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'«T> Tm P o r t l a n d O bserver it «te 'te «teT a » I» 4 ’»te *>v Wtz*teK* • J anuary 2 5 , 1995 I: P age A 5 “Parade Of Stars” Sets Record Prelim inary results from the "L o u Rawls Parade o f Stars" tele thon. which benefits the United Ne gro College Fund (UNCF). indicate that $ 12.2 m illion in cash and pledg es was raised during the seven-hour, nationwide telecast on Jan 7. The record amount represents an increase o f nearly 11 percent over the previ ous year, and brings the "Parade o f Stars" 15-year total to more than $132 m illion in cash and pledged donations. Proceeds from the star-studded telecast are used to fund scholarships and expand educational opportuni ties at the 41 private, historically Black colleges and universities rep resented by the College Fund. More than 54.000 students are enrolled at UNCF colleges. Its 1995 And We’re Still Alive: The Caravan Rolls On the telethon " I am pleased that this year's telethon was so well received, and grateful to those thousands o f people and organizations who gave their support to ensure that disadvantaged students have an opportunity to get a college education and prepare them selves to become tom orrow ’s lead ers,” Gray said. Joining host Lou Rawls for the fund-raising special, coming from Hoi lywood and New York City, were co-hosts Gladys Knight, M arilyn McCoo and Alex Trebek. Star per formers on the “ Parade o f Stars” included Anita Baker, BeBe&C eCe W inans, B o yz II M en, L u th e r Vandross, Patti LaBelle, Ray Charles, W hoopi G oldberg, Jon Secada, Andrae Crouch and Daryl Hall. us P rok . M< K i NLEV Bl Rl Year 2000, the turn-of-the-cen- tury is soon at hand. I can remember that as kids this seemed an impossi ble, unacheivable mile stone along the path to some supermaturity in Iife While youth may general ly seem to ignore its m ortality, there are days when it looks into the Time-ravaged Singer Lou Rawls (right), host face o f some elder-and quickly turns of the “Lou Rawls Parade of away lest it be contagious. Stars” telethon, presents the Who was it that wrote o f a "dream 15th annual event. deferred” , who wrote " I run in the race o f who 1 am and what I w ill be” ? W illiam H. Gray III. president I was trying to think, the other day, o f o f the College Fund, said he was the names o f all the “ single, female” grateful for the public’s support o f school teachers at John Marshall el ementary school (a requirement o f the St. Louis School system as late as 1935. It was not that d ifficu lt. On the The Japan-A m erica Society Earthquake R e lie f Fund to assist astated th e ir c o m m u n ity on Jan first floor we had Miss Crenshaw, o f Oregon in cooperation w ith the people o f Kobe in the a fte r- uary 17, 1995 . Contributions made Miss Brown, Miss Dobson and Mrs U.S. B ank has established an math o f the earthquake that dev- to the fund w ill be sent to the City o f Hoard. On the third floor, among Kobe to assist them as they begin to others there was Miss Hunt, Miss rebuild their community after this Clay and Miss W illiams. terrible tragedy. As a rule when I am reflecting on It is times like these that make this scheme o f things, it is the identity us rem em ber the reason the Ja o f the occupants o f the rooms on the p an -A m e rica S ociety o f Oregon “ second floor” which escapes me at New laws and safer vehicles have years," he said. “ Cars are designed to was established alm ost 90 years first. So the order o f my memory helped reduce traffic deaths in Ore be safer with such features as dual ago. The S ociety then, as it is mode is 1,3,2 — not 1,2,3. It may be gon over the past decade, but it airbags, anti-lock brakes and safer today, was b u ilt upon the bond o f minutes or even an hour before the doesn’t mean drivers should forget body construction. Our highway en frie n d s h ip that has u nite d the faces and names in that second tier o f about basic safe-driving practices, gineers are also finding ways to make U nited States w ith Japan fo r many according to Ed Marges o f the Ore highways and roads safer to drive years. It is a bond that continues gon Department o f Motor Vehicles. on.’ to transcend even the p o litic a l "D uring the four years prior to But, he cautions, driving a vehi and econom ic aspects o f our re passage o f the mandatory seat belt cle with safety features does not mean la tio n s h ip today and it is w ith Marylhurst College has hired a law