[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12897]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  IN HONOR OF THE LATE WILLIAM SENQUIZ

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 27, 2000

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, today I honor the memory of William 
Senquiz on the tenth anniversary of his death.
  William Senquiz was the first director of Esperanza, Inc., a non-
profit organization which provides educational services to Hispanic 
students from elementary school through college. This organization, 
whose name, Esperanza, means ``hope'' in Spanish, has given assistance 
to Hispanic students in the Greater Cleveland area since 1983.
  William Senquiz, the first director of the program, was a native of 
Lorain, Ohio, and a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He died 
in June, 1990, at the young age of 32. In his honor, Esperanza, Inc., 
along with several other organizations, established the William Senquiz 
Endowment Fund in 1990 to realize Willie's dream of establishing a fund 
that would serve as a continual source of scholarship funds for the 
Hispanic community.
  Willie Senquiz was a mentor and teacher whose deep commitment to the 
Hispanic youth in the Greater Cleveland area is an example to us all.
  My fellow colleagues, please join with me in honoring William 
Senquiz's memory on the tenth anniversary of his death.

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