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"47 Years of Quality Service"

Vol. 2. No. 2 Summer 1992

Published by the Urban League of Portland 10 North Russell St.

Portland, OR 97227 (503) 280-2600

1992 dinner hightlights youth

Sen. Cleo Fields address highlights Annual Dinner

"Youth Revitalizing Our Community" was

the theme of the Urban League of

Portland's 47th Annual Dinner held

Thursday, July 9 at the Oregon Convention

Center.

More than a thousand people attended the event.

The dinner's youthful theme was driven home by keynote speaker State Senator

Cleo Fields, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Sen. Fields was the youngest state legislator in the country when elected at age 23. Now

29, Sen. Fields is running for a new

congressional seat in Louisiana.

In his Portland speech, Sen. Fields urged young people to seek guidance not from national leaders, but from the unsung leaders in their families and neighborhoods.

"I am a person with the ability to lead, but my mother is also a leader," Sen. Fields pointed out. "She led me."

In Louisiana Sen. Fields has been a leader in the war on illicit drugs and in efforts toward economic development.

He authored laws that established Drug Free

Zones near school campuses and created an

Inner City Economic Development

Program.

Louisiana State Sen. Cleo Fields

At the Annual Dinner, Sen. Fields described what it was like growing up poor in a fatherless family of 10 children, going to school in baggy hand-me-down clothes.

Citing his own example, he urged young

people to concentrate on getting an

education, not on how to dress at school.

"We have to teach kids to have 'designer' minds, not just 'designer' clothes," he pointed out.

Joining Sen. Fields and other dignitaries on the dais were representatives from more than a dozen local youth organizations.

Master of Ceremonies James Francesconi, a member of the Urban League board active in local youth issues, encouraged audience members to support such organizations.

His words were echoed by dinner Co-Chair

Charles Jordan, superintendent of

Portland's Bureau of Parks and Recreation, who urged the audience to find local solutions to local problems concerning youth.

The dinner's other Co-Chair,

Portland State University President Dr.

Judith Ramaley, also argued that youth issues be placed higher on the public's agenda.

The program also featured entertainment by the vocal group His Song and presentation of the Shelly Hill and Vern Chatinan

Scholarships by NIKE and the Urban

League.

The $1500 scholarships were

awarded to two recent high school

graduates, Dana Marie Williams of Grant

High School and Damon Turner of

Jefferson High School.

Special thanks

to the following organizations for assisting this year's

Annual Dinner: The Oregonian, Paragon

Cable, Portland State University,

Qualitype, and Red Lion Lloyd Center.

Portland delegation participates at National Urban League conference

A delegation from the Urban League of

Portland attended the 1992 National Urban

League Conference in San Diego July

26-29.

The four-day conference is

considered the nation's premier forum on race relations.

More than 18,000 people attended.

The Portland delegation included members of the Urban League staff, led by CEO Dr.

Darryl Tukufu, as well as members of the

League's Board and four youth from the

League's NULITES program.

The theme of the conference was "Making a Difference in the '90's: Bringing the

Future into Focus." Delegates heard presentations by noted scholars, politicians, and corporate executives in six plenaries,

15 forums and a special session where

delegates debated ideas and offered

solutions for the survival of the African

American community.

Highlights of the conference included a keynote address by John E. Jacob, president and CEO of the National Urban League, and a speech by Democratic

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The Urban League's Chiem-Seng

Yaangh (2nd from right) with

American Mien youth delegation at Tianamen Square in Beijing.

Staffer leads historic Mien youth delegation to China

The Urban League's Chiem-Seng Yaangh was selected to lead a delegation of 13

American young people of Mien ancestry to

China in June. The Mien National Youth

Delegation met with representatives of the

Mien community in southern China, the ancestral home of the Mien people.

Most of the

20,000 Mien people living in the

U.S. emigrated from Laos as refugees after

1975.

Because of political difficulties, Mien living outside China have lost contact with

Mien in China for several generations.

