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S
t. Andrew Catholic
church presented
awards on Jan. 15,
to
parishioners
and community organi-
zations who live out the
values of Martin Luther
King Jr. Parishioners
receiving the award are
Catherine Bax and Ann
Turner, M.D. The com-
munity
organization
award was given to Vet-
erans For Peace, Chapter
72 in Portland.
The members of Veter-
ans For Peace, Chapter 72
in Portland Oregon live
and work in the spirit of
that sermon by Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. The
national organization of
VFP was founded in 1985
by U.S. Veterans in re-
sponse to the global nu-
clear arms race and U.S.
military interventions in
Central America.
The local chapter in
Portland was founded
in 2003. The Portland
chapter consist of veter-
ans from WWII up and
through most recent en-
gagements in the Middle
East. The VFP’s mission
is to “serve and advance
the cause of world peace.”
Local Chapter 72 works,
both nationally and
abroad in many coun-
tries across the globe, to
increase awareness of
the causes and costs of
war.
Catherine Bax was
born in Portland. After
graduating from Holy
Child Academy in 1966,
she entered the Holy
Child order. While a nun
in California in the early
70’s she began volunteer-
ing on weekends with
the United Farmworkers
Union. In 1976 she left
the convent and shortly
after that, the UFW clin-
ic, and moved back to the
LA area where she joined
the Los Angeles Catho-
lic Worker community
PHOTOS BY STEVE HAMBUCHEN
News
St. Andrew MLK Awards
FRONT ROW: From left, Keinya Kohlbecker, Mike Hastie, VFP, S.
Jenika, Pres. VFP, Tedine Roos, Trish Bradley, Catherine Clark. BACK
ROW: Korinna Wolfe, John Wolfe, Rev. Dave Zegar, Paul Maresh, James
Toler, Tony Jones, Patrick Elijah.
and worked as a full time
volunteer in the Catho-
lic Worker skid row free
clinic.
Ann was born in Joplin,
Missouri. She complet-
ed Medical School and
an Internal Medicine
Residency at University
of Southern California
Medical School in 1975
and in 1977 a Hematol-
ogy/Oncology
Fellow-
ship. Her goal in medical
school was to work with
underserved
popula-
tions. That goal led her to
Thailand in 1979 where
she spent three months
working with Cambodi-
an refugees, who were
ill and severely malnour-
ished in the aftermath
of the brutalities of the
Pol Pot regime. Her goal
to work with the under
served also led her to vol-
unteer at the L.A. Catho-
lic Worker Clinic. It is at
this free clinic on LA skid
row that Ann and Cather-
ine met.
FRONT ROW: From left, Keinya Kohlbecker, Catherine Bax, Ann Turner,
Gil Munoz, Trish Bradley. BACK ROW: Korinna Wolfe, John Wolfe, Rev.
Daze Zegar, Tony Jones and Patrick Elijah.
In the early 1990s, Ann
and Catherine moved
to Portland and began
working at Virginia Gar-
cia Memorial Health Cen-
ter, Ann as a physician
and medical director and
Catherine as a physician
assistant. They have seen
the center grow, under
the leadership of Gil Mu-
noz, from 7000 patients
and a staff of 50 to 45,00
patients and a staff of
more than 500. With five
primary care sites and
6six school-based health
centers, it is the major
source of health care
for the under-served in
Washington and Yamhill
Counties.
Ann & Catherine have
been partners for 35 yrs.
They came to the parish
because of its social jus-
tice mission, its support
of LGBTQ rights, its com-
munity organizing work
with MACG, and the St.
Andrew community that
they have grown to love
more and more each
year.
Pioneering Black Journalist William Hilliard Has Died at 89
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — William A.
Hilliard, who became the first Black
reporter at The Oregonian newspaper
and later its editor in a pioneering 42-
year career, died Jan. 16 at 89. Hilliard
was one of the first African-American
newsroom leaders at a major U.S. news-
paper.
He was once denied a paper-route
at The Oregonian because managers
said Whites did not want Blacks deliv-
ering their paper. But after serving in
the Navy and graduating from college,
he was hired as a copy boy at age 25.
Through talent and hard work he made
his way up from there, becoming exec-
utive editor in 1982.
In 1993 he served as president of the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors, the first African American to hold
the post. He retired in 1994.
“Every day was exciting,” he said in a
2010 interview. “It was a heck of a job.”
He was always aware that he was
being judged twice, he said: once as a
journalist and again as a Black man in
a White world.
Hilliard’s family moved from Arkan-
sas to Portland when
he was 8. A neighbor,
Stephen Wright, was
a black businessman
who ran the only hotel
in the city that allowed
blacks. He became a
mentor to Hilliard.
“I cut Mr. Wright’s
grass and he took a
liking to me,” Hilliard
recalled. “At his hotel
I met Black entertain-
ers and businessmen.
Mr. Wright told me,
showed me, that there In this 1994, William A. Hilliard poses for a photo. Hilliard, a former
were blacks doing editor of The Oregonian and a national pioneer who paved the way for
things with their lives. minorities in journalism, has died. He was 89.
He told me to do what I
wanted to do. Get good
before being named an assistant city
grades in school, go to
college and don’t pay attention to what editor in 1965. He became city editor
six years later and editor in 1982.
anyone else says.”
No funeral is planned, but the family
Hilliard became a sports reporter
has
scheduled a celebration of his life
at the Oregonian — the only full-time
sports reporter never sent outside the for Feb. 25.
Information from: The Oregonian/Ore-
office to cover a story — and also had
religion and general assignment beats gonLive, http://www.oregonlive.com
ROSS WILLIAM HAMILTON/THE OREGONIAN VIA AP
The Associated Press