Page 8—The Portland O b server-F eb ru a ry 6, 1991
Ebony Salutes The Most Promising
Black Women In Corporate America
Actor Turns Gray Over ‘Daisy’ Role
(From The Oregonian Wednesday
January 9,1991)
Principals utilize
personal histories for
their characters
BY BOB HICKS
OF THE OREGONIAN STAFF
PHILLIPS
In America, where the Method is
the accepted madness of the stage, acting
is an internal affair: You feel it, and that
makes you show i t
But sometimes it works the other
way around. Laurence Olivier always
fussed about his exterior appearance
first hairline, makeup, posture, prosthet­
ics. That settled, he’d begin to burrow
inside the character he was playing.
Maybe that’s what J J*. Phillips had
in mind when he talked his barber son
into giving him a prematurely receding
hairline.
“ My ‘Iceman Cometh’ haircut,”
Phillips said with a laugh, patting the
freshly mown half-moon on top of his
head. “ It makes it a lot easier to gray
your hair if you have less hair.”
Phillips has been through this be­
fore, when he acted in O ’Neill’s “ The
Iceman Com eth" a few seasons ago at
the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
This time, he’s “ aging up” to play
Hoke Coleburn, the put-upon chauf­
feur in "Driving Miss Daisy.” Afred
Uhry’s sentimental hit receives its
Oregon stage premiere on Thursday at
Portland Repertory Theater.
• • Daisy," the story of a cantanker-
ous Southern white widow and her black
chauffeur, is a blend of odd-couple
warmth with an overlay of social con­
sciousness. It won the Pulitzer Prize
and Obie Awqrad in its stage version;
as a movie starring Morgan Freeman
and Jessica Tandy, it won sen eral Oscars.
Susan Corzattc, fresh from the Rep’s
production of “ The Cocktail Hour,”
co-stars with Phillips as Dasiy Wer-
than, a woman of fierce independence
whose son forces a driver on her.
“ She stonewalls this poor guy, quite
effectively for quite a while,” said
Corzatte. “ And he just gently wears
her down.”
That wearing-down process-the
gradual resolution of dissonance into
harmony-is at the heart of “ Daisy” *s
popularity. The script is simple, leav­
ing a great deal to be filled in by Phil­
lips, Corzatte and director Clayton
Corzatte, Susan’s husband.
“ You can’t ever turn to mush,”
said Susan Corzatte. “ To the bitter
end. I think the biggest problem we’ve
had is that Clayton keeps saying, ‘You’re
being too nice to each other. You’re
being too nice to each other.”
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Portland Police Pledge
Contributions
On Tuesday, February 19, 1991, at 0830 A.M. Chief Tom Potter and
members of the Portland Police Special Contributions Committee will present
pledges and checks to the various organizations and charities listed.
The presentaton will take place in the Sullivan Room Auditorium, which is
located on the 14 th floor of the Justice Center at 1111SW 2nd Avenue, Portland,
Oregon.
The amount listed next to the agency is the amount of the pledge for this year
and checks for the first quarter installment will be presented at that time.
The source of the funds are voluntary deductions from the salaries of
members of the Police Bureau, both swom and non sworn.
$3,000.00
1. Chaplain’s Office
$2,500.00
2. Loaves and Fishes
$2,500.00
3. Oregon Special Olympics
$2,000.00
4. Crippled Children’s Division
$2,000.00
5. Police Activities League
$1,500.00
6. Bob Miller’s Needy Kids Funds
$1,500.00
7. Mother’s Against Drunk Driving
$1,500.00
8. Oregon Bum Center Emanuel
$1,250.00
9. National Multiple Sclerosis
$1,250.00
10. Kidney Assoc, of Oregon
$1,250.00
11. Muscular Dystrophy
$1,250.00
12. Disabled American Veterans
$1,000.00
13. American Lung Association
$1,000.00
14. Oregon Lions-Eysight Program
$1,000.00
15. Parents of Murdered Children
$1,000.00
16. Salvaton Army
$ 500.00
17. Officer Alive Law Enforcement
$ 500.00
18. Portland Police Sunshine Division
$ 500.00
19. Police Historical Society
Children Face
Possible
Exclusion
This is an important time for par-
nts and guardians to assure their chil-
ren are appropriately immunized/
Exclusion letters were mailed
January 30) to the parents or guardians
f an estimated 14,500 children who
re not adequately immunized. On
ebruary 13, these children will be ex-
luded from school or day care if re-
uirements are not met. In order to
rotect all of our children, Oregon
nmunization law requires evidence of
pporopriate immuniation against
iphteria/tetanus, polio, measles,
lumps, and rubella, or that appropri-
tely documented exemptions be on
ile for evei y child.
In Oregon apporoximately 500,000
hildren attend public and private schools
nd certified day-care centers. This year
pproximatley 2.9% of these children/
arents received exclusion notices, about
le same time last year.