in 1990, there were nearly 2,500 forgetting basic safe driving practices. this in m ind that we in v ite the new project director for its Head traffic fatalities in the state,” Marges "M y fear is that drivers w ill rely people o f O regon to jo in us in Start Summer Science Institute. said. “ But from 1991 to 1994. that too much on the new technology and expressing o u r condolences and The project d irector, Renee total dropped to just under 2,000.” not enough on their good driving our support to the people o f Kobe. Glasgow, assumed the new half-time Oregon’s seat belt law has played practices to avoid accidents," Marges C o n trib u tio n s can be made at any p o sitio n on Jan. 5, announced a large role in reducing fatalities, but says. “ They may try to push the safe U.S. Bank Branch o r m ailed to: M a ry lh u rs t p re sid e n t N ancy other safety advancements have also ty lim its o f the vehicle too far. But Wilgenbusch. JASO/Kobe Relief Fund; U.S. been helpful. Marges said. people need to keep in mind that they Bank; A ccount Num ber: “ Renee brings valuable experi "W e think several things have still need to buckle up, obey the ence and talent to this innovative and !¡55800731; P.O. Box4386. Port been happening over the past couple posted speed and drive defensively.” land, OR 97208. growing program,” Whilgenbusch said. “ W e’re pleased to have her on H ost Fam ilies N ee d ed For E xch an g e S tu d e n ts the Marylhurst Staff.” In a related development, the ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE) is seeking college announced it has received a by R obert T aylor local HOST Families for boys and girls from Scandinavia, France, Italy, $40,000 grant from the Challenge Spain, Portugal, Germany, Holland, Britain, Poland. Czech Republic, Foundation o f Dallas, Texas, to in ...that White House birthday Slovakia, Switzerland, M exico, Japan. Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, cards are sent free to people age 80 Canada, and the Newly Independent States o f the former Soviet Union, 15 or more. Send requests at least to 18 years o f age, coming to this area for the upcoming high school year. four weeks in advance. For more These personable and academically select exchanges students speak english. information: White House Greet are bright, curious, and anxious to learn about this country through living ings Office. Room 39, 1600 Penn as part o f a family, attending high school, and sharing their own culture and sylvania Avenue, N W Washing language with their newly adopted Host Family. ton. D.C. 20500. ...that this week’s healthy food tip is “ ch ili peppers.” The capsai cin in these hot peppers works to combat cancer-causing agent in food. Hot peppers may also help prevent blood clots. ...that men today do not pro Portland Police are investigat pany observed the suspect leaving duce as much sperm as their grand ing a burglary' where a man posing and advised that he was not a com fathers. According to studies done as a moving company employee pany employee. in Britain and the United States, attempted to steal computer equip It is believed that the suspect today’s man produces 50 percent ment from a Southwest Portland may have gained possession o f a less sperm than men did prior to business. Detectives believe the moving company shirt to allow him W orld War II. One possible expla suspect may have also been involved access into businesses where the nation is the increased number o f in sim ilar thefts in Washington moving company was doing legiti pesticides and other toxic chemi County. mate work. cals in our food and water. The incident occurred on 12- Investigators at the Washing ...that average life expectan 17-94 at an office building in the ton County S h e riff s are investigat cy in America has reached an all- 2000 block o f SW 4th Ave. Em ing similar thefts in their ju risd ic time high: 75.8 years. White fe ployees from Rose City moving tion. In those cases, checks were males have the longest life spans: company were in the process o f stolen from employees and later 79.8 years. Black females place loading equipment in the business. forged. In those cases a similar sus second with an average life ex An employee in the business pect in a moving company shirt was pectancy o f 73.8 years. W hite found an individual wearing a m ov seen in the area at the time o f the males are third: 73.2 years and ing company shirt with some com thefts. black males place last w