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Vol. XVII, No. 45
September 23. 1987
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AFSC Announces Associate Executive
Secretary Appointment-----------------------
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Pacific Northwest
Region, has announced with great pleasure the appointment of Avel Gordly
as Associate Executive Secretary for the Pacific Northwest Region. Gordly,
who has been director of AFSC's Portland Southern Africa Program since
1983, will start the new position, based in Portland, on October 1, 1987.
Her job responsibilities will include administration of regional committees,
Portland program supervision, regional communications and some program
work focused on Southern Africa. Gordly will be working very closely with
the Regional Executive Secretary, Ann Stever, who is based in the regional
office located in Seattle.
Gordly received a BS in Administration of Justice, with emphasis on
Corrections, from Portland State Univesity in 1974. From 1974-78 she was
a counselor for the Oregon State Corrections Division, Portland Women's
Work Release Center, and was then promoted to Acting Manager. She
also worked as an Adult Parole and Probation Officer. From 1979-83 she
was staff manager for the Urban League of Portland Senior Adult and
Youth Service Programs, and was promoted to Director, NE Youth Service
Center and Director of Youth Services.
Gordly is very active in the community. She is currently a Producer/
Host of "Northeast Spectrum" on Rogers Cablesystems Black Community
TV, was formerly on the boards of The Funding Exchange and the McKen
zie River Gathering Foundation. She is on the Rainbow Coalition Advisory
Committee; Black Leadership Conference Steering Committee; Black
Women's Gathering (co-founder in 1983) Steering Committee; is Vice
chair for International Affairs, National Black United Front; Co-chair, Call
to Conscience National Steering Committee; Secretary, Portland Urban
League; and Member of the Desegregation Monitoring Advisory Commit
tee of the Portland Public Schools. Recently she became a member of
the United Way Community Inclusiveness Committee. She has been
honored for community service by Delta Sigma Theta and the NAACP
The American Friends Service Committee is an independent Quaker
organization, founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an
Mayor Clark Appoints New
Board Member to Portland
Development Commission
Mayor J.E. Bud Clark announced today that City Council has con
firmed his appointment of Carl Talton to the Board of the Portland Develop
ment Commission (PDC).
Talton, who is currently Manager of the Portland District for Pacific
Power, joined Pacific Power in 1973 and has served as an Energy Consul
tant, Personnel Supervisor, Community Relations Consultant and Local
Government Representative.
Talton will replace Angie L. Davis, who is stepping down after serving
as a PDC Commissioner for six years. Talton joins PDC Commissioners
Harry L. Demorest (Chairman), Dr. Barbara Karmel, Neil Kelly and C. Doug-
Avel Gordly,
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The Bork
Nomination:
A Dangerous
opportunity to aid cilivian victims during World War I. Today, through its
international headquarters in Philadelphia, nine regional offices across the
United States, and program operations in 30 countries overseas, it carries
on programs of service, development, justice and peace. In more than 20
locations around the country, AFSC staff work to build informed public
resistance to war, militarism, the nuclear arms race, and for support of
peaceful U.S. policies. They seek to build bridges between citizens of the
U.S. and citizens in the Soviet Union.
The Portland AFSC Office, as part of the five state Northwest Region
of the AFSC, acts as a resource on a broad range of peace and community
relations issues. Gordly will supervise serveral programs focused on spe
cial issues:
Peace and Justice: This program with staff in Portland and Seattle
works on a local and regional level. One major emphasis is the rights of
indigenous people from the Asian-Pacific region who are affected by
nuclear and military policies.
Central A m erica: This program seeks to broaden the non-interven
tion movement by reaching out to other constituencies across racial/ethnic
lines, drawing parallels between U.S. policies affecting Central America
and social justice issues in the U.S.
Portlanders Organized fo r Southern A frica n Freedom, a commit
tee of individuals and organizations, educate citizens on the realities of
South African aggression toward neighboring states and focuses on apar
theid and economic injustice in South Africa.