Delegations of American Mien have been visiting China since

1984, but this was the first trip by a youth group.

"In a sense it was like going back home," said

Chiem-Seng, coordinator of the Urban

League's Southeast Asian youth programs.

"The trip gave American Mien a chance to learn about our cultural roots and bring back the knowledge to

our American

communities."

Centuries of separation have caused Mien cultures in and outside China to develop differently, Chiem-Seng reports.

"The

Mien in China often used different words to describe modern things, like a telephone.

Sometimes it took awhile to figure out what they were talking about."

The group received the royal treatment in their travels to Beijing, where they met with

local Mien families, and southern

Guangdong province, where they toured a rural county where the population is 50%

Mien.

Chiem-Seng returned to Portland just in time to welcome a delegation of Chinese

Mien visiting the U.S. for the first time.

Chiem-Seng hopes that the international visits will allow separated Mien groups to maintain contact so that the Mien culture can survive for centuries to come.

Youth Center News

In April the center presented

a

Multicultural Celebration bringing youth from various ethnic communities together.

The program featured cultural performances and also brought together urban and rural youth from Scappoose.

The department also organized a Volunteer

Appreciation Night at the Multicultural

Senior Center on April 30. Volunteers from

League programs turned out for an evening of refreshments and good cheer.

In April the department organized an all-day

Anger Management workshop for League staff.

The workshop will help League counselors deal with their client's anger management problems.

Southeast Asian Youth Program

Coordinator Chiem-Seng Yaangh

organized an Asian Youth Unity Meeting in May to create a needs assessment and prioritize issues affecting Asian youth. The gang problem was a top issue.

The department was awarded $30,000 by

Multnomah County for a youth employment project. The initial monies will be used to work with 15 youth at-risk of gang involvement. Katy Isa has joined

the department as a part-time youth

employment specialist.

The department also received a $4,500 grant from the Avia Corporation to assist its programs.

National Conference

(continued from page one) presidential candidate Bill Clinton. The

Urban League of Portland was one of nine affiliates (out of a possible

112) recognized for its response to the unrest following the

Rodney King verdict.

The recognition came in a special program on "The Urban

League Responds to the Urban Crisis."

Dr. Tukufu also delivered a keynote address at a forum on "Youth: Our Continuing

Legacy," while Oregonian editor William

Hilliard moderated a session on "Election

'92:

Parties, Politics and Parity."

Urban League holds Annual Business Meeting

The Urban League of Portland held its first Annual Business Meeting in several years this

April. Members of the League gathered at the Multicultural Senior Center to hear reports on League programs and finances and to vote on new Board members (see article on new

Board members). The meeting will be held each April.

Other conference attractions included more than 400 exhibit booths of Fortune 100 companies and major government and social service agencies, a Job Opportunity

Showcase, and the African American

Vendors Showcase.

President's Column

What we can learn from L.A. and is there more to come?

(Excerpts from a speech delivered by Dr.

Darryl Tukufu to the Portland City Club on

May 22, 1992)

Two questions come to mind after the

Rodney King verdict.

1. What lessons should be learned from the case and the subsequent rebellions?

2. Where should we go from here?

First of all, I call what happened in Los

Angeles a rebellion or revolt, rather than a riot.

My definition of a riot is a short,

spontaneous event with little or no

psychological or political significance. An example is what often happens after a local team wins an NBA champsionship .

A rebellion or revolt breaks out due to some actual or perceived injustice that is tied to a system that is looked at as oppressive.

Therefore, there is psychological and political significance based upon the history of those who are rebelling and the rebellion can go on for some time.

The end of the rebellions of the late 1960's led many Americans to forget temporarily the problems of race, ethnicity and class.

People became concerned with other issues, such as taxes and the environment.

"Racism won't go away by itself"

Yet the race problem never went away. It resurfaced in 1980 in Miami, where bloody race riots broke out, and again in 1984, when

African Americans turned out in record numbers to vote for the first major black presidential candidate, the Rev. Jesse

Jackson.

