If they were able to talk about it, they were able to free up a lot of space. When they take that walk down memory lane, they could leave some of that burden behind them.

For a lot of them, they feel as if there're so many Spanish-speaking people to begin with. They would like to reach out to these individuals and communicate in a different way.

There needed to be some kind of forum, to talk about these kinds of things. (Seniors) come from a much softer, much gentler point of view so the kids would be able to understand.

My sense is they're going to learn some patience, and I think they're going to feel very secure.

They're glad they're having a class, but they didn't quite know whether they would be up to par.

The U.S. government's commitment to continuing to pump out these graduates began to drop off in 1970s. The space race had been won. There was a recession in the late 1960s. The country was hurt by the oil crisis in the early 1970s. And the country had moved away from the attitude of the 1960s that you could solve the world's problems with government spending.