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“Serving the com m unity through cu ltu ral diversity."
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T h e O v e r lo o k e d G e n i
by Dan Bell
Delores Dillard a former relail
clerk at Clackamas Town Center has
found her wav into an instrumental
position that provides col lege fellow
ships for people of color at Warner
Pacific College
Mrs Dillard sen es as the coordi
nator of Multi-Cultural students en
rollment at W arner Pacific College
She is also a student there Her
journey toward her present, status be-
■ in w hen she a member of Marantha
church she heard about the Garlington
Fellowship from then pastor Wendall
Wallace. Sr.
Ms. Dillard maintains that both
the existence of the Garlington Fel
lowship and Warner Pacific College
ire two unfamiliar and low visibility
assets to community.
The Garlington Fellowship which
is grant given to students of color who
have maintai ned a 2.75 or better grade
point average was institu ted in
memory of the late John Garlington
and his wife in 1987.
Ms Dillard became a student at
W arner Pacific in 1991. At this time,
the administration of the Garlington
Fellowship and recruitment o f m i
norities lacked focus and a person to
administer the program
Kenneth Thomas program di
rector sought Ms Dillard because
she had developed a reputation for
x.-ing a v ocal student regarding Afri
can-American affairs She mentored
other students, and more importantly
her devout faith in Christianity
She accepted the challenge and
now serves as the coordinator. In this
capacity she serv es a myriad of func
tions including supervising and re
cruiting, campus orientation and
retention efforts for African-Ameri
can. Mexican-American, and His-
Kimbro
Kidds
A chance to witness the creative
talents of inner-city youths aged 10-
16 w ill take place at a press confer
ence held at the Columbia Boys and
Girls Club, 7602 N Emerald, at 10
a m. Aug. 9.
Kidd Graphic Design is a new
company formed by six high school-
aged youths with their eyes on the
future. Led by Marcel Irving, the
youths have already secured service
contracts from two clients and have
began discussions with several oth
ers. The materials created for these
clients—as well as layouts of other
finished w ork-w ill be on display.
The completed business plan of the
company will also be av ailable.
Also on display will be a newspa
per named The Portland Informer, a
new spaper created by Kimbro Kidds
and made possible in part by The
Vanguard at Portland State Univer
sity. The Portland Informer is the
result of efforts made by a group of
Kimbro Kidds, aged 10-13 and headed
by Shalon Irv ing. They took charge of
all aspects of newspaper publishing,
including reporting, writing, editing,
photography, layout and design.
Marcel and Shalon Irving, cre
ators of Kimbro Kidds, a non-profit,
community-based organization, be
lieve early business training and mo
From left to right: Tiffeny Shockey, Ryan Shockey, Delores Dillard (Center), Regina Morgan, Isabel Ramirez
photo by Veronica Green
tivation can spark natural entrepre
neurial talent. Kimbro Kidds has
panic (non Caucasian). Asian-Ameri - Garlington Fellowship. Provides in- relates. ‘That to often high school
Ms. Dillard graduates next year
sponsored a summer pilot project to
can and native American students In service work shops designed to students communicate to a sense dis at which time she intends to pursue
teach youths aged 10-16 business
addition she prov ides academic ad heighten awareness of the issues af illusionment and resignation citing graduate school for the ministry.
basics while providing the real world
visement to students of color and fecting the needs of multicultural stu their grades are not good enough to Warner has offered a position there
employment experience they need to
and she has other employment oppor
international students and counsels dents arc among some of her duties. get into college.”
own and operate a small business.
Howev er she spoke most pas
Consequently she hit upon the tunities as well
and mentors students from various
We inv ite you to investigate the
Whatev er her decision her talent credibility of the designs and the com
ethnic and culturally diverse back sionately about her efforts to reach idea of speaking to middle school
grounds. She selects the recipients young people and her attempt to tran students to help them see that college and aplomb will be deeply appreci mitment to the public shared by the
ated wherever she goes.
a n d a d m in iste rs th e c o lle g e s ’ sit some hope to young people. She is an attainable goal.
youths A panel representing both
Kidd Graphic Design and The Port
land Informer will be available to
answer
question and provide more
economy that created 4.1 million new
Senator Hatfield issued the fol get-entitlem ent spending. Entitle
detailed
information about these ex
jobs between 1988 and 1990. Small
lowing statement after the Senate’s ments and mandatory spending now
citing projects.
companies
make
up
95
percent
of
the
vote on the Budget Reconciliation take up almost $1 trillion of our $1.5
Fostering a New Generation o f
trillion budget and, taken together, 81,000 businesses in Oregon. Ulti
Aline, Communications Inc., the employer of Katheryne Eggleston,
Bill:
Business Leaders
mately,
taxes
will
have
to
be
a
part
of
w ho w as recently reported missing, announced a reward of up to $5000, for
The problem 1 have with this represent 96 percent of spending
any deficit reduction plan, but this
information which would assist Detectives in determining the whereabouts
package is that it simply doesn’t re growth over the next several years.
PORTLAND OBSERVER
I am also deeply concerned with plan raises taxes immediately while
of Eggleston. Anyone with information which they feel may assis, investi
ally address the deficit and it fails to
UlliCC: (503)200-0033
delaying spending cuts to the so-called
gators in this case should call the Portland Police Detective Division at (50.3 )
Fax«; (503)200-0015
deal with a massive problem that the effect this package will have on
out years; in 1997 and 1998
823-0400. The investigation is continuing
makes up the biggest part of the bud small business, a vital sector of the
Hatfield Votes No On Budget Package
Reward Offered in Woman’s
Disappearance
“Spirit Of Portland
Awards”
Nominations are being accepted through September 10,
1 9 9 3 for the “Volunteer Recognition Award”, “Neighbor
hood of the Year", “Outstanding Public Service Award”,
and “Business of the Year”.
