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Hispanic conference minutes and program, Des Moines, Iowa, October 12-14, 1979

1979-10-12 The Hispanics: A Missing Link in Public Policy Page 10

Pascual Marquez. Regional Conciliator, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice. Received B.A. degree in Spanish from the University of Nebraska (Omaha) in 1966. Former positions: served U.S. Marine Corps (honorably discharged); benefits analyst, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company; deputy executive director, Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission; and community relations specialist, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Chicago Regional Office. Mr. Marquez is a member of LULAC, the American GI Forum, the NAACP, and the Urban League.

Maria Martinez. Interpreter. Spanish interpreter, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Brown's Commercial College diploma and certificates from the University of Iowa for training course series for experienced secretaries. Assistant medical records librarian, Mercy Hospital, Iowa City; secretary, Dr. Arthur Steindler; secretary, Dr. C.H. McCloy; secretary, Director of Nursing Service, Mercy Hospital; Spanish translator, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa; medical secretary, Dr. M. Armlay, University Hospitals; medical secretary, Dr. Elmer DeGowin and W. Fowler, University of Iowa; secretary, National Adjuvant Breast Project and later for the Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa; and medical secretary to the Director of Clinical Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa.

Sister Irene Munoz. Registered Nurse. Currently employed by the Muscatine Migrant Committee. Member of the Davenport Diocese Spanish-speaking Commission; Muscatine County Rape/ Assault Advisory Committee. Muscatine Health Association; LACLL-Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; and the American Indian-Chicano Center- Ft. Madison Penitentiary. Commissioner of the Iowa Spanish Speaking People's Commission.

Jesus Negrete. National Performer and Mexican American Folklorist. Sr. Negrete has been performing Mexican American folk music for the last seven years. He has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe and was invited along with other American performers to the Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana in 1978, where he was awarded El Premio Nacional Sobre La Cancion Politica. Sr. Negrete is the author of an Anthology of Mexican American Folksongs, which is published in part from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1948, the son of migrant farm workers who came to the valley of southern Texas in the early part of the 1950's, Sr. Negrete now makes his home in Chicago and is persently doing graduate work in educational anthropology at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana).

Philip D. Ortego y Gasca. Educator and Writer. Director of the Institue for Intercultural Studies and Research at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. The life and career of Dr. Philip D. Ortego reflect an extraordinary triumph over a lack of childhood opportunity. Born into a family of few means- his father was successively a migrant, steel, and railroad worker - young Philip grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he experienced the frustrations and disappointments so common to his people in that kind of environment. He dropped out of school in the 10th grade and took a variety of jobs. His life turned around, however, after he returned from service in the U.S. Marines during World War II. With the aid of the G.I. Bill, Dr. Ortego studied language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also won a commission in the U.S. Air Force. He served nearly nine years. in the Air Force and along with his regular duties managed to complete the civilian life in order to follow a career in education. He taught and studied at various institutions, finally winning the Ph. D. degree from the University of New Mexico. At present he is Director of the Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research at Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio, but he also pursues numerous other activities. He is, for example, senior editor and literary director for La Luz, the first national magazine for Hispanic Americans. Dr. Ortego is widely known as writer, critic, and champion of Chicano causes.

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Pascual Marquez. Regional Conciliator, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice. Received B.A. degree in Spanish from the University of Nebraska (Omaha) in 1966. Former positions: served U.S. Marine Corps (honorably discharged); benefits analyst, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company; deputy executive director, Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission; and community relations specialist, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice, Chicago Regional Office. Mr. Marquez is a member of LULAC, the American GI Forum, the NAACP, and the Urban League. Maria Martinez. Interpreter. Spanish interpreter, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Brown's Commercial College diploma and certificates from the University of Iowa for training course series for experienced secretaries. Assistant medical records librarian, Mercy Hospital, Iowa City; secretary, Dr. Arthur Steindler; secretary, Dr. C.H. McCloy; secretary, Director of Nursing Service, Mercy Hospital; Spanish translator, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa; medical secretary, Dr. M. Armlay, University Hospitals; medical secretary, Dr. Elmer DeGowin and W. Fowler, University of Iowa; secretary, National Adjuvant Breast Project and later for the Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa; and medical secretary to the Director of Clinical Laboratories, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa. Sister Irene Munoz. Registered Nurse. Currently employed by the Muscatine Migrant Committee. Member of the Davenport Diocese Spanish-speaking Commission; Muscatine County Rape/ Assault Advisory Committee. Muscatine Health Association; LACLL-Labor Council for Latin American Advancement; and the American Indian-Chicano Center- Ft. Madison Penitentiary. Commissioner of the Iowa Spanish Speaking People's Commission. Jesus Negrete. National Performer and Mexican American Folklorist. Sr. Negrete has been performing Mexican American folk music for the last seven years. He has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe and was invited along with other American performers to the Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana in 1978, where he was awarded El Premio Nacional Sobre La Cancion Politica. Sr. Negrete is the author of an Anthology of Mexican American Folksongs, which is published in part from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in 1948, the son of migrant farm workers who came to the valley of southern Texas in the early part of the 1950's, Sr. Negrete now makes his home in Chicago and is persently doing graduate work in educational anthropology at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana). Philip D. Ortego y Gasca. Educator and Writer. Director of the Institue for Intercultural Studies and Research at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. The life and career of Dr. Philip D. Ortego reflect an extraordinary triumph over a lack of childhood opportunity. Born into a family of few means- his father was successively a migrant, steel, and railroad worker - young Philip grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he experienced the frustrations and disappointments so common to his people in that kind of environment. He dropped out of school in the 10th grade and took a variety of jobs. His life turned around, however, after he returned from service in the U.S. Marines during World War II. With the aid of the G.I. Bill, Dr. Ortego studied language and literature at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also won a commission in the U.S. Air Force. He served nearly nine years. in the Air Force and along with his regular duties managed to complete the civilian life in order to follow a career in education. He taught and studied at various institutions, finally winning the Ph. D. degree from the University of New Mexico. At present he is Director of the Institute for Intercultural Studies and Research at Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio, but he also pursues numerous other activities. He is, for example, senior editor and literary director for La Luz, the first national magazine for Hispanic Americans. Dr. Ortego is widely known as writer, critic, and champion of Chicano causes.