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A Message from Our Chair To view this email as a web page, go here. A Message From Our Chair Dear Fellow Longhorns, Ah, the feeling of autumn is finally in the air, and we're collectively anticipating glorious colors of the fall foliage: reds, golden leaves, burnt orange. Coincidence that our beloved alma mater's color is one of the most beautiful hues in the fall? I think not. Mother Nature is definitely a Longhorn. Hope you enjoy this edition of our newsletter and see that your HAN is achieving much, staying busy, and continuing to build relationships and alliances. Speaking of which, HAN recently collaborated with the Perry- Castaneda Library honoring the Perry and Castaneda families celebrating the 40th anniversary of our trustworthy building of books, the PCL. Click on the link below and read more about this scholar we named the PCL after. Last month at the Texas Exes Chapter and Network Leadership Conference, I had the delight and pleasure of meeting a young law student, Roel Torres; his profile is a great testament to family ties and high expectations. Roel is a first generation law student, and his twin brother is applying to medical school. Two boys in the family, one a lawyer and the other a doctor? I knew we had to profile this young man and am sure you'll enjoy reading his compelling journey. We successfully held our annual Leadership Retreat last month and measured our successes and areas for improvement. Two specific areas we have been trying to develop are Major Fundraising and Community Projects/Outreach. Building on our commitment to raising additional scholarship dollars and engaging more alumni, I am thrilled to introduce two new officers, Julie Baez Prebula, our new Fundraising Chair and Roxanne Saldana Jones, our new Community Projects Chair. More will be written in the next few months on their strategies, and we're excited to see what future plans they have for HAN. We're proud to be highlighting literary works from some of our distinguished alumni authors: Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liza Treviño, and Olga Campos Benz. On behalf of our network, a letter was sent to President Fenves recommending the national search for the Vice-President of University of Texas' Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) consider a qualified, credentialed Latino candidate for this significant role. Click here to read the letter. Finally, and certainly not lastly, I hope to see many of you at our upcoming annual FIESTA fundraiser on Friday, Oct. 20th. Registration link is below. Come on over, bring a few friends, and have a great dinner while playing Loteria. We'd love to see you there! HAN's mission is to connect Hispanic alumni, the Texas Exes, and the Hispanic community on campus. If you have any ideas on what we can do to better connect with one another, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. I'm grateful to be serving your Hispanic Alumni Network as Chair, and my continued commitment to you is to exemplify value, respect, and excellence in our actions and best practices in the years to come. See you at one of the games or tailgates! Hook 'em, Horns!! Casilda (Casi) Clarich, HAN Chair Chair, Texas Exes Hispanic Alumni Network [email protected] ALUMNI CELEBRATIONS Alumni Authors Debut New Novels Stephanie Elizondo Griest BJ '97, Phi Beta Kappa, Magazine Journalism & Post-Soviet Studies All the Agents & Saints It explores the ramifications of having an international borderline split your ancestral land in two, as experienced by Tejanos down south and Akwesasne Mohawks up north. Stephanie will be a featured author in the 2017 Texas Book Festival. Liza Treviño, Ph.D. BS '93, MA '95, Radio-Television-Film All That Glitters: A Tale of Sex, Drugs and Hollywood Dreams Winner of the Mariposa Award for Best First Fiction from the 2017 International Latino Books Awards, and named the July 2017 Las Comadres and Friends National Latino Nook Club Selection "In this book, I wanted to explore Hollywood glamour - both its magic and its darkness. And, I wanted to create a Latina heroine that was a blend of Jackie Collins' famous Lucky Santangelo character and the tragic Maria from Joan Didion's classic, Play It As It Lays. Alexandria Moreno is a character with ambition and confidence to spare, but who also exhibits nearly clinical depression. How does a woman like this come to be? And how does she cope with the internal and external pressures she encounters in a place like Hollywood?" Olga Campos Benz BS '77, Radio-Television-Film It's News to Me The book is best classified as contemporary fiction. The main character is a fierce Latina anchor/reporter engaged in suspense, humor, and a little romance - all set against the backdrop of an Austin television news station. Olga will be a featured author in the 2017 Texas Book Festival. STUDENT PROFILE Roel Torres University of Texas School of Law Roel Torres, a first year student at the University Of Texas School Of Law, is a first generation college graduate. Born in the Detroit, Michigan area, Roel and his family, including his twin brother, moved to Texas and they have made it their home since. In his own words... My parents are both from a small town called General Treviño in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. As a boy, my father would travel throughout the Mid-West and California with his family, going from farm to farm to look for work. He would later continue to go back and forth from the Mid-West and Mexico as a young man working as a day laborer during the warm seasons. My mother, on the other hand, stayed in General Treviño and worked as a teacher for the local school. After having two daughters, my parents decided to move to Detroit, Michigan where my father had succeeded in finding permanent work as a construction worker. In 1993, my mother gave birth to a set of twins, which were my brother and I. My father was ecstatic since he wanted a son to become a baseball player, and now he had potentially two baseball players for sons. Unfortunately, neither of us were too good at the sport, but we did grow up playing a lot of little league baseball. When we were not playing baseball, my mother would use the skills she learned as a teacher to encourage my brother and I to focus on school and try to strive for something more than just graduating from high school and entering the workforce. In high school, I didn't know what it was to be a first generation student or the difficulties we face. My parents did not attend college, and my older sisters went to community colleges and ended up finding work before graduating. I had no idea how important the ACT was or when or how to apply to college. I was just told that I would do the same as my sisters and go to a community college. After graduating from high school in 2011 we moved to Houston, TX where my oldest sister had recently given birth to her own set of twins and needed help to care for them. That same year my brother and I both enrolled into the local community college and we had to find something we were interested in. I ended up taking some paralegal courses since I had an interest in the legal field when the drug war in Mexico had begun to intensify. Every year we used to travel to General Treviño, but we had to stop since the violence had begun to affect my parent's hometown. I felt like I needed to do something about it. My brother found an interest in nursing after taking biology courses. After about a year and a half at the community college and interning as a paralegal at a law firm, I realized that what I wanted to do in life could not be achieved being a paralegal; I had to become a lawyer. This brought another set of problems for a first generation student. How was I to become a lawyer? No one in my family or anyone I knew was a lawyer or a college graduate. I had no idea where to begin. After doing some research and talking to my paralegal professor, I realized that the first step I needed to do was transfer to a university to get a Bachelor's degree. Luckily, I found a great school counselor who explained the transfer process, and soon after I was accepted to the University of Houston (UH). During orientation I met my advisor who told me that if I was interested in law school I needed to have a high GPA. So, that became my objective during my time at UH. When it came time to choose a major I decided to go with history. In high school I took AP History, and it was favorite course, so I thought I would enjoy college history classes and I also thought the reading and writing for the degree may help with law school. It turns out the courses I took for my degree did more than that - they expanded my understanding of the world. I learned about the history of foreign lands, and how the decisions we make in U.S. can affect the world in a variety of ways, and they made me appreciate diversity. After my first semester at UH, my brother wanted to transfer, too. He wanted to become a doctor, and since I had recently gone through the transfer experience the year before, I was able to help my brother go through the process smoothly and answer his questions.
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