Speech by William Sinkin about HemisFair '68 Page: 4a
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qualify for the Board bE lbscribing 25 thousand dollars more.
We have a dedicated and loyal Exectuve Committee of twenty tEat have been
meeting for four years every Tuesday morning at 7:30 in order to keep the program
growing and developing.
HemisFair 1968 will provide a catalyst for educational development second to none
in the history of Texas, and, evZea~e, a corporation has been set up with a
first grant of $283,000 to establish the first bilingual InterAmerican Educational
Center in the United States. The ramifications of this development will be far-
reaching and nation-wide. Dr. Dwain Estes has already been employed as the
Executive Director - plans are being drawn for component parts of this InterAmerican
Educational Center that will include a School of Tomorrow (de scribe), and Inter-
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Sinkin, William, 1913-. Speech by William Sinkin about HemisFair '68, text, 1966?; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth66314/m1/5/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.