Public Service
Announcement
The N.E. YWCA is holding a
immunity Meeting. Residents of N £ .
xtland are invited to attend and make
commendations about how the YWCA
ay best serve our community. The
£ . YWCA will also be recruiting
dvisory Committee members. The
eeting will be held on Tuesday, Feb-
ary 5th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the
£ . YWCA at 5630 N.E. M.L. King
[vd. Info: Mary Sanders Miller 223-
Both actors, almost by accident,
have found themselves drawing on
personal history as they build their
characters. Susan Corzatte hears her
own mother in the things Daisy says.
Phillips goes home from rehearsal and
finds himself echoing his father-both in
ideas and elocution.
“ It’s shocking,” he says. “ Those
genes you forgot about, you can’t avoid.”
“ Driving Miss Daisy” opens at 8
p.m. Thursday and continues Tuesdays-
Sundays through Feb. 9 For ticket in­
formation, call 224-4491.
Stark Raving Shylock: Intolerance
is the theme of the week. While a black
man and white woman learn to look
past race and class in “ Driving Miss
Daisy,” the little Stark Raving Theatre
raises the ugly little question of anti-
Semitism in Shakespeare.
The theater calls its new show “ The
Jew of Venice,” a “ free-wheeling de-
construction “ of “ The Merchant of
Venice.” It will put the play’s treat­
ment of Shylock in historical perspec­
tive.
Anti-Semitism unquestionalby was
rife in Shakespeare’s socity, and Shy­
lock has undergone servere revision­
ism over the centuries. Modem inter­
pretations tend to cast him as the most
sympathetic character in the play. But
is that what Shakespeare himself had in
mind?
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on drugs and combat drug abuse with a
new focus on abuse prevention. I can
only hope that we as a nation will ap­
proach this war with the same sense of
resolve as we have the war in the Gulf.
Legislation to achieve excellence
in education, particularly in the areas
of math and science, is a commendable
goal that I fully endorse.
I also believe that we can and must
have a strong domestic energy policy-
now more than ever. It is painfully
apparent that we are paying the price
for sitting back and failing to search for
adequate alternative energy sources.
We have failed to institute conserva­
tion measures that could have blocked
a treacherous path toward dependence
on foreign oil-and war. Now we must
Free Vision
Screenings
Free vision screenings for adults
age 40 and older will be offered during
the months of February, March and
April at the Pacific University College
of Optometry Family Vision Centers.
Screenings will be held at Pacific’s
Family Vision Centers in Forest Grove,
Jefferson Hall, Pacific Avenue at Birch;
Downtown Portland, Portland Medical
Centerbuilding, 511 SW 10th Avenue;
and in North Portland, 600 N.
Killingsworth.
Community members interested in
scheduling a free vision screening
appointment may call the Pacific Uni­
versity Family Vision Center in their
area: Downtown Pordand, 224-2323;
Forest Grove, 357-5800; North Port­
land, 240-5319. Evening appointments
are available at the Portland Center.
cal instincts and luck,” while Glynice
Coleman, a vice president for EMI
Records, advocates” ...tuming the nega­
tives into positives and learning from
your mistakes...”
Selected by their peers and offi­
cials at their respective companies, the
nation’s top Black female executives
are proving that with determinatinon
and drive, they too can achieve success
in fields dominated by White males.
Northeast Portland Woman To Give
Special Valentine
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Hatfield Reacts To
State Of The Union Address
Senator Mark Hatfield made the
following comments following Presi­
dent Bush’s State of the Union Ad­
dress:
“ At a time when our nation is
deeply engaged in the uncertainties of
war, I am encouraged by the Presi­
dent’s renewed commitment to support
domestic programs that are so badly in
need of our attention. The President has
demonstrated that our nation’s security
is deeply rooted in the domsestic agenda.
We must not forget that this great na­
tion is only as strong as her citizens.
With drug-related crime continu­
ing to cut a path of violence through our
nation’s cities, I fully support the Presi­
dent’s commitment to step up the war
dent of General Mills, Inc., to Karen P.
Gibbs, vice president and senior fu­
tures analyst at Dan Witter Reynolds,
Inc. in Chicago, the country’s top Black
female executives radiate determina­
tion, self-confidence and individual­
ism. Marilyn A. Davis, vice president
of risk financing for American Express
Compnany, reports that ‘ ‘The four keys
to success are extreme competence,
strong interpersonal skills, good politi­
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Although 1989’s U.S. labor fig­
ures report that Black women occupied
only 2.9 percent of management posi­
tions, EBONY proves that the females
who are successful are among the coun-
try’s brightest executives, as it salutes
“ 100 Of The Most Promising Black
Women In Corporate America.”
