P age A5 T he P ortland O bserver • A pril 13, 1994 The Gladys McCoy Scholarship Fund The Gladys M cCoy Scholarship w ill be awarded to ethnically diverse graduate students from Oregon and southwest Washington on the basis o f financial need and demonstrated in terest in p olicy development and ser vice to children in need. The scholarship w ill be a tribute to G ladys’ dream o f a belter, stronger com m unity that acknowledges and honors each o f its members. Through out her 36-ycar carecr-and especially in her role as a M ultnom ah County C om m issio n cr-G la d ys w orked to ensure that those who were less fo rtu nate were not forgotten. A nd although Gladys passed away in A p ril 1993, her legacy lives on through the pro grams she championed and her car ing style o f leadership. In honor o f her m emory, a com mittee o f dedicated com m unity mem bers and the PSU Graduate School o f Social W ork are w orking to endow a scholarship fo r graduate students who embody the values Gladys possessed- -servicc, justice, equality, and diver sity. The scholarship w ill keep Gladys work alive. By providing graduate students w ith the opportunity fo r the kind o f social work education Gladys had, the recipients o f the Gladys M cCoy Scholarship w ill someday e f fect positive change in our com m uni ties. GLADYS MCCOY Gladys, who received a master degree in social w ork from PSU in 1967, believed that broad ethnic, ra cial, and cultural representation made Gladys McCoy, social worker, and advocate for social change every com m unity, committee, and commission stronger. She was an advocate fo r social change and par ticularly responsive to the needs o f vulnerable populations, including the poor, the unemployed, children, per sons o f color, women, and persons o f diverse culture. She also was deeply committed to education. Early in her career, Gladys d i rected soc ial services fo r Project Head Start in Vancouver, W ashington, and the first public o ffice she held was on the Portland School board. She also taught sociology and social w ork courses at colleges throughout the Portland area fo r many years. G la d y s w as a M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty c o m m is s io n e r fro m 1978 u n til 1984 w hen she re sign e d and ran u n s u c c e s s fu lly fo r the P o rt New Minority Media Law Fellowship lan d C ity C o u n c il. In 1986, she was once aga in e le c te d to the M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty B o a rd o f C o m m is s io n e rs , w here she p re sided as b oa rd c h a ir and rem ain ed u n til her death at age 65. Gladys’ outstanding performance was acknowledged throughout her career. She received the woman o f the Year award in 1974, the Oregon A s sembly o f Black A ffairs political de velopment award in 1980, and the National Association o f Blacks in C rim ina l Justice Services com m u nity service award in 1987. She was also the first woman president o f the Association o f Oregon Counties. FUNDING The goal o f the Gladys M cCoy Scholarship Fund Com m ittee and the Graduate School o f Social W ork is to raise $300,000 during the next tw o years to endow the scholarship. Y our contribution like G ladys’ career it self—w ill be an act o f service to the com m unity. Donations may be made to the Gladys M cC oy Scholarship Fund, Portland State University Foun dation, P.O. B ox 243, Portland, OR 97207-0243. For more inform ation, contact the Graduate School o f Social W ork at 725-3997, or to make a pledge w rite to the PSU Foundation, P.O. Box 243, Portland, Oregon 97202- 0243. “ As long as I can remember, I have tru ly fe lt that i f there’ s a prob lem, something that needs changing, you have an obligation to determine your role in its solution.” Radical Women Monthly Meeting Capital C ities/A B C , Inc. and the New York Law School w ill jo in tly sponsor a new M in o rity M edia Law Fellowship under the auspices o f the Foundation for m inority Interest in M edia, Inc. P ictured at the announcem ent o fth e new F ellow ship were (L to R): Daniel Burke, Capital Cities/ ABC's Chief Executive Officer; Harry H. Wellington, Dean o f The New York Law School (NYLS); Emma Bowen, President o f the Foundation for Minority Interest in Media; Betty Elam, the Foundation’s Executive Director; Dennis Swanson, Chairman o f the Foundation s Board o f Directors and President o f ABC Sports. The M in o rity M edia Law Fel lowship w ill provide a N