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"The United States Grants Economy", Kenneth Ewart Boulding

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Suicide As A Way Of Life", John Kerr, Hugo Maynard, Ronald Snodgrass

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

A panel discussion with Hugo Maynard (PSU Institute for Psychological Study), Ronald Snodgrass (Willamette Learning Center), and John Kerr (Director of Schoolhouse), participants.

Verbal Accessibility And Authoritarian Family Ideology: A Study Of 50 Graduate Social Work Students And Their Spouses, Linda Louise Metz

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is the fourth in a series of empirical investigations concerned with symbolic interaction in marriage. Its basic assumption is that personal predispositions of marital partners as well as the social context of their marriage influences marital intimacy particularly the partner's readiness to communicate verbally with each other about important attitudes and feelings.

Fifty married graduate students attending Portland State University School of Social Work and their spouses comprised the sample. The subjects responded to three instruments: (1) a personality scale (Authoritarian Family Ideology – AFI) developed by Jane Loevinger, (2) a measure of verbal accessibility (VA), and (3) …

Report Of Sales Tax Package (June 3, 1969 Election), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Role Of Neighborhood Health Coordinators In A Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services Project, Sharron Faye Easley

Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluates the role of the Neighborhood Health Coordinators (NHC's) within Kaiser Foundation's Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services (CNHS) Project. This project was established in September 1967, under the provisions of the 1966 amendments to the Economic Opportunity Act, to provide and make readily available comprehensive medical care to low-income persons. In compliance with the stipulations of this Act, persons who reside in target areas, designated as depressed neighborhoods, were hired to serve as NHC's. These indigenous non-professionals serve as links or "gatekeepers" between the low-income persons enrolled in this program, and the Kaiser medical care facilities which include the …

An Examination Of Disengagement Among Elderly People In A Low Income Public Housing Facility, Linda Bennion, Marion Paradis, Sheila Petrie

Dissertations and Theses

This project studied the consequences of disengagement among elderly people and examined the respondent's opinions about society's responsibility to the aged.

The study population was limited to 48 elderly people, equally divided between men and women, married and unmarried; residing in Northwest Tower, a high-rise public housing facility.

The possible consequences of disengagement which were studied included isolation, depression, frustration, despair, factors preventing satisfaction with present circumstances, desired activities in relation to available activities, and energy and desire relative to activity and responsibility. Finally, opinions were sought about society's responsibility to the elderly.

Six general hypotheses guided the development of …

Judging Development And Sexual Identity In Children's Art, Susan Lathrop Dietsche

Dissertations and Theses

This study identified selected characteristics of sexual identity and artistic development using 481 pictures from a collection of 1,008 pictures drawn by first through fourth grade males and females. The pictures were collected by the E. C. Brown Trust Foundation to study children's concepts of reproduction.

Three general hypotheses were developed: I. Sex differences are observable in children's art; II. There are observable differences in artistic development as grade level changes; III. Observations by social workers of content in children's art are reliable. From a search of the literature, certain variables were identified, including content, use of color, and aspects …

Interim Report On Portland Mass Transit And The 1969 Oregon Legislative Assembly, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

The Complaint Process In Protective Services For Children, William L. Carey

Dissertations and Theses

This is a descriptive study of the community process by which a complaint is made to a protective service agency. It is by this process that deviant child care is first identified and the decision to take action is made. The study develops a typology of the complaint process and identifies seven elements as significant in complaints that reach community agencies. The elements were: the complaint situation, the precipitating events that brought the complaint situation to the attention of someone outside the nuclear family, the relationship between the complainant and family, the complainant's motivation for responding to the complaint situation, …

The Far East Agreements Of The Yalta Conference Of February 4-11, 1945, And The Sino-Soviet Agreements Of August, 1945, Robert Harold Davidson Jr.

