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| Title | Interview with Victoria Terronez |
| Interviewee | Terronez, Victoria |
| Interviewer |
Choate, Justin Lythberg, Christian |
| Date | February 2014 |
| Duration | Approximately 33 minutes |
| Description | In the interview, Victoria comments on her early life and family history in Davenport, Iowa. She also discusses Latino employment and her job as the Hispanic Program Manager at the Rock Island Arsenal. Victoria ends the interview with speaking about how Latinos continue to search for jobs in the Quad City area. |
| Historical Note | Victoria Terronez was born on March 13th, 1953 in Daventport, Iowa to Mexican American parents. She attended West Davenport High School, Marycrest University, and St. Ambrose University. She is currently the Hispanic Program Manager at the Rock Island Arsenal. She's had two daughters, Elena and Micaela, graduate from Augustana College. |
| Interview Index | 0:00-3:42 Who the Terronezs are and how They Came to the Quad Cities. 3:43-4:56 Growing up in Davenport, IA. 4:57-7:13 The Davenport Latino Community and its Dynamics 7:14-7:55 Length of Time Terronez Family has been in the Quad Cities 7:56-9:27 Job as Hispanic Coordinator at the Rock Island Arsenal 9:28-13:39 Obligations as a Latino Leader at the Rock Island Arsenal 13:40-15:01 How the Local Latino Groups impact the Latino Community in the QC area. 15:02-16:29 Recruitment for Positions at the Army Corps of Engineers and the Rock Island Arsenal. 16:30-17:59 Changes in Latino American Identity in the Quad Cities. 18:00-21:15 Realizing Success in the Latino Quad City Community. 21:16-23:10 Images of Latinos in the Quad Cities. 23:11-25:18 Recorded History of the Terronez Family. 25:19-27:37 Challenges for Other Quad City Leaders. 27:38-28:25 Corporation effects on Latino Jobs in the Quad Cities 28:25-29:28 Latinos Continuing to Seek Employment in the QC Area. 29:29-33:15 Interviewer Inquiry about Research on Terronez Family. |
| Interview Notes | Christian and I met Mrs. Victoria Terronez at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, February 6 in the Augustana College CSL (Center for Student Life) Brew by the Slough and proceeded to the game room for more privacy. We made pleasantries and tried to establish some rapport before the interview started. We briefly discussed the new CSL and how Victoria’s daughter Micaela is a junior at Augustana and her interests. Victoria followed up our remarks with an anecdote describing her other children and how they have all been through college as well. Mrs. Terronez sat across the table from us and was looking confused at first to why we were conducting the interview. We spent a few minutes reviewing what the interview would look like and why we needed her testimony. We discussed our previous interviews that were conducted and directed her to read the release forms and sign them. During the interview we found it a little difficult to get Victoria to expand on some of the topics. She answered all of our questions well or to the best of her ability but most of the time she gave short direct answers. Since the interviewee did not elaborate much on the questions that we had prepared it was difficult for us to adapt and delve deeper into some of the remarks that she made. This was not complete limitation but we had to get creative towards the end of the interview to keep the dialogue going. Even though it was difficult at times to get lengthy answers from her, both Christian and I felt that this interview felt much more comfortable and natural than the first ones we had conducted. Mrs. Terronez was both very kind and cordial. At the end of the interview she was more than happy to continue to talk to us about the college and she wanted to know what our opinion was of the school. The interview lasted thirty-three minutes which is not as long as we would have hoped. |
| Transcript Exists | Yes |
| Audio Exists | Yes |
| Subject | Hispanic Americans -- Quad Cities (Ill. and Iowa) |
| Identifier | CD-0291/54 |
| Collection in Repository | Oral history interviews |
| Collection Number | MSS 291 |
| Project | Latino Leadership in the Quad Cities |
| Repository | Augustana College Special Collections, 639 38th Street, Rock Island, Illinois 61201 |
| Finding Aid Link | http://augustana.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/210 |
| Preferred Citation | Interview with Victoria Terronez, 2014, in MSS 291 Oral history interviews, Special Collections, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. |
| Rights | Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from Augustana College Special Collections and the copyright holder. Contact specialcollections@augustana.edu or 309-794-7643 for more information. |
| Type | Sound |
| Object Description | Compact Disc |
| Language | eng |
| Digital Format | audio/mpeg |
| Publisher | Augustana College Special Collections |
