Madam Speaker. I am both pleased and honored to share with my colleagues the work of a distinguished program that began in a converted 1956 school bus named "La Tortuga" or "The Tortoise" which became a portable classroom. This program on wheels was the dream of a young man that saw a need to serve and thereby improve the quality of life of the migrant and the rural poor of Arizona. Founded in August 24. 1967. through this young mans vision and tenacity. Project Portable Practical Education Preparation (PPEP) began serving the needs of migrant and the rural poor of Arizona to improve the quality of lives though selfhelp programs which became PPEPs fundamental mission. Today I wish to recognize their 40th anniversary. An article in The Arizona Daily Star. written in November 1967. had this to say about Project PPEP: "Its goal is summed up in the title. a practical education which is brought almost to the doorstep of unskilled and povertystricken people in Southern Arizona.