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Portland Youth To
Receive $4,000
Scholarship For College
K elva Johnson, a senior at U.S. G rant H igh School in
Portland, is one o f 153 high school seniors from across the U.S.
who has been honored by the C oca-C ola B ottlers and The
C oca-C ola C om pany to receive a scholarship for college.
She jo in e d 152 oth er high school seniors A pril 23-26 at the
C oca-C ola S cholars N ational C om petition in A tlanta.
The U.S. G rant H igh School senior found out she w as nam ed
a Regional scholar by the S cholars F oundation, and will start
college in the Fall w ith a $4,000 C oca-C ola scholarship to
study at any accredited college or university in the United
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Last month the former Alex Haley
Farm in Tennessee, more than 290
African American college students and
college-age adults from the Children
Defense Fund's Black Com munity
Crusade for Children (BCCC) com
pleted a rigorous two-week training
program that prepared them to serve
low-income children at 33 Freedom
Schools in 12 states and the District o f
Columbia this summer.
At an inspiring graduation cer
em ony, M ayersville, M ississippi
M ayor Unita Blackwell shared stories
o f the early days o f the Civil Rights
Movement to inspire and sustain these
young student leaders o f the new
movement for children.
O ur Black youths are answering the
call. The crisis children face in com
munities all over thiscountry demands
immediate action, not talk. I’m so
.grateful that these young people are
inspired and motivated by the same
sense o f purpose that I felt as a college
student in 1960 to work to reclaim our
communities and our children.
In those early days in the Civil
Rights M ovement, the support we got
from each other gave us the courage to
carry us through harrowing days. The
bonds we m ade then have endured a
lifetime as w e have gone on, each in
our own w ay, trying to m ake a differ
ence. Last month as these young people
from the Student Leadership Network
for Children worked and learned and
dreamed o f a new order together, bonds
were forged and hopes were strength
ened. They left the Haley farm ready
to m ake a positive difference in the
lives o f 2,300 children this summ er
and beyond, and, as the Bible says,
“the num ber o f disciples multiplied
greatly.”
Freedom School training teaches
young college-age leaders to help chil
dren by com bining feeding programs
with cultural and education enrich
ment, as well as recreation, advocacy,
and conflict management. Parents
must attend weekly seminars and are
involved in their children’s progress.
The adult sponsors and college-age
interns g raduated from Freedom
School training through the Ella Baker
Child Policy Training Institute, held
Robert W. Franz
Cancer Research
Center
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Recipient Pursuing
Medicine
W hile m ost high school graduates spend the
carefree sum m er m onths at odd jo b s, 17 year old
K im berly M cClain will be w orking side by side
with the nationally know n research team at the
Robert W. Franz C ancer Research Center. The
G rant High School valedictorian has been se
lected as the second recipient o f the Karen Bender
M cCuen M em orial Future Scholars Fund. The
fund w as established by fam ily and friends o f
B ender w ho died o f m elanom a at Providence
Portland M edical C enter in O ctober 1996.
Each year, a Portland area high school student
with an interest in science and biology is selected
to spend the sum m er w orking w ith researchers
and physicians, exploring science in a laboratory
setting at the Franz C ancer Research Center.
M cClain will have the rare opportunity to learn
about the science o f im m unotherapy— a focus o f
the Franz research team. Scientists are engaging
the b o d y 's im m une system to seek and destroy
cancerous tum ors.
“ I’m actually able to do som e o f the things I ’ ve
only read about in books,” says M cClain, w ho is
perform ing basic laboratory functions under the
direction o f Bernie Fox, Ph D., chief. Laboratory
o f M olecular and T um or Im m unology.
M cClain w as selected by representatives o f the
Franz C ancer Research Center, Providence Port
land M edical Foundation and G rant high School
Institute for Science and M athem atics. At Grant
she w as president o f the National H onor Society,
captain o f the dance team and a m em ber o f the
G rant High School Royal Blues Choir.
M cClain plans to attend the U niversity o f
W ashington in the fall in hopes o f becom ing a
doctor.
this year at the University o f Tennes
see and at the former Alex Haley Farm
in Tennessee, which is the spiritual
home for the BCCC and C D F' s center
for intergenerational leadership de
velopment.
Founded in 1992 in honorofM s. Ella
Baker, who was an inspiration to thou
sands o f young people like me in the
Civil Rights Movement, the Ella Baker
Child Policy Training Institute contin
ues her legacy in our new movement for
children through the w ork ofthis genera
tion o f young servant leaders.
Freedom Schools unite parents,
young adults, and com m unity leaders
around the com m on goal o f giving
children a safe and positive educa
tional sum m er experience. Like the
Mississippi Freedom Schools o f 1964,
they tap into and strengthen the Black
com m unity tradition o f self-help and
rebuild the bridges between the gen
erations. They feed hungry children
(most sites serve meals provided by
the U.S. Department o f Agriculture
Sum m er Food Service Program ), nur
ture learning starved minds, and bring
light to spiritually dam aged lives. For
many children. Freedom Schools pro
vide safe havens in dangerous neigh
borhoods, as well as the m entors and
positive role models o f Black college
students. W e all love Michael Jordan,
but the role model our children need is
someone who grew up near them, who
went o ff to college, and came back
hom e to give back, the college stu
dents running Freedom Schools serve
children ages 5-18 for6-8 weeks, inte
grating reading, violence prevention,
chess, and social action in an activity
based curriculum that promotes so
cial. cultural and historical awareness.
In Freedom Schools this summer,
young children will exchange letters
w ith new pen pals in Freedom Schools
i n other states and begin to forge bonds
o f hope and commitment for yet an
other generation.
Reaching across the country, the
network o f those pledged to build a
world safe for children expands, and
the BCCC continues to weave and
reweave the rich fabric o f com m unity
that historically has been the corner
stone for the healthy development o f
Black children.
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