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Interview No. 1524, Ricardo Villarreal

Combined Interviews

Ricardo Villarreal parlayed the knowledge he gained working as an electrician for the United States Navy during the Vietnam War into several successful El Paso businesses. Under the umbrella of Villarreal and Sons Enterprises, a company he began twenty-five years ago, he and his family now operate Villarreal and Sons Electric, Alpha Tech ELP, Alpha Tech C.E., and Greengo Alternative Energy. In this interview, Villarreal remembers his early experiences working as a busboy for El Paso’s Grigg’s Restaurant. After landing the job at the age of thirteen, he so impressed the owner with his work ethic that within a month …

On The Inside Of Spaceshipone, Dan Linehan

ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program

Hear the inside story of the development, testing and flight of the world’s first privately built and piloted manned spacecraft by the author of “SpaceShip One” An Illustrated History”. Exciting photos, videos and animations will help explain how and why all this took place.

Recommendations For Obama: V

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

We asked China watchers from a variety of backgrounds to answer the question “What should Obama be reading about China?” While we’ve already run four installments (I, II, III, and IV), new suggestions continue to arrive. For a few of the cinematic variety, read on… Jan Berris is Vice-President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations and has worked with the committee since 1971.

I suggest that President Obama recover from the lousy week he just had by chilling out in his private movie theater and watching the following movies. None will give him a complete, or even, necessarily, …

Interview No. 1523, Rick Hernandez

Combined Interviews

Rick Hernandez overcame considerable odds to start his freighting company, Mustang Express, Inc. He relates how he capitalized on his experience as a third-generation truck driver, his sheer will and determination, and his family’s unconditional support in order to build his trucking line into one of El Paso’s foremost minority-owned companies. Growing up in the central and south side of El Paso, Hernandez attended Ysleta High School, graduating in 1978. Immediately after graduation he married his high school sweetheart, Laura, and began a family. Realizing that his job flipping burgers would no longer serve, Hernandez enlisted in the armed forces, …

The Grizzly, February 10, 2009, Kristi Blust, Gabrielle Poretta, Gianna Paone, Roger Lee, Caitlin Dalik, Liz Kilmer, Serena Mithboakar, Laurel Salvo, Christopher Schaeffer, Zach Shamberg, Kevin Bendis, Frank Martin, Danielle Chmelewski

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Caught That Nasty Cold Bug? The Solution May Lie in the Gym, not the Pharmacy • The Black in History: Three Part Series • V-Day is not Just the Day of St. Valentine • Verizon Grant to Support ESL Program • Biology of Love • Teaching Assistants Spotlight Series: Cemile Tat • SIFE: Advice from Ursinus Alumni • Opinions: Environment in Crisis: Is Ursinus Preparing Students Well Enough? • Men's Basketball Captain Looks Fondly On His Four Years • Tumbles and Acrobatics: From Toddlerhood to Adulthood

When The Past Catches Up, Lauri Paltemaa

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In December, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated the 30 years anniversary of reforming and opening up policy that became possible in the now almost legendary 3rd plenum of the 11th Central Committee where Deng Xiaoping defeated his “Whateverist” (read Maoist) rivals in the Party leadership. This coming March, however, we will celebrate another thirty-year anniversary of one of the key policies in reforms. It was then, on March 30, 1979, that Deng Xiaoping announced that the Party would continue to uphold the “four cardinal principles” of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought, proletarian dictatorship, party leadership, and socialism. This laid the …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 033, Number 20, February 9, 2009, Grand Valley State University

2008-2009, Volume 33

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Ccu Newsletter, February 9, 2009, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

The Chanticleer, 2009-02-09, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Interview No. 1537, Basilio Silva Jr.

Combined Interviews

Basilio Silva Jr. is one of ten children, was born in a mountain village in Chihuahua, Mexico. Silva migrated with his family to El Paso, Texas to find employment. Silva was placed in a vocational class because he did not speak English. He faced racism and was called names while in high school, but turned the negative experience into drive for success. He also says his father instilled work ethic in him at a young age. He also worked with his brothers and sister to provide additional income for their family by finding odd jobs. Through a local program called …

Interview No. 1525, Mario Montes

Combined Interviews

In this interview, Mario Montes, founder of Urban Associates, recounts his early years growing up in El Paso as the grandchild of Mexican refugees, his experiences as a young man in the United States Army, his education at Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso), and his recipe for business success. Born in 1931, Montes, along with his six siblings, were raised by his grandmother while both parents worked. In spite of the cattle-ranching wealth his grandparents enjoyed while residing in their home state of Chihuahua, in 1910 the Mexican Revolution forced them to flee across …

