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Show IrTERVIEW: Cuellar Page 2 seniors. And not only that, it also offered a purpose which was overall the total advancement or education, social and political of the people. We, I think, accepted the challenge, at the time, to lead our parents instead of our parents leading us in terms of what we knew. Nost of the parents in that particular community had come at one time or another from MexiiDo. They had come from other parts of the state and they were very uninvolved. They still are for that matter, very uninvolved, very little political sophistication, social involvement with the only exception of the church which kept them going. So we did get involved. It was very fast and we worked very hard. I became the local chairman of the Odessa group within a very short period of time and I believe, if I'm not mistaken, in ·1960 I was elected the state junior chairman which was a lauditory thing, even though much organization needed to be done on the state level with the organization. ·It's very difficult to work with youths because of the fluidity of that group. They move around alot, they lose interest very easily, they need a purpose, they have other activities to attend to, and then the economics of belonging to an organization that requires expenses for travel, it requires fees. So all those things, nevertheless, we kept it going. After that other people followed, like yourself, and managed to climb all the way up. |
