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I UI P oh n and O ksi rvi k • J anuary 2 5 , 1995
Meyer Memorial Trust Funds Whitman “I Have A Dream” Program
Above: Brian Detman is
director of the "I Have A Dream”
summer program at Whitman
College.
Left: Michael Wooderson (left)
and Marcus Shambry (middle),
two students enrolled in the ‘‘I
Have A Dream” program in
Portland, worked their way
through a series of science
experiments last July during a
summer program at Whitman
College. Watching their
experiment (at right) is Ray
Price, a Whitman science
student. Both Portland students
are in the 9th grade this year.
College, takes a quick look at a piece of artwork Brandy Russell
created last July during the “I Have A Dream" summer program at
the Whitman campus. Russell is a 9th grade student this year at
Jefferson High School. Working on another piece of artwork was
Sharhonda McCauley (left), a 9th grader this year at Madison High
School. As many as 100 Portland students are expected to take
part in the program this summer at Whitman.
The Meyer Memorial Trust o f
Portland, Oregon, has awarded a two-
year SI 10,000 grant to Whitman
College to continue a summer educa
tional program for middle school and
high school students enrolled in the
■ I Have A Dream (I HAD)" project in
Portland.
The Year
1994: CSD
Releases
Trends On
Adoptions
The Children’s Services Di
vision has just released the agen
cy’s adoption trends for the year
1994. CSD looks for adoptive
homes for special needs children:
those with physical or mental dis
abilities; some were born drug-
affected; brothers and sisters who
need to be placed together; minor
ities; children over eight years old.
“ I am pleased to see that we
found homes for470 special needs
children in 1994." said Jan Reed,
CSD Interim Adoptions Manag
er. “At any given time about 200
kids are waiting for adoptive fam
ilies and the majority o f the chil
dren have been abused or ne
glected."
Key points in CSD adop
tions in 1994:
• Adoption placements totaled
470, down slightly from 4 8 1 in
1993
• More younger children are be
ing adoptively placed; 3 1 % are
children under three years old.
• l oster parents became adop
tive parents for 55% o f chil
dren placed.
• Nearly 95% o f CSD adoption
placements continued without
disruptions compared to other
states where disruption rates
can be as high as 30%.
• 67" o o f the children placed are
The summer residential pro
gram, which brings the Portland stu
dents to the Whitman campus for a
variety o f academic classes and ac
tivities, is designed to give students a
taste o f college life, encourage and
inspire their dreams o f pursuing high
er education, and reinforce and
strengthen basic academic skills.
Students live in campus resi
dence halls and take classes taught
by Whitman faculty members and
teachers from the Portland public
schools. Whitman students serve as
residence hall counselors and men
tors.
“Whitman is delighted to learn
ofthis important grant from the Meyer
Memorial Trust," Whitman president
Thomas E. Cronin said. “The I Have
A Dream summer program is a vital
part o f what Whitman does and we
are pleased to host this valuable ser
vice program.”
Support from the Meyer Memo
rial Trust has been critical to the
success o f the program, said Brian
D etm an, the 1HAD d ire c to r at
Whitman. “ We have had funding
assistance from other organizations,
and from the college itself, but the
Meyer Trust has been our primary
funding source from the very begin
ning.”
Encouraged by several o f its
Portland-area alumni. Whitman be
gan working with the Portland IHAD
Foundation in 1992 on possible part
nership programs. A two-year pilot
project was launched during the sum
mer o f 1993, supported in large part
by an earlier $ 120,000 grant from the
Meyer Memorial Trust. About 130
Portland IHAD students have spent
from one to three weeks on the
Whitman campus the pas, two sum
mers
“The W hitman summer residen
tial experience has been o f great val
ue to all the Portland students who
have participated,” said Kenneth
Lewis, a Portland businessman who
sponsors one class o f students cur
rently enrolled in the Portland IHAD
program.
“This program gives our stu
dents a very intense and beneficial
introduction to college and higher
education,” Lewis added. “Our stu
dents look forw ard to going to
Whitman each summer. W e’re elat
ed the Meyer Memorial Trust has
once again supported our program."
The Portland IHAD Foundation
is part of a nationwide organization
founded in 1981 byNewYork philan
thropist Eugene Lang to support in
ner-city, economically disadvantaged
students in their quest for higher edu
cation. Lang received an honorary
degree and served as the keynote com
mencement speaker in May, 1993, at
Whitman, a private, independent lib
eral arts and sciences college of 1,250
students. In his commencement ad
dress, Lang applauded the unique na
ture of Whitman's summer residential
program, saying he hoped it would
serve as a model for other IHAD foun
dations throughout the nation.
T he first tw o su m m ers o f
W hitman's IHAD program were a
d e fin ite su c c e ss, a c c o rd in g to
Detman. “From alI indications, w e' re
doing a very good job o f getting
these students excited about learning
and excited about obtaining the great
est possible benefit from their over
all educational experience," he said.
“Many o f the students were doing
well in the classroom before they
came to Whitman, and we try to
encourage and reinforce that as much
as we can, but these students also are
starting to do well outside the class
room. Many o f them are becoming
student leaders and role models, and
we think our program has had a ma
jor impact on them in that way.”
Next summer, the program will
provide five weeks o f on-campus
programming for as many as 100
IHAD students in three different
classes. Students will range from the
seventh through the tenth grade and
stay on campus for one to two weeks.
Efforts to refine and strengthen
the educational experience for the
studentsarecontinuing, Detman said.
“Some o f the older students, in fact,
have told us they think the program
needs to be more academically rigor
ous. We have no problem intensify
ing the program in that way. We may
want to assign homework for some o f
the nights they are here, for example
This isn’t to say these students haven't
been involved in their classes the
pas, few summers. As the students
get older and closer in time to their
college years, however, it's impor
tant for their academic experience
here at Whitman to become increas
ingly more intense.”
One way to strengthen the pro
gram ’s educational component is to
focus heavily on basic skills such as
reading, writing, spellingand vocab
ulary, Detman said. “ We think we
can give the older students more o f a
college preparation workshop and
still maintain our general, thematic
approach to the academic program.
We want to drill them intensively in
those important basic skills as part o f
a curriculum that is still intriguing
and gro u n d ed in our belief in
multiculturalism and personal and
political responsibility "
Detman said the IHAD students
also expressed a strong interest in
expanding the cultural exchange ac
tivities involving students form the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation near Pendleton,
Oregon
“The multicultural education we
did last summer with the IHAD stu
dents, most o f whom are black, and
the students from the Indian reserva
tion was extraordinary," Detman said
“We broke new ground. Those two
groups o f young people come from
two different worlds, and bringing
them together created a remarkable
experience for both sides."
Above: Tara Barnett, a 9th grade student at Benson High School,
follows the classroom discussion in a language arts class last
summer at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, She was
one of about 60 "I Have A Dream” students who spent two weeks at
the college, living in campus residence halls, taking classes taught
by Whitman faculty and Portland Public School teachers.
Below: Theodore “Teddy" Freeman, a 9th grade student this year
at Jefferson High School, enjoyed his reading material last summer
in a language arts class at Whitman College. Freeman and other I
Have A Dream" students from Portland also took classes in
science, music and fine arts during a two-week stay at the college.
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