On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:46:50 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

Like most regions there are good, bad. Smart, not so smart, etc. had the
pleasure to work with a very smart Cuban immigrant. Greg may have even
met him in his IBM life. Hugh Sierra. Holds a couple hundred disk drive
patents, etc. nice guy, not much love for Castro, but a love of Cuba.

Sounds like a San Jose or Boulder guy. I never worked there.

That is a pretty popular opinion of most ex-pat Cubanos.
When we were attached to Miami, I got to know lots of first generation
Cuban Americans who came here as kids in the late 50s, early 60s.
The librarian at my high school was one of those "last plane out of
Havana" sort of people who was only here a few months when she got the
job at the school. We heard, first hand, what Cuba was like before
Castro. Of course she was an upper class person so it was a rosy view.
This lady had degrees that would make Harry jealous but she was still
happy to have a library gig at Our school. After a couple years she
went off to be a professor at Georgetown or GW (one of those "George"
places). She had a charming accent but she could turn it on and off
like a switch. If she wanted to she could sound very "American".