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Show INTERVIEhT: Cuellar ' Page 12 GC Let me back up a little bit. In the beginning, you said that the ~ e were thirteen prbjects or that's when you came to SER in '69, there were thirteen projects. How many projects are there now. and how did the difference between thirteen and how many there are now, how did they get started? RC Right 'now we have forty programs under our main funding, which is ~IDTA. We have another six programs which makes it forty-six total programs of different types and sizes. RC So you want sort of like a project report, more or le~s,r to how SER has gotten to this point. SER is six years old. We usually say that it had its beginnings probably way back even before it got its first funding. So we have . to give credit equally to LULAC and GI Forum. The GI Forum had since the early '60's what you might call a skills bank effort in Washington, D. C. And then LULAC started a volunteer group in Houston in 1965. Sort ·of to place people on the job, sort of refer them to jobs. A very simple effort to assist people, voluntarily, no cost to recover, no cost to anybody. So the effort to get an SER funded at that time began from Houston, they sought and submitted a proposal under the Johnson Administration. GC Do you happen to know who was in charge of, say, the skills bank, and who was in charge in Houston? RC Yes, in Washington, D. C. a young man by the name of Rudy Ramos, |
