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Factores Condicionadores de La Distribucion de Los Alofonos Consonanticos Españoles
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cators to become involved at this critical munity-university related events (Cabrilho Institute,
time. We, more than anyone else, should
Symposium on the Portuguese Presence, Cultural
Page in the Jornal Portugues, grammar book, Portu-
be willing to train student teachers, develop
materials, and in myriads of other ways gal: Lingua e Cultura, etc.), is Dr. Eduardo Mayone
Dias of UCLA.
place our expertise at the service of the
8This year 27 percent of the nearly 80 students wer
community; for after all, the purpose of of Portuguese descent.
education is not for its own sake, but to 9I conducted a rather unsystematic survey among
make of us more profitable servants whothe conference participants to arrive at that number.
can contribute more generously to our Many more may have been represented that I did not
fellow men. encounter. Those listed with an asterisk are State or
federally funded programs, according to the sheet
supplied by David P. Dolson, Bilingual Bicultural
NOTES Education Consultant, California State Department
of Education, Sacramento. The twenty-five districts
'Rev. Dr. Leonel C. Noia, "The Azoreans and their are: *ABC Unified School District, Banta, *Cabrillo,
Struggle for Social and Political Identity," paper *Chino, *Corona-Norco, *Elk Grove, *Hayward,
delivered at the Colloquium on the International Hillmore, Kings Co., Mantica, Merced, Modesto,
Repercussions of the Portuguese Revolution, Center *Newark, Pajaro Valley, Poway, Sacramento, *San
for Latin American Studies, California State Univer- Diego, Santa Clara, *San Jose, *San Leandro, Stanis-
sity, Long Beach, 6 February 1976. lau, Traver, Tulare, Turlock, Visalia.
2See the author's "Os inicios da pesca do atum em In 1976, the California State Department of Edu-
San Diego," in Report.- First Symposium on Portu- cation, under Superintendent of Public Instruction,
guese Presence in California (San Leandro, Cali- Wilson Riles, published Bibliography of Instructional
fornia: Centro Cultural Cabrilho, UPEC Cultural Materials for the Teaching of Portuguese.
Center, Luso-American Education Foundation, 'OThe survey questions were suggested in collabora-
1974), pp. 6, 7. tion with my colleague Dr. Giorgio Perissinotto,
3Alvin R. Graves, "The Portuguese in California, Associate Professor of Spanish at UCSB. The com-
1850-1880: A Geographical Analysis of Early Settle- puter program and tabulation of the results, were
ment Phenomena," in ibid., p. 51. provided by my friend, Glen Hunter.
"ibid. "The author's, "Portuguese Tiles in the Great
5ibid., p. 53. American Mosaic: An Overview of Five Hundred
6Geoffrey L. Gomes, "Bilingualism Among Second Years," in Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest
and Third Generation Portuguese-Americans in Cali- Council on Foreign Languages (Corvallis, Oregon:
fornia," in ibid., p. 45. Oregon State University, 1976), Vol. xxvII, Part 2,
'The guiding force behind the Portuguese Com- p. 138.
munities Day Conference as well as most other com- "Ibid.
LEONOR A. LAREW
State University College, Geneseo, New York
Because the Rochester, N.Y. area has Rochester City School District FLES pro-
been rated best in a "quality of life" gram is a good one. The survey, which was
survey, it was no surprise to find that the based primarily on data from the United
States government and national organiza-
*Articles for this section may be sent to Prof. Leonor
A. Larew, New York State University College, tions, ranked the Rochester area first in
Geneseo, N.Y. 14454. education.'