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African-American moments
throughout Black History Month
Throughout each day during the
m onth
of
F ebruary,
TBS
Superstation will air African-Ameri­
can moments, 30-second and one-
minute spots recognizing the rich
contributions African-Americans
have made to both this country and
to the world. The series features
outstanding A frican-Americans who
tell the stories of figures from the
past and the presents. TBS began
producing and airing African-
American Moments in 1987as Black
History minutes.
The African-American Moments
will feature such personalities as
Louis Gossett, Jr. (Mary McCleod-
Bethune, Jacob Lawrence, Joe Louis
and Carter G. Woodson); Susan
T aylor (Ida B Wells Barnett,
Edmonia Lewis, Elijah McCoy and
Leontyne); Lenny Wilkens (Phyllis
Whatley and Richard Wright); and
Jacob Lawrence
Andrew Young Benjamin O Davis,
James Forten, Garrett Morgan and
Harriet Tubman).
Since the project's inception in
1987, more than 90 people have
presented stories to national audi­
ences. Past presenters include Toni
Braxton (Granville T. Woods);
James Brown (Oscar DePreiest);
Natalie Cole (Gordon Parks); Ruby
Dee (Alvin Ailey); Charles Dutton
(Bill Picket,); Kim Fields-Freeman
(Barbara Jordan); Danny Glover
(Lloyd Augustus Hall); JasmineGuy
(Bessie Colman); James Earl Jones
(T hurgood M arshall); Jessye
Norman (Leontyne Price); Sinbad
(Mary Fields); Wesley Snipes (John
J. Johnson); Gwen Torrance (Jacob
Lawrence): Blair Underwood (Elmer
Simms Campbell): Malcolm-Jamal
Warner (Roland Hayes) and Nancy
Wilson (Josephine Baker).
The African-American Moments
series is sponsored by AC Delco,
Church’s Chicken, Life College,
Nissan, Pontiac Grand Am and
Wendy’s.
I BS Superstation, Turner Broad­
casting System, Inc.’s flagship net­
work seen in more than 70 million
homes, is the most watched network
on cable. The Superstation features
popular movies; high-profile origi­
nal program m ing; outstanding
sports, including action from the
Atlanta Braves, the NBA and
NASCAR; favorite comedies; and
children’s programming, such as
the series Feed Your Mind. Popular
franchises on the network include
M onday’s M ovies to Die For,
Thursday’s Movies for Guys Who
Like Movies, Friday’s Dinner & A
Movie and Sunday’s I BS Destina­
tion Sunday, a four-hour block fea­
turing National Geographic Explorer
and a premiere Superstation event.
Some of the service opportuni­
ties include assisting in the biol­
ogy lab, helping students with spe­
cial needs, volunteering at the
W ashington C ounty H istorical
Museum and helping at the Rock
Creek Campus library.
The Senior Service Corps is
linked with PCC’s Senior Studies
Institute which offers a unique
program for older adults to engage
in group discussion, exchange
ideas and expand their knowledge
on a variety of subjects. These
subjects includ current events, ge­
netic engineering and through par-
ticipation in the National Issues
Forum.
The Senior Studies Institute
is run by its members who plan
and conduct the programs and
classes.
For more information on the
Senior Service Corps, please
contact Dorothy Brehm at 977-
4358.
For additional information on
the Senior Studies Institute, call
Neal Naigus at 977-4 I 22 or turn
to page 122 of PCC ’s Winter
Schedule of Classes for a com ­
plete listing of current classes
For the third time in four years, a
Portland Community College stu­
dent has earned the highest score in
the nation on the certification exam
for medical laboratory technicians.
Kari Gibson is a 1996 graduate of
the two-year Medical Laboratory
Technology program at PCC’s Cas­
cade Campus and now works at St
Vincent Medical Center. The Mult­
nomah resident received word this
week that her score was the top one
in the country.
“I was really good in English,
piath was not a strong point, and I
Was an average science student in
high school,” recalled Gibson. A
1989 Wilson High School graduate,
Gibson went to work after high
school as a secretary and reception­
ist, but several years later decided
she wanted a career change. Re­
search at the library helped narrow
her choice to the medical field, and
having brothers and sisters who had
attended PCC aided her decision to
enter PCC’s Medical Laboratory
Technology Program.
It was the right choice, she said.
“I’m fascinated by how the human
body works,” she added, admitting
that she was not strongly interested
in anatomy or physiology in high
school.
Her experience at PCC was “re-
Top-Ranked debaters in Nation
The Portland Community Col­
lege debate team presently ranks as
the top community college team in
the annual national competition or­
ganized by the National Parliamen­
tary Debate Association (NPDA).
“The strong showing of our team
is very gratifying,” said Lawrence
Galizio, director of forensics at the
college, who coaches the team. “We
look forward to competing in the
finals in C olorado S prings in
March.”
Two-and four-year colleges from
across the country - 139 in all - are
competing for this year’s final hon­
ors. Points are awarded for perfor-
mance in parliamentary debate at
forensics tournaments throughout
the nation.
Galizio said that scores are calcu­
lated beginning in September and
accumulate a running tally through­
out the academic year.
In its present top standing, PCC
ranks first among all community
colleges and also ahead of some
well-known four-year schools -
Loyalaand Rice Universities, W il­
liam and Mary, Whitman College
in Washington state, and Linfield
and Lewis and Clark colleges in
Oregon.
Three PCC teams will participate
A school counselor told Parker
that, as a black woman, she had
only three career choices: She
could be a nurse, a housewife or
a beautician She went to beauty
school, later going on to graduate
from the University o f Oregon
with a bachelor of arts degree in
sociology.
