Ayala: Cisneros library wraps up first college-prep fellowship for West Side teens
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Henry Cisneros, former San Antonio mayor and U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, has renovated his family’s former print shop on the West Side. It now houses the George and Elvira Cisneros Library.Courtesy /
Over the last four Saturdays, Henry and Mary Alice Cisneros opened a newly refurbished office building on Buena Vista Street to seven West Side students.
The first cohort of the George and Elvira Cisneros Fellowship Program got a summer’s worth of
consejos at the college advice camp.
Their daylong sessions were held in Henry Cisneros’ new base of business operations. It’s the same place his grandfather Rómulo Munguía opened a print shop in the 1930s and where his uncle Ruben Munguía ran the shop that doubled as a gathering spot for local politicos.