The organization has no staff. My involvement dates to the organization s inception. Currently I am Vice-Chair of the organization. Working with a colleague through her Program Evaluation class, we were able to develop a methodology for conducting such an evaluation. I serve as a members of the evaluation committee.
All work is coordinated through e-mail.
In 1964, a friend invited me to lunch to meet Ernest Green and Dr. Kenneth Clark. Ernie, one of the Little Rock Nine and Dr. Clark, the eminent social psychologist, had spent a year unsuccessfully tutoring African American men towards passing apprenticeship exams for entry into the construction trades. Ignoring arguments concerning the validity of tests, I spent the next two months studying the structure and content of over 100 published tests. We recruited 26 individuals for the next union examination. They all attended my tutorial sessions for six weeks, three hours each weekday and six on Saturdays.