SEPT. 24, 1997 • T he P or i land O bserver
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Leading the struggle
Continued from Front
MHRC’s Non-Profit Diversity
Award will be presented to the Or
egon Advocacy Center for incorpo
rating cross-cultural actions into its
daily activities and maintaining a
diverse workforce
The Oregon Advocacy Center
works with and for persons with dis
abilities to prevent abuse and ne
glect, and to promote dignity, self
empowerment, choice and full par
ticipation in the community by se
curing legal and human rights
through advocacy, legal representa
tion and public education
MHRC’s Mayor’s Award goes to
former State Sen Shirley Gold of
Portland; and its Multnomah County
Chair Award will be presented to
Multnomah County Commissioner
Sharron Kelley.
Several awards will be presented
to individuals and organizations for
responding to injustices and pro
moting harmony as a routine part of
their daily lives.
These recipients are Floy Pep
per, the Urban League of Portland,
Judith Kahn, Sam Watson, Bob
Boyer, Norma Trimble and Joe
Briden, Sunshine Dixon, Clydie Mae
Towner, Vice Wannassay, Karen
Ettigner, Ty Ho, Sister Jane Hibbard
and Sister "Rose” Frawley, and the
Community Monitoring Advisory
Committee
Floy Pepper has been deeply in
volved in education for many years.
She taughtatChemawa Indian School
in Salem. Pepper became the first
minority teacher hired by the Port
land School District in 1945.
The Urban League of Portland
has a history of building harmony
within our community that stretches
back more than 50 years
As area director of the American
Jewish committee, Judith Kahn has
extended the scope of human rights
work of the Committee well beyond
strictly religious issues.
Sam Watson is a performing art
ist who has written a song called
"Stop the Hate” which he will be
performing at the awards dinner.
Bob Boyer was one of the first
African Americans to become a
switchman for the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
N orm a T rim ble and Joseph
Briden have recruited Native Ameri
can foster parents to allow Native
American children to be placed in
homes with similar cultures
Over the last 51 years, Clydie
Mae T owner has been foster parent
to over 100 children, and has adopted
three.
It’s not the United Nations, but it
might as well be. Each month Sun
shine Dixon hosts a dinner party for
people of diverse cultures she has
met, bringing together people who
may not speak the same language,
but recognize their common human
ity.
Vince Wannassay is a Native
American man that everyone de
scribes as “real grass roots." Within
his community he has earned a place
of respect by having overcome many
personal challenges, and by his ac
complishments in building organi
zations that meet the needs of the
Native American community.
Sister Jane Hibbard and Sister
Rose’ Frawley of Holy Redeemer
Catholic School were the coordina
tors of the 'Good in the Hood’ fes
tival in North Portland.
The M ulti-Cultural Resource
Center, recently relocated to Port
land State University, has a wealth
of culturally significant information
and items from a variety of coun
tries and cultures that can give you
hands-on experience.
Ty Ho is a Vietnamese woman
who came to the U S. as a refugee in
1975. She is a champion for the
poor and voiceless.
African-American, Hispanics,
and other minority groups joined
together to form the Community
Monitoring Advisory Committee to
demand an action plan and account
ability for progress in the education
o f minority children.
Portland Mayor Vera Katz will
present the Mayor’s Human Rights
Award and Multnomah County Chair
Beverly Stein will present the Mult
nomah County Chair Human Rights
Award
Tickets for the dinner are $12.
Reservations can be made by calling
823-5136.
SUPPORTING ACHIEVEMENT!
More than a thousand
supporters gather to
celebrate area children
'doing the right thing.'
Urban League o f Portland celebration honoring achievement by
young people start a Saturday march at Urban League Office on
Russell Street, proceed to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and
then northwest to Jefferson High Schoo! for jamboree.
T
School days, but no golden rule
Continued from Front Metro
dent of the Oregon Education Asso
ciation). Teachers' unions serve
who?
Well, we are led to understand
that Mr. Bierwirth can both read
well and hear well, so there cannot
be the slightest doubt that he was
well aware of the game-playing that
went on for decades in respect to
schools with a predominately mi
nority enrollment. The educational
disabilities that resulted may have
had much to do with today’s social
instabilities among minority youth -
not to mention their diminished earn
ing power.
Next week: The push fo r ref orms
better Teacher training, failures of
the ‘industry sector, the unions
Amtrak hop
Continued from Front
Portland to work in Vancouver, summed up most
passengers’ comments when she called the com
muter train “an absolutely wonderful, comfort
able, convenient, efficient train. It left on time
and I wasn’t stressed out when I got home."
She also likened the "friendly attitude of the
people" to the "friendliness among strangers you
find during a disaster or a snow storm "
As the 8 a m. train started to roll out of
Portland’s Union Station Friday, Vancouver spe
cial education teacher Roma Barman had a friend
photograph her in her train seat, reading a travel
magazine. The photo was for a bulletin board
project about adult readers at Hough Elementary
School.
Many people looked like seasoned riders,
quickly settling into their seats, pulling out a
book or newspaper to read, with quick or no
glances at the scenery Many pencils filled in
blank squares of crossword puzzles.
Some people took advantage of the free trains
to give their children a chance to be on areal train
adventure.
Silently, the train glided through rail yards,
freight and container cargo cars resting on one
side, warehouses on the other, fog hugging the
northwest Portland hills The patterns o f criss
crossed tracks soon narrowed to four sets, along
U S. 30 where there was very light traffic, then
down to two
The train click ity-clacked over a slough bridge,
then skipped onto the railroad bridge over the
Columbia
The river was still asleep, with some gentle
pinks slipping through the fog to mix with the
calm steel blue waters below.Log jams in the
water were going nowhere, unlike traffic on the I-
5 bridge, which kept an orderly flow throughout
the construction project
Although the nine passenger cars had a capac
ity of 800 people, only 79 were on this trip. "This
is really light. On previous days we had 120 on the
same (8 a m ) trip,” said C-Tran finance director
Fred Bateman
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