| Collection | Oral History Interviews (Augustana College) |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Transcript | Interview with Victoria Terronez Justin Choate – JC Christian Lythberg – CL Victoria Terronez – VT JC: Uh, this is Justin Choate and Christian Lythberg interviewing with Victoria Terronez at Augustana College, uh, in the CSL, February 6th, 2014. Uh, Victoria is it okay if we record this interview? VT: Yes it is. JC: Ok, thank you very much. [Coughing] CL: All right we’re just going to start with a couple questions, um, who were your parents? VT: My parents are deceased now, um, Helen, used to be [inaudible] and my father is Jesse [inaudible]. CL: Okay. VT: And they both passed away a couple years ago, fours month apart. Had been married almost 60 years. JC & CL: [Softly]…wow… CL: So, where’d your parents come from? How did they…how’d your family…make its way to the Quad Cities? VT: Um…they came from San Luis Potosi, Mexico. CL: How do you spell that? [Laughing] VT: It’s S-A-N L-U-I-S P-O-T-O-S-I. Mexico. And, they…[inaudible]…was to get away from the revolution. They…that was my grandparents that did that. And, to find jobs, and at that time the railroad was hiring a lot of people for the Rock Island line. JC: And where in the Quad Cities did they come to? VT: They ended up in a Barrio in Davenport called Cook’s Point. And that’s where there was a predominantly Hispanic population. Actually there was three: there was Cook’s Point, um, Holy City in Bettendorf… CL: Mhmm. VT: …and Silvis Yards. JC: Okay, um, and can you talk a little bit what it was like for your parents growing up in Davenport? VT: Well, I just saw them not too long ago because when my parents passed away my sister and I, you know, inherited my grandparents home. And where they live, its like in a court, there’s five homes and they’re all related. Well, back when Cook’s Point was sold they made all these Hispanic people move out of that area because they were gonna do industrial area there. And they, my grandparents started looking for homes and my parents, um, people petitioned in the neighborhood because they didn’t want Hispanics living in their neighborhood and they saw they were [classifying?] land to build a home, so they moved way out by West Lake in Davenport, bought a lot, all the families put their money together and bought all this big lot and land and they build their homes there. JC: Um, what did your parents do for a living? VT: My dad…was a carpenter by trade. He worked at St. Ambrose and Lake Cook College and then he worked at Farmall as a…machine operator. My mom worked at Lake Cook College in the cafeteria and then she worked at the Rock Island Arsenal in the cafeteria. But, by them working at both colleges, my sister and I got to go to college tuition-free, and then they just waved the tuition and I only had to pay for books for class…[inaudible] JC: Um, can you describe your own childhood and what it was like growing up in the Quad Cities? VT: Um, it was, it was different because like I said we grew up all next to each other, all my aunts and uncles. So, I grew up with 10 boy cousins and 3 girl cousins and we were very close and we still are actually. You know, um, they always say when you grow up with your cousins it’s like growing up with your best friends. [The friends you grew up with?], um, we went to public school at that time and we went to catechism on Sunday’s, we walked from [way in?] the West End to Alfonso’s Church in Davenport. JC: Okay, um…where did you go to college? VT: I went to, uh, Marycrest… JC: Okay. VT: …and then I went to St. Ambrose the first year they went co-ed. They used to be an all….Marycrest College at that time was an all-girl school and then St. Ambrose was an all-boys school… CL: Okay. VT: …back in the day, but then they…now its co-ed of course, St. Ambrose is…St. Ambrose University in Davenport. JC: Um, so you talked a little bit about it, but could you talk a little bit more about what the dynamics of the community was like when you were growing up? VT: Well, when I went to West High School I could probably count on my hand the number of minorities that went there. There was maybe 5 Hispanic children that went there. JC: Okay, um…so your community that you grew up in was not predominantly LatinoAmerican then? VT: N…no its become more now… JC: Okay. VT: …oh gosh, a lot more. Back when I was growing up you knew all the families, you know, in the area because they settled here and you grew up with them. Now, I see Hispanic families that I’ve never seen before, but it’s because they’ve all migrated from Mexico, from the different states and mainly because of jobs. CL: I do have a question though, ah, I mean…if we can go back to point where we were talking about, you said your parents uh, grandparents, uh, moved to a Barrio in [inaubidle]… VT: Uh huh. CL: …can you talk a little bit about, you know, what they experienced living in a Barrio at…uh, Cook’s Point I believe you said… VT: Right. CL: …what, you know, what Cook’s Point was like? VT: Um, I remember them telling us stories about them growing up, you know all the families lived so close to each other so, because they all grew up next to each other even though they had separate families they were like one big family, in fact our home, the one we inherited, at that time, when someone passed away they used to have it at the home. Well, our home was the biggest home in that area so it was like a mortuary, you know the