Volume XXIV Number 35
Aimust 3 1, 1994
Serving the community through cultural diversity
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Portland Christian Schools
Offer Minority Scholarships
ortland
Christian
Schools
has
an­
nounced a scholarship
and financial aid program that
can pay up to half the cost of a
private education forethnic and
minority students.
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The school is one of the city’s
best keep secrets, offering state-ac­
credited classes in outstanding school
settings for area children from grade
school age to high school. The first
day back to school this year is Tues­
day, Sept. 6.
The schools were founded in
1947 by a sm all group o f c o n ­
ce rn e d C h ristia n p aren ts who
w anted to raise their children in
the “ n urture and adm onition o f
the L o rd .”
P ortland C hristian Schools
started raising funds for the ethnic
scholarships th is year and are spread­
ing the word on the advantages o f a
private education.
The success of the drive has
made it feasible to award grants to
middle and low income families
throughout the community. The
scholarships also provide educational
options for minorities.
The schools have set aside
$105,000 for families with financial
needs, $20,000 o f that fund is tar­
geted for ethnic scholarships and
$20,000 is set aside for families with
very limited incomes.
For families who qualify, this
could pay up to half o f the cost of
tuition.
Lisa Hess, is in charge o f Devel­
opment at Portland Christian. Pastor
Steven Holt is a teacher and coach at
the school who also serves as a con­
sultant for minority student develop­
ment.
Holt says ethnic diversity in
Students
Compete in
Academic
Olympics
Pastor Steven Holt of Portland Christian Schools is a consultant for minority student development and
Lisa Hess serves as development officer for the private schools.
schools help students in their up­
coming years understand how to in­
teract with others.
As a school representative, he
makes presentations for student de­
velopment and fund raising efforts
to individuals and groups in Oregon
and Washington.
A parent himself, with three
children enrolled at Portland Chris­
tian, he is a member of the Portland
Christian Schools Society. He gradu­
ated from Warner Pacific College in
Portland and will be teaching Chris­
tian Perspectives on Society and
G overnm ent this year. He has
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Students from the Springdale
Job C orps C enter in T routdale,
co m p leted in Job C o rp s ’ R e­
gional A cadem ic O lym pics in
M oses Lake, W ash. Aug. 24-26.
T he A c a d e m ic O ly m p ic s
h ig h lig h ts the su ccess o f Job
C o rp s’ A cadem ic Education Pro­
g ram a n d d e m o n s tr a te s Jo b
C o rp s’ com m itm ent to provide
q u ality acad em ic p re p ara tio n .
S tudents com peted in m ath, so­
cial studies, language arts, sci­
ence and cu rren t ev en ts. The
w inning team will travel to W ash­
ington, D.C. for the national com ­
petition in O ctober.
The T routdale team consists
o f C a n d a n c e K e lly , B rian
B rad fo rd , Joan K ugler, Laura
C raw ford and Isaac Osten.
P ortland School D istrict
starts the 1994-95 school year
later than usual with schools
opening T hursday, Sept. 8.
The start date is later than
m any other area school d is­
tricts and later than previous
years.
In s tru c tio n a l p e rso n n e l
return Aug. 30 - Sept. I for
three planning days. Schools
and all offices will be closed
for the L ab o r Day holiday
Sept. 2 and 5. Schools will
rem ain closed Sept. 6 and 7.
(School s ta ff have had their
work year extended to accom ­
m odate that clo su re.) C entral
adm inistrative offices will be
open Sept. 6 and 7 as usual.
coached 7th grade basketball and
will be coaching basketball again
this year.
The Portland C hristian R oy­
als won the O regon C lass AA
B asketball tournam ent in 1992.
Because o f increasing enrollm ent
the high school m oves to AAA
ranking this year. L asty ea r, Port­
land C hristian ranked third in
the state. The school has three
gym s.
In 1992, Portland Christian was
awarded a M.J. Murdock Charitable
Trust grant which allowed them to
remodel three science labs with state
of the art equipment.
Portland Christian also has a
computer lab where students learn
how to make computer boards and
other equipment.
Daniel Cole is superintendent
for Portland Christian Schools.
Portland Christian Elementary
School is at 11845 S.E. Market St.;
Portland Christian Junior and Senior
High School is at 12456 N.E. Brazee
St.(503)256-3540;andClarkCounty
Christian School (including Luv N ’
Fun Child Care and Busy Bee Pre-
School) is at 7915 N.E. Burton Road
in Vancouver. (206) 892-5640.
Atkinson Voted
To PCC Board Chair
Portland Community College
Board Member Marcia Atkinson has
been elected to chair the PCC board
o f directors for the 1994-95 school
year. Board member Keith Skelton
has been elected the new vice chair.
