Jefferson students complete job finding workshop
Through (he combined efforts of
(he Urban League, Regional Youth
Employment Council of the Port
land Chamber o f Commerce, the
C ity o f Portland, and Portland
Public Schools, 19 graduating
seniors at Jefferson High School
have completed an intense job fin
ding workshop and are ready to go
to work.
They have completed 1$ a fte r
school workshops, called Jobs for
Jefferson Graduates, as a pilot
program of the Portland Urban
Network Project. George Rankins
o f the Urban League was lead in
structor, assisted by Joseph Hall of
the N.E. Youth Service Center.
The ongoing Urban Network
Project is joint venture of the Port
land School District, City of Port
land, Regional Youth Employment
Council, and Urban League to in
crease the employability of youth.
The job search workshop, one of
several network Project activities,
will be expanded at Jefferson next
year and at other Portland high
schools in the future.
During the week of June 4th, the
workshop particiants will be hosted
at several downtown businesses for
their final sessions. On June 6th,
they
will practice interview
techniques and learn what em
ployers are really looking for.
In fo rm atio n for the June 6th
session has been gathered from a
national research project on em
ployer hiring decisions.
In this study, conducted at the
N ational Center for Research in
Vocational Education (N C R V E l at
Ohio State University, employers
indicated (hat displaying a "bad at
titu d e " in an interview setting
reduced the likelihood that a person
would be hired by as much as 90
percent, and that the use of “ inap
propriate language" in an interview
reduced the likelyhood of being
hired by as much as 70 percent.
Another important finding was that
perceived negative behavior in a job
interview
can
severely
and
negatively affect how the employer
evaluates the applicant’s education,
training and work experience.
Richard Miguel, senior research
associate with N C R V E , w ill
illustrate these and other findings
about employer hiring decisions
with videotaped interviews and
discussions with the Jefferson
graduates on June 6th.
After the final workshop session
on June 7th, the youth will be ready
for employment. Portland em
ployers who would like to interview
these youth for jobs are asked to
contact Tom Nelson or Wendy
Osbourn o f the Regional Youth
Employment Council, 287-5627.
Jobs for Jefferson G raduate*
This program is designed to assist
youth in career planning, job find
ing, and overall work m aturity.
Successful completion and cer-
tific a tio n by the program means
that the student is able to:
I. Make a realistic career choice
based on local labor market needs
and personal abilities;
2 Deal effectively with personal
problems that could infringe on em
ployment;
3. Know how to job search, inter
view, and obtain employment;
4. Successfully m aintain em
ployment beyond an em ployer’ s
probationary period.
A series of 15 workshops are o f
fered after school at Jefferson High
School from 2:30 - 4:30 p .m .,
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs
day, beginning M ay 1st, for five
weeks. The workshops are being
conducted as a pilot project for 20
graduating seniors who have in
dicated they are ready for im
mediate fu ll-tim e employment.
Lead instructor is George Rankins
from the Urban l.cague.
Students who choose to par
ticipate are asked to attend a ll
workshops, arrive on time, use time
effectively during the workshops,
and acceptably perform job-related
competencies.
Upon successful com pletion of
the workshops, each participant will
initiate a job search, which will be
supported by job interviews with
employers who have agreed to give
special consideration to the Jeffer
son graduates of this program The
Urban League, its Northeast Youth
Service Center, and the Regional
Youth Employment Council will be
a resource to students during their
job search.
Sponsor* of this A ctivity
CAPT. HUGH L. MULZAC
First Black ship master joins
M aritim e Hall of Fame
Capt. Hugh L. Mulzac, the first
Black to earn a ship master’s license
and command a vessel in the
modern
American
merchant
marine, has been selected as a 1984
inductee to the National Maritime
Hall of lame
Established in 1982, the H all of
Fame is the only gallery in the
nation dedicated to cotnmen-
m orating the contributions to
America’s maritime heritage by in
dividual people and ships. The Hall
is located in the American Merchant
Marine Museum on the campus of
the U.S Merchant Marine Academy
in Kings Point, N Y.
Mulzac and eight other people
and ships were inducted at the Hall
o f Fame in a ceremony on May
19th.
Born on the small island of Union
in the Caribbean in 1886, Mulzac
traveled to the U nited States and
became a citizen in 1918. He had
served as a merchant marine deck
officer during World War I. Soon
afterw ards, he sat for his ship
master's license and earned it with a
near perfect score.
In 1920, M ulzac was asked to
share command o f the old coastal
steamer Yarm outh for the newly
organized.
Black-owned
and
operated Black Star Line. Though
technically not the vessel’s master,
he helped command the ship for two
coastal trips before the company
failed
Between 1922 and 1940, Mulzac
was forced to work as a cook and
steward aboard merchant ships,
despite holding a master’s license.
No company would give a Black
man command o f a ship, or even
hire a Black as a deck officer.
However, during World War II,
Jobs for Jefferson Graduates is
an activity of the Portland Urban
Network Project, a joint venture of
the Portland School District, City of
P ortland, Urban League, and
Regional
Youth
Employment
Council of the Chamber of C om
merce. The Network P ro ject’ s
short-range goal is to bring the
resources of business, the City, the
Urban League and other com
munity-based youth services (in
cluding publicly-funded youth em
ployment programs) to bear on the
Portland School District's efforts to
increase the preparation o f in
school youth for future em
ployment
Pilot activities are planned at
Ocklcy Green M iddle School and
Jefferson High School to demon
strate ways to increase the abilities
of youth to gel and keep jobs after
graduation. This workshop series is
one such pilot activity.
The long-range goal of the Net
work Project is essential to
e c o n o m ic d e v e lo p m e n t — to
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agencies and organizations that
exercise conscious leadership in
seeing that Portland youth are well-
prepared for the workforce and are
successful at gaining employment.
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Mulzac’s prospects improved. With
the help of two m aritim e labor
organizations,
the
N ational
M a ritim e Union and the In te r
national Organization ol Masters,
Mates and Pilots, Mulzac was given
a berth as captain on the Liberty
ship Booker T W ashington.
The Booker T ., under a program
favored by President Franklin D
Roosevelt, was given an integrated
crew Mulzac commanded the vessel
for five years, during which time it
made 22 round trips from American
ports, transported 18,000 troops to
Europe and the P acific, and shot
down two enemy planes without a
loss of crew or cargo.
A slight man with a scholarly ap
pearance and the demeanor of a
professor, Mulzac nonetheless was a
strict disciplinarian aboard ship.
" H e ’s all captain," said one Book
er T. crew member. " H e is strict as
hell on ship safety and things like
that.”
When not at sea. Mulzac resided
in Queens, N Y He retired from the
mariner’ s trade to the West Indies
for a tim e, but returned to live in
W estbury, Long Island, N .Y .,
before his death in February 1971.
Mulzac wrote an autobiography,
" A Star to Steer B y.” In 1969, he
was honored by the New York
Chapter of the Association for the
Study o f Negro L ife and History
" fo r bringing honor and hope to
Black seamen."
Visitors are welcome at the
m aritim e H a ll o f Fame and the
American
Merchant
M arine
Museum. Operating hours are I
p m. to 4:30 p m . on Saturdays and
Sundays. The Museum is closed on
federal holidays and during the
month of July.
Portland Observer, June 6, 1984 Section II Page 11