bottom part of the house is where they had all the people that passed away. CL: That’d be a little creepy. [Laughter] VT: Even my kids now when we go over there they go “oh we’re not spending the night”. [laughter] …[inaudible]…but yeah I remember my grandparents telling us that, that they were all very close, and even now they have reunions, um, to this day at Cook’s Point, the people who live in that area, have settled in that area, now there’s probably like 70 or 80 since the first ones that came over. JC: So has your family lived pretty much in the same area since they’ve been in the Quad Cities or have they… VT: Yeah, about 60 years they’ve been in that same area, and now, you know, the aunts and uncles had it and now its like the second or third generation that are living there. JC: All right. Um, so, I guess to move…uh, on a little bit from that what is then, um, I guess explicitly your involvement in the Quad City Latino community? VT: Uh, I serve as the Hispanic…[inaudible]…program manager at the Core of Engineers. And part of my position is to help recruit minorities. JC: Is that for jobs within the Arsenal… VT: Mhmm. JC: …specifically? VT: Yes. Um, I go to job fairs, college fairs. JC: Okay. Um, do you feel that your position at the Arsenal has, uh, lead you…lead you to be placed, um, in a leadership role in your community? VT: Yes. I do. Um, part of my position there, im also required to, um, be involved in the community in [parts?] like LULAC, um, Viva Quad Cities, uh, Greater Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, all the Hispanic organizations, um, the Latino Community Network, we share like job…resumes all the time, so im just…[inaudible]…students at St. Ambrose or Augustana…[inaudible]…senior year and I just share ‘em, you know. JC: Um, can you expand a little bit on your, uh, the programs you participate in? VT: Like, the LULAC and…? JC: Sure. VT: Okay. JC: Um, like what, what exactly that you do within the… VT: Um, the LULAC, we help with the scholarships, with the scholarships and…[inaudible]…Quad Cities, you know, make sure that, uh, the minority kids that are in their senior year of high school and they all go on to college [on all the?] scholarships that are open to them. JC: Okay CL: Um, what do you feel is your obligation as a leader in the, er, what do you feel is your obligation as a leader to the…Latino community? VT: Is my obligation to the… CL: If you have an obligation…[inaudible]… VT: Okay. Well, you know, in our family and I think lots of families, education is so important to us, you know, and that…[inaudible]…give you something that you haven’t had a chance to have. And I know my grandparents and my parents were very happy to see my sister and I go on to college and that’s we want for our kids and really for everybody, you know. Education is always something that cannot be taken away from you, and that’s what I tell my kids, you know. JC: Were you first generation college graduate? VT: Mhmm. And, you know, when I was in high school they didn’t push college for women and especially for minorities. You know, and I would go talk to my councilor and say well, you know, this is what I want to do and he’d say well don’t you want to be like a beautician or, you know, clerk or, you know…we never would really talked about college. You know, and I told him finally, you know I have a chance to go to college for free because my parents work at both colleges, so then he got a little more interested [laughing]. [And was like?] “yeah that’s a good opportunity”, you know. But at first, you know, it was like, you know…[inaudible]…a little bit…that I couldn’t do that. JC: Um, how did you get your position at the Arsenal? VT: I have…I’ve worked at the Arsenal for…it would be 33 years in June. I started [inaudible]…during the summer, um, of high school and then part time during the school year. So, I’ve been there since I was…16. JC: Wow. VT: And then I yeah, I would have had 43 years, but I stayed home for 5 years with my oldest daughter and then I worked at International Harvester… JC: Okay. VT: …uh, and Farmall for 5 years. JC: Um, can you talk about how your position has changed over that time? VT: Um…well when I started I loved that fact, I wish I would have got this job probably 20 years ago, because part of my position as Hispanic and [inaudible] program manager I get to travel more too… JC: Oh. VT: ….and the government sends me, you know, to different places to recruit too and different conferences. JC: So, you don’t just recruit for the Rock Island Arsenal, or is it just the Rock Island Arsenal? VT: Yes, it is. JC: Okay. VT: Mhmm. But, you know, I’ve been to, you know, like, Texas and Florida, um, Arizona, you know, like California. Usually, every year I get to go at least once or twice. JC: So, do you think then that your partially responsible for strengthening the Latino Community in the Quad Cities because you have gone to these places to try and recruit, uh, people (over?) to the Arsenal? VT: Well, you know, it takes more than just one person, um, we have a community (at work?) meeting once a month, its called Special Emphasis Program…Managers, and actually I’m the Hispanic Program manager for