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Page B6___________________________________________________ í l !‘ © h s e r u e r ______________________________________________ March 2, 2005 S ports Trailblazers Honor African Americans that the career o f the greatest receiver in NFL history may be ending. (AP photo) Seahawks Release Player Jerry Rice (AP) - Jerry Rice was released by the Seattle Seahawks on Fri day, perhaps signaling an end to the career of greatest receiver in NFL history. The release was announced in a short statement from the team, which acquired the 42-year-old Rice from Oakland in a trade last season. “We are grateful to Jerry and the role he was willing to fill for the Seahawks last year,” coach Mike Holmgren said in the statement. “He is one o f the greatest players in the history of our game and we wish him nothing but the best.” Rice is the career leader in re ceptions with 1,549; total yards with 22,895; and receiving touch downs with 197, all far ahead of the closest pursuer. He also leads in total touchdowns with 207,32 more Three pioneers in the African A m eri can m edical com m unity were honored at a recent Trail Blazers Game by the team and the Portland Bridge Builders. Dr. Samuel J Brown Jr., Dr. W alter C. Reynolds, and Dr. Booker T. Lewis, were am ong those honored last week. Brown has worked with various den tal health program s and has held m em berships with the O regon Society o f Dentistry for Children, the Oregon Den tal A ssociation and M ultnomah Dental Society. He practiced dentistry for 46 years before his retirem ent in 2001. Reynolds was the first African Ameri can to graduate from the U niversity o f O regon M edical School in 1949. He served for 20 years as a medical exam iner and founded the Phil Reynolds Scholarship Fund and the Phil Reynolds Medical Clinic, a private clinic and phar macy in the heart of Portland’s African Am erican com m unity, in honor of his father. Lewis is a form er m ember of the M ultnom ah County Republican Cen- P hoto by S am F o r e m k h /N B A P hotos Three medical pioneers in the African-American community join members o f the Portland Bridge Builders during Black History Month ceremonies by the Portland Trail Blazers. tralC om m ittee, the W elfare Advisory Board All three doctors chose the North Portland and has worked with civil rights organiza- Nurse Practitioners Com m unity Health Clinic as tions. He was also one o f the founders o f the recipient oftheir $500 awards from the Blazer A m erican State Bank. organization. than Emmitt Smith, who announced his retirement earlier this month. R ice in d ic a te d a fte r the Seahawks were elim inated by St. Louis in the playoffs last month that he still was interested in play ing. “I still feel like I have football left in me, a lot of football in me,” he said. However, it remains to be seen whether there is a team who might be interested in signing a 42-year- old, who began his career with San Francisco in 1985 and was on three Super Bowl winners with the 49ers, winning the Super Bowl MVP in 1989. R ice’s possible return to San Francisco has been a hot topic in the Bay Area, but new 49ers coach Mike Nolan has mostly discour aged such speculation. The Portland Trailblazers and the Portland Bridge Builders continued their celebra tion o f Black History Month by honoring Lieutenant Colonel Sandra D. Murray, the highest ranking American woman in the Oregon National Guard, at a recent Trail Blazer game. Murray survived the 9 /1 1 attack on the Pentagon, is a Gulf War Veteran, played professional basketball in Europe and was the first girl to play on a boys team at Alabama High School. Murray was presented with a $500 award, which was donated to the Harriet Tubman School Choir, Women In Action, Jeffries Memo rial Christian Church, Oregon Military Museum and the African American Youth Leadership Conference. P hoto by S am F orencich /N B A P hotos Advertise with diversity in ilH j J o r t l a n h (O b se ru e r Opening Doors to Opportunity everyone, even those who haven’t thought about education beyond the pitfalls at home when she would high school. say, ‘Oh, I’ll do it later.” A recent study by the Bureau of B osovik is o rig in a lly from the Census affirms that college Ukraine, and said being a minority graduates, over their lifetime earn only makes her work harder. 73 percent more than high school “I’m just trying to do the best I graduates. This figure has increased can,” she said. “In Ukraine, it would from approximately 47 percent in be harder to get into college. We 1949. came here to have a better educa Adults age 18 and over with a tion and better ourselves.” bachelor’s degree earned an aver Aisha Keita, another senior in age of $50,623 a year i n 2001, whi le the program, isoriginally from Mali, those with a high school diploma West Africa. Her family came to the earned $26,795 and those without a United States four years ago. high school d iplom a averaged “Getting good grades is not just $ 18,793. Advanced degree-holders something I have to do - 1 want to made an average of $72,869 in 2001. do it," Keita said. “I’ve very proud Asians and Pacific Islanders had of myself because 1 try my hardest. the highest proportion of college We have chances here. We want to graduates (47 percent), followed work as hard as we can to make our by non-Hispanic whites (29 per dreams come true. ASPIRE really cent), African-Americans (17 per helps." cent) and Hispanics (11 percent). Rather than focusing only on Bethy H ewes, w ho runs the high-achieving or “at risk” stu ASPIRE program at Marshall, said dents, ASPIRE is all-inclusive, for at first, many students at the school continued from Metro were on middle ground and not planning on going to college. The prospects have changed as her mentors reach every senior and junior with information. Hewes sees education after high school as the fast track to gaining a direction in life. “Even if they don’t work in their field after college, there are so many things they’d be eligible for just because they have a degree,” she said. “I want to give them the chance to have the quality of life they yearn for.” She finds the average family of ten doesn’t know how accessible college can be. “They just think, ‘W edon’thave money, we can’t do it,” she said. Hewes said there is a lot of finan cial aid to be had if only people looked for it. ASPIRE sprouted from four pilot schools in 1998. An AmeriCorps grant was awarded to ASPIRE in 2001, and assistance from the Ford Family Foundation and Oregon University Systems helped the pro gram bloom like wildflowers. More than 50 schools around Oregon have implemented the ASP1 RE pro gram into their campuses. In Portland, ASPIRE is at Cleve land, Franklin, Grant, Jefferson, M adison, P o rtlan d N ight and R oosevelt Schools, along with Marshall. Currently, there are 10 volun teers at Marshall Campus to help Hewes out. She said there is a need for more volunteers willing to give up a couple o f hours a month to meet with students, talk about edu cation possibilities, give them in formation, help with assignments and more. Training is provided. Ideally, she’d eventually like to see a total of 50 volunteers. For more information on the pro gram and college opportunities, visit www.aspireoregon.com or call Bethy Hewes at 503-916-5240, ext. 1229. 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