Education Program: This program believes that all students are en
titled to a quality non-racist education and provides advocates for students
and parents experiencing problems with school.
The Regional G ay/Lesbian Program based in Seattle and Portland,
works for an open and non-violent society in which gay and lesbian people
may live without fear, expect justice, and contribute their talents fully.
The Portland office is located at 2249 E. Burnside. An open house is
scheduled for October.
PP&L Appoints
New Executive Director
A Pacific Power & Light Company engineer, Horace G. Sanders, has
been appointed executive director of The Cascade Business Center Corpor
ation's (CBCC) second business incubator.
Sanders' services have been donated by Pacific Power to the business
incubator for one year. At the end of his tenure, he will return to Pacific's
advanced engineering department.
The CBCC second incubator is scheduled to open mid-October. The
incubator will help eight selected small business owners in Portland suc
ceed by offering low overhead, shared expenses, access to technical equip
ment and business advice.
The non-profit project is a venture of public and private groups. Key
Precedent
The confirmation hearings for Judge Robert Bork,
nominee for the highest court in the land, has signficant histo
rical irony.
As a federal judge for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in Washington, D.C., Judge Bork is one step from the top.
But in seeking a seat on the bench of the United States
Supreme Court, the Judge must first convince a Democrat-
controlled Senate that his written and expressed legal opinions
on Blacks, women, abortion, and minorities are not necessarily
flawed; but that the Constitution which guarantees such rights
is a matter of interpretation. According to Judge Bork, the
Constitution is so broadly written that it allows a jurist to apply
the law contrary to the achievements of social activism.
This is a dangerous precendent for a judge to be taking to
a Supreme Court that is already tilting to the far right with
super-conservatives.
The Judge also claims that when he voted against the civil
rights act, Affirmative Action, abortion, and privacy in the
home, it was a sign of the times; and his views have since
Carl Talton, Portland Development Commission.
las McGregor. The five board members serve for terms of three years and
the current PDC Commissioners have each been appointed by Mayor Clark.
The Portland Development Commission is the City's economic deve
lopment, housing rehabilitation and downtown development agency.
A native of Portland, Talton served in the military between 1963-67.
He majored in Social Science and Business at Marylhurst and Lewis & Clark
Colleges while working for United Airlines as a customer service represen
tative.
Talton is a member of the Portland Energy Commission and the Ore
gon Assembly for Black Affairs, a board member of the Northeast Commu
nity Development Corporation, and President of Black Oregonians for Busi
ness. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Portland Urban
League, the City of Portland Economic Development Advisory Committee
and was a Governor's appointee to the Commission on State Management.
changed.
It is inconceivable that the Reagan administration would
scrutinize this nation's legal scholars for an ultra-conservative
who is willing to apply the administration's "racist'' philosophy
and have him change his mind .
Hopefully, the Senate will not buy Reagan's or Bork s
"game plan".
Hopefully, also, the Senate will rightfully give Judge Bork
the same message he has been giving African Americans and
women over the years: You can be number two, but you can't
be number one.
The OBSERVER encourages its readers to call Senator
Hatfield at 221-3386 and Senator Packwood at 221-3370 and
ask them to vote NO!
race G. Sanders . . . A Pacific Power and Light Company loaned
icutive will serve as executive director of The Cascade Business
players include Tektronix, the Portland Development Commission, the
Governor's office, Portland Community College and Pacific Power.
The first phase of the incubator-designed to help fledgling service-
related companies-opened at the Cascade Campus of Portland Commu
nity College in 1982. The second phase will support manufacturing and
light industrial operations and be located at Northeast Skidmore Street and
Williams Avenue.
During the next year, Sanders hopes to get the second phase incuba
tor up and running, to identify tenants, establish a consulting/business
support system, develop entrepreneur workshops for tenants and busi-
ness/marketing plans.
Sanders was a self-employed businessman prior to joining Pacific in
1974. He has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Prairie View
University in Prairie View. Texas.