N om inations are now being
sought for the 1993 Spirit of Portland
Awards Among these awards is the
Volunteer Recognition Award, w hich
is given annually to volunteers, cither
groups or individuals, who have con
tributed to the quality of life in Port
land through programs or special ser
vices. Approximately one hundred
citizens hav e been recognized for t hei r
volunteer efforts since Mavor Bud
Clark established the Awards in 1985
In addition to the “Volunteer"
award, the Mayor’s office will be
recognizing a neighborhood, a city
employee, and local businesses for
their outstanding service to citizens
The "Neighborhood of the Y ear"
will be awarded to a Portland neigh
borhood which best exemplifies the
“Spirit- of Portland Pas, recipients
include Brentwood-Darlington and
Piedmont Neighborhoods
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The “Outstanding Public Sen ice"
award will be given to a City em
ployee who has demons! rated extraor
dinary efforts to assist citizens and
projects beneficial to Portland
The “Businessof the Year ” aw ard
will be presented to Portland busi
nesses who have demonstrated a com -
mitmcnt to both aiding community
and revitalizing the local economy
through their actions.
Nominations for the awards will
be accepted from any citizen or group
through September 10, 1993 Nomi
nation forms are available at Dislnct
Neighborhood Offices, the Mayor's
Office, City Commissioner'sOffices,
and at the Office of Neighborhood
A ssociations Selections for the
awards will be made by a committee
of citizens and representatives from
the M ayor's and Comnussiom is
Offices.
Another School Year: The Curtain Rises
By Prof. M cKinley Burt
If this were a play in the legiti
mate theatre, the house lights would
havedimmedand an anticipatory hush
would have passed through the audi
ence. Then the crackle of programs
being put away and the soft rustle of
garments as the audience settled back
And the critics would be poised with
their sharp little deadly pencils.
But. our scenario is, instead, an
other back-to-schooT stampede --
one that no community is ever quite
ready for no, budge,-wise, not capac-
ity-wise, not teaching-wise, not nur
turing wise What most communities
across the nation seem quite ready for
- our opinion shaped by recent read
ings of selected media - is a full
resum ption of urban education
struggles in both big city and rural
ireas as antagonists and protagonists
setting forth to do battle, comfortable
ind assured in their well-rehearsed
roles
Most of these scripts arc the hole
cards of wha, you might call “stock
companies" or local education reper-
toiv theatres - time-proven produc
tion*. that guarantee each year a full
lit Ivlligercnt) house The standard
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plots include classroom size, pupil Robinson to the position of Assistant
load, length of school year/dav, site- secretary of Education in the Clinton
based management, parent involve Administration 1, will be interesting
ment (power), bussing, tracking and to see if, twenty years later, minorities
its myriad metaphors. Retail man with excellent program packages such
agement takes it all in and position as I had will be given any better
personnel and stock for the back to reception than 1 had with the regime
school rush.
of Dr Regina Goff, a black woman
In the state capitals and in Wash who was head of the “Office of Edu
ington D C., there has been little cation" during the Nixon administra
change if any in the educational sce tion
nario (read “bureaucracy”), accord
So, another black female has
ing to my correspondents It has been entered the hallowed, higher halls of
seven or eight years since I've been in bureaucratic education, thisone fresh
D C forany personal interaction with from a key position in The National
members of the educational estab Education Association. I, will be in
lishment There was no meaningful teresting to see if she w ill have any
change then from the firs, go-arounds more real power than that given to Dr.
I had in 1969, 1970 and 1971-T h e Goff those several decades ago -
day s when I wasbnght-cyedandbushy when, after I was sent on any number
tailed to push through the Programs of "fool s errands" around the D C
and projects I had designed Naively, grant and program divisions of her
1 believed that because I'd won that office. I got the confession, “we' re
National Science prize for “ The Dalles ally don', have any power around
School D is,net” , my experience- here - I’ll sec if I can gc, you some
proven projects would be snatched up help out there in Oregon" I'm wait
like ho, cakes Again, I learned “you ing!
do it yourself’
Here in Portland, I believe the
These thoughts occur to me as I issues this fall, will center primarily
rev iew a scries of news articles on the aro u n d site-b ased m anagem ent
ap p o in tm e n t o f S h aro n P orter (parent involvement), "tracking"
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(no matter by what name you call
it), and “Test Scores”. The latter
instruments of course are a measure
of the lev el of education the children
arc receiving. The first week of last
July saw the release of district achieve
ment test scores and the community/
was shocked (district staff only
disappointed) These spring semester
test measured reading and m ath
skills for all district third graders, and
eight schools, all in north and
northeast Portland, fell below the
baseline
You well know the familiar ring
of the names. Ball, Humboldt King.
James John, Meek, Sabin, Vernon
and Wilcox, equally well you know
the stock explanations, many of which
have no, changed the past 25 years
(check ou, the exploding gang popu
lation on the streets). District adm in
istrators tell us of a geographically
unstable population, a ‘sudden’ in
flux of children without preschool
experience, and a lack of parental
involvement". This last wall of mis
trust (experienced - based) has to be
solved and it will take more than the
usual rhetonc from either adminis
trators or activ ists More next week
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