our nationality. We have Asian, Pacific, um, African American, or Native American women in federal government, so all these programs, you know, kind of work together. Back when I started though, you know I started when I was 16, they didn’t have a lot of these programs that they have now, so that’s one benefit. CL: Sorry, [inaudible]. I’m interested, I mean, how these…programs…[inaudible]…over the years, how those have affected the Quad Cities, I mean, Rock Island community, Moline community, the Davenport community… VT: Uh huh. CL: …[inaudible]…how (they?), uh, played out, I guess, in just the Quad Cities and…surrounding areas? VT: Well, you know, we have, um, activities, like, in the Quad City Area, different fairs, maybe different, um, like the Greeks [like to be?] in the Quad Cities, we try and…[inaudible]…visible and we have a table probably like this and we have…[inaudible]…you know. Right now we have a freeze that’s going to be lifted over at the Arsenal, so for a while there was a freeze on getting jobs, you know, we couldn’t hire anybody, but now we’ll be able to actually hire people. JC: What has…what has been the changes you’ve seen at the Arsenal as far as hiring more and more Latino’s to work there, like, from when you first started at 16… VT: Mhmm. JC: …to kind of now, um, you mentioned like the high school you went to how you could count on one hand… VT: Right, right. JC: …how many that went there, so have you seen like a vast improvement over the time…? VT: Oh yeah, definitely. Mhmm. Um, I meet once a month also with the…[inaudible]…one of the managers from down the street and they have different commands, you know, Joint Commission Command, uh, Sustain Command, and everybody has their own position, uh, that they take care of. JC: So, um, and, and you’ve probably mentioned this a little bit, but how do you go about finding, um, Hispanic people to work there? Do you go to job hunters or do you specifically… VT: We usually contact the colleges… JC: Okay. VT: …Um, like I work a lot with Greg Aguilar here… JC: Mhmm. VT: …when he was, well, when he was working here he was the multicultural director, um, with your admissions office… JC: Okay. VT: …with your councilors…like, um, with Rachel Gustafson, you know, Julie (Nico?) um, people like that in your admissions office. JC: So, what…what do you, what positions are you seeking…to hire people for specifically or… VT: Well…we usually hire, at the Core, we usually have a branch for engineering, um, biologist, environmental science, in fact we do have, um, people that we’ve had from Augustana come over as students and… JC: And intern? VT: Right, and intern and then they work their way into regular positions. JC: That’s pretty…interesting. VT: Right now we have, um, two (of ‘em? Or “in my office”?) that are from Augustana that went to school here and then they worked over then there during the summer and then part time during the school year and then they just were able to get their jobs. JC: As far as a community as a whole like the Quad Cities, what changes have you witnessed in relation to the Latino American identity, maybe not necessarily the arsenal but just in general? VT: Just in general. Um, well you know like I said there’s so many organizations now and back when I was younger there was Lulac and that was it really. Maybe Lulac and um, ah, I can’t think of the other one right now, but you know there was Lulac and [inaudible]. Those were the two basic Hispanic organizations in the area and now like I said, yah know there are several, yah know. I’m also a member of, it’s called the, ah, bi-state coalition for Hispanics and we meet once every three months. Um, and what it is, is kind of these little organizations that I’m talking about we meet, kinda in a room like this, Augustana has hosted it before, St. Ambrose has hosted it, Lulac has hosted it. And what we do is talk about different things going on in the area, jobs, scholarships, anything we can help out with. JC: Um, ok, ah so, would you, hmm, as a whole would say that Quad, ah Latino Quad Citians have realized success in the community, ah, in any form I guess, as far as what you’ve seen growing up or maybe from your parents or grandparents first came here? VT: Yes, I think there has been a lot of progress actually. CL: A lot of progress. So are they still on their way you know or could it be better a lot better? VT: Oh it could be a lot better; it could be a lot better. There’s still been, you know, some setbacks that happen, but from when I was growing up, big, big progress. JC: What are some of the more major changes that you would like to see? VT: Um, probably, what we’re working on now at the Corps of Engineers and arsenal as well is minorities in upper management. JC: Do you think that that is a problem as a whole in the Quad Cities is there is not enough minorities in upper management? VT: Yeah, and you know what is nice, is growing up you like to see someone in a position that you think of going into, because that way you think I could do that someday. You know when you see someone of your skin color maybe doing something you want do when you get older rather than thinking I’m never going to be able to do