EDUCATION
REPORT
The months of November and December bring Mid
Term and Final exams to many Tribal members who are
participating in community college or university pro
grams. If any of these students are in your households
as daughter, son, spouse, please lend a sympathetic ear.
Mid-terms and finals can be stressful
Currently, the Tribe is assisting 19 with Higher Educa
tion grants and 8 students with Adult Vocational
Training.
Students who are attending school during Fall Term
1988 are participating in these programs:
FOUR YEAR DEGREE PROGRAMS
Marion Henry- WOSC -Law Enforcement
Cecile Kneeland - WOSC -Elementary Education ECE
Brent Merrill - WOSC - English Journalism
Susan Martin -WOSC - Law Enforcement
Corrine Fugate -UofO - Elementary Education
Kelly Fugate -UofO -Pre-Law
Tracy Olson -UofO -Journalism
Andrew Jenness -UofO -Psychology
Christopher Leno -OSU - Business Administration
Jeffery P. Brickell -OIT - Computer Science
Jacqueline Grant -EOSC -Business Admin.Psychology
BrendaGray -Treasure Valley, - Nursing
Debbie Mudgett -Clark -Nursing
Kelly Nelson -CSUSac. -ChemistryBiology
Ann Ritchey -Evergreen Col. -Science
Kimberly Harrelson -Highline -Business Administration
Camllle VanVleet -CCC -International Political Scien.
John Allen -CCC -Pre-Law
Leticia Tinoco -CCC -Tourism Management ,
TWO YEAR DEGREECERTIFICATION PRO
GRAMS Teresa Bailey -CCC -Nursing
PhebiPeone -CCC -Computer Programming
Jesse Peone -CCC -Welding
Joannie West -Linn Benton -Real Estate
Tamara Williams -Phagans -Cosmetology
Lisa Kleinschmidt -Linn Benton -Medical Receptionist
Jeanne Larsen -CCC -Secretarial Administration
Roger Harrison . -LATA -Graphic ArtsStudio
FINANCIAL AID
FILING DEADLINES
Both new and returning students who plan on attending
a community college, a four year college or university
next Fall 1989, remember you will need to file your
Financial Aid Forms (FAF) for the 1989-90 school year,
in January 1989 and should be completed no later than
January 30, 1989.
You can obtain these forms from your respective Office
of Financial Aid, or your Counseling Center (high
school students).
The FAF is necessary for all students seeking a Tribal
Higher Education or Adult Vocational Training grant.
Your Tribal application will not be considered unless
this process has been completed. ...
FAMILY MATH
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The Oregon Indian Education Association will be
sponsoring a Family Math workshop on December 2 &
3, 1988, in Warm Springs Oregon.
The workshops are intended to help parents work and
have fun with their children with math.
The JOMAdult Education Programs may be able to
pay expenses for a limited number of people. Call Dean
Azule at 879-5211 for more information.
HIGHER ED. AND CAREER AWARENESS
WORKSHOP SET FOR DECEMBER 1, 1988
On December 1, 1988, a HIGHER EDUCATION AND
CAREER AWARENESS WORKSHOP, will be
sponsored by the Education and JOM Programs of the
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Grand
Ronde Title IV Program.
Colleges who will be participating include: Western
Oregon State College, Eastern Oregon State College, .
University of Oregon, Portland State University and
Chemeketa Community College.
The workshop is open to all interested persons, and high
school students are especially encouraged to attend,
especially those anticipating on going to school next
year, 1989-90. Parents of students who are wanting to
learn more about the application process and adult
Tribal members who are possibly thinking of school are
also invited.
Areas to be covered during the workshop include:
-How will you pay for college?
-Applying for TribalBIA grants?
-Qualifying for Oregon Minority Tuition Scholarships?
-What services colleges offer?
-Why college?
The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at
the Nazarene Church, (tentative) in Grand Ronde. High
School students wishing to attend should contact Ms.
Donnie Curtis, JOM Program at 879-5211.
All others interested in attending, please call the
Education Program at 879-5211. We need to make
arrangements for lunch.
INDIAN DOCTORS AND NURSES NEEDED
Former dentist urges youth to become
doctors and nurses to help meet medical
needs in Indian Country.
More American Indians must become doctors and
registered nurses if they expect ever to gain a controlling
influence in the delivery of health care to the 1.5 million
people in their communities, a retired assistant U.S.
surgeon general said Saturday in Portland.
George Blue Spruce Jr. of Phoenix, Ariz., a Pueblo
Indian who in 1956 became the first American Indian in
the United States to graduate as a dentist, urged young
American Indians to go to school, stay in school and get
the "union card" necessary to join the "superelite" of
the medical profession. The elite, he said, are the
doctors and registered nurses with advanced degrees.
Blue Spruce, 57, was the keynote speaker during the
10th annual Willamette Valley Racial Minorities
Consortium conference at Portland State University.
Drawing on his own experiences as a dental surgeon and
health administrator, Blue Spruce declared "Indian self
determination is a myth." He said that 30 chief medical
officers in the Indian Health Service, all medical
doctors, determine health care priorities for American
Indians, and that only two of those doctors are Ameri
can Indians. .
Furthermore, only six of the 50 hospitals of the Indian
Health Service - a division of the U.S. Public Health
Service - have been taken over for operation by Ameri
can Indian tribes, he said.
Most American Indians who work as professionals
delivering health services to other American Indians, he
said, are in the "lower ranks" of hospital aide and
technician jobs.
Since retiring two years ago, Blue Spruce has worked as
a consultant encouraging American Indian children to
go to college and medical school. He also has urged
medical schools to intensify their recruitment of Ameri
can Indians.
.He said his message to young students is, "if you want to
shoot for the M.D., go for it," be he added that many
youngsters get little encouragement from parents who
often are undereducated and unable to grasp such goals
as attainable.
Blue Spruce was the first American Indian dentist to
hold the post of assistant surgeon general, a ranking
equivalent to that of a Navy admiral.
There are 32 assistant surgeon generals, most of them
administrators of federal health programs or agencies,
he said.
-from The Oregonian.