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Mrs. Dian Jackson (center), the widow o f Rev. John H. Jackson, the Portland religious leader known for his activism in bringing positive change to the local African
American community, cuts the ribbon to the John and Dian Jackson Center on the Portland Community College Cascade Campus in north Portland. The center will
provide new classrooms for Albina Head Start and Albina Early Head Start. Also participating in Friday’s dedication ceremony is (pictured from left) PCC Board Director
Kali Thorne Ladd, former PCC Cascade Campus President Algie Gatewood, current Campus President Karin Edwards and Albina Head Start Board Chair Richard Brown.
Child Development Center
opens at PCC Cascade
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Calling themselves “Dream Makers” advocates for edu­
cation and families have dedicated a new child development
center at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus.
The new classrooms in Cascade Hall, a new three-story
academic building opening this fall, provide space for Albina
Head Start and Albina Early Head Start and bring needed
child care for people advancing their education on the north
Portland campus.
Dream
Makers
“The buildings that matter most are the ones that make a
difference in people’s lives,” officials said in describing the
new addition.
In a special honor at Friday’s dedication ceremony, the
child care classrooms were named the John and Dian Jackson
Center in honor of a local African American couple who have
worked for decades to bring positive changes to Portland.
The late Rev. John H. Jackson served as pastor of Mount
Olivet Baptist Church where he was a leader for Civil Rights
in Oregon from the 1960s until his death in 1994. A building
at Cascade was dedicated Jackson Hall years earlier in his
honor. His widow Dian continues the family legacy with more
recent donations to the PCC Cascade library and a collection
of his correspondence, sermons and personal effect to the
campus.
For many years Albina Head Start and PCC have collabo-
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