Y L S m in or ity student interested in pursuing a careers in media la w w ith a three-year m erit tu ition scholarship and a three- year paid summer and academic year internship at Capital C ities/ABC . The firs t Fellowship w ill be awarded in the Fall o f 1994. Photo by: Joe Vericker/Photobureau, Inc. Capital Cities/ABC And The New York Law School Sponsor Minority Fellowship A Program thorough the Foundation For Minority Interests In Media T he F o u n d a tio n , u n d e r the Capital C ities/A B C , Inc. and the vices and television production and New Y o rk Law School w ill jo in tly leadership o f E m m a B ow ne, its distribution.The Company also pub Thursday, April 21. 1994 President, and B etty E la m , its E x lishes daily and weekly newspapers, sponsor a new M in o rity M edia Law “Women in the Irish Struggle." Women’s role in the struggle against British occupation of Ireland will Fellowship under the auspices o f the ecutive D ire c to r, has three objec shopping guides, various specialized be discussed. Join guest speakers Maire Cullen, a broadcast journalist and political activist from Foundation fo r M in o rity Interests in tives: (1) to help media companies and business periodicals, books, pro South Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Linda Demarary, an organizer who went on the Belfast Tour in access inform ation about m inorities Media, Inc. the announcement was vides research services and also dis 1993 and visited women who are part of the resistance. Radical Women's montly meeting is and women available fo r employment tributes inform ation from data bases. made by Daniel Burke, Capital C it- Thursday, April 21 at 7:00 pm at Northwest Service Center, 1819 NW Everett, Portland. A hearty New Y o rk Law School’ s highly in the com m unications industries ics/A B C ’ s C hief executive O fficer, Irish supper will be available at 6:30 pm for a $5.00 donation. For more information call (503) 228- Harry H. W ellington, Dean o f The quickly and accurately; (2) to offer regarded C om m unications M edia 3090. For childcare, call two days in advance. Wheelchair accessible. New Y ork Law School (N Y LS ), and m inority youth the necessary support, Center made it a natural partner w ith Dennis Swanson, Chairman o f the education and skills to obtain jobs in Capital C ities/A B C and the Founda Board o f Directors o f the Foundation the media business; and (3) tocounsel tion. Founded in 1891, The New Y o rk fo r M in o rity Interests in M edia and and inform m inorities and women Law School has an enrollm ent o f about employment opportunities in nearly 1,4000 students in its Day and President o f A B C Sports. An extension o f the Foundation ’ s the media business. The Law F ellow Evening divisions. A leading inde established undergraduate program, ship w ill complement the Foundation’s pendent institution, it is located near the c ity ’s legal, governmental and the M in o rity M edia Law Fellowship successful media training program. Capital C ities/A B C , Inc. oper financial centers in lower Manhattan’s w ill provide a N YLS m inority stu by S enator B ob P ackwood fo r the economy than i f we spend and any d e fic it spending. This clause as dent interested in pursuing a career in ates the A B C Television Network, Tribeca/C ivic Center areas. Profes sors M ic h a e l B o te in and A lle n - f - HE SENATE RECENTLY invest it ourselves. But this logic, we sures that in tim e o f w ar or other need, media law w ith a three-year m erit eight television stations, the A B C Hammond, founding D irector and Radio Networks and 18 radio sta tuition scholarship and a three-year DEFEATED THE BALANC- should give a ll private money to the Congress w ould not be shackled and J EDBUDGETAMENDMENT government. I don’t think that’s a thus unable to respond. paid summer and academic year in tions, and provides programming fo r Director respectively o f N Y L S ’s me cable te le v is io n . The C om pany, dia C enter and m em bers o f the Sixty votes are tough to get in the ternship at Capital C ities/A B C , Inc. TO THE CONSTITUTION (BBA). very good idea. through jo in t ventures, is engaged in Foundation’s board, played a key role The firs t F ellow sh ip w ill be D e fic it spending is a little like a Senate on issues o f any controversy. I voted to pass the B B A , and was international broadcasting/cable ser in the establishment o f the Fellowship. awarded in the fa ll o f 1994. disappointed that we couldn’ t get the bad habit. You know i f you give it up, The effect o f this threshold is to put real pressure on Congress to keep required tw o-thirds m ajority. 