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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.
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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
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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
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