As director of Public Programs i get this privilege on a regular basis. Thank you so much for being here with us today. We hope you will return on other occasions. Is this your first visit . Raise your hand. Thank you. Our presenter must have a fan club in the interest of qualities of the rest of you can exercise your arm if you are a regular please raise your hand. If you raised your hand the first time around ask anyone else around you whose hand went up a second time why they support this institution and come here on a regular basis and why i know many of them by their first name and i havent learned your name i will do my best. Also i will suggest to pick up a quarterly calendar of events this will let you know i will tell you we have a program on thursday evening a brandnew exhibition we just mounted thats on this thursday the next sunday we have another program that is tangentially related with memories of the iceman trial to interviewed survivors and others that were witnesses o
Quickly. Is this your first visit . Please raise your hand. Raise it higher so i can see it very thank you, thank you, thank you. Over here too. Thank you. In the interest of quality so the rest of you can exercise one of your arms if you are a regular, if you attend programs all the time if you are one of our members please raise your hand. Thank you so much. Thank you. The folks who raised her hands the first time around please dont take my word for it alone. Ask anyone else around you his hand without the second time why they support this institution, why they come here on a regular basis, why i know many of them by their first name. Those whose first names i havent learned i will do my best to learn them. Also may suggest those of you who are not as familiar with the organization to pick up one of her quarterly calendars and brochures. You will find among the information desk. This will let you know about all of our upcoming programs. I wont take the time to list them all but i wil
Good evening. Im here to introduce our guest. Clive is a former Systems Engineer with ibm. Graduated from university here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and a trained psychotherapist. Also the awardwinning author of small works of fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of the Richard Wright awarded africanamerican literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chirop
Programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chiropractic College and i needed something to do around computers and i was able to get computer time by exchanging my work to help them develop the pascal compiler it is that will date yourself but thats how i got involved i used to have a key late at night i would go up at one or two in the morning and say there is a visible lady there we can punch the button some of you may remember what that was like. Where was s
My name is Leslie Leslie kavasch im here to introduce our guest, cyde ford, a former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from the university of western states in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and the era pissed. Hes also the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clyde is the recipient of the richard ray award, in africanamerican literature. He has been a guest on the oprah show, in pr, radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here to speak about his latest book, think black a memoir of sacrifice, which was just released, shortlisted for the book prize in social justice. Please join me in welcoming to the kendall planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry, cyde ford. [applause] thank you all for being here, i cant tell you how special it is to be here. I was just reliving my First Experience over 40 years ago up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer. I was working with a group, i had come from ibm to go to chiropractic college.