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Page 6, Section II. Portland Observer, Februaiy 10, 1988 iQl PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE --------- GOD OUR FATHER • CHRIST OUR REDEEMER • MAN OUR BROTHER — n* Celebrate THE AFR IC AN M ETHO DIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHES OFTHE PUGET SOUND A N N U A L CONFERENCE je«. L * S ’< 4 Jk f c ï Black History M onth at PCC Cascade CELEBRATES FOUNDER'S DAY Hear Sidney J. B a rth é lé m y M a yo r of N ew Orleans, Louisiana S peaking at 7:00 p.m . Thursday, February 25 Cascade Hall A u d ito riu m 705 N. K illin g s w o rth St. kw. B \<% ri I The Honorable Sidney J. Barthélémy Mayor of New Orleans (1787 - 1988) (0ur African ífletljoüist heritage ■ Sunday, February 14, 1988 6:00 P.M. Aiv*' , R ith a id Allen O ther Black H istory M o n th Events at PCC Cascade . . Thursday. Feb. 11. G oldie Irb y, v o c a lis t. 12 noon. Cascade Hall A u d ito riu m . Friday. Feb. 12, Sharon M itc h e ll. KGW TV N ew s A n c h o r. 11 a m . . M o'nday BF e L 215. Ron H erndon. C ha irm an . B lack U nited Front. 11 a m.. . WednesdTyd0Fe2b. 17. King S chool C h o ir. "100 V o ic e s ". 11:30 a m .. Cascade . X 'r s d Uady‘ °Fehm i 8. C heryl B ro w n , v o c a lis t, and Hazel B ro w n , a c c o m p a n ist. • F r i d a ^ F e ^ l ^ H M v l y L o c k e t t " P ortla nd C ity C ou ncil ca n d id a te . 12 noon. • B44 Cascade Hall. _ S ix-p a rt M o vie , "E yes on the P rize” , Feb. 22, 24, 26. 11 a m. to Founder ol Ahítan Melhoriisn, BETHEL AFR IC AN M ETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 5828 Northeast Eighth Avenue Portland, Oregon p. .. Cascade Hall A u d ito riu m . Free Admission to All Events - The Rev. Milton Green, Pastor Be Sure to Attend! Mrs. Amy Carter, President, W.M.S. Mrs. Elaine Davis, Director, Y.P.D. Mrs. Arizona Johnson, President, Lay Organization The Rev. Jewell B. DeWitty, Presiding Elder Mrs. Geraldine Murph, Supervisor, W.M.S. The Right Reverend Henry W. Murph, Presiding Bishop *1 <* • * > • - - « BLACK HISTORY MONTH OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING PACIFIC NORTHWEST BELL SALUTES TWO BLACK INVENTORS 3-71013 ÿ-. ?; « ' •• *6 . & * , * •'#* Î > rw« ’• * * • V GRANVILLE T. WOODS 1856-1910 INVENTOR O Y r - C < x A Y. 'jrJ -' * / b > " r i i z x' 11 * w ■ * r ■ y ?1 S u n d a v 2nm : CISSY H O U S T O N : SW EET IN S P IR A T IO N Tn!l„,.n,, d n,..... »K d-UBhl.T Whitney In,! also fiospel and ^ F n d X n i'Z G J ^ i S Ä Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison dominated the age of electricity in the late 1800's, but others played important roles. Lewis Howard Latimer and Gran ville T. Woods, who produced key inventions, had two things in common. They both contributed to telephone and electricity and they were Black LATIMER was born in 1848 He left home at sixteen to join the Navy and after serving in the Civil War, returned to Boston to become a draftsman Alexander Graham Bell hired La timer in 1876 to make the patent drawings for the first telephone LEWIS HOWARD LATIMER 1848 1928 DRAFTSMAN, ENGINEER After joining the United States Electric Lighting Company in 1880, Latimer invented a carbon filament for an incandescent lamp. As a member of Edison's engineering staff he supervis ed the installation of the electric light in New York. Philadelphia. Montreal and London. I .ater in life U tim er produced one of his first books, explaining the principle of the electric light and published a volume of his poetry when he retired. He died at the age of eighty. WOODS who was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1856. was a prolific inventor He learned through practical exper ience rather than from books. He quit school at ten and improved his mechanical skills by working in a machine shop and on a railroad. He was 28 when he patented his first invention: a furnance and a boiler to produce steam heat. In the same year he invented a telephone transmitter which he sold to Bell. Wood's 150 patented inventions included an incubator, an electrical relay switch, a regulator for electric motors, and a safety cut out switch to avoid overloading electrical circuits. One of his last inventions was a telegraph system for use between moving trains. I- S I a R T R IB U T E T O IM Z Z Y G l L L B r i f - r i-1 i'lvbr.'tv'l by Sonny Hull,ns. W ^ lo n Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard T, w r M ta i I 26 t:n»tay_10:3pP_m: C H U C K D A V IS - D A N C IN G T H R O U G H Pacific Northwest Bell WF.ST A F R IC A , he A frii an-Am eni an I ><mie Ensemble tours Senega! and A IIBWEST COMPANY 28 S u n d a y 2Pm : M A D A M I C .|. W A LK E R : T W O D O L L A RS AND A D REAM AIMI7 MIXCAMVI .r . . j From a slave b a v k ^ u m iL d ie became America's firs, woman self-made millionaire and " I he Queen ol Bl.u k Beauty amorto ij .1