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“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
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Kobe.
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assumed the new half-time
Oregon’s seat belt law has played
practices to avoid accidents," Marges
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people need to keep in mind that they
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“ Renee brings valuable experi
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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
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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
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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?
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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. The teachers receive
science kits as well as the knowledge
and confidence they need to teach
science to their preschool students.
Glasgow is a form er p ublic
school teacher, child development
specialist, counselor and case w ork
er. She w ill oversee the program’ s
next summer institute and expansion
effort.
G lasgow has a master o f science
degree in counseling from Portland
State University . She has a bachelor
o f science degree in education from
the University o f Illinois.
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