1 hope you’ ll be better off. You also know that we w ill get another chance to there is short-term pain between q u it w ith in tits budget. Senators w ould consider the B B A , because I think it ting and the payoff. I t ’s easy to ratio have to go on record supporting in d i is long overdue. The longer we wait, nalize that it w ould hurt too much to vidual, d eficit-fueling programs. As the more damage is done, and the stop so you don’t. W e can stop spend it is, spending is spending. It is nearly impossible to see who is serious about bigger the b ill that w ill eventually ing more than we collect, and we w ill Compact Announces Grant Winners be better o ff fo r it, but there w ill be d e fic it reduction and who isn’t. W ith come due. It strides me that about the only some pain in between. That firs t is a the B B A , everyone w ould know in a New adventures and opportuni Compact announced late last year made available in the Coos Bay area that they were seeking to replicate the and Linn and Benton counties, thanks h u rry .I’ ll close w ith the benefits o f a ties await schools and businesses in hard one. place there is rea l c o n tro v e rs y to the C om pact The second issue raised by oppo balanced federal budget. First, the tw o Oregon communities. Starting highly successful Industry Initiative overpassing the B B A is in W ashing The Com m unity Business Edu ton, D.C. Whenever I come home to nents o f a B B A is whether the amend money now consumed paying fo r ser this June, tcachcrsand business people fo r Science and math Education vicing the debt could go to w orth in Jackson County and the Roseburg (IIS M E ) program in tw o additional cation Center (CBEC) in M edford Oregon, folks tell me that i f the state ment w ill elim inate new programs. w ill provide IIS M E opportunities for government,businesses,and fam ilies This is the exact logic that has led to w hile programs. M ost im portantly, area w ill participate in a summer comm unities outside o f the Portland schools and businesses in Jackson our kids and grandkids and their kids the staggering deficits and debt we all manage to make ends meet on a area. internship program that w ill allow C ounty, and the Southern Vocational are going to have to get us out o f the have today. Once a program is funded, The C o m p a ct rece ive d to ta l balanced budget, the federal govern teachers to sec first hand how their Associates w ill do the same fo r the hole we are now digging. It w ill get it is almost impossible to elim inate. ment should too, I agree. classroom instruction can be applied o f 53 in q u ire s and 8 proposals greater Roseburg area. “ Both com harder, not easier, the further we dig fr o m in te r e s te d c o m m u n itie s The opposition to the B B A usu Every federal d ollar that is spent has in the workplace. munities arc in the process o f recruit ourselves in. Had we stopped d eficit a lly rests its positions on three main some constituency that w ill oppose “ The Business-Education C om around the state. ing businesses and teachers fo r the spending ju s t ten years ago, we would The IIS M E program is patterned tenets. They w ill often say something cutting that dollar, o r even a smaller pact has awarded tw o cash grants summer program said Hiscox. be v irtu a lly debt-free today. Every than desired increase in funding. like this: “ Elim ination ofcfficitspend- totaling $20,000 plus the technical after a program-established in 1985 For additional in form ation, con The new program most often re week that goes by piles billions more assistance, to two Oregon com m uni in the San Francisco arca-that is sup ing w ill ruin the economy; it w ill dol lars onto the blacks o f the Am erica jeopardize new government spend ferred to this year is a new health care ties to start a business and education ported by industry and the National tact; Pam H all, Program D irector. ing programs; Congress could over bureaucracy. Just about every year o f tom orrow. It is a shameful legacy program outside o f the Portland metro Science Foundation. For the past three Com m unity Business Education Cen we don’ t have to leave. ride the balanced budget restraints there is oem program that is pitched summers, IIS M E opportunities have ter, M