, Cerise, Bronze Flambe and Roulette Red, in Cosmetics, Downtown & Lloyd s Makeup artists, here from noon to 4 at the Flori Roberts counter—meet them on April 27 and 28, Downtown store, and April 29 and 30 at our Lloyd's store. C M E church for which members of the Oregon State Wives were host esses, served to introduce the Port land com m unity to D r. Johnson. Several local church choirs, plus the "Singing Gospel Lights," the "S p i ritual Vibration Ensemble," and in dividual vocal soloists and instru mentalists presented the evening's program meierirfrank OREGON'S OWN STORE 4 , » -i v T a t a « .« .
