***** 14 • Portland, Observer
M artin Luther Kin«. Jr. Special Edition
January 10, 1900
Nature's fresh Northwest
saiutes the
Albina Neighborhood Mural Project
fo r the exciting murai celebrating the iife o f
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Now is the Time, the Time is Now!"
at 40008Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Project Director
Portrait of Dr. King
Artista
Isaac Shamsud-Din
Paul Odtghlzuwa
Charlotte Lewis
Kathy Pennington
bemetrla Ford
Jalil Shamsud-Din
Jewell Stevens
Sean Strong
Apprentices
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5909 SW Corbett
Beaverton
4000 SW 117th
"The dream is one of equality of opportunity, of
privilege and property widely distributed; a dream o f a
land where man will not take necessities from the
many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land
where men do not agree that the color of a man's skin
determines the content of his character; a dream of a
place where all our gifts and resources are held not for
ourselves alone but as instruments of service for the
rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every
man will respect the dignity and worth of all human
personality, and men will dare to live together as
brothers. . . . "
"(Martin Luther
(King fought long
and hard fo r some -
thing we can never
take fo r gran ted:
our civii rights. TTi?
saiute him today.
—Martin Luther King, Jr., 1960
■ Thi» message courtesy of ■
Dave Frohnmayer,
Attorney General
Candidate for Governor
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Symphony Performs in Memory
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I
HAVE
THE
A U D A C IT Y
EVERYW HERE C A N
TO
B E LIE V E
THAT
PEOPLE
H A V E TH R E E M E A LS A DAY FOR T H E IR
B O D IE S , E D U C A T IO N A N D C U L T U R E FOR T H E IR M IN D S , A N D
D IG N IT Y ,
E Q U A L IT Y
AND
FREEDOM
FOR T H E IR
S P IR IT S .”
The Oregon Symphony and I take great
pleasure in honoring the memory o f Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., by performing
Joseph Schwantner’s “ New Morning for
the W orld.” The performances of this trib­
ute take place on the following dates at the
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Sun., January 14, at 7:30 p.m.
M o n , January IS, at 8:00 p.m.
Tues, January 16, at 8:00 p.m.
Schwanter composed “ New Morning
for the W orld’ ’ as a tribute to Martin Luther
King, Jr. The symphonic work is a compo­
sition for narrator and orchestra based upon
selected text from Dr. King’s writings,
addresses, and speeches. It was first per­
formed by the Eastman Philharmonia at the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on
January 15,1983, with baseball star Willie
Stargell serving as narrator.
I had the honor of conducting this
moving work in Dr. King’s birthplace,
Atlanta, in 1988 and look forward to the
performances with the Oregon Symphony.
I have invited Portland Public Schools
Superintendent Matthew Prophet to narrate
Dr. K ing's extraordinary text.
Martin Luther King, Jr. upon receipt o f the K o k i Peace Pri;e, Oslo, Norway, 1964
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I hope you will join Matthew and me
for this tribute to a great leader. You also
might wish to share the information about
this special concert with your colleagues
and come to the concert as a group. Single
tickets or group-rate tickets are available
by calling the Oregon Symphony at 228-
1353.
The concert program for January 14-16
also features Mozart’s Symphony No, 34 as
well as v "»linist Elmar Oliveira performing
Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.
Conference Scheduled For
Oregon Minority Students
More than 800 African-American,
Hispanic and Native American high school
students from Portland, Woodburn, Inde­
pendence and Chemawa high schools are
expected to attend two planning for college
conferences in Portland on Jan. 10 and 11.
The conferences, sponsored by the
Oregon State System of Higher Education,
will include Portland Schools Supt. Mat­
thew Prophet and Oregon higher education
Chancellor Thomas Bartlett as speakers.
Keynote speakers will be State Rep. Mar
garet Carter of Portland and Lina Garcia-
Seabold, Governor's advocate for minori­
ties, women and emerging small business.
The two sessions, both in Portland State
University’s Smith Memorial Center ball­
room, will be for students in grades 11-12
on Jan. 10 and for students in grades 9-10 on
Jan. 11.
“ This is an unusual opportunity for
minority students to learn more about how
to prepare for college,' said James Payne,
assistant vice chancellor for curricular af­
fairs.
The conferences, part of the state sys­
tem’s initiatives to encourage under-repre
sented minority students to prepare for
college, are scheduled:
* Jan. 11: Sessions for minority stu
dents in grades 9-10 begin at 9 :15a.m. with
Edgington's welcome and Welch’s orien­
tation. Chancellor Bartlett is scheduled to
speak at 9:25 a.m„ followed at 9:35 a.m. by
Garcia-Seabold of the Governor’s office,
talking about preparing for college. A col­
lege student panel discussion will begin at
10:24 a.m., followed by discussions led by
college representatives on how to prepare
for college.
This is the third year that the state
system has sponsored such conferences for
under-represented minority high school
students.
The Oregon State Board of Higher
Education increased its efforts to attract
qualified minority students with its 1987
approval of 146 tuition and fee waivers
annually to first-time Oregon minority
freshmen who had prepared for college
work.
Tlie program, now in its third year, was
recently expanded to provide additional
waivers to qualified minority college stu­
dents who hold junior-class standing. The
board at its November 1989 meeting also
directed campus presidents to prepare plans
by April for recruiting and educating both
undergraduate and graduate minority stu­
dents.
The waivers were begun after the Board
learned that African-American, Hispanic
and Native American students enrolled at
slate system institutions at a rate only half
that of white students.