NEWSLETTER “You Can’T Retire from What You Are.” a Publication of the Emeritus Press at Arizona State University

NEWSLETTER “You can’t retire from what you are.” A publication of the Emeritus Press at Arizona State University Volume XI Number 4 Fall 2016 Our thanks to JoAnn • Membership Committee member licize and celebrate ASU’s Latino his- Cleland, Editor of the • Annual Symposium Committee tory. On October 13 she led a walking Emeritus Newsletter for member and session leaders/pre- tour (Recovering ASU’s Latino/Latina three years senters History) of numerous points of his- • Presenter at our Friendship Vil- torical significance around the Tem- lage Short Talks Luncheons pe campus, detailing stories of the • Editors for our publications – buildings themselves and of Latino Emeritus Voices, Emeritus Col- students, faculty, staff and Tempe resi- lege Newsletter dents who have been integral to ASU’s • Writers for our publications history. These stories appear below. • Director, Academy for Continued Old Main is the oldest standing Learning building on ASU’s Tempe campus. • Participation in writers’ work- ASU was founded in 1885 as the shops Territorial Normal School. Tempe • University Senate representative residents, concerned about a territorial teacher shortage, raised $5000 Please contact the Emeritus College to support the school’s construction. staff at [email protected] or Among the contributors were: Man- me if you have questions about these uela Sotelo, the “Mexican Mother of opportunities, or if you have ideas for Tempe,” her daughter, Maria Sotelo new activities and groups, e.g., book, Miller and Maria’s spouse, Winchester film, and political discussions. Miller. Tempe resident James Priest We look forward to hearing about and his wife Mariana Gonzales Priest how you would like to participate. donated $500 to purchase the land The Emeritus College offers heart- for the school. By 1901 the school felt thanks to Jo Cleland, who has had been renamed Tempe Normal edited our newsletter so capably for Emeritus College Faculty School, and the school library was on the last three years. Jo is our fea- Member Researches ASU’s the second floor of Old Main. The tured faculty this volume, and you Latino History first Latina librarian, Gracia Liliana will learn more about her as you Fernandez of St. Johns, Arizona, was read her profile. hired in 1907, and in 1910 she became the school’s first Professor of Spanish. From the 1890s to the 1930s Message from the Dean 151 Latinos/as attended Tempe Nor- mal School, earning teacher-training The Emeritus College is an amazing diplomas that were granted as termi- place with a purpose where Emeriti/ nal degrees both before and after the ae are supported in their research and baccalaureate degree, which began to study, whether it is the continuation be granted in 1928. of work in their primary vocation, St. Mary’s Catholic Church is lo- or the exploration of new areas of cated on the northwest corner of study or interest. The Emeritus Col- University Drive and College Ave- lege’s mission is to also contribute to nue. Mexican and Mexican Ameri- the well-being of the university and can adobe makers made the bricks the community. used to build the church in 1903. We cannot accomplish our mis- As archivist and historian, emeritus Many workers lived in the communi- sion without your generous contribu- professor Christine Marin has devot- ty of San Pablo, a barrio founded in tions of time, talent and treasure. ed her professional life to researching, 1864, whose borders were Univer- Listed are several opportunities documenting, preserving and sharing sity Drive to the south, Fifth Street for you to contribute your time and the history of Chicanos/as and Lati- to the north, College Avenue to the talent, and to explore what’s next for nos/as in Arizona, and highlighting east and the Southern Pacific Rail- you in 2016-17. the many contributions that they have road tracks to the west. The men of • Emeritus College Council member made to the state. Most recently, she San Pablo worked as flour mill labor- • Nominating Committee member has been involved in a project to pub- ers, ferrymen, railroad section hands, Emeritus College Newsletter Page 2 Volume XI Number 4 Los Conquistadores in the 1940s MECHA Chicano Bush 1984 and laborers and gardeners at ASU. a history of labor complaints from the MECHA room and mural would San Pablo women worked at ASU as Chicano/a workers, student Alfre- be destroyed during renovation. cafeteria helpers, housekeepers, laun- do Gutierrez and MASO organized Christine Marin, then the MECHA dresses and kitchen aides. The uni- and led a student strike on behalf of faculty advisor, MU officials, Archi- versity began to displace families by the workers. After a two-day strike, a tect Chris Alt, MECHA students, and eminent domain in the early 1950s, takeover of the ASU president’s