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World Literacy
Crusade Portland
Openi11 Doors
Throu lz Education
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n t easy fl r a man to admit he
can ·1 read. But FrankJ n had
reached a point in hi\ life \\-here he
'1mply had to do something. He wa,
n his late forties. working as a
maintenan c man and tr) ing to anend
Portland ommunity ollege in the h pc,
of a ·hie\ ing his GED. Franklyn lried ,e\-
eral times. but his functional illitcrac)
made it -.cem insunnountable.
Then he visited the W0•ld
~ '\
Literacy
ru,ade of
.. ~
Portland and thing, began
to ch, ngc. He \..,a, one of
the fiN ,tudent, to walk ~ 1
through the doors after
the center opened. In the
)l!',1r and a half ,ince
World Literal"\' Crnsade 1111or Da,·e McKe1·i11
then. hi, ability 10 read ha.
lllUI 111'0 <!{ hi.I: _\'OIIIIM S/tl{fl'lll.\ .
turned around dramaticall .
• ''Re,uhs like Franklyn's
are not uncommon here," ,a),
about education and learning: · rnunication. ,he changeJ. I fer ,h) nN,
WL
Portland Executive Director,
um:ntly, the World Litera ·y ,mrted to dl\appear nght before my e)e,.
Hillary Lar-.on. "L. Ron Hubbard\ ,tudy Cru,ade Portland literacy center i, open to faer ,ince then. ,he\ been able to \\,alk
method, make it possible for anyone to the public on Tue'>day~. Thur,day, and on up to w1yone w1d talk without feeling
learn. nd reading is like any other ,ub- the wcekend. A group of tutor.. deliver, embair.i.,sed or \Vithdrawn. It\ a moment
ject- if one can recogni,e the banier, to the literacy our..e, free of charge. The I'll ne1er forge1.··
under..umding. ,md know, how 10 over- center ha., a wide mnge of pee pie oming
TI1en there\ the ,tory ol We,ley. \1 ho
come them. then anything can be in for help. The age, rnnge from ,ix year. had been told he had DD ( ttentinn
achieved. And that's just what we do old to one lady who\ over seventy. '"And Deficit Disorder) by a '>t:hlx1I p,ych1alri,t.
here- tea h people h w to learn."'
not only that," add, Hillary. "\\-e have and wa, ordered to ,mrt taking Ri1,1lin.
When Hillary i, asked why she people here from every walk of life: Hi, mmhcr didn"t want him on the drug.
opened the Portland chapter. ,he admits, Caucasian~.
frican-American,, anu ,o took him to the WL center. fter
"I never really paid much anention to illit- ietnan,e,e. Hi,panic,. And it\ like a big only ,ix month, of tutoring in Mr.
era y. and didn't think that it would farnil ." Word of mouth h:b served the Hubbard\ method. hi mother reponed
impact pe pie\ live. so heavily.
program well, and they now deliver to that ,he· d gotten a letter from hi, teacher
··1 didn't think then it ould be the dozen, of people every week.
,aying that he \va, doing very well. nd
root of crime and drug abuse. I had been
The literacy center has also fonned a he wa, ,pared from taking Ritalin.
working in the area of drug rehabilitation, collabormion with the Califomia-ba-.cd
We,lev\ mother wrote in that ··we.
and wa, exposed to , me of the stories Hollywood ducation and Literacy i, a lot c:lmer nm..,. He\ not fru,trJtcd
coming out of the founding chapter of the Project (H.E.L.P.) which ha, been training like he wa, before. He\ more secure and
World Literacy rusade in C mpton, tu11m and trainef\ from P rtland. The suc- at ea<,e. He\ more cager to read."
alifomia, and was o moved LO sec how ce.,..,ful H . . L.P. model speciali,e, in
"Our target now." sa , Lar-.on, '•i, to
the~ gang members found they ould ,tudy ,kill,. job readinm training and expand our houf\ and the number of
learn. and just quit the gangs. It wa, remedial literacy tutoring.
volunteer.. We want to get parent, and
miraculou ."
According to Dorothy agy. a volun- people from other group, to come in and
Within one weel Hillary had WL
teer tutor, "It's hard to find \vord, to train ,o the) too can u,e the tud)
tutor.. c me to the Portland area and help de,cribe ho1v it feel, to help out here, but Technology. We \H1uld love to de\elop a
her establish the program. They trained when you can change condition, in a coalition \vith other organization, that arc
\ulunteer, and hclpeJ mise local support. pe"on\ life you've made an enom,ou, active in the communlly and ,tart \\,Ork.ing
"The fact that we didn't have the omnbution. not only to that person but to together to reall) h,mdle the problem, of
Ludy Technology here was unaccept- your,elf a, v.ell."
illitcraq 111 Portland.
a le to me:· says Hi I lary. "It· so
he mentions how one of her ,tu-
"People need to realize that they cw1
uncomplicated. When I fir L tell people dcnts came in to the center not I ng ago. actually help another human being find a
about how Hubbard's meth d work . •· he wa, terribly shy. and had difficulty way to a better life through lilera y. And
they are surprbed-it' so simple. But with her reading and speaking becau-.c we need to take more rcsix)n,ibility for
then they see h w well it works, how it she \\-a, ,o introverted. But during a the pc pie around u,. That\ ho\\- ,ocicty
just strips away the false idea they had ,ection of a cour,e which deals 11 ith m- geh better:·
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High Standards Achieved
by Delphian School
ounded in 1974 on a
wooded 700 acre campus
in hcridan. Oreg n at tJ,e
jun "lure of the Willameue
Valley and the
oa<,t
Range. the Delphian hool i, a pri-
vate K-12 day and boarding !-.chool
with a local, national <Uld internation-
al ,tudent txxly. It i, the founding
,chool of the Delphi
chool,
etwork. a :,even-member (and
&TfOwingJ group of .,choob around the
untry where the cdu ·ational break-
through. of L. Ron Hubbard are fu lly
utiliLed.