In the mid-1980's we saw the resurgence of extremist hate groups like the Ku Klux

Klan, the Order, the Aryan Nation, and the

Posse Comitatus, which led to the murder of a Jewish talk show host in Denver. In 1986 a rally in Idaho by a coalition of these groups called for the creation of a "White Nation" in the Northwest.

Locally we had the

Muguleta Seraw killing, and past and present incidents, like the Jacob Johnson case, involving Nazi Skinheads and the formation of a local Klan chapter.

All of these incidents point to the same conclusion -- America's racial problem is the problem that keeps coming back: it is with us today as much as ever.

It simply

Dr. Darryl Tukufu will not go away by itself.

After the Rodney King beating received nationwide attention, a torrent of evidence of racist attitudes and actions by police officers began to pour out of LA. This did not surprise me. As an African American male living in LA in the 1960's, I testified in one police brutality case and was told by one officer that if he caught me north of the

Santa Monica Freeway he would arrest me for anything he wanted.

According to our National Urban League

President John Jacob, "Racism is at the root of the King case, and police departments are going to have to deal with it. So long as

officers presume that black men are

dangerous and threatening, and that swift, excessive force is the only way to control them, there will be more King cases. More

multicultural training is needed and

aggressive recruitment of African American and other people of color as police officers."

Community policing can help

"At least the presence of these officers can act as a brake on the overt expression of racist attitudes.

Strong civilian review boards with the power to discipline errant officers and to oversee police activities, is essential to counter the "us against them" mentality that all-too-often pervades police work.

The trend toward community policing can help as well."

The most basic fact is that fundamental and critical inequalities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and class continue to exist in

American society.

This remains true in spite of some reduction, at least to some people, in overt discrimination; in spite of hundreds of civil rights laws, ordinances, and court decisions; and in spite of the fact that conditions have substantially improved for people of color.

The aggregate pattern remains one of inequality, whether we talk about income, education, political representation, or any other measure of status.

And for many people of color, conditions have not only not improved, they have become worse.

Tension arises when such a situation arises in a country that preaches equality but fails to practice it. This means we face the near certainty of turmoil and social upheaval, rebellions at any time, and in any place, including Portland. All that is needed to set off the explosion is a spark like the King case.

What we are finding out is that the King case and its aftermath is not an aberration: they stem directly from the ideology that is tied to our institutions and is firmly planted in the minds of too many Americans.

Where should we go from here?

There have been several important local responses to the problems underscored by the King case. After the LA riots Portland's

North/Northeast Economic Development

Alliance called for a meeting with business associations and local corporate leaders. A

Community/Business Partnership was

established which also includes the

government sector.

The main goals are adult employment, teenage employment

(both short and long-term) and business growth and development. The effort has so far resulted in the creation of 400 new jobs.

The goal is not to overshadow any similar efforts already going on, but to enhance them.

African American leaders will continue to meet with other communities of color.

During times of economic downturn such as these, open communication keeps people involved and provides little room for

"divide and conquer" tactics.

Another important group is the Leaders

Roundtable and the Community Caring

Project which emanated from it to work toward "graduating 100% of all high school students by 1996."

We have the plan but we need the resources to get us there.

Much more needs to be done. We know that it will take time. But it can't take too long.

Membership campaign chairs George Rankins, Jeffrey Farber and the Rev. Alcena

Boozer relax before taping the campaign's public service announcement at KATU-TV.

Membership Drive nets more than 500 members

The Urban League of Portland's 1992 membership drive is in full swing. As of late July the League has 510 new and renewed members.

This year's membership drive was greatly assisted by Jeffrey Farber, vice chairman of Bank of America, who chaired the

Corporate Campaign, and by actor George

Rankins and Jefferson High School

principal the Rev. Alcena Boozer, who co-chaired the Individual and Family

Campaign.

