Clarion Defender_1967-08-17

\ SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 0 OPENING SESSION 8:00 P.M. - GRAND BALLROOM Presiding: WILLIAM J. TRENT, JR., NUL Trustee and Conference General ·chairman; Assistant Personnel Director, TIME INC. \ GREETINGS: ·- . C. DoN VANN, Member, Board of Directors, UL of Portland and Chairman, Local Arrangements Committee R. P. GANTENBEIN, President, UL of Portland E. SHELTON HILL, Executive Director, UL of Portland HoNORABLE TERRY b. SCHRUNK, Mayor of Portland RESPONSE: LINDSLEY F. KIMBALL, NUL President; Associate, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Presentation of the URBAN LEAGUE FAMILY OF THE YEAR KEYNOTE ADDRESS:. WHITNEY M. YouNG, JR., NUL Executive Director MONDAY, AUGUST 21 7:30 A.M.- THE PAVILION CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND DISCUSSION Urban League Board Presidents, Official Delegates, and Executives will confer with key governmental personnel to discuss services at the local level. Chairman: WILLIA::-1 J. TREXT, JR., Conference General Chairman Discussants: CuRTIS C. ALLER, Director, Manpower Administration, U.S. Department of Labor FRA!\'K A. CASSELL, Director, U.S. Employment Service, U.S. Department of Labor SA::.IUEL C. ]ACKSOX, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission DoNALDS . SLAI~IAX, Director, AFL-CIO Department of Civil Rights 9:30 A.M.- BALLROOM Presiding: \VILLIA::-1 J. THE:\'T, Jll., :\'UL Trustee and Conference General Chairman; Assistant Personnel Director, TI:\IE INC. THE CHALLEI'<GE BEFORE US MAHLON T . PuRYEAR, :\'UL Deputy Executive Director WHERE THE ACTION IS NOW Chairman: EDWIN C. BERRY, Executive Director, Chicago UL P1·esentors: DR. HYLA:\' G. LEWIS, Professor of Sociology, The Graduate S<.:hool, Center for Community Studies, Howard University; and Fellow, :\tletropolitan Applied Research Center CHARLES E. SILBER::.IAN, Director, The Carnegie Study of the Education of Educators Reactors: LISLE C. CARTER, ]R., Assistant Secretary for Individual and Family Services, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare KE!'\KETH L. :\IEII'E:>;, Vice President-Personnel, American Airlines Floor Discussion 10:00 A.M. "A SECOND CUP OF COFFEE" for Wives of the Urban League Family with MRS. LINDSLEY F. KIMBALL and MRs. WHITNEY M. YouNG, JR. 12:15 P.M.-BALLROOM LUNCHEON Council of Urban League Guilds Guest Speaker Honorable Ersa H. Poston NUL Trustee and Secretary of the Board Pres1dent, New York State Civil Service Conrnission ' . 1U.lL11JIIts:na-nu%.._.~-------'- SUBSCRIBE TODAY i7L1Tps:iunpra_~~ C~'RION ~fFENOER 2:30P.M. Conference participants will meet in five concurrent Workshops to analyze the ·status of civil rights in their respective cities. Each individual is expected to participate in the Workshop for his region. Workshop Leaders will pose four questions: 1. What needs to be done in your city to improve the conditions of Negro and other minority group citizens? Immediate? Long-range? · 2. Who are the people who can make the decisions to do something about changes ·which need to be made? 3. Why don't they make the decisions? 4. What can be done to help the "right" people make the decisions? BALLROOM B WORKSHOP : WESTERN REGION PARLORS C-D WORKSHOP: SOUTHERN REGION PARLOR E WORKSHOP: EASTERN REGION GALLERIA II WORKSHOP: MIDWESTERN REGION GALLERIA Ill WORKSHOP: :\HDEASTERN REGION 6:00 P.M.- POMPEIAN ROOM Congress Hotel QUARTER CENTURY CLUB DINNER JoHN C. DA..-.;CY, President 9:30 P.M.- GRAND BALLROOM RECEPTION AND SOCIAL sponsored by the Portland Urban League Guild T U ED A Y, AUGUST 22 7:30 A.M.