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THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL-3 SUNDAY. February 2ft 2000 Community Calendar International House marks 70th year and Saariahd 8 pun. tickets range from $19-76, Zatabach Hafl, Unwanity of Cakfcmi y. 841-28001 Friday FFTH ANNUAL BUCK H6TORY MEMORIAL CONCERT SERIES Altai Tampla Baptist Church hosts A Sakito to African 7 JO pun. $15 general, $10 sert-iorv Kchidren under 12, 8601 IntamationN BNd, Oakland, 56M183.

Bb Meetings Monday: THE DKABLEO Aka Bate Medical Centor hosts a free support -group meeting for pattnerrtpouaea of rfia-abtod people, 7:15 to 8:30 pjn, 2460 Aahby Ave Berkeley, 763-7381. Tuesday OAKLAND CITY CENTER TOASTMASTERS -T- Holds a free meeting, 11:50 aaivto 1 Porox Bukfing.1221 Broadway, 3tii floor, downtown Oakland), 838-2020, Hare it listing Jor-Jhe. daily ctdeiidatf. Send it hiv uveks in advance to Community Calendar, The Oakland Ttibunti 401 13th St Oakland 94612, or; call 208-6451. To fax infoiina-tipndi(d2084477r Today's community aeraiy programs on -Soil Beat Televwon Channel 27:.

at .2524 73rd A 53iV3774, 'and oh. the World Wide Wd) at htffiywwweoul-'. beatcoml includer 1 am Soul Beat Altar Hours with Page 2. 4 am -r Beat of Madge Gates. 7 am Gospel Beat wkh Young Tumer, 9 km' and ilJO Goapal Music Update-.

10 am.EWf Increasing Faift. 1T am. BUe' Church. 111:30 am and 11 Thia flev. Dr.

UJLlm fi 1 Loranzo ibirbb iyMvBn8Sx Noon Message to the Btacfc Louie Farrakhaa. Nation of Mam -1 pm Soil Shqwcase with Al'Bafistd 3 pm Goiden Goapei Muaip Vidapa" with Merahaien Martin. -4 pm LifeknewitiiDr.JasonDeitch pf V-y-, 5 pm-r Heakh Beat with Dr. Geoffrey -v 6 pm, BeafSpecwL 8 pm trup.Sqiutiorit wkh Dr. YUaaF BeyLo -v-' pm OURS Hour'wilh Eddie Abrama.

Marking its 70th anniversary this year is Berkeley's International House, informally known as 1 House." The imposing period-revival- style residence complex, next to Memorial Stadium at the top of Bancroft Way. Is home to 600 students and visiting scholars from countries around the world. A $1J million gilt from John D. Rockefeller Jr. resulted in the -establishment of I House hi 193Q.

Founder Harry Edmonds in -tended the facility to be a conge- nlal setting for students from many nations to live and study together forming bonds of un- derstandlng to lt a first I Housie opened in: New York City near Columbia University in 1924 talso with a gilt from Rockefeller). The cess of the New York I House led Edmonds to travel west to sped locations for a seepnd Berkeley whs selected because the Bay Area. waff. the primary point of entry for Ashrn visitors and at the time claimed largest number of foreign stu- dents ontheWest The plank were drawn up by "prominent local architect George William Kelham 1871-1936). The cholcfbfKelham was partly: ularty apL- r)'-f He.

had saved as chief of chltecture fix' the 1915 Panama. 1 Pacific Exposition, arid at the time i.hls death he was chair of the commission planning the layout for the; 1939 Golden Gate International Ehqiosiltlpn. Both ffvents brUliantly show- art and archltecti pf. miariyriaUons andWa-fattended. by hundreds of thoiisands of 'i'? The site selected, ior the neW hall directly faced the Pacific, and wltfr" rooms.

