Resettlement re-cap: a periodic report from the Cuban Refugee Center, November 1962

              SPONSOR CUBAN REFUGEES
Fulfill Their Faith in Freedom
THE U.S. CUBAN
REFUGEE PROGRAM
NOVEMBER   1962
RESETTLEMENT  RE-CAP
A   PERIODIC   REPORT  FROM THE  CUBAN   REFUGEE CENTER • FREEDOM TOWER, MIAMI 32, FLORIDA
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE -SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
MARSHALL WISE, Director J. ARTHUR  LAZELL, Deputy Director For Resettlement
Mrs. Areces teaches Spanish, learns more English, conducting
neighborhood classes in Nevada, Iowa.(Photo: NEVADA JOURNAL.)
NEW LIFE IN IOWA PLEASES CUBAN COUPLE
A Cuban woman, happily resettled in Nevada, Iowa (population 5,000), formerly had four maids, a gardener, and a chauffeur, did cooking and housework only when she felt like it.
Now Mrs. Rigoberto Areces, busy homemaker, and her bank
auditor husband, are "accepted as Nevadans in good standing,"
according to the NEVADA JOURNAL.
"I think the American woman is an example for the world.
She is the foundation that supports the American society,"
Mrs. Areces told Reporter Bruce Bridenball.  She didn't know
what she had been missing until obliged to take over household responsibilities.  Now, she added, she likes washing
dishes, scrubbing floors — "all of it." Women in Cuba may
go to college yet not take active interest in community life
as they do in the U.S., she said.  A grandmother, Mrs. Areces
is proud that three grown daughters (elsewhere in this country)
are busy housekeeping, joining clubs, on committees.
Mrs. Areces finds time to give Spanish lessons to neighboring Nevadans, in that way improving her own English.  Her
husband, busy at the bank, still has the energy to be an
articulate participant in community affairs.  He is known
in Iowa as a speaker in demand by organizations and radio-TV
stations.  Having seen only big cities in earlier holiday
trips to the U.S., Mrs. Areces said:  "We never really knew
what family life was like here. Until we came to Iowa, we
didn't know how nice American people are."
RESETTLEMENTS STILL NEEDED;
JOBS, SPONSORS FOR 100,000
REFUGEES NOW IN MIAMI IS GOAL
Castro cut the lifeline flights
from Cuba, but the need to
resettle over 100,000 refugees now in Miami continues.
Sponsors and jobs are still
required in the effort to
have all the U.S. share responsibilities that have
fallen heavily on one area.
How registrations at the
Center dropped in the week
after flights were halted is
shown in appended figures.
But the four resettlement
agencies keep on with their
good work, confident of
widening aid to provide new
lives for men, women and
children eager for opportunities.
The nearly 50,000 who are
resettled have an obligation,
in spite of tense days, to
remain where they are.
THE SCORE
Refugees in Miami for
resettlement....over 100,000
Registered week of
Oct. 22 (starting
with day of President's
talk, last day of
flights from Havana).. 1,166
Daily registrations
of "emergency week":
Monday 352 Thursday 192
Tuesday 276 Friday  154
Wednesday 192
Resettled in week.... 878
Registered since
January 1961  153,833
Resettled since
January 1961   48,361
Resettled by Agencies
since January 1961:
Catholic Relief   28,550
International Rescue 11,068
Church World Service 6,942
United HIAS    1,801