Atkinson represents Zone 6 of
the college district, which is com­
posed o f portions o f Beaverton,
Aloha and Northwest and Southwest
Portland. Her interest in PCC comes
from her experience as a community
college student and instructor.
Atkinson formally taught busi­
ness management at PCC. She is the
owner o f HR Group, a management
services firm that provides human
resource, consulting and contracted
services to organizations. She also
has worked at Sequent Computer
Systems, Intel Corp, and Frito Lay.
Skelton, a retired attorney, rep­
resents Zone 3, which includes part
of Southeast Portland. He has previ­
ously served as both chair and vice
PCC Starts Fall
Term Sept. 19
Portland Community College
begins a new academic year, Mon­
day, Sept. 19. This fall, students
will be able to register for classes
either by phone or in person.
The increased use o f phone
registration will help simplify the
registration process and make it
easier for students to register, said
Jeanine Lofton-Hendrix, manager
of Registration Services.
“Phone registration is up and
going. There are 12 operators and
16 holding lines to accommodate
fall term registration,” she said.
Lofton-Hendrix advised students
to check PCC’s fall schedule be­
ginning on page 6 for new ways to
register by phone.
Fax and mail registration is
now discontinued. The increase use
of telephone registration to touch-
tone registration, expected for full
implementation fall term 1995.
“We are planning to fully con­
vert to touch-tone registration by
next fall,” Lofton-Hendrix said.
“We will have 96 lines for the touch-
tone process. It will make it so
easy.”
Open registration - registra­
tion for new and returning students
who do not have a registration ap­
pointment begins Tuesday, Sept.
13 and will run through Friday,
Sept. 23. However, there are still
some available appointment times
for new students, Loften-Hendrix
said. Students can phone the regis­
tration office at 244-6111, ext. 4484,
for their appointment.
Registration Services have ex­
tended the registration period this
fall and students can now register
throughout the term for classes
which start later in the term or to
drop or add classes.
Tuition is $30 per credit. There
is a $5 student activity fee for stu­
dents taking six or more credits, $2
for one to five credits.
P aym ent or finan cial a r­
rangem ents need to be m ade by
Oct. 3, either by m ail, by phone
using a credit card, or in p er­
son. Each cam pus business o f­
fice will have a tuition paym ent
drop box.
Sally Wood, manager of Busi­
ness Offices, reminds students to
be sure and notify the business of­
fice if their plans change and they
intend to drop a class after they
registered. Otherwise, the student
is obligated for the charges.
“Students need to cancel the
class at the business office during
the refund period in order to get the
charges reversed,” said Wood.
Parking permits for fall term
can be purchased at campus traffic
and parking offices. Students will
need permits for their vehicles by
Monday, Sept. 26 in orderto park at
PCC between 7 a m. and 10 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Students who take classes off-
campus do not need to purchase a
parking permit. The parking fees
vary, based on the number o f hours
per week on campus, and range
from $25 for full-time students to
free for a car pool o f three or more
persons.
The free PCC shuttle bus will
resume operation the first day of
fall term. Sept. 19. Shuttle sched­
ules are available at campus infor­
mation centers and at traffic and
parking offices. The college has
added several more routes, one a
direct route from the downtown
transit mall to Rock Creek Campus
in Washington County.
PCC is undergoing several
building construction and remodel
ing projects, made possible by voter
approval of a 1992 bond levy. De­
spite the construction, school offi­
cials say the business o f teaching
will be in full swing fall term.
At the Cascade Campus, the
new library and cafeteria remodel
ing projects will be ready for the
start o f fall term. Early next year,
the classroom addition in the stu­
dent center is expect to be ready.
At Sylvia Campus, remodel­
ing projects are underway in the CC
building to provide better services
for students. It will create an en­
trance to the building from the new
plaza and group similar student ser
vices together such as registration
and the business office, and admis­
sions and testing; move tutoring
centers to the CC building; and cre­
ate a faculty advising area int he
space that had been occup ied by the
bookstore.
Literacy Program Seeks
Volunteers
Marcia Atkinson
chair. Most recently, he was instru­
mental in the creation of the nation's
first community college liaison in
the U.S. Department of Education,
with congressional sponsorship from
Oregon Sen. Mark Hatfield.
Skelton and his wife, Betty Rob­
erts, live in the Mt. Scott area of
Portland.
The Portland Community Col­
lege Volunteer Tutor Literacy pro­
gram is looking for volunteers. To
learn more about the volunteer lit­
eracy program, please attend orien­
tatio n sessio n s, sch ed u led on
Sylvania and at Rock Creek Cam­
puses in Washington County.