The Urban League thanks its business members

The Urban League of Portland wishes to

thank the following businesses and

organization which showed their support by becoming League members during our

recent Membership Drive. A list of

individual members will appear in our next issue. (New and renewed members as of

July 30)

Gold Members ($3000)

Arco Oil

Bank of America

Meier & Frank

Portland Trail Blazers

Standard Insurance

United Parcel Service

U.S. Bank

Sponsor Members ($1000)

Blue Cross/I3lue Shield

Boeing Co.

Urban League of Portland memberships are good for one year, running from July 1 to

June 30.

Annual membership dues and levels are $10 for Student and Senior, $15 for Individual, $30 for Family, $100 for

Small Businesses, $250 for Corporate,

$1000 for Sponsor, and $3000 for Gold.

For information about member benefits and how to become a member or renew your membership, call the Urban League at

280-2600.

Cellular One

Emanuel Hospital

First Interstate Bank

Kaiser Permanente

KPTV Ch. 12

Lane Powell Spears & Lubersky

McDonald's

Nordstrom

Northwest Natural Gas

Paragon Cable

Portland Hilton

Precision Cast Parts

Safeway Stores

Sisters of Providence

Steinfeld's Products Co.

Stoel Rives Boley Jones & Gray

Tektronix

U S West Communications

Wacker Siltronic

Corporate Members ($250)

ADC Kentrox

All Pro Services

Arthur Andersen & Co.

Association for Portland Progress

Automated Office Systems

Barbara Sue Seal Properties

Benson Industries

Bullivant Houser Bailey Pendergrass &

Hoffman

Coca Cola Bottling of Oregon

Columbia Forest Products

Copeland Lumber Yard

Davis Wright Tremaine

R.R. Donnelly Norwest

Georgia-Pacific Corp.

GTE Northwest Inc.

Housing Authority of Portland

Hyster-Yale Co.

IBM Corp.

JBLK Insurance

J.C. Penney

KATU-TV Ch. 2

KGW-TV Ch. 8

KOIN-TV Ch. 6

KPMG Peat Marwick

KUPL Radio

Neil Kelly Remodeling

Kerr Pacific Corp.

Key Bank

McCormick & Schmick

Merrill Lynch

Fred Meyer, Inc.

Miller Nash Hager Wiener & Carlsen

Milne Construction Co.

Mt. Hood Community College

Mt. Olivet Baptist Church

Northwest Pipe & Casing

Oregon Health Sciences University

Oregon Liquor Control Commission

Pacific Power & Light

PacifiCorp Financial Services

Pepsi Cola (Alpac)

Popper Supply Co.

Portland City of

Portland Development Commission

Portland General Electric

Portland Public Schools

Powell's Bookstore

Pratt Electric Supply

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Business Members

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Public Financial Management

Red Lion Inns

Ronographic Communications

Arlene & Harold Schnitzer

Schnitzer Steel Industries

SEH America

TCI Cablevision

II Morrow, Inc.

University of Portland

Weston Pontiac

Xerox Corp.

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca

Small Business Members ($100)

American State Bank

Atiyeh Brothers

Brewed Hot Coffee

Bridgeport Staffing

Bridgetown Realty

Campbell Galt & Newland

Carson Oil

David Chvatal CPA

Custom Stamping & Mfg.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

The Whitney M. Young, Jr. Education and

Cultural Center ended its first year in its new location by surpassing its service goal by

50%. The center, which relocated to the

Urban League Plaza, provided after school tutorial assistance to 303 students during the school year, compared to 257 the previous year.

The center served a diverse group of youth including African Americans, Asian

Americans, European Americans, Hispanic

Americans and Native Americans.

Students came from 45 different middle and high schools in the Portland metro area.

Assisting staff were 59 volunteer tutors from the community, Portland Community

College and from the School of Education at Portland State University.

An awards ceremony in June honored

Whitney Young students for being on the

Honor Roll, for outstanding improvements in specific subjects and for improving grade point average. Winners included: Kimani

Talton, Latoshia Washington and Jason

EID Services

Ellenburg Capital Corp.

