A Kinen~o's Journey: On Family, Learning, and Public Service

by Lauro F. Cavazos, Gene B. Preuss (With)

Overview

On September 20, 1988, the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Lauro F. Cavazos as the fourth Secretary of Education in President Ronald Reagan's administration. A sixth-generation Texan and Kineño-a descendant of Mexican citizens who accepted work on Texas's King Ranch in the 19th century-Cavazos was the first Hispanic appointed to a position in an American Presidential Cabinet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896729681
Publisher:	Texas Tech University Press
Publication date:	06/06/2016
Series:	Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Former Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos was born on the vast King Ranch in South Texas, USA, where his father was the foreman. He received an M.A. in zoology from Texas Tech University and holds a doctoral degree in physiology from Iowa State University. He taught at the Medical College of Virginia and at the Tufts University School of Medicine, where he was Dean for five years. Cavazos returned to Texas Tech University in 1980 to become its tenth president-the first Hispanic and first graduate of the university to hold that office. He is a professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He and his wife divide their time between Concord, Massachusetts and Port Aransas, Texas.

Gene B. Preuss is an associate professor of history and Special Assistant to the President at the University of Houston-Downton. He is the author of "To Get a Better School System" One Hundred Years of School Reform in Texas.

Table of Contents

Illustrations ix

Author's Note xi

Prologue 3

Chapter 1 The View from Lauro's Hill 11

Chapter 2 Secretary of Education, 1988-1990 17

Chapter 3 After Washington 70

Chapter 4 President of Texas Tech 80

Chapter 5 Educating Myself 95

Chapter 6 Peggy, the Model of Perseverance 104

Chapter 7 Virginia and Tufts 111

Chapter 8 Our Family Life 130

Chapter 9 Manzanillo 157

Chapter 10 On to Paris and Versailles 161

Chapter 11 Administering a Medical School 183

Chapter 12 Alice Williams and Our Nantucket Journeys 186

Chapter 13 The Blizzard of 1978 211

Chapter 14 Nantucket Closure 217

Chapter 15 Reflecting on Faith and Divine Guidance 221

Epilogue: A Life Well Led 229

Appendices

A Kineño's Journey: A Historical Assessment 233

Two Speeches Lauro Gavazos 247

Notes 253

Index 259