ith an av puter equipment in an stairway. This A suspect has been identified erage life expectancy o f only 65 stairway was not being used by the in the burglary incident. It is be years. The report was released by moving company. lieved that additional thefts may the National Center for Health Sta A fter being contacted by the have occurred, and anyone with in tistics. businessman, the suspect left the formation or questions can contact . .that i f you are interested in building, leavingthe equipment be Central Precinct Detective Brian ways to enhance your personal in hind. Employeesofthemovingcom- Grose at 823-0097. come and build fam ily wealth, you may want to subscribe to a new financial newsletter targeting A f rican-Americans. To receive a free sample copy o f“ Better Life News” , simply call 1800-748-1821 and leave your name and address. I f you live in the Washington, D C. area call 202-686-4775. that this week's favorite quote comes from m otivational speakerCarl Mays: "W innerscon- trol their destiny . Winners take a 3240 N. W illiam s Portland, OR stand. Winners make things hap pen. Winners say “ I can!” Relief Fund Established For City Of Kobe Safer Driving, Vehicles Reduce Deaths cubicles coalesce into specific iden tities; after all, lam recalling patterns and events o f almost 70 years ago. An you might well ask how is this apparently trivia l exercise in mne monics (memory) important to the schemeofthings in these trying times? Well, let me count you the ways. For one thing, when you teach over a long span o f years, under formal and informal circumstances, have students o f varying ages and stages o f prepara tion and are respectively aided or en cumbered by a standard curriculum or a lack o f it - then over such span o f time you w ill discover that you have developed such organized techniques o f tutoring and instruction that match and correlate with a mode o f learning and comprehension that seems intrin sic to human-kind. Some great, natu ral teachers are seen to never have endowed themselves with a recogni tion o f such innate natural ability, but I have always wondered about them, seeking some commonality beneficial to pedagogy. Indwelling upon these thoughts in recent years. I ’ m convinced that I was about the way humans organize their thoughts — in the way I devel oped certain modes and paradigms, beginning in the 1960's when I de veloped the “ m irro r permutation t t en?. mode” to demonstrate how the A fri cans used "base 2” for their compu tations. The National Science Foun dation awarded a prize to my project (The Dal les, Oregon) but neither they nor anyone else realized that what I was really into was logic build around those rooms and tiers o f cubicles o f John Marshall Elementary School In that demonstration in The Dalles, I used dolls and doll houses to show the kids that using the pow ers o f numbers to say. a base like "2 ” -- is the same as asking how many ways may N actors enter a "house” w ith tw o (binary) doors". M y partic ular demonstration used two to the fifth power or 32, which, given the choice o f an upper or lower case display, yields 64 possible digits, letters or operation symbols. The years o f refining and developing this system — for youngsters as young as Montessori age and Head Start -- tells me now that I was onto the basic method by which humans acquire store and recall knowledge. Now, I ’m reaching worldwide. As I study the new computers, I see a whole universe o f new applica tions. Math can be fun i f you take away the fear - i f you made the machine it can do nothing that you can't do. Right. Miss Brown? z > >*'•* c !. fr- W * . • el * «. > -•‘'X »" -,T Marylhurst Hires Coordinator, Receives $40,000 Did You Know? N. Fake Mover Suspected In Business Thefts troduce the science institute in a na tional conference at Mary Ihurst this summer. D u rin g the conference, Marylhurst plans to present the pro gram to Head Start administrators, early childhood science educators and representatives from potential college training sites. The presenta tions are considered a crucial step in expanding the program. The institute, which began in the summer o f 1992, is designed to help children in Head Start programs de velop a lifelong interest in science. It features an intensive four-week course for Head Start teachers, who are taught basic scientific principles that they can take back to their classrooms. 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