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Show INTERVIEW: Martinez Page 23 City or any of those programs. GC One question about Lino Lopez ... JM Oh, I'm so-rry. You said where he is now? GC No ... well, that too. What I was trying to get at, you said that he was brought in ... JM Well, he applied for a job as director of the agency and he obtained it. So he .came in from Denver as far as I can remember. GC Now when he was brought in, did the city bring him in or the commission or funded by the county, do you remember? JM No, it was . like a United Fund project. It wa~, a s~udy was. done by these what was at that time called the Community Council. I remember the name now. Now it is called the Social Planning Council. A study was done on Mexican-Americans and their problems. There were alot of very good p~ople, Anglos, in that council, plus a few Mexican-Americans. People like Ben Campos and Dr. Cabrera and a few other than I, Luis Juarez, Parale, and others like that, the old timers. They conducted a study that pointed out to some of the problems. It was called at the beginning as I recall it the Mexican-American Project. It was .a project before it became an agency. So they obtained some United Fund monies and paid for one year's funding or something like that and then a grant was obtained from the Rosenburg Foundation. From those monies, from the Rosenburg Foundation· plus initial money from United Fund, |
