. Bell telephone magazine . , andfaced the death of one, a victim of leukemia at theage of seven months. It is here that Ray, now a communications con-sultant for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com-pany, chooses to live with his family and, in everyhour he can find, works to improve the quality oflife in the community. Topping the list of projects in which hes been aleader: the founding of a new boys club in a neigh-borhood where none existed before, and the distri-bution to places of greatest need of 5,000 bookscontributed by telephone company people. Modest to a fault, Ray Garcia nevert
. Bell telephone magazine . , andfaced the death of one, a victim of leukemia at theage of seven months. It is here that Ray, now a communications con-sultant for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com-pany, chooses to live with his family and, in everyhour he can find, works to improve the quality oflife in the community. Topping the list of projects in which hes been aleader: the founding of a new boys club in a neigh-borhood where none existed before, and the distri-bution to places of greatest need of 5,000 bookscontributed by telephone company people. Modest to a fault, Ray Garcia nevertheless ex-presses without hesitation his ideas, based on his ownexperience, on the involvement of business and theindividual in the problems of the city. This accountof these ideas, plus some of the satisfactions andfrustrations in his life, may suggest some answers andraise some new questions for other people as theywrestle with problems of urban society. . 39 A Man andHis City by Ray Garcia as told to Robert L. Varner. When we first put the windows in the back wallat the new Saiesian Boys Club — and there area lot of them; the wall is almost all glass — they allwere broken out in a matter of days. Fortunately, oneof the club board members owns a glass companyand was willing to contribute new glass. The second time we put the windows in they lastedabout a week. The third time they lasted a month ormore. Finally, this time, theyve been in for manymonths and although some are cracked they haventbeen knocked out altogether. Im confident the win-dows are going to stay in. The kids gradually aregetting used to playing and living where all this glass Mr. Carc/a is a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Companycommunications consultant. Mr. Varner is employee informationsupervisor with AT&T. lets in the sun. Gradually theyre learning a newrespect for property. To me, those windows say something about theproblems of East Los Angeles or all of Los Angeles orany city. The problems cant b
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