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H». P oru ani ) O bserver » F ehrdahv 19, 1997 Success begins at the skill center b \ F. d J oseph S tanton and The Black Cultural A ffairs Board at Portland State University is spon soring Black History Month events throughout February, and beyond. For details call 725-5660 Schedule of events Thursday, F ebruary 20: Dis cussion: "Brothas and Sistas. Can We Talk?” 5 p.m., PSU M u lticu l tural Center. Room 126 Smith Cen ter, 1825 SW Broadway, Free. Saturday, F ebruary 22: Black History Celebration featuring dance, such as the Pacific Northwest A fr i can-American Ballet, solo perform ers, choirs, oration and plenty o f food Benefits the Bridge Builder organization which improves the lives o f young African Americans. Portland Art Museum. Grand Ball room. 1219 SW Park Avenue, $25; P rofessor Mt K islev B ert For his outstanding contributions to engineering technology, David C ro s th w a it (1 8 9 1 -1 9 7 6 ) was awarded an honorary doctoral de gree in 1975 from Purdue Univer sity, the same campus that had awarded him a B.S. in mechanical engineering 62 years earlier. I first became acquainted with the p ro lific scientific accomplishments o f this innovative genius in the early 1970’s when, leafing through an industry publication, I encountered a lengthy article and a striking pho tograph highlighting ourebony hero. This magazine was a monthly o f the Dunham Engineering Company o f Chicago, a firm preeminent in the area o f heat transfer, ventilation and air conditioning. M rCrosthwait developed the con trol systems and the variable vacuum sy stems for heating major buildings including Rockefeller Center in New York City. His writings included a manual on heating and cooling with water, as well as guides, standards and codes dealing with heating, ven tilation, refrigeration and air condi tioning. Many city building codes around the w orld incorporated his pioneering specifications as sky scrapers rose higher and higher. In this respect, one is reminded o f another Renaissance man o f science, Howard L. Latimer, the black elec trical genius who was a highly val ued member o f the “ Edison Pio neers. Like Mr. Crosthwait. he, too, set standards for his area o f expertise, street lighting systems (in the 1880 s and 1890s). Many street lighting systems in America. Canada and Central Europe were o f his de sign and they were installed accord ing to the specifications given in his ► » F < « Í : i.'ti call 725-5660. Sunday, F ebruary 23: Film Fes tival. Short film s showing African American experience in and on film 2-5 p.m , Harrison Hall. 1833 SW llt h . $1.50 general admission. $1 for students. F e b ru a ry 24-26: A rt Show ex h ib it by local artists in c lu d in g sculptor/m uralist M ichael F lorin Dente and painter/printer Travis Bonneau. 11 a m .-3 p.m ., PSU M u ltic u ltu ra l Center, Room 126 Smith Center, 1825 SW Broad way, Free. T hursday, February 27: Black Panther Party Newspaper C om m it tee. A talk about development and distribution o f the Black Panther ings o f co-founder and c h ie f theore tician. Huey P Newton 7p.m..Smith Center Ballroom, 1825 SW Broad way, Free. F rid ay, F eb rua ry 28: Lecture by Bobby Seale, co-founder(w ith Huey P Newton) o f the Black Panther Party. Currently Seale is founder/ director o f R.E.A.C.H., an organi zation that teaches community or ganizing techniques. 8:30 p.m. (Ten tative). Sm ith Center B allroom . Room 355. 1825 SW Broadway, $5 admission. Saturday, M arch 1: Black C ul tural A ffairs Board Dance. Semi- formal attire: dress to impress. M u sic provided by disc jockey M ix Masta K D 8:30 p.m.-2 p.m.. Red Lion H otel’s M a x i’ s, Downtown, 310 SW Lincoln, $6. newspaper, dedicated to the Party's goals and based on theory and teach- r - . i* v VA’ -, *> * f •> * .; £ •« V • • I« « Linfield class schedule available Mark Simpson and son David Crosthwait bi I Black History Month at PSU A nnei Mark Simpson isone ofthe Skill Center’s most recent success sto ries. He graduated from the Skill Center December 15, 1996. M r Simpson was fortunate enough to be employed by UPS in their data service department downloading formation to computers and data collectors, and going to school at the same time It was a long day for Mr. Simpson but he was able to get through it. When Mark was asked what he did before he was a student at the Skill Center, he replied that he worked as a radiographer tech nician at Precision Caste Parts where he x-rayed metal castings looking for defects and gas, cracks, dirt and shrinking in metal cast ings tor the aerospace industry. When asked about prior education and training, Mark replied that he had a few years o f college at the University o f Oregon and that he is a high school graduate. Mark Simpson is 36 years old and has three children. He has been married to the same women for 16 years. Congratulations! on ¿7/ P age A5 m anuals. As w o u ld D a vid and racist barriers o f the school dis Crosthwait in a later time, Latimer tricts’ despite their inspired rheto traveled the w orld to inspect his ric and media displays o f "cute little creations for adherence to the stan colored children — good grant bait." dards he had set. We were in absolute agreement When I designed and taught the with my often - stated premise that three-semesterclass"Black Economic " I f the children and youth do not Experience’ at PSU in theearly 1970’s, know w ho- they-are’ or the heights I early on took the students on field to which their fathers and mothers trips around the city, pointing out the have risen in the sciences and arts key elements o f urban infrastructure and letters, then they w ill have been that had been invented and patented denied the most plausible, construc by black