edford, (503) 779-5318; B ill area,” said Sue H iscox, T raining This country gained its indepen Manager o f Intel Corporation and been a v a ila b le to P o rtlan d-area Korpa, Southern Vocational Associ w ith 60 Senate votes, so i t ’ s really as a “ must fund.” W e could pass the dence, fought and healed the C iv il C hair o f the Compact Board. The schools and business and was recently ates, Roseburg (503) 673-6891. worthless anyway. “ L e t’ s take a look most expensive health care reform imaginable, and tom orrow, as sure as W ar, beat the Great Depression and at these one at t time. The threat o f an economic slow you are reading this, there w ill be won tw o W o rld Wars w ithout m ort down is perhaps the most-serious we another emergency that requires fed gaging the future as we are today. Those were great moments in our face in Congress. No one wants an eral spending. The problem is exacerbated by country’ s history. W hat great m o economic downturn, not even a b rie f one, but our country’ s history gives the process. Congress currently be ment can we point to hat has resulted little evidence to support the belief gins the budget process w ith “ what do from borrow ing hundreds o f b illio n that deficits are necessary to fuel a we want to spend?” W ith a balanced every year? We ran a federal budget surplus healthy Am erican economy, we have budgetamendment, the process would experienced tremendous economic begin w ith “ how much money do we as recently as 1969. The balanced growth and prosperity w ithout spend have to spend?” Followed by “ where budget amendment is not the bogey ing a nickel more than the govern do we spend it?” A balanced budget man described by some. Neither is it Opportunities in the Hazardous Waste Removal Field ment took in. In fact, deficits have amendment w ould put the cart back a toothless waste o f time. The bal anced budget amendment is a step only become the rule rather than the behind the horse. Each year, hundreds o f m illio n s o f d ollars w orth o f m in o rity subcontracting goal requirem ents toward recovery fo r a country ad T hird, opponents o f the B B A exception since the late 1960s. established by the U .S. E nviro nm e nta l Protection A g en cy go u n fille d because o f an in s u ffic ie n t dicted to d e fic it spending, and I w ill U nderlying this agreement is the argue that i f it can be overridden, why num ber o f trained m in o rity contractors in the Superfund Industry. continue to support it despite this belief that somehow when the gov have it al all? The most recent B B A The N atio na l A sso ciatio n o f M in o rity C ontractors in c o n ju n c tio n w ith the U.S. E n viro n m e n ta l ernment spends our money, it is better required 60 Senate votes to authorize recent setback. Protection A gency is conducting a series o f workshops to train m in o rity contractors in this prosperous and ch a lle n g in g fie ld . Why We Need Balanced budget Amendment Science An Math Education Program Growing N a tio n a l A s s o c ia tio n o f M in o rity C o n tr a c to r s 1994 SUPERFUND TRAINING Artist Rick Barrow To Unveil PCC Art Beat Poster R ick Barrow, celebrated Native American artislandOregonian whose w ork is recognized internationally, w ill unveil the 1994 A rt Beat poster at a special ceremony, Tuesday, A p ril 12,3 to 5 p.m. in the Sylvania Cam pus Cedar Room, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave. His painting, “ C row Mask 10," was selected fo r the poster this year. A t this A rt Beat k ic k -o ff event, Bar- row w ill o ffe r his thoughts on creativ ity , and the historic chain that has led us to the present. Barrow said about his w ork, “ I see m yself as a being in a chain that stretches way back... I ’ m using d iffe r ent materials, but the statement is the same. A rt Beat 1994, an annual event at Portland C om m unity College cam puses w hich celebrates the arts in an educational setting, is scheduled for Monday, M ay 2 through Friday, M ay 6. A ll events are free and the com m u nity is invited. 1994 Training Schedule Portland, Oregon—April 11-15 Buffalo, New York— May 2-6 Hazardous Waste Clean-up Operations Workshop Hazardous Waste Clean-up Operations Workshop For more information about this important business opportunity, contact: M ike Shannon Project Director National Association o f Minority Contractors 1333 F Street, N.W., Ste. 500 Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 347-8259