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Show . • , INTERVIEW: Cuellar Page 4 programs throughout the country. So it was too much of a challenge in a way because it was dealing with a population that I was familiar with, I wanted to work with the Spanish-speaking even though the specific area, which is Manpower, was a little bit foreign to me. But I could not resist that temptation and I left the program under'Doctor Sanchez and came to Los Angeles to work. GC Was this your first involvement with the Mexican-American in trying to help them? RC Not at all 1 Greg. I guess when it comes to a background·~ there are several areas that an indiviQual has to cover and I've given you a basically very short resume of my educational caree~ how and where I went to school. But as far as being involved with the Spanish-speaking population,~hat goes back to when I was in high school when L first got involved and joined the American GI Forum in Odessa, Texas, as a youngster what we used to call the Junior GI Forum. It became a .very aggressive group and we got involved heavily in the ·political campaign and the pGlitical election of John F. Kennedy who at that time, of course, had the full support of the Mexican-American in the Southwest. Subsequently, we, I personally got involved with .·the formation of Passe, which was the political association of Spanis~-speaking organizations and led that group in Odessa, also, which ironi~ally was made up mostly of adults. I was, at that time, only a junior in college |