From Dr. Reatha Clark King, the
president and executive director of the
General Mills Foundation and vice presi-
February 9-18, a local woman with
heart disease will join approximatley
16,500 other American Heart Associa­
tion, Oregon Affiliate volunteers to give
their neighbors a very special valen­
tine-information about how women can
prevent heart disease.
Mayetta Mitchell is one of several
local volunteers who will distribute in­
formation to their neighbors about
women & heart disease during the
American Heart Association, Oregon
Affiliates’ annual neighbor-to-Neigh-
bor residential campaign. They will
also raise funds for the organizaitons’
research and educational programs.
Mayetta Mitchell, a 52-year old
Northeast Portland resident, has expe-
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rienced many of the problems of heart
disease. She had her first heart attack at
42 and is a diabetic. She has success­
fully reduced her smoking and is trying
to gradually improve her health.
An equal opportunity killer, heart
disease is the leading cause of death
among American women. Il takes
500,000 lives each year.
Last February, 13,000 Oregonians
raised $175,000 during the Neighbor-
to-Neighbor campaign. This effort,
combined with other Oregon fundrais­
ing projects, provided $2 million in
1989-90 for lifesaving research, public
and professional education and com­
munity service projects to combat the
“ equal opporunity killer” in our state.
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develop a strategy that focuses on con­
servation and effeciency. Moving our
nation away from oil dependence and
toward the development of renewable
energy sources is criucal for the envi­
ronment, and for our nation’s energy
security.”
F ree H ome R epair
L oan W orkshops
The Portland Development Commission is offering home
repair loans with very low interest rates to eligible homeowners in
King, Vernon, Humboldt and Boise neighborhoods.
Project HELP Spreads Warmth
As of Feb. 1, 1991, nearly 11,500
customers and employees of Portland
General Electirc Co. (PGE) have con­
tributed $253,234 to Project HELP, an
emergency fuel assistance program for
the needy.
In addition to these donations, PGE
shareholdes donated $40,000 to kick off
the campaign in November. Distribu­
tion of these funds began Jan. 1. Project
HELP provides financial assistance to
low-income individuals or families in
PGE’s service territory who need help
paying their fuel bills. Customers can
apply for assistance by contacting the
Salvation Army at 233-6079.
PGE is hoping to add more cus­
tomer and employee support for Proj­
ect HELP to help those families who do
not qualify for the Low- Income Energy
Assistance Program (LIEAP) admini­
stered by the state.
Project HELP was organized in
1982. Last Year, PGE raised nearly
$300,000 in contributions and helped
some 3,037 of Oregon’s needy indi­
viduals and families pay their winter
fuel bill.
Contact: Roxanne Bailey, Public
Information Representative, 464-8466
Keeping Bright Students
in Oregon
For the fouth consecutvie year,
Portland General Electric Co. (PGE) is
offering to keep some of Oregon ’ s most
promising students from going away to
college.
Through the PGE Scholarship
Award, PGE presents the state’s best
high school students with the opportu­
nity to attend college in Oregon. The
award fund pays up to $9,000 toward
eucational costs at one of Oregon’s in­
dependent colleges. Both PGE and the
Oregon Independent Colege Founda-
toin (OICF) sponsor the scholarship
program.
Applications will be available to
students beginning Feb. 15. The dead­
line for tuning in entries is Mar. 29 of
this year.
The scholarship applicants will be
selected on the basis of merit: students
must demonstrate outstanding personal
and academic leadership qualities. One
scholarship will be awarded at each of
the eight OICF colleges including Lin­
field College, Lewis and Clark Col­
lege, Pacific University, George Fox
Collge, Williamtte University, Reed
College, Warner Pacific College, and
the University of Portland.
Currently, the PGE Scholarship
Award program is helping 24 students
pay for their education - three are at­
tending at each of the eight OICF schools.
Contacts: Roxanne Bailey, Public
Information Representative,464-8466,
Kathy Carison, Corporate Relations
Specialist, <,64-8535.
If you are a homeowner living in one of these
neighborhoods, and you meet income guidelines, you may
qualify for a 0%, 3% or 6% home improvement loan.
PDC will hold two free workshops on the loan program:
Tuesday, February 12,10 a.m. to 12 noon OR 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
at the King Neighborhood Facility, 4815 N.E. 7th.
HO M EO W N ER S M AY QUALIFY IF:
THE WORKSHOPS WILL FOCUS ON:
You ow n the h o m e you are now
living in
H o w to fill o u t a ho m e rep air loan
a p p licatio n
Your ho m e n e ed s city -ap p ro v ed
rep airs o r im p ro v em en ts
H ow to select a co n tracto r to
m ak e the repairs
Your h o u se h o ld 's an n u al incom e
falls below a certain level
H o m e m ain ten an ce tips for
h o m eo w n ers
D T l P Find out if you're eligible today so you can begin enjoying the benefits
-TwTr. \^ r °f y°ur home repairs.
DEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION
Call PDC Home Repair Loans at 823-3400