Emanuel Medical Foundation

James Francesconi & Assoc.

Garlington Center

Geneva's Shear Perfection

Neil Goldschmidt, Inc.

Gresham - Mayor's Office

Hotel Vintage Plaza

Ibex Communications

Jacob Heating & Air Condition

Jewish Federation of Portland

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

Kienows Stores

KINK Radio

KWJJ Radio

Lindsay Hart Neil & Weigler

Metro Catholic Broadcasting

Murty Printing

Nature's Fresh Northwest

Norpac Foods

North Pacific Insurance Co.

Northwest Oregon Labor Council

Northwest Temporary Services

Nova Northwest, Inc.

Oregon Association of Minority

Entrepreneurs

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Owenco Marketing

Pacific Crest Outward Bound School

Pacific Development Inc.

Pay Less Drug Stores

John Pihas & Partners

Planned Parenthood

PCC Cascade Campus

Portland Federal Executive Board

Portland Limousine Inc.

Portland Metro Chamber of Commerce

Private Industry Council

Rejuvenation House Parts

Reynolds Medical Clinic

Rose City Electric

Sheraton Airport Hotel

Slayden Construction

SunWel

United Finance

Wagner Mining

Don Wirfs & Assoc.

Whitney Young Center ends busy year at new home

Willis (Rainbow Achievement Award);

Voycetta White (Academic Achievement);

Bela Odighizuwa (Nguzo Saba All-Around

Student Award).

Highlights from the last school year

Winded student and staff participation in conferences around Portland and in several cultural celebrations. A workshop was held for students and parents on how to obtain college financial aid. Cultural activities at the center included a black history month lecture series and visits by special guests, including National Urban League President

John Jacob.

Tri-Met also presented the center with a framed poster of Martin Luther King, Jr.

commemorating the Montgomery bus boycott.

This year the center offered its first summer tutorial program. The four-week program, which concluded July 24, concentrated on math, reading, writing and SAT test preparation.

The Urban League

thanks its grantors

The Urban League of Portland wishes to

thank the following individuals and

organizations for their special contributions and grants during 1992:

Avia Group International ($4,500 to the

Northeast Youth Service Center);

City of Portland/Oregon Community

Foundation ($7,500 to the Multicultural

Senior Center Alzheimer's Program);

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gissel (Ongoing contributions and support to the Urban

League);

Housing Authority of Portland ($8,320 to the Male Responsibility Program's Youth

Sports Program);

Key Bank of Oregon ($18,000 to the

Summer Youth Employment Project);

Multnomah County ($9,000 to Fair

Housing Program);

NIKE, Inc. (Sponsor of the Employment

Department during 1991/92);

Portland Public Schools (Financial contribution to the Whitney Young

Education and Cultural Center during

1991/92);

John Sweet ($300 to Male Responsibility

Program).

Memorial fund established for drowned youth

Male Responsibility Program

Top performers honored at awards ceremony

Young men who have excelled in the Urban

League's Male Responsibility Program were honored at an end of the school year awards ceremony in June.

Recognized for Outstanding Achievement were:

Sharif Hicks, Masta Davis

(Jefferson High School); Michael

Hamilton (Portsmouth Middle School);

Phillip Bleth, Floyd Davidson (Whitaker

Middle School); Melren Pichon, Jamaine

Oliver, Geoff Sheppard (Tubman Middle

School); John Brown, Tyson Deluis

(Urban League location).

In recent months youth in the program have participated in fishing and rafting trips, midnight basketball, and Navy ship rides during the Rose Festival.

In April two medical students from Oregon Health

Sciences University talked to youth about how to prepare for a medical career. Youths also visited a dental hygienist's office to learn about dental careers and oral hygiene.

Program coordinator James Kent graduated

Multicultural Senior Center celebrates first birthday

The Urban League's Multicultural Senior

Center marked its first anniversary on June

24 with a celebration that featured a

"multicultural cake." Home-made cakes donated by volunteers were iced together into a mountainous creation by the staff.

