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. *■ . %v- Page 4 Portland Observer, April 18, 1984 O B S E R V A T IO N S FROM THE SIDELINES H Y Kathryn H all Bogle NE OF AMERICA’S great O Black men with insight into the history o f the Afro-A m erican was in Portland recently. He was in the city as a consultant to the curriculum o f the Portland Public School District. A past dean o f the school o f education. D r. H illiard is a professor o f urban education at Georgia State University. D r. Ernest Hartzog, assistant superintendent o f Portland Public Schools, introduced the distinguished visitor to a closed regional conference breakfast meeting called by the local chapter A t fund-raiser dance, the Committee to Elect Rooeevelt Robinaon o f The Links at the Holiday Inn, atrlkee up the band for Attorney Robinson to become Multnomah Coliseum, during H illia rd ’s recent County Circuit Court Judge. Dept. 5. Il-r) James Morrison, Cam visit to the Portland Public Schools, paign Treasurer. directs the bend. Fannie Morrison. Sherry Stratton, is a theme o f your conference,” Dr. Attorney Carla Gary, Co-chalr. Attorney Ancer Haggerty. Co-chalr, H illiard said as he directly addressed Julia Haggerty. Attorney Rooaevelt Robinson, guest of honor. Jan the SO women o f The Links, Inc. Walker. Campaign coordinator and Attorney Kan Walker, Eyes tw inkling, he promised, “ I ’ m (Photo: Lonnie Bradley) going to approach the subject in a "W e came here as slaves ...and H illiard put aside his reading of way that may surprise you. I ’ m still are subjected to ...m ay I say, the African scripture and began to going to read something to you ‘special distinctions* which, boiled bring his audience to the con from the sacred literature o f ancient down, are new kinds o f de facto sideration o f the present. "Socrates Egypt, A frica. Some people may segregation, especially as they are said, ‘ M an know thyself,” ’ H illiard not know about it, but it yields the reflected in the schools We have pointed out. "Socrates, a famous kind o f verse that we today still use special needs, even at this point. Greek, was a student o f the Egyp in the burial o f our dead. The types o f excellence we need are tians. Aristotle studied in the "These were the customs of not even discussed,” Hilliard said. Egypt. Some o f these words are in libraries o f Egypt. Dr. H illiard went on to clarify "Excellence begins with self- scribed on the coffins o f their dead and to outline what he, as an knowledge. In 1968. there began a and they are carved on the walls of educational psychologist and a series o f reports on the quality o f tombs in the desert in the same way historian, well-seasoned in African education in the United States. They as we do in our cemeteries today. history as well as Afro-American read much like the reports that are “ The sacred literature says, history, believes to be the right of written today on the quality of ‘ Serve God that He may protect every Black child. " I believe," he education. In 1968, Charles you. Serve a wise person that he, or said, "th at it is the right o f every Ham ilton wrote an article on ex she, may serve you. Serve one who Black child to possess in his cellence in education called, 'Race serves you. Serve any person so that education: I ) calculus, before he and Education: A Search for you may benefit from it. Serve your leaves high school; 2) he or she mother and father that you may go Legitimacy.' should have two foreign languages; "H a m ilto n pointed out that in all forward and prosper. Examine 3) he should be able to read and o f the articles on excellence in every matter that you may under write in English and to count. It is education in America, almost no stand it. Be gentle and patient so not out o f the realm o f possibility,” one spoke about the quality of that your character may be he insisted. “ These things can be education for Black people in beautiful. It is in the development o f done.” America. They did not address our character that learning succeeds ... H illiard briefly reviewed a bit of needs except as they were incidental Learn the structure and function of the history o f other races in this to the needs o f the general the sky. Learn the structure and aspect: The Chinese people in our population. O ur needs have come function o f the earth. .. The good own America, the Jewish people from a special experience unlike that fortune o f the wise is their excellent and the Dutch people in South of any other people," H illiard said. advice.” A frica, when they, as minority groups, were placed in a land of strangers He compared, and found similar, their successful efforts at preserving their own histories, their language and customs while they lived within a strange culture. "They understood," H illiard said, “ the connection between history and culture, and the connection between economics and power They taught their children. Those Dutch people who now run the country in South A frica did not learn Zulu, they had the Zulus learn Dutch. That was the cause o f the Soweto riots— an argument over history and culture and power,” H illiard pointed out. Other excerpts (some para phrasing) from H illiard's ad dress included such driving thoughts as: "Excellence is not just access to benefits— something else must be acquired. That something else is a sense o f ‘ we’ ; a sense o f group iden tity, a sense o f history and a sense of power to act on our own in the world. We must have a restoration of a sense o f our own history and of our culture.” H illiard , before he left the podium, offered challenging suggestions to civic groups to DR. HILLIARD achieve a start toward this needed restoration. H e mentioned prac ticalities such as schools after regular school hours for Black children, volunteer tutorial services, opening private homes for classes, the purchase o f books, and taking part in literacy programs for any of our 30 million Black people who need it. H IS IS a P IC T U R E o f Ron T Fuller. W here is he going? Ron Fuller is going to the Ebony Fashion Fair at the Red Lion Inn at Jantzen Beach. The date for the famous traveling show o f the John son Publishing Company is for Friday evening o f A pril 27th at 8:30 p.m . The Portland Chapter o f The Links, Inc., will be hostesses for the 13th year for this annual charity event. Ron is one o f the two male models with the Fashion Fair. The other male model is Ron's twin brother— identical twin brother. Ten female models will show fashions selected by Mrs. Eunice W . Johnson, producer and director of the show. The million-dollar ward robe has been chosen from the salons o f Halston, Stephen Burrows, Christian D ior, Bill Blass, Valen tino, Missoni and others. RON FULLER T o support the models, their land Nurse Practitioners Clinic, commentator and the show’s music directed by the Albina Ministerial director, the stage and business Alliance, an organization o f 70 managers, as well as the wardrobe ministers o f that area. The program staff, travel with them in the EFF is under the direct supervision of special chartered Greyhound bus. In M ariah Taylor, R .N . The United this year, 1983-84, EFF will have Negro College Fund and The Links visited 177 cities before disbanding Educational Scholarship Fund will in M ay. be among the beneficiary organ In each city, E F F is under the izations. W ith awareness that sponsorship of a chartible cancer has taken the lives o f several organization. In Portland, The o f its members over a period of Links, Inc., the show's local spon years, the local chapter will also give sors, have given away thousands o f some o f the profits o f this year’s dollars to local agencies and in fashion show to the American C an terests. In the past, the profits o f the cer Society. show have gone to such agencies as Clementyne Guy, general chair of M ultnom ah Association for Retard the Portland presentation and ed Children, the Portland A rt Jacquelyn Brown, co-chair in Museum, the Visiting Nurse charge o f ticket sales, are noting a Association, the Kidney Association heavy demand from early ticket o f Oregon, Raphael House, the U r buyers who remember the SRO ban League, the Phil Reynolds situation o f last year. They warn M em orial Scholarship Fund, the that reserved seats are not for pur Tucker-M axon O ral School, the chase— and blocks o f seats may not Black Educational Center and many be held for those arriving late. others. 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