for338 meri arid! 15 womeri, was not mly the largeststudenthouslng complex In the Bay Area, but also thc first coeducational residence west of: the "IH; As word of fhe new facility nelghborreslstance sooi rnade ltself ThereWere concemsovermen and women, living undo- one roof -and siispfelOn.tfnOt outright, i Arts ft ENTBnANMENT FREE OPEN REHEARSAL Behind the 'canat Mil Kandra Kimbrough Danca En-iaambia, 4 to 7 pjn. Fint Praabyterim -Church, 3rd Floor, 2619 Broadway, Oakland. i ROCKA MY SOUL THE AFRICAN- AMERICAN SPIRITUAL. IN. STORY AND SONG Soprano and ttxyMar, Lalfingby 'Boyca, nanatoa to hanic story of African-, A(naricana through malodaa and messaget- 3 pm, Oramont Branch libray, 2940 iftuMialua SAA-AflOft Monday BERKELEY COMMUNITY CHORUS AND CHESTRA Provides tahearaalB for -Jypte interested wsingini 7 to 10 pjn, no torfitiona or prior experience needed tooa schdarchg are St JMwaa Church basement, 1146 Gilman AC Berkeley, 5284146.

OAKLAND ART. ASSOCIATION The jfidand Art Association pnaanla its annual toltow at fine art at the Kaiser Cantor GahrL J) Lakeside 5313001 XyednesdayV CC: NOON CONCERT. -v Ron McKean, dnctor for the First Prwbytorian. i 27th and Broadway, la performing I at 12:15 pan. admiiaiqn ia fra 444-' SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE Bertel Symphony Orcheaim works by Schoenberg, Beethoven fCOMMrariCASLETVS, Today's local programming qn Oaklands KTOP-W (Channel 10) includes: r'llam-7ilbAcc8Ss' am-rPeribPedeatriatT(29) -J $:30.

ami Connie Martinaon Booka The Beat 10 am- Rules 8 legisbtSbn Committee I217AJC) 11 am 'Finance Management Com-' 12:30 pm Community fr Eoonomic Development V- 1:30 pm Pubfic Works Committee CU-. 19001 ii-V I 30 pm Pubfic Safety Committee 1900) 'V 4:30 pm itt League of Africin American Voters CandkJafe Forum (M. 6:30 pm iMuea 6 AnawreriTre-paid 7 pm Meetnga. of the- -Oaktxl Redevelopment Agency and Qty Counci'yiEWO BIpm'CSritonlgacyRoger Aranoff. Iff pm "Seaon of Hope Ashley 'Jamse'; -x-.

lOiSOpmWo Accns' I Latoiarks hostility, toward "foreigners, es-. pedally those of color, moving to a residential district previously white." -x At one meeting held to protest racial integration jn the proposed I House, more than 800 people gathered to make their feelings known. Speaking at the meeting was Delilah Beasley, active with Bay Area civic women's clubs and author of a regular Oakland feature Activities Among Negriesi Her rernairks were said to fectlvely counter the racist views held by members of the audience, I House officially opened on Aug. 18, 1930. and immediately' attracted applicants from around gjobe.

There are many reflec-: tions.of.the MoorlshSpanlsh cul--. hire to be found throughout the building painted tile stair-." -risers, Iron chandeliers and de- coratcd beamed ceilings In the Great Hall, stately stone fire-' places and wrpught Iron doors 1 leading tq the; tranquil Inner; courtyard, flanked by leafy olive trees, the treeof peace. v'. the auditorium, tiny pab iierns in black grid white stenciled on theralter beams repllcatethe "of pearl aridebonycell-'. lngs found in the palaces of --sin.

A photo display. in the gallery next to the aridltiuqi hlrilghts -'I the past seven decades; various alumnl fan estljriated50.000 have1 Uvcd have their iriark on the iirarid stage also profiled; Among them Is' i -Jerry BroWri, former governor ffnd now Oakland mayor, i. "I was a resident for three tie- mesters remembo the large dining hafiVidiCTe ev-. etybne gathered for meials -vr BroWn fitat met Rose Bfrd T- while both were ltytrigatl Hciuse: According to Executive Director i Josieph Lurie, thtre art lots of ways for members of the public photo 1 The International House In Berkeley Is celebrating 70 year of 't-v: to participate in I House activities abreast of all the actiyl-. -and programs, ties." Coming up: special Af- VvVehavie a community mem-, flcari-American Dinner and berahlp for $33 pef year, Gospel Extravrigtinza" this entry fo rriost of the; events.

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