Dissertations and Theses

This paper will present a study of the Far East Agreements of the Yalta Conference, held from February 4-11, 1945, and will trace them through to their conclusion in the agreements signed by the Soviet Union and Nationalist China in August of the same year. These wartime agreements between the Soviet Union and the United States, subscribed to by Great Britain and later Nationalist China, reflected then existing distributions of power. The Far East Agreements, on the part of the United States, were concluded in the national self-interest of the United States for reasons thought necessary at the time.

The …

Measuring Trainee Comprehension Of Casework Relationship In A Public Welfare Orientation Program, Margaret Berweger

Dissertations and Theses

This study was undertaken as a first step in measuring effectiveness of the Oregon State Public Welfare Orientation Center program in teaching principles of the casework relationship as conceptualized by Felix P. Biestek. This anticipated the development of a reasonably reliable instrument, improvement and validation of which would be undertaken in a subsequent study.

The population tested was made up of male and female college graduates, newly hired by the State, who were then entering a four week orientation program for caseworkers. Their education and experience varied, but all had passed the State Civil Service examination for this position.

Learning …

Some Interrelationships Between A Community Work And Training Program And Selected Indices Of Family Functioning, Audrey K. Arnst

Dissertations and Theses

This was an exploratory study of some of the relationships between a Community Work and Training Program and the family functioning of certain participants in that program. The CWT projects studied were those operated by the Public Welfare Departments of Clackamas and Marion Counties, Oregon during the three-year span between January 1, 1965 and December 31, 1967.

Participants' names were randomly selected from the records of the two welfare offices and the respondents interviewed during the summer of 1968. A questionnaire was developed which consisted of twenty primarily open-ended questions and this was administered to a total of sixty couples. …

"The Role Of Youth In World Affairs Today", Covey T. Oliver

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

An address given at the third general session of the Western Meeting of the National Symposium on the United States Foreign Policy, Portland, Oregon, April 10-13, 1969.

"Trends Of American Foreign Policy", Wayne Lyman Morse

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

An address given at the 2nd general session of the Western Meeting of the National Symposium on the United States Foreign Policy, Portland, Oregon, Apr. 10-13, 1969.

"Asia, 1969", Alexander Campbell

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

One of a series of lectures presented in connection with the Joint Reed College-Portland State University Presidential Inauguration.

"Nation-Building In Kenya", Maure Leonard Goldschmidt

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Taped in the Portland Room, Portland State College Center.

"Discussion Of Youth Problems And Family Structure In Our Society", Francis J. Ivancie

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Discussion of article written by Mr. Ivancie. North Lounge, 2nd Floor College Center

City Club Committee Meetings, Unknown

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Oregon Population: Counties And Cities July 1, 1968, Population Research Center, Portland State University

Oregon Population Estimates and Reports

This report contains a description and analysis of population changes in the State of Oregon from the 1960 Census to July 1, 1968.

The description and analysis of changes is made by state, district, county, incorporated cities and unincorporated areas. Attention is given to the increasing tendency for the population of Oregon to become an urbanized population as well as significant shifts in average household size.

Journal Building Site Use Committee, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Report On Planning For Transportation In The Portland Metropolitan Area, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

"The Population Explosion And Ecology", Paul R. Ehrlich

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

"Communism And The World Revolution", Ferenc Nagy

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Presented at Portland State College Center, Room 338.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 49, No. 22 (1968-11-1), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

An Analysis And Evaluation Of The American Electoral College, Norma N. Williams

Dissertations and Theses

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was greatly divided over the question of how to select the new nation's chief executive. The method finally adopted was a compromise between direct election and election by the national legislature and provided that individual states, as they saw fit, choose electors equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives. From the beginning, most of delegates considered the proposal awkward and irrational almost to the point of absurdity, but as they argued about it, they became convinced that it was then the only plan which could overcome the objections raised by other methods.

The …

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 49, No. 21 (1968-10-25), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 49, No. 20 (1968-10-18), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 49, No. 13 (1968-8-30), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 49, No. 02 (1968-6-14), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Report On Docks Development Bonds (Municipal Measure No. 51), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.