February 9,1989 • Portland Observer • Page 11
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You can’t talk about the accomplishments of
Black Oregonians without shouting about their
historic professional successes in Portland Public
Schools.
Despite the demographic odds, Blacks have
earned the highest positions of responsibility and
respect in the Northwest's largest public educa
tional system.
Blacks represent only 15.4 percent of the
school district’s students (1987-88 enrollment),
just 7.0 percent of the city’s inhabitants (1980
census) and barely 1.4 percent of the state's
residents (1980 census).
Y e t. . .
• Matthew Prophet since 1982 has been the
superachieving superintendent o f schools
sought by New York, Los Angeles and several
other large urban school districts.
• Ernest Hartzog has been an assistant super
intendents Portland since 1972. He now is the
No. 3 educator in the system, in charge of
districtwide and alternative programs.
CHAVIS
W hen it comes to recognizing a person who has contributed
time, talent and energy to the recent history of our community,
the name o f Betty Thom pson will be familiar to many. To list
only a few of her many accom plishm ents would include
leadership roles in the Albina War on Poverty, M etropolitan
Steering Committee, National Association o f Colored
W om ens’ Clubs (the oldest black w om en’s organization in th
U.S., organized in 1898), M etropolitan Fam ily Service where
she initiated the Foster Grandparents Program, G overnor’s
Advisory Committee on Aging, United Way Executive Budget/
Allocations Com m ittee, Portland Federation of W om en’s
O rganization, Literary Research Club and St. Philips’s
Episcopal Church.
GERALD
Just ask Matt, Ernie, Aletha,
Bill, Edith, Ed, Nate, Mac and
604 other Black PPS employees . . .
WILSON
JONES
GREEN
• Aletha Chavis has been personnel director
since 1980. She’s been instrumental in the
employment of 6,551 teachers and support
employees, of whom 9.3 percent are Black (a
14.1 percent increase since 1980-81).
• Bill Gerald and Edith Wilson are two of eight
cluster directors of instruction overseeing
operations of scores of schools.
• Ed Green, director of transportation services,
supervises the complexities of busing thou
sands of school children.
• Nate Jones, administrator of Jefferson High,
was honored by his Oregon peers as 1987
Secondary Principal of the Year.
• Mac Lockett is chief of the 20-member Portland
School Police Dept.
Affirmative action and multiethnic-multicultural
education aren't just talk in Portland Public
Schools. Just ask Matt, Ernie, Aletha, Bill, Edith,
Nate, Mac and 604 other Black employees of the
school district.
Her presence as a model of responsible citizenship in our
com m unity continues to make a difference. Betty Thompson
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