More than 80 people turned out for the

Center's 20th annual fishing derby at

Sauvie's Island on June 12th. A good time was had by all... On June 19th the Center celebrated Juneteenth, the day Texas slaves heard news of the Emancipation

Proclamation. Floyd Cruse gave a special

Top performers from MRP's in-school program were honored during the Awards

Ceremony at the Urban

League's Whitney Young

Education & Cultural Center in June.

from Warner Pacific College in May with a

3.75 GPA and a degree in psychology.

James also received the college's A.F. Gray

Award for outstanding academic

achievement and community service.

James and assistant coordinator Curtis Scott gave a presentation on the League's African

American Male Connection Program, which works with youths in the juvenile justice system, at the national convention of the National Association of Blacks in

Criminal Justice in June... The program is pleased to welcome Joanne Rosevear, a summer intern studying to be a parole officer.

The Male Responsibility Program has received grants to work with young males this summer. Key Bank of Oregon awarded

$18,000 to a Summer Youth Employment

Program (see story this issue) and the

Housing Authority of Portland gave the program $8,320 to work with youth who live in public housing units.

slide presentation while a visiting delegation from Japan attended and

presented a cultural demonstration for the seniors.

The Center's Loaves and Fishes meal site is serving an average of 300 lunches a week to seniors....

Recent senior excursions have

included trips to Tournament of the

Americas basketball games, a performance of "Lend Me a Tenor," and the Center's longest trip to date, a five-day jaunt to Reno,

Nevada....

New classes at the Center include calligraphy and beadmaking.

The Urban League of Portland is the trustee of a memorial account established in the name of Frederick Mitchell, a thirteen-year-old Portland youth who drowned at Vancouver Lake on June 23,

1992. Money contributed to the account will be used by the Mitchell family to offset burial expenses.

The account has been opened at the First

Interstate Bank branch at Grand and

Broadway in Northeast Portland, but deposits may be made at any First Interstate

Bank branch.

Frederick Mitchell was a member of the

Urban League's "Rites of Passage"

program, which helps adolescent African

American males learn the responsibilities of manhood.

For further information, contact Herman

Lessard, Jr. or James Kent at the Urban

League at 280-2600.

Key Bank funds summer youth employment team

Eight inner city youths are earning money this summer doing landscaping for senior homeowners in North/Northeast Portland, thanks to an $18,000 grant awarded to the

Urban League by Key Bank of Oregon.

The Summer Youth Employment project will operate between July 6 and August 28.

The youths work Monday through Thursday

doing landscaping work and small

maintenance jobs for seniors, who often have difficulty keeping up with yard work during the hot summer months.

Urban League Vice President of Programs

Herman Lessard, Jr., called the project "a positive example of what the business community can do to help inner city youth get on the path to a career."

League President Dr. Tukufu commented that he sees the program assisting the

Portland Youth

Employment &

Empowerment Coalition in their attempt to assist "at risk" youth and the Community

Business Partnership formed to lead a proactive approach in finding summer jobs for youth.

The program is coordinated by the Urban

League of Portland's Male Responsibility

Program. Jerry Lincoln is crew leader.

Laura Glosson

Duane Bosworth, a partner with the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, and Laura

Glosson, a retired Portland school teacher, have joined the Urban League of Portland's board of directors.

Mr. Bosworth is active in non-profit and professional groups.

He is chair of the

University of Oregon's Law School board of trustees, president of the Yale Club of

Oregon and president of the Multnomah

County Bar's Young Lawyers Division. He

Nova Hill

New Staff at League

Duane Bosworth

Bosworth, Glosson join Urban League Board

Gloria James has joined the Urban League as administrative assistant to the president.

She was formerly staff assistant to the

Vancouver City Council.

first came to Portland in 1968.

Ms. Glosson chairs the Advisory

Committee for the Urban League's

Multicultural Senior Center.

