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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
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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-
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Mark Simpson and son
David Crosthwait
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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!
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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
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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
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Registration for spring semester
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through February 24. For registra
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tion. contact Janet G ifford or Pat
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7166 respectively O ffice hours are
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6:30 p.m. Courses are taught at
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Northrup.
L in fie ld ' s program offers evening
and weekend classes, college credit
for prior learning based on work life
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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
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nomah County today announced its second annual scholar
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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
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Verna Backsen, W oodburn
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Melva Thomas. Wasco
Laurence A. Pederson, Siletz
M. K. Underhill. Baker City
James Meumer. Tigard
D o ro th y Myers. Astona
Betty Binnebose, Springfield
D oro thy Swagerty. Eugene
W ayne Smith, Merlin
D eborah Meeuwsen, Salem
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Jean Oberdick. Grants Pass
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