that. CL: I guess along those lines, ah, we talked about, what does the future hold for I guess, for future leaders of the Quad Cities or I guess just latinos in general, what do you see is in the future? VT: Well hopefully, you know, better jobs, more education, so that the younger generations can thrive on that. You know I think that’s real important for them to see, you know, they can make a living, they’re going to be able to own their own home, they’re going to be able to go to college or have education for their children. JC: What do you think is the best way to go about that? VT: Well, there’s ah, ah group in the Quad Cities, I don’t know if you have heard of them or not, it’s a um a dance group that I was able to get my kids involved in it’s called Quad Cities Ballet Folklorico and they do like traditional Hispanic dancing, they perform for various organizations, and one of the main things that we push for them is is to make college visits, um college visits. I know they have performed here before and we take them to different places like St. Ambrose, here and University of Iowa and it kinda gives the kids um that college environment, you know, so they can think about, you know, maybe when I get older I will go to school, you know. JC: Um going back to your point about traditional dances and what not, what do you think is the image for Latinos in the Quad Cities as far as do you think there is enough culture preservation or do you think there should be more, or, what is your opinion? VT: I think there could be more. There could more. Um, to me I think that was probably one of the best decisions that my husband and I ever did as a family and you know all three of my children have performed in this dance group, in fact my son is the director now. CL: Oh, wow. VT: And when he was younger, I think he started dancing when he was seven, and you know, he played soccer at the same time he wrestled, and he actually went to state for wrestling for Alleman High School, which is just up the hill, and a lot of times the kids would tease him, you know, because he would say “I can’t go with you guys cause I have to go to dance practice.” But it helped him with his footwork with wrestling and soccer so I think it also taught him his heritage and tradition and he learned Spanish at the same time because a lot of the other children that were in it, Spanish was more of their first language. It really started as more of a non-profit organization, that’s what it is, and its geared toward low income children, to help them, but then it kinda opened up and whoever wanted to join could join. CL: I, I have, I just have a random question that kinda just popped into my head, and doesn’t pertain, I mean it does pertain to in that, to what we are talking about and that in a way that, um, I mean, ah, how well, I guess you would be to in the Quad Cities, I guess, preserve this history um is especially within Latinos, I was just wondering if any of this, I mean, I mean, ah, ah , barrios and the steel housing that use to be around here if any of this is written down, any like history text books, you know, somewhere in the quad cities, I mean cause I’m not from this area, so I mean learning about it in class is the first time I heard about. So I’m just wondering if this is something that is written down or all at this point just word of mouth. VT: Um no, there is actually my brother in law is kinda the historian for the Terronez Family. Every August we have a reunion and it’s always the first Saturday in August and there’s like maybe five hundred people that show up and there all related and we have it at Illiniwek Park and every year people gather all the information that they want to share with each other and he’s kinda the historian of the family so he’s got a lot of the family tree stuff and everything, he can tell you all the stuff he’s got, he’s got a website too. That’s on my husband’s side of the family. Um, my side of the family, I have an aunt she stopped going up, she was big advocate in like civil rights and she got to meet Caesar Chavez, she hosted a dinner for him, who at the time worked for the justice department, and he was, what do you call um? A mediator. Um like with Wounded Knee, when all that was going on, he did all of that, you know talked to him and stuff. Actually she would share her information with the University of Iowa, the archives yeah. JC: Do you think that is pretty typical, um with a lot of Latino families or do you think a lot of it is still lost? Because there isn’t as well like documentation. VT: Ah, I think more people my age are starting to, you know, keep track of everything. You know now especially with the Facebook, with the internet, it makes everything a lot easier. JC: So as far as you being as you being leader in the Latino community, um, do you, ah, hmm. What do you think, ah some of the changes for other Latino leaders are, what do you think that they think could be done better? VT: Well I think that’s why, remember I told you we meet every three months for that bistate coalition because I think that’s what we’re trying to do there. And also want to keep track of all the events to make sure we don’t, you know, get mixed