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Four Black Queens - Thenand Now
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from Front
A fter high school, M arks at­
tended the University o f Arizona.
She has lived in Texas, W est Vir­
ginia and Georgia. She has more
than 10 years o f high school volley
ball and basketball coaching expe­
rience.
WHERE ISSHE NOW?
Robin M arks, 45 currently lives
in Tucson, Ariz. and w orks as a
middle school math teacher. Her
ad v ice to a sp irin g Q u ee n s o f
Rosaria is to listen to your friends
if they urge you to try out. Marks
says without follow ing that advise
for her, she would have never be­
com e involved with Rose Festival.
RAIN A BEAVERS
Fast forw ard five years and the
Rose Festival crow ned Raina Bea­
vers from Franklin High School, the
only person o f color on the court in
1985.
"R ose Festival w asjust the thing
to do if you w ere a senior in high
school,” said Beavers, “ But 1 didn’t
think 1 had a chance o f w inning.”
W hen she was nam ed queen, all
she could rem em ber is crying and
applause.
“ I rem em ber Emily Perry from
Grant High School hugging me from
behind,” she said. “1 was so excited
and 1 couldn’t believe it happened.”
B e a v e rs sa id p e o p le o fte n
w rongly assum ed that because
s h e ’s b la ck th a t she atte n d e d
Jefferson High School. She went
on the graduate from Portland State
University with a degree in speech
com munications.
It then took 13 years before an ­
other black queen was crowned.
“I started to think about are we
ever going to have another queen
o f color. And then we had it two
years in a row ,” said Beavers.
WHERE IS SHE NOW?
Portland. T he4.0student also knew
she was going places.
“ No one else w as g o in g to
Stanford. I had a full scholarship,”
she said.
M oreland went on to graduate
from Stanford University and then
to G eorge W ashington U niversity
School o f M edicine in W ashing­
ton, D.C.
portunity for college.
W hen Rose Festival time cam e
around, she th ought about the
w ords o f w isdom from her former
vice-principal. But Starks was also
doubtful because she d id n ’t con­
sider herself popular.
But Mr. G allati’s “You are going
to be Q ueen som eday” kept re­
m inding her to try out. Starks says
the Rose Festival process is very
long and she d id n ’t think she was
going to m ake it.
“ It was really kind o f scary and
intim idating," she said.
Starks rem em bers being treated
like royalty during the Rose Festi­
val process. Her advice to som eone
wanting to do Rose Festival or any­
thing is to go for it and not listen to
negativity.
There were five black w omen on
the court in 1999,the m ostever. But
Starks holds the title as the last
A frican-A m erican Rose Festival
Queen.
Raina B eavers-Evans, 40, re­
cently rem arried and is enjoying
m arried life
WHERE ISSHE NOW?
while living in
Dr. A lisha M oreland-Capuia re­
B e a v e r to n .
She ow ns her c e n tly m o v e d
own consult­ back to Portland.
ing com pany She is the m other
and hosts a o f one-year-old
Q ueen’s Tea D an iel Jr. H er
each year for m essage to stu­
past
R o se dents attending
Festival royalty. She has had a stint Jefferso n today
as an actress in the Portland area is not to give up.
“You can achieve and learn any­
and hosted Portland Cable Access
show NE Spectrum for 10 years. where despite the circum stances,”
She has a daughter, 13 and a step­ she said.
AMBERSTARKS
son and stepdaughter.
A m ber Starks d idn’t think she
ALISHA MORELAND
WHERE ISSHE NOW?
In 1998, Jefferson High School had a chance o f being crow ned in
Starks, 26, graduated from Uni­
senior A lisha M oreland decided 1999, considering it was the year
that she needed to run for Rose after Alisha Moreland won the title. versity o f O regon in 2003 with a
Festival to bring some positive news But Starks rem em bers her assistant bachelor’s degree in general sci­
ence.
S he
vice principal at H arriet Tubm an,
about her school.
w orked at the
M oreland said she was in an Joseph Gallati, tell ing her she would
u n iv e rs ity ’s
aw kw ard position, because people be Q ueen o f Rosaria someday.
n e u r o s c ie n c e
“ Every time he would see me in
w ere n o t v ery e x c ite d a b o u t
la b fo r th re e
Jefferson as an institution or a place the hall he would address me as
years studying
Q ueen A m ber,” said Starks, “ He
o f learning.
F an co n i A n e ­
“I thought I could change their ju st believed it and I started to
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mia and DN A to
believe it as well. If it w asn’t for him
perception,” she said.
prevent cancer.
M oreland affirm s that she re­ m aybe I w ouldn't have done it.”
Starks attended Jefferson for a Recently, Starks m oved back to
c e iv e d a q u a lity ed u c a tio n at
Jefferson, both socially and aca­ short t i me duri ng her freshman year Portland and w orks in a lab at O r­
dem ically. At the tim e, she felt she but transferred to Cleveland be­ egon Health Sciences University.
was the best person to represent cause she felt there was more o p ­ She is also a model.
Contributions Recognized
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from Front
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base by offering financial plan­
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Start and Rosa Parks Elementary,
am ong other locations in north
and northeast Portland.
Stigler says, “N ine tim es out of
10 these people com e back to me,
because som e people are afraid of
being part o f a huge financial in­
stitu tio n .”
Banking m anagem ent has spot­
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w h ere n e ig h b o rh o o d sc h o o ls
have fallen short.
“ Because of the schools' chal­
lenges not being able to provide
Home Ec and other types o f finan­
cial classes, this gives W ells Fargo
the opportunity to com e in there,”
Stigler says.
The im portance of developing
areas with strained public resources
is not lost on Andy A nderson, ch ief
historian for W ells Fargo, co n sid ­
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mixing with struggling N ative and
Spanish-speaking populations
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over 2,000 com panies across the
United States. C anada and Latin
America. The vast m ajority o f the
com panies were independent co m ­
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runs nine m useum s and sets aside
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