Many students and parent., ani e
at the Delphian ch I intere:,led in
it<, unique and thorough way of
preparing rnrdcnt. f r life. By
empoweri ng tude nts wi th tudy
Technology the . hool often lake.
F
student<, beyond a norn,al college
prep education Lo preparation for the
fi ne,t uni ersitie:, in the country r
for direct access to the profes,ional
world or profe-,sional training.
Becau-.e th <,ehool\ app a ·h i'> to
achi ve tlawle'i\ competen e with the
ba. ics, <,tudenl'> be ome prepared lo
master Delphi's rigorow,, appl ica-
Lion-oriented sel of graduation
requirements.
Per Mark iegel, .,,i.,tant to the
Headm~ tcr and Executive Dire tor
of the
regon
ederalion of
Ind ·pendent chool,, 'The key to
achieving the~ high tandards ha.'>
bee11 the llld Technology of Mr.
Hubbard. Our tudcnts con<,i-,tenLly
What I Think of
Study Technology
T
here's been a lot of talk
lately about re,earch
that L. Ron Hubbard
did on the ,ubject of
.,Ludy and book., he \\-rote to help
.,tudent, do better 111 ,chool -
.,omething
called
tudy
Technology.
tudy Technology - an edu-
cational approach which tea -he'>
one HOW T L R
i,
, mething that I hold very dear
tl m) hean. 1vhich i-, why I ha1e
-,upported ii (and u-,cd it!) for
many year-,.
, a parent. I v ant my child.
and all children. to leave -,chool
with a real chan ·c to make it 111
the world. nything that can
contribute to that Jc,ef\e, a
clo,e look.
But the problem run., much
deeper than that. Kid, v. ho don ·1
undcNand the world around
them, how rt work, and how
they can contribute to it, arc ea,
ily overahelmed. They make
bad choi e-.. The link, between
illiteracy. crime and drug abu'>e
ha c h en demon,trated ugai n
and again .
Study Technology ha, hecrr in
m,c all over the world for a quar-
ter of a century. It wa, th1-, exact
tell u, that rt grve., them
w1 unnmtakable advan-
tage. Two gra luate, 111
part1 ·ular. \\ ho ha\e
founJcd multr-milhon
dollar companie., 111
their liN five year,.
have ,ingled out Study
Technolog) a., tJ1e 1110,t
important tool they
garned for learning
new. technical .,ubjech
4u1ckly and 111dcpcn-
dently··
The Sheri.Jan cam-
pu, pride, it,elf on prO\ iding a
showcase for Mr. Hubbard\ educa-
tional w-riting'.-1 in action. Over th • la\l
twenty year, it ha.., delivered . 1ud
Technology trnining to thou,and\ of
student, during iL, ,ummcr i,e,'l!on,
and student, report u,ing thes •
technique, ,ucces,fully in many
educational ., tting,. During the
'>Chool yeat the '>Chl">c>I ha.., ho,led
national . peaker, w1d numcrou, edu-
alional fficial~ at th '>CC ndary and
metho<.1 that enabled me, -,om·-
onc w-ho ne1,cr fini,hcd high
·hool, to .1ch1eve one of 111}
greate,t goal,- to be a J 'L pilot.
nd not ju,t that but a jct pilot
licen,ed to fly ,i dilTerelll tyf)C"
of jct air raft. I have al,o per-
sonally <,e n thi!-. rniraculou:,
mentoring tool bring hope and
jo to the live, or many children
whether rn rnncr-cit communi-
lle'>. school, or at home.
I think tud Technolog i-,
.,omething worth getting excited
about. It', a tool. and it work.,.
But it do·.,11·1 v 01k on 1h own
Pare1m, tead1er, and -,1udenh
have to do two thrng, liN : learn
how t I u.,e it and then decide 10
ll'>C it.
I hop· you· 11 take the lime to
find out more about . tudy Tech-
nology and pplicd . chola-,tic,.
It might change your 111111d about
the krnd of future we can create
for all our children .
John Tra olta,
. po/...c'.Wlllll.
Applied Sc lw/{/\tin
uni\el"!lity levd ,pcaJ-.rng highly of the
re,ull\ pm-.rblc \\,1th the,e ne\1-
metho<h. mong the \ i-,itor, v. a,
Michelle Doyle. Dirc<.:tor of the
Oflicc ol < n Public Education, US
Department ol 1:ducatron . . he
remarked lo ,tudenl, alter lmmng the
cla.,-,rnom, am.I -.cerng their indepen-
dent 'lkill,: "Knm1ing how to leam"'
1mport,m1. You interact \\-1th teacher,
a, mcntol",. ou can rc,can:h duectly
\1-ith muce material. That\ imprcs-
,rvc tn m ·'··
Career apprenuce,hip, and a
L"hallenging pr..tctrcal program al.,o
play a key role 111 any full application
of Study Tech. ay, Mitch euhau,er,
Direcl<lr of Profes,ional I ·vclopmcnt
at lhe .,chc>c>I. "My department fcx:u,-
e, on balancing acad ·mic, with
I< ugh. real Irle proJcct,. Thi, help'>
.,,ud nt, connect educauon to their
own pufJX>-,e, w1d we bypa'>'> many of
th· motivational problem, often ..ccn
today. In,tead we ',t,'C aggrc.,.,1ve .,tu-
denL'> who know ho to .,Ludy and
why they are doing it.