Resettlement re-cap: a periodic report from the Cuban Refugee Center, July 1964

              SPONSOR CUBAN REFUGEES
Fulfill Their Faith in Freedom
JULY  1964
RESETTLEMENT RE-CAP
FOR  ADMINISTRATIVE  USE
A  PERIODIC REPORT FROM THE CUBAN REFUGEE CENTER — FREEDOM TOWER, MIAMI 32, FLORIDA
U.   S.   DEPARTMENT  OF   HEALTH,   EDUCATION,   AND WELFARE      —       WELFARE ADMINISTRATION
U. S. CUBAN  REFUGEE PROGRAM
J. ARTHUR LAZELL, Director, Refugee Center
JOHN FREDERICK THOMAS, Director, Washington, D. C.
ERROL T. BALLANFONTE, Chief, Center Operations HARRY B. LYFORD, Editor
CHALLENGE OF 'PROVIDING EFFECTIVE ASYLUM TO A BEWILDERED PEOPLE1 IS PART OF
THE EFFORT FOR THE SECURITY OF FREEDOM, U. S. SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS
"The challenge in all refugee problems is the task of providing effective
asylum to a bewildered people.  America's presence and energies are needed in this task — for moral and political reasons.  The subcommittee is
confident that our citizens and their elected representatives will continue to respond to this task with vigor, with enthusiasm and with sympathy.  It is part of the effort for the security of freedom."
The quoted paragraph is from the May 26 report of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, made by its Subcommittee To Investigate Problems Connected With Refugees and Escapees,
chaired by Senator Philip A. Hart and known as nThe Hart Committee."  On the Cuban refugee
problem, the report states:
"The subcommittee reaffirms its belief that a sense of urgency must continue in the resettlement program, the best road to effective asylum...Resettlement provides the great majority
of Cubans with the opportunity to live reasonably normal and productive lives until conditions
permit an assisted return to their homeland, or for those who wish it to elect American citizenship. Experience demonstrates this fully. Care should be taken by government and private
agencies however, not to lose the refugee in the daily shuffle of American cities, so that he
is guided through proper counseling in the realization of adjustment to American life.
"The subcommittee commends the officials in government and the private sector for their efforts to infuse new energy into the resettlement program -- through greater cooperative efforts, an accelerated public informational campaign, and better counseling of refugees to demonstrate the positive advantages of resettlement.  The subcommittee supports, fully, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare!s current study of the refugees in Miami, who are
receiving public assistance, in terms of their potential for resettlement.  It commends the
Department for effecting its longstanding rule of terminating the public assistance of a refugee in Miami who refuses reasonable resettlement opportunities for insufficient reasons.  The
subcommittee is satisfied that the effort is being carried out in a humanitarian way and on an
individual basis...
"The subcommittee recommends that America's informational facilities, at home and abroad,
-- in both the public and private sectors -- give maximum attention to the common cause and
plight of refugees from communism.  This, coupled with positive and publicized efforts by the
free nations to give effective asylum, can further the cause of freedom and human dignity in
every corner of the globe...
"The subcommittee recommends that in the coming months officials in government, and in the
private sector as well, give serious attention to possible ways of extending and improving
the American apparatus of assistance to refugees, especially the partnership between the Government and private agencies.  The subcommittee will pursue the matter in the coming months."
^    CUBAN GIRL WINS POST GRADUATE GRANT
In two and a half years, Miss Olga Nodarse, Cuban refugee (left), progressed from "a confused understanding of classroom English to a grasp of
her studies that put her on the Dean's list" at Trinity College, Washington, D.C, according to the WASHINGTON STAR.  She was among 170 girls
recently graduated there.  She not only received her Bachelor of Arts
degree but a renewable W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant to the School of
Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
where she will pursue graduate work in Latin American studies.  The STAR
further reports:  "An outstanding student leader in the Cuban Catholic
Action movement during the 1960 revolution in Cuba, Olga not only continued to direct and inspire fellow student leaders in exile, but attained popularity with her fellow Trinity classmates while winning academic honors.  She has received Trinity's most outstanding honors including the T-Pin Award given to only four members of the class who
best exemplify the college's ideals."  (Photo Courtesy Washington STAR.)
SUMMER SPONSORING
IN FULL SWING;JOB
OFFERS ARE WANTED
June resettlements totaled
well above 1,300, setting
an encouraging summer pace
for sponsorships.  Small
boat arrivees numbered 150,
in 17 craft.  Total resettlements in the Program is
near 80,000.  Offers of
sponsorships and jobs are
continuingly welcome!