She is a member of Hughes Memorial United

Methodist Church and the Delta Sigma

Theta sorority.

She has lived in Portland since 1951.

The new members replace retiring members

Marva Fabien of Lewis & Clark College and

Wally Scales of the Portland Trailblazers.

Gloria James

Nova Hill is the League's new receptionist.

She is a Jefferson High School graduate studying retailing at PCC Cascade campus.

Young Pro essional officers Thompson, Holley and Moore

Young Professionals

hold first elections

The Urban League of Portland's newest auxiliary, the Young Professionals, recently held their first election, choosing officers for two-year terms.

Elected were John

Holley, president; James Moore, vice president; and Gwen Thompson, treasurer.

Two remaining officer positions were later filled by appointments. Suzette Breazell is

the group's recording secretary and

Charlene Mashia is financial secretary.

John Holley is an exploring executive for

Boy Scouts of America, responsible for setting up explorer posts that allow young people to pursue a specific career interest.

He moved to Portland in 1991 from

Steubenville, Ohio, where he worked as an elementary teacher, broadcaster and station general manager.

James Moore hails from Bessemer,

Alabama, home of Bo Jackson.

He is a

placement specialist with Portland

Community College, responsible for apprenticeship programs.

He has also worked as a life skills trainer for the Private

Industry Council and for Sam Brooks and

Associates as an employment consultant.

Gwen Thompson is an area sales manager with Meier & Frank. She holds a degree in speech communication from Portland State

University, where she also acted as a peer counselor for minority scholarship students.

Gwen was formerly managing director of the World Arts Foundation, a group she remains active in.

She is originally from

New York City.

Suzette Breazell is a graduate of the

University of California at Berkeley, where she coordinated a minority mentoring program for incoming students. She is an assistant buyer with Meier & Frank with an interest in theatre.

Charlene Mashia is a tax accountant with

Coopers & Lybrand, CPA.

She is an accounting graduate of the University of

Portland, currently studying for her CPA.

The Young Professionals currently have a paid membership of 57 and a mailing list of more than 200.

The group has formed

committees to organize social and

professional development activities and to choose a community service project.

For information contact Brenda Sherman

Sanders at 280-2600.

Nationwide

Insurance Regional

Personnel Manager

Ron Bentley presents a check for membership in the

Employment

Partnership to

Urban League

President Dr.

Darryl Tukufu.

League's Employment Partnership grows

The Urban League's Employment

Partnership with local employers continues to grow. The Partnership was established in

1990 to help help employers achieve recruit and retain qualified minority job candidates.

Employers support the program by sending

staff to work with the Employment

Department and/or making financial or in-kind contributions.

The original partners included First

Interstate Bank, Mentor Graphics, Nike,

Standard Insurance, and U.S. Bancorp.

Since then ARCO, Bank of America,

Boeing Company,

Cellular One,

McDonald's, Meier & Frank, Nationwide

Insurance, Saif Corp., Tektronix, U.S. Navy and Wacker Siltronic have joined.

In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1992 the

Employment Department placed 161 people in new jobs, compared to 74 the previous year. A new member of the department is

Employment Specialist Luong Vu, who divides her work day between the Urban

League and the State Employment Office's

Northeast Portland branch.

In May the department was visited by a delegation of more than 50 business and

Guild Fashion Show set for August 23!

The Urban League Guild will hold a benefit fashion show at Sheba's House of Elegance at 3223 NE Broadway in

Portland on Sunday, August 23 from 2

- 5 p.m.

Admission, which includes light refreshments, is $10 per person.

The show will feature men's and

women's fashions from Sheba's, Just

James Fashions

and Donnie's

Accessories.

The theme is "Cultural

Spice," clothing that adds a cultural accent to a professional or everyday wardrobe.

Tickets are available in advance and at the door.

Net proceeds will go to support the Urban League Guild. For information, contact the Urban League at 280-2600.

community leaders as part of a job tour organized by the Northeast Coalition of

Neighborhoods Job Committee.

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