- THE PAVILION CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND DISCUSSION Urban League Board Presidents, Official Delegates, and Executives will confer with key governmental personnel to discuss services at the local level. Chai1'man: RA::.roN S. ScRUGGS, NUL Senior Vice-President, and Chairman, Program Committee Discussants: JoHN A. Buccs, Deputy Dire<.:tor, Model Cities Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development HoBART A. BuRCH, Special Assistant, National Institute of .Mental Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare F. PETER LIBASSI, Director of Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 9:30A.M. STRATEGIES FOR ACTION Regional Workshops will reconvene to consider appropriate strategies for action by the Urban League to close the gap between Negro and other minority citizens, and their white fellow-Americans. Each individual is expected to participate in the Workshop for his region. The Discussion Leaders will be the same as for the Monday sessions. BALLROOM B WORKSHOP: WESTERN REGION GALLERIA Ill PARLORS C-D WORKSHOP: MIDEASTERN REGION WORKSHOP: SOUTHERN REGION GALLERIA II PARLOR E WORKSHOP: MIDWESTERN REGION WORKSHOP: EASTERN REGION 12:15 P.M. - BALLROOM COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY LUNCHEON 11 lndustry's Stake in Equal Employment Opportunity 11 Presiding Francis L. McClure, Staff Vice Pres. Organization Development, Radio Corporat– ion of America Guest Speaker Courtlandt S. Gross, Director and Chairman Finance Committee, Lockhe~d Air– craft Corporation ' 2:30P.M. The morning discussion-"Strategies for Action"-will continue in the individual Workshops, and recommendations for the Summary Session will be prepared. SUMMARY SESSION 3:30 P.M.- BALLROOM Presiding: WILLIAM J. TRENT, JR., NUL Trustee and Conference General Chairman; Assistant Personnel Director, TIME INC. Clulirman: RAMON S. ScRUGGs, NUL Senior Vice President and Chairman, Program Committee; Public Relations Manager- Urban Problems, American Telephone & Telegraph Company REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE WORKSHOPS 6:00 P.M.- THE PAVILION URBAN LEAGUE BOARD MEMBERS DINNER Board .VIembers of Local Urban Leagues, and NUL Trustees will meet together for discussion of mutual interests. W E D N E S D A Y, AU G US T 23 DELEGATE ASSEMBLY THE PAVILION 9:00 A.M.- 12:00 NOON and 2:30 P.M.- 4:00 P.M. This is a business meeting open only to accredited voting delegates, to the Presidents and Executh·e Directors of local Urban Leagues, and to NUL professional staff. The Delegate Assembly is the Urban League's highest policy-making and legislative body. Presiding: LINDSLEY F. KI::.IBALL, NUL President; Associate, RockefeJler Brothers Fund COUNCIL BUSINESS SESSIONS 9:00A.M. -12:00 Noon and 2:30 P.M.- 4:00 P.M. The UL Staff Councils, the Council of Urban League Guilds and the UL Youth Community Council will hold Business Sessions as indicated below. BALLROOM COUNCIL OF UL GUILDS ADELINE jORDAN, Los Angeles PresicLmt GALLERIA II UL YOUTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL WALTER DANCY, Akron President GALLERIA Ill COUNCIL OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS SEBASTIAN C. OWENS, Denver President PARLOR C ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL MATTHEW U. joHNsoN, Minneapolis Secretary-Treasurer 7:30 P.M. - GRAND BALLROOM ANNUAL BANQUET - Presiding Lindsley F. Kimball, nul President PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Guest Speaker THE HONORABLE EDWARD W. BROOKE United States Senator Commonwealth of Massachusetts T H U R S D A Y, A U G U S T 24 9:00 A.M. - GALLERIA II and Ill URBAN LEAGUE STAFFS SESSION Presiding: WHITNEY M. YouNG, }R., NUL Executive Director L~ D; Walters-----------------Publisher . Jimmy "Bang-Bang'' Walker----Editor Telephone--------z 8 4 - 1289 Z74Z N -Williams Ave Portland Ore on