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Volume XXI, Number 27
"The Eyes and Ears o f The Community"
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July 3,1991
President Chosen
'Don't Lay Back
'Cause It's Summer"
by McKinley Burt
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"Who Are Our
People" by Dr.
Lenora Fulami
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"The Power to do
Something" by Dee
Nitson & Mattie
Ann Callier-Spears
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Lillian Bell
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illia n B ell has been chosen as
the new president o f G o od w ill
Industries Volunteer Services (G IVS ).
Mrs. Bell was elected at the G IVS
m onthly meeting on May 2, 1991.
A retired teacher, Mrs. B e ll is an
active community volunteer who works
w ith a variety o f groups from pre-teens
to the elderly. Prior to her retirement in
1986 from Portland Public Schools,
Mrs. Bell was an early childhood edu
cator.
Mrs. B ell has been a member o f
G IV S since 1987 where she sorts and
prices linen, works as a sales clerk in
the C raft Cottage in the M ain G o odw ill
Store, and most recently, served as Vice-
President.
G IV S volunteers sort, price and
sell used hand-crafted goods each
Thursday in their workroom in the main
G o od w ill fa c ility at 1831 S.E. Sixth
Avenue. They also work in the C raft
Cottage where the goods are sold. G IV S
has been an important part o f G o od w ill
Industries since 1931.
An active com m unity volunteer,
Mrs. Bell is involved w ith a number o f
groups. These groups include the Grace
Collins Child Development Center Board
o f Directors, M ultnom ah A ging Serv-
ices-M inority Committee, Senior A d
visory Committee o f the Urban League,
Keep C hrist in Christmas Committee,
Soldiers o f L ig h t G irls Club, and Texas
Social Club.
Mrs. B ell has received awards for
Woman o f the Year-Oregon Associa
tion o f Colored W om en’s Clubs, C iti
zen o f Dedication-Portland Federation
o f W om en’ s Organizations, and O ut
standing Service Aw ard for the N orth
west Region o f The National Associa
tion o f Colored W om en’ s Clubs. In her
spare time, she enjoys gardening, read
ing, sewing, traveling, and interior
decorating. M rs. B ell and her husband,
Luther, live in Northeast Portland and
have four grown children.
Mrs. B ell succeeded Iris Kim bark,
as President. A fte r six years as presi
dent, Mrs. K im bark and the volunteer
group raised nearly $400,000 in sales
o f used, hand-crafted goods w hich they
sorted, cleaned and sold through the
craft cottage in the main Goodwill store.
The funds raised support special
equipment purchases and employee
events such as the employee picnic and
holiday dinners.
Mrs. B ell w ill be attending the
International G oodw ill Industries Dele
gate Assembly and G IV S Annual
Meeting in M inneapolis, Minnesota,
July 13-19.
ast and West symbolically joined together again on
Convention Center at 12:30 p m , for ceremonies and speeches.
More than 200 citizens and dignitaries marched and rode in
Monday, July 1, for a “ Central City Centennial”
the parades which included vintage vehicles, horse drawn
celebration. The festivities commemorated the historic
carriages,
costumed participants, entertainers, marching
merger o f Albina, East Portland and Portland into a single
bands, clowns and neighborhood groups.
city 100 years ago.
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Two simultaneous parades converged at the Oregon
Justice Thurgood M arshall Retires
The most important lawyer o f the twentieth century
announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday
BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT
Floreid W alker Prom oted
Norman Sylvester
Band
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Math! Report Warns
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Planned Parenthood
Prepares for
Possible Loss of
$500,000 in Federal
Funds
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Floreid Walker
addell & Reed Financial Serv
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ices, Inc. is pleased to announce
the prom otion o f Floreid W alker to the
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position o f District Man
ager o f the Portland o f
fice. Ms. W alker brings
a strong managerial and
selling background to
the company and her
clients. She continues
to serve her existing
clients as w ell as assist
new clients. In addition,
Ms. W alker is accept
ing applications from
persons seeking a re
warding and challeng
ing career in financial
services. For further in
form ation about finan
cial planning or career
opportunities, please
contact Floreid Walker,
Waddell & Reed Finan
cial Services, 5440 SW Westgate Drive,
Suite 390, Portland, Oregon 97221, Tele
phone: 503/297-5651.
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4th OF JULY
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Photo by Veronica Green
Honorary “Mayor" of Albina, Sam Brooks, rides along parade route.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Retires
After Twenty-Four years of Distinction
efore his 1967 appointment to
the highest court in the land. Jus
tice M arshall headed the team o f black
c iv il rights lawyers o f the N AACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund (1940-
61). The trium virate o f attorneys T hur
good Marshall, James M . Nabrit and
George E.C. Hayes achieved some o f
the greatest legal victories fo r human
rights in h is to ry -in the n a tio n -in the
w orld! Given his distinguished service
on the high bench and unfailing com
m itm ent to justice as he formulated
dissenting opinions in opposition to
rig h t w ing assaults on human liberty.
Justice M arshall w ill, nevertheless, be
ch ie fly remembered fo r crafting the
legal strategy that won the case, BROWN
vs B O A R D OF E D U C A T IO N .
This was the victory that produced
the Supreme Court ruling that "segre
gated schools <uv inherently unequal
and therefore unconstitutional.” And it
is a victory that has either elated, dis
turbed or polarized the nation to a de
gree that has few precedents among so
cial issues. “ IN TEG R A TIO N ” became
the word as w ell as the law o f the land.
The fo llo w in g quote is from “ The
Chicago Schools” by M ary Herrick:
“ The year after Superintendent
W illis came to Chicago the United States
Supreme Court had declared unconsti
tutional the legal segregation o f Negro
children in public schools, ordering the
Southern states, which had such laws,
to desegregate their schools. B y 1960
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