Ray Marshall Center hosts open house
 

Professor Ray Marshall (left) was honored by friends,
colleagues, and policymakers during an open house
celebrating the renaming of the research center he
founded 30 years ago. Also shown are Chris King,
current director of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study
of Human Resources, and UT Austin Vice President Bill
Livingston.

photo © 1999 Alan Pogue

An open house was held at the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources in October to celebrate the center's renaming and to honor its namesake.

LBJ School Professor Ray Marshall, a former U.S. labor secretary, founded the center in 1970 and served as its director until 1987. The reception honored his efforts in the areas of work force development, welfare, and welfare reform.

According to Chris King, the center's current director, the open house event allowed the staff to show visitors that the center is "continuing in the Ray Marshall tradition of improving work opportunities for those who are disadvantaged."

Among those attending the reception were such dignitaries as former U.S. Congressman J. J. "Jake" Pickle, Texas Supreme Court Justice Oscar Mauzy, Texas State Representative Elliott Naishtat, Texas AFl-CIO President Joe Gunn, and Austin Chapter NAACP President Jeff Travillion, Sr. (LBJ Class of 1987).

Other guests included representatives of various universities and labor- and human resource-related boards, associations, and centers.

The center is located at 3001 Lake Austin Boulevard.

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