She was active in the civil rights
movement during the 1960s and
’70s. Co-workers who nominated
Parker for this year’s award say she
is a catalyst for bringing together
the African-American faculty and
classified staff to become more vis­
ible to students of color.
Sauceda has headed the UO Of­
fice of Multicultural Affairs since
1990 He serves on the Lane Com­
munity College Board of Directors
and is active in a number of coali­
tions dealing with community ser­
vice and public affairs at UO in
1981.
The daughter of one of the firs,
African-American couples to settle
in Eugene and a respected Chicano
leader both received awards from
the University of Oregon for up­
holding the ideals of Martin Luther
King Jr.
L y I lye Parker, a student adviser
in UO Office of Multicultural Af­
fairs, and Marshall Sauceda, direc­
tor of the multicultural affairs of­
fice, received the annual Martin
Luther King Jr Award for Classi­
fied Employees and Officers of Ad­
ministration from UO President
Dave Frohnmayer
Lara Moore, a receptionists at
the UO Computing Center, and
Chris Silva, payroll supervisor for
UO Facilitates Services, also re­
ceived awards.
"This award is for what they
have done, but more important it’s
for w hat they have been and w hat
thev are," Frohnmayer says.
Student Earns top med
lab score in nation
PCC announces Senior Corps
Portland Community College
has established Senior Corps,
and opportunity for seniors to
help college students and at the
same time earn satisfying per­
sonal rewards.
Joining the Seniors Corps,
says coordinator Dorothy Brehm
who is a retired senior herself,
gives older adults a fun and re­
warding way to expand their
horizons and connect with oth­
ers.
Individuals’ skills, interests
and available volunteer time will
be matched to PCC departments.
UO honors diversity
in the national tournament which
will be held in Colorado Springs
March 20 to 24. Final standings for
the year will be announced then. In
1995 and 1996. PCC's final rank
was third among all competing com­
munity colleges.
Last year, the two-member PCC
debate team competed at the inter
national debate championships in
Cork, Ireland, the only community
college to be invited to the presti­
gious event.
For more information call Susan
Hereford in the PCC Public Affairs
Office, 977-4421.
ally positive. The instructors were
very supportive. I liked the setting
because the classes are smaller and
the instructors are more accessible.”
About her top score, Gibson said
she was “very surprised. I was look­
ing to pass, not getting the highest
score," adding that her father is
“busting his buttons" over her re­
sults
Elie examination is given through
the American Society of clinical
Pathologists (ASCP) which offers
national certification toclinical labo­
ratory professionals through its
Board of Registry. According to
Terry Emmons, department chair of
the program, the examination and
subsequent certification is acknowl­
edged world-wide.
In addition to Gibson’s top score,
the PCC program also earned strong
marks, scoring in the top 5 percent
in the country of 123 programs.
PCC’s pass rate of 8 1 percent com­
pared very favorable with the na­
tional pass rate of 62 percent. The
mean score for the 1996 PCC class
was 598; the national mean score
was 442.
In 1995, Erin Marshall, a PCC
program graduate, also earned the
top score in the country. Marshall
had ajob offer the day she graduated
and is now on her way to a bachelor’s
degree at Oregon Health Sciences
University while working full time
at a Portland-area medical labora­
tory.
Other 1996 PCC graduates who
scored in the top three percent of the
country on the certification exam
were Matthew Bettger of Gladstone,
Jeff Josifek, a Beaverton resident,
Michael Roush of Portland and
Tressa Whitaker, who lives in Aloha.
All are 1996 program graduates now
working in laboratory settings.
Medical laboratory technicians
perform routine clinical laboratory
testing procedures to provide scien­
tific information needed in diagno­
sis, prognosis and treatment of dis­
ease. Graduates work in hospitals,
independent laboratories, in research
and in industry.
For more inform ation about
PCC’s Medical Laboratory Tech­
nology program, please call Terry
Emmons at 978-5671.
Parents and teachers lobby against budget cuts
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to compare notes and select litera­
ture about early childhood educa­
tion to present to the legislator.
Another Head Start parent from
the A lbina program , Rachelle
Mustafa, was already in Carter’s
office sharing how she valued the
opportunity of coming to the capitol
and meeting legislators to make her
voice known.
They jo ined the m eeting in
progress and the doors closed, but
the buzz of a lively discussion fil­
tered through to people in the outer
office.
“Our biggest accomplishment was
telling our representatives about our
individual programs throughout the
state,” said Johnson. “Each county
is so different.”
The Oregon Prekindergarten Pro­
gram, established in 1987 and mod­
eled after the federal Head Start
program, was designed to foster the
healthy development of low income
three and four year old children to
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"We expressed our concerns and
beliefs,” said a satisfied Johnson.
In addition to her involvement
with Head Start, Johnson teaches
diversity classes to teachers and is
president of the Portland chapter of
Oregonians for the Education of
Young Children. She is also a par­
ent educator for the Portland
YWCA's Young Families Program.
“They were great,” said Carter,
reflecting on the innocence of people
who are not normally involved in
the political process. “They just
wanted to know why they might not
have the $35 million for Head Start."
“I talked with them about the
differences and the reasons why
Democrats are Democrats and why
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Date: February 19, 1997
Place: PDC
1900 SW Fourth, Suite 100
Portland, OR
Time. 9:00 a.m.
Commission meetings are open to
the public. A complete agenda is
available at PDC or by calling
823-3200. Citizens with disabilities
may call 823-3232 or TDD 823-6868
for assistance at least 48 hours in
advance.
PDC is the City of Portland's urban
renewal, housing and economic
development agency.
Republicans are Republicans,” she
added. "And 1 can say is that we will
get some money from the state bud­
get, hut I don't think it will be $35
million.
She said it was too early in the
process to speculate on specific num­
bers.
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