of- Dr. Mistalene Calleroz, Assistant Di- and San Pablo had disappeared by fice, and a sit-in at the Administration rector of Student Initiatives, met fre- 1964. Today a dormitory known as Building (now known as Interdisci- quently and developed plans to save San Pablo Hall, located at 555 E. Vet- plinary A), President Homer Durham the mural, which is now on the sec- erans Way and named for the com- and university officials agreed to in- ond floor of the MU. It depicts more munity of San Pablo, is home to the clude a set of affirmative-action type than five hundred years of Mexican/ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences requirements in a new labor contract. Chicano history. MECHA currently Academy, a student residential com- MASO changed its name to ME- has an office on the lower floor of munity. CHA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chi- the MU. The first Mexican American stu- canos de Aztlan) in 1971 and became What is now Interdisciplinary dent organization at what was then active in civil rights issues relating to Building B previously was the Com- Arizona State Teachers College was school segregation of Mexican chil- munity Services Building. In 1971 founded in 1937 and known as “Los dren and the plight of farmworkers. ASU President Schwada created a Conquistadores.” Its advisor was Dr. During the 1970s and 1980s, ME- Community Services Program to en- Irma Wilson of the Department of CHA’s teatro group, Teatro Calmec, courage racial/ethnic communities to Spanish. This group worked to fight performed numerous satirical skits attend ASU. In 1972 Conrad Marti- discriminatory acts in housing, edu- and short plays in the open area in nez became the coordinator of the cation and pay perpetrated against front of the Administration Building. effort to recruit Latino/a students. Mexican and Mexican American fam- On occasion President John Schwa- This building currently houses the of- ilies living in South Phoenix. Mem- da and other administrators could fices of the Hispanic Research Cen- bers became involved with the Latin be seen watching the skits from their ter (HRC), established in 1985 by the American Club, a civil rights and po- second floor windows. In 1970 the Arizona Board of Regents. Its first litical organization founded in 1932 Chicano Faculty and Staff Associa- Director was Ray Padilla, a faculty by Luis Cordova. By 1956 the student tion was organized. member in the College of Education. group had become known as “La From the early 1970s MECHA The HRC serves as home to Latino Liga Pan Americana,” advised by Dr. had an office and meeting room on faculty and staff involved in the eco- Maria Escudero of the Spanish De- the second floor of the Memorial nomic, cultural and educational department. In the late 1960s, as Mexi- Union (MU). In 1974 MECHA stu- velopment of Latino communities. can American or Chicano civil rights dents and local Latino artists created The HRC also promotes Latino com- groups emerged, ASU’s students a mural on the north wall of the ME- munity art through its gallery. The formed MASO (Mexican American CHA office. On November 1, 2007, Bilingual Review/Press (part of the Student Organization). In 1968, after an MU kitchen fire causing twenty HRC) specializes in Latino scholarly ASU announced a long-term con- two million dollars worth of damage writing and Latino publications. Lati- tract with a laundry company with broke out. MU officials indicated that no artist Martin Moreno has created Emeritus College Newsletter Fall 2016 Page 3 murals on the walls of the HRC, in- In keeping with Winchester’s ear- cussed Walter Isaacson’s books on cluding one depicting Cesar Chavez lier broad-sweeping books such as Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. I con- and his work with the United Farm The Map That Changed the World and cluded that Einstein’s physics has cast Workers. Krakatoa, this volume includes all the a continuing nuclear cloud over the Created in 1966, Cady Mall fea- topics in the subtitle. The story be- world, psychologically, whereas Jobs’ tured small concrete benches and gins in 1950. Winchester has flown computer science has enabled a vari- retaining walls for students to sit on over the Pacific Ocean many times ety of mostly positive consequences. and watch the foot traffic go by. One and so is familiar with many places After reading/hearing Pacific, I con- of the walls was located in front of in and next to the Ocean. ‘The Great tinue with these same conclusions. Hayden Library, adjacent to Dan- Thermonuclear Sea’ is the title of an These are the book’s addition- forth Chapel. It became the most early chapter in which he delineates al subtitles: Surfboards refers to the popular gathering place for Chi- the USA’s use of the Pacific Ocean movie, Gidget (1959), Dictators to cano/a students.

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