up with someone else’s or get rescheduled with some else’s. And I think that part is important because that is what we’re trying to do there. JC: So what do you think then the future holds, ah, for future leaders of the Latino Community? Do you think, ah, it will progressively continue to get better or stay the same? VT: I think so, I think so, I think it will progressively get better, especially with some of these organizations, you know like the Great Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is doing a lot. JC: Are a lot of these organizations getting bigger? VT: Uh huh, Uh huh. And they have a lot of um backing from like the schools, the colleges, I know Augustana is a member, so is St. Ambrose, Alcoa… CL: I was gonna ask if any major like companies… VT: Major companies are supporting them. JC: Does John Deere do anything as far as… VT: John Deere? They do too. JC: Okay, okay. CL: Alright let’s see, just kinda a random one, I mean this stuff that involves the whole community, the community as a whole, I mean you may know more a little bit more about this but, I know that ah, quite a few companies left the area, I mean in the late seventies, early eighties, like International Harvester and other community companies left, how did that affect the Latino Community? I mean, I mean, I don’t know if you saw first-hand, but I know a lot of people got laid off or lost jobs, how did that affect the Latino Community? VT: It did because there was a lot of families that the main bread-winner worked there, so they either had to find another job here or move somewhere else. To where the company moved to, yea my dad worked at Farmall in Rock Island, my husband worked at the one in East Moline and I work at the one in Rock Island, so you know it affects your family a lot and I ended up going back to the other schools afterwards. JC: So with the um, I guess, the job market not being as strong as it is, um, do you think more Latinos are being attracted here or do you think more are leaving in search of more jobs.. how do you feel about that? VT: I think, um, job wise they will always try and come, cause there’s an area in Mexico, its Guanajuato it’s probably the majority of people here are from there, especially in the Moline like the [mumble] neighborhood, a lot of the families there are from that state. JC: And do they come directly here, or is that sort of a process that they…? VT: Usually they come directly here, you know, because they may have an aunt or an uncle, so they come and live with them. CL: So an article I have pulled up here that we were looking at when we were doing background research, and it came up with a lady that the last name was Terronez [muffled] they were probably related to her. VT: Probably [laughs] CL: I could probably pull it up now and ask you. VT: What was the name, what was here name? CL: I can’t remember, I know I pulled it up on Google, it’s only one search away. VT: That’s ok JC: What did you say your mom’s name was again? VT: Helen. I bet it was Mary, my Aunt Mary. CL: That may be it. VT: Because like I said, she worked util in her eighties, she went to college and graduated when she was sixty, she went to palmer, after she sent all her kids, she had six or seven kids, and they all went to college, then she went. JC: So is a lot of your family from here then? VT: Uh huh CL: It is Mary [after search] VT: Yea see, Mary CL: Mary Terronez VT: Uh huh, yea see CL: I was wondering what the relationship was. VT: She was my mother’s sister, my mom’s sister, and you know I did a story on her, kinda like a bio, one year I did, it was Hispanic Heritage month at the Corp of Engineers, I you know, do research for that, do a display, have a guest speaker come, you know, that’s part of what I do for that, but I did do a bio on her and it was on a big pop up poster and I use it every year. JC: So how big is your like team or department at the Quad Cities Arsenal? VT: You mean the office or the whole Corps JC: Well as far as, um, so your position as Hispanic coordinator right, so is it, are you part of a specific department or how does that work? VT: Oh we’re part of the EEO, Equal Employment Opportunity, and then were under them, and it’s a special emphasis program managers, And the commander, we just had our meeting for this month yesterday, and usually the commander is there, or the colonel, it’s part of, they have to be there too because of these, like Hispanic Heritage Month, Asian Pacific, Native American, those are all proclaimated by the president of the united states so they have to be done. JC: Is there anything else you would like to share with us? VT: Um I don’t know if I mentioned it but my mother was one of fourteen children, you know, so that’s why the family on my side is huge too, you know, which is nice though, you know, it’s a big family, actually there’s only one left now out of fourteen. So they’ve all past, but we have all the cousins that are still alive, which is nice. JC: I think that’s about it. Thank you very very much for your time. VT: I hope I answered all your questions. JC & CL: Yea, Yea you did. JC: Thank you CL: Thank you VT: Okay. |
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