geniuses. The students were tive and documented vehicle for their especially impressedw hen we wentto effective m otivation. It is almost as the top floors o f Portland's tallest though there are some who see eco buildings, where we would survey the nomic or cultural advantage in that amenities and facilities for creature they gang bang' and fight tu rf wars comfort. to control the drugs destroying our "T h in k about it,” I would ex communities." This insightful com claim. " I f you agree with me that it ment was made over 20 years ago. is quite a feat to get a drink o f water Crosthwait ’clued-me-in’ to where flush a toilet or enjoy the comforts o f I should pursue my research: "ther heating and air conditioning here at modynamics". his forte, the study o f the 40 or 50 story level - then I am the transfer of heat by currents o f gas sure you w ill find it m ind-boggling or liquid (convection) or by radiation. to consider that the pioneering pat How elsecou Id one become the world's ents o f the African American engi expert on getting heating and air con neer. David Crosthwait. escalated' ditioning to the top floors o f sky scrap the art such that we now have the ers? The intent was not to convert my same smooth-working amenities at calling to that o f an engineer but to the level o fth e Empire State B u ild further my appreciation ofthe follow ing an well above a hundred floors in ing black genius who appeared in my America. Europe. Japan. Hong Kong book. “ Black Inventors o f America ”. — the w o rld !’’ Sic transit gloria ( How And to pass the word along to voung fleeting is fame). engineers. In 1973 and 1974,1 had a number Norman R illieux who was sent to o f long distance phone conversa the best engineering schools in Eu tions with Mr. Crosthwaite. To say rope where by the age o f 25 (1828) that they were productive would be he was instructor in thermodynam the understatement o f the century. ics at the top technical school in A fter all. I was conversing with a Paris. Returning to the U S. in the man who had been granted 34 U S. 1830’ s he invented the ’ Sugar Re patents and 80 foreign patents, but finer' which evaporative process o f sadly, not bitterly, he recounted the chemical processing paved the way same d ifficulties and obstructions I for a w orld-w ide industry . was facing here in Portland he could not make a dent in the “ bureaucratic K A I S E R P McMUAPHY'S APPUANCC CCNTCA Schedules fo r spring semester courses are now available from the Linfield Portland campus, located in Northwest Portland. The L infield program is designed to meet the educational needs o f adults who wish to complete their bachelor's degrees or receive more education while continuing to work on a fu ll- or part-time basis. Degrees available in Portland are account ing. management, business in fo r mation systems, international busi ness, social and behavioral sciences and arts and humanities. In addi tion, students may complete c e rtifi cates in accounting, human resource management, marketing and com puter information systems. C e rtifi cates are geared for those students who wish to develop skills that can be learned in college level courses but who either already have a bachelor’ s degree or may not be interested in pursuing a degree at this time. Registration for spring semester classes has started and w ill continue through February 24. For registra tion and general program informa tion. contact Janet G ifford or Pat Kestner, the local advisors, at 413- 7166 respectively O ffice hours are 10a.m. to5:30p.m . Monday through Friday for G ifford. Kestner’s office hours are Mondays from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Courses are taught at L in fie ld ’ s Portland campus, located at 2 2 15 N W Northrup and 2255 NW Northrup. L in fie ld ' s program offers evening and weekend classes, college credit for prior learning based on work life experience, financial aid, and local academic a dvising . One o f the strengths o f the program, according to Rich Emery, director o f the D iv i sion o f C ontinuing Education at Linfield, is the availability o fG iffo rd and Kestner to talk to local residents about their personal degree goals and to offer suggestions on how students can design a schedule that best meets his or her needs. L in field College, through its D i vision o f Continuing Education, o f fers sim ilar programs in Albany, Astoria, Bend. Coos Bay, Eugene, M cM innville, Salem and Longview, Washington. The ARC Of Multnomah Announces Scholarship Competition Portland, Oregon, February 12, 1997 - The Are of Mult nomah County today announced its second annual scholar ship competition for college-bound high school seniors in Multnomah County. Application requirements include sub mission of a 500-word essay on “Valuing Diversity; How an individual with developmental disability has affected my life.” H ie winner of the competition will receive a $500 scholarship to the two-or four-year college of his/her choice. Details on entering the contest are available through the counseling offices of high schools in Multnomah County, or by calling The Arc of Multnomah at 223-7279 February is Black History F r o m t h e J a n u a r y 17. 1 9 9 7 . d r a w i n g f i t prize - f 1,000 plus jacket R obert B. Lambert. Milwaukie 4th prize - MEGABUCKS D O U G H denim baseball jacket Lillian A. McMahon. Portland Anna Braun. Seaside Rose A nn Jones. Keizer Sharon Jirges. Gervais Delons Hanson. La Pine Pat Hamann. W est Linn W ally Olsen. O regon City Verna Backsen, W oodburn E. Dickerson. Terrebonne David Evans. Klamath Falls W illiam P Hussman. W eiser ID Terry L. Belien, Portland Mana Stolecka. W est Linn Melva Thomas. Wasco Laurence A. 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