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 42, February 9, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Interview No. 1509, Hector Barragan

Combined Interviews

Hector Barragan founded the Pipo Academy of Hair Design in El Paso, TX; he is from Segundo Barrio in El Paso; he began cutting hair after leaving Segundo Barrio, learned it from his parents and brothers that were barbers on Colon St.; His mother is from Puebla and father from Chihuahua; describes working with his brothers and learning importance of sanitation and technique. Mr. Barragan recounts working for well-known barber Mr. Alonso Cole and the mentorship he provided in technique and the business aspects of running a barbershop and barber supply store; states Mr. Cole’s consistency and salesmanship made him …

Casey Wondergem's 80th Birthday Remarks, Delivered On February 7, 2009, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Casey Wondergem's 80th Birthday Remarks, delivered on February 7, 2009 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Obituary; 2009-02-07; Mcclester Thomas, Carolyn Bernice, Bethel A.M.E. Church

Bethel A.M.E. Church

No abstract provided.

Van Buren Munlin

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Millard "M. W." Williams Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Brashear, Kathleen Hope, 1895-1986 (Sc 1873), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1873. Two reminiscences written by Kathleen Hope Brashear titled "Remembrances" in which she recalls people and places in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Cole, Jennie Bryant, 1872-1957 (Sc 103), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 103. Letters (3), 1933-1951, to Mary Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and papers (4), 1933-1941, written by Cole and titled: Cedar Bluff College," "Oakland's First Baseball Team," "The Oakland Country," and "Some Name Places of Warren County, Kentucky."

Jackson Family Papers (Sc 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 105. Papers of the Jackson family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include: letter from W. C. Jackson, Lexington, Kentucky, to John S. Jackson, telling of his medical studies at Transylvania, 1825; blacksmithing bill, 1831; statement that B.J. Jackson paid his 1863 taxes; letter to F.W. Jackson relative to the Great Western Star Band's fees for playing at the Bowling Green Fair, 1872.

Crusader, February 6, 2009, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Interview No. 1522, Mamie Salazar-Harper

Combined Interviews

Successful businesswoman Mamie Salazar-Harper began her life in Victoria, Texas, as one of eight daughters born to Manuel and Julia Salazar. Claiming that her mother’s strong work ethic and her father’s entrepreneurial spirit gave her and her sisters the tools they needed for success, Salazar-Harper worked her way up from a position as the Beeville, Texas, ColorTyme store manager, to the Rio Grande Valley regional manager for ColorTyme, and finally as the sole owner of the El Paso franchise. In this interview, Salazar-Harper shares her experiences as a woman and a Mexican-American entering into the business world. In addition, Salazar-Harper …

Starbucks In China: A Top Five List

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Starbucks has been a glowing beacon of capitalism-on-Chinese-soil (some might say…) for years now, and many took glee in the opening of a Starbucks outlet at the Forbidden City as quiet proof of communism’s impending demise (though the outlet is now closed). Here, a top five list of articles that together tell the story of Starbucks’ development in China from international interloper to home-grown coffeehouse. Read on for more.

1. China is major potential market for Starbucks: “Starbucks Soars in China” (Asia Times Online, June 15, 2006):

In Starbucks’ headquarters in Seattle, a group of company executives meet regularly, but …

Smith, Henry F. (Sc 1850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1850. Business correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the interests of Henry F. Smith of Paducah, Kentucky, particularly the transport of railroad ties via steamboats in western Kentucky and Tennessee.

Stowers-Shaw Family Papers (Sc 96), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 96. Deeds for land in Daviess County, Kentucky, 1839, 1840; tax and tuition receipts, transfer of a patent, two letters, and miscellaneous papers of the Stowers and Shaw families.

Spence, Ruth Potts, 1894-1988 (Sc 1840), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1840. Letters from Alice Hegan Rice (4), Cale Young Rice (13) and Laban Lacy Rice (1) to Ruth Potts Spence, who met the Rices at Camp Nakanawa in Mayland, Tennessee and maintained a friendship with the couple. The letters discuss writing, current events, family matters, and grief.

Trail Blazer - Volume 83, Number 13, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on February 5, 2009.

The Grizzly, February 5, 2009, Kristi Blust, Gabrielle Poretta, Eva Bramesco, Serena Mithboakar, Nick Pane, Lisa Jobe, Liz Kilmer, Jeremiah Long, Caitlin Dalik, Roger Lee, Christopher Schaeffer, Matt Monteverde, Spencer Jones, Jonathan Edward Barber, Katie Callahan

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

MLK; The Substance of Our Souