Results! World Literacy Crusade Portland Openi11 Doors Throu lz Education \ I 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 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:· r~ a .Q 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 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- methoc>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.