The Sylvania Campus orienta­
tion is scheduled for Saturday, Sept.
10, 9am to noon in the Cedar Room,
12000 S.W. 49th Ave. The Rock
Creek orientation is set for Thurs­
day, Sept. 15, from 6 to 9pm in the
Town Hall, Building 2, 17705 N. W.
Springville Road.
The orientations are an oppor­
tunity to learn about the volunteer
literacy tutoring program at PCC and
to register for the Saturday work­
shops on Sept. 17 and 24, held at
Rock Creek Campus.
Please call the Volunteer Lit­
eracy Tutor Program at 244-6111,
ext. 4148 or leave a voice mail mes­
sage at 244-6111, ext. 3700.
Freedom Schools 94: Youth Working To Save Our Children
by
M arian W right E delman
For many college students
summer vacation signals a
break from classes, work, and
community service. But this
summer, hundreds of black
college students will devote
their time to service in their
hometowns.
They are part o f the Black
S tu d e n t L e a d e rs h ip N e tw o rk
(B SLN ) which recruits and trains
co lleg e stu d en ts from across the
co u n try to work as servant lead­
ers to p rovide a safe, fun, and
n u rtu rin g learning environm ent
for d isad v an tag ed children d u r­
ing the sum m er
A fter tw o w eeks o f rigorous
training through the Ella B aker
child Policy T raining Institute at
K noxville C ollege, 200 students
will run Freedom Schools at 17
sites across the country co m b in ­
ing child feeding program s with
academ ic and cu ltu ral e n ric h ­
m ent, recreatio n , and child a d ­
vocacy. The intensive training
leaves students exhilarated, in­
spired. and m otivated by all they
have learned and gives them an
opportunity to discover a sense
o f purpose. It is this sense o f
purpose, w hich w ill em pow er
them to work effectively to re ­
claim our com m unities and e d u ­
cate our children.
Lisa S ullivan, field d irecto r
for the Black S tudent L ead er­
ship netw ork, once told the stu ­
dents p articipating in the In sti­
tute, “ I t’s not just going to be a
sum m er thing. Y ou’re m aking a
com m itm ent to a social m ove­
m ent in this country, a m ove­
m ent led, energized, and directed
by A frican A m erican youth ”
Sum m er can be a difficult
tim e for children who are not
involved in some type o f re cre­
ational or culturally enriching
activity. Having young role m od­
els and a safe and nurturing learn­
ing environm ent will m ake the
d i f f e r e n c e in h u n d re d s o f
c h ild re n 's lives and keep many
o f them out o f the way o f p o ten ­
tial dangers.
R e c a llin g
th e
1 9 60s
M ississippi Freedom S chools,
w hich reached ou, to black youth
in d is a d v a n ta g e d a re a s , th is
y e a r’s schools will offer 5 to 18-
year-olds a sense o f their history
and traditions, keep them aca­
dem ically active, and increase
their expressive abilities and self­
esteem .
Founded in 1992, the Ella
Baker C hild Policy T raining In­
stitute was nam ed in honor o f
E lla B aker, an in sp iratio n to
thousands o f young p articipants
in the C ivil Rights M ovem ent.
Today her legacy and the legacy
o f th a t m o v e m e n t liv e s on
through the w orks o f this new
generation o f student leaders on
b eh a lf o f children and fam ilies.
The BSLN and the Ella Baker
Child Policy training Institute rec­
ognizes the important role college-
age youth can play in bringing about
social change and also seeks to en­
courage intergenerational leadership
enabling young people to benefit
from the wisdom and experience of
mentors who are, in turn, inspired by
the passion and purpose of the young.
This program provides our commu­
nity with a great example o f how we
can work together to unite ourselves
on behalf o f our children
I am very proud o f the co l­
lege students who are w orking
so hard to im prove the quality o f
life for children. Their d eterm i­
nation constantly rem inds me that
they are com m itted, caring, and
eager to make a d ifference.
If you are interested in sponsor­
ing a Freedom School in your com­
munity in 1995, write Steve White,
Director, Black Student Leadership
Network, 25 E. Street, NW Wash­
ington, DC, 20001
We all should be inspired by our
young leaders who are continuing a
legacy and using the lessons of his­
tory to build bridges over troubled
econom ic and soc ial waters-bridges
that will lead to increased Self-es­
teem and ultimately and increased
sense of pride in our rich African
American heritage.
Marian Wright Edelman is presi­
dent o f the Children’s defense Fund
and a leader of the Black Commu­
nity Crusade for Children whose
mission is to Leave No Child Behind
and to ensure every child a Healthy
Start, Head Start, Fair Start, and a
Safe Start. For additional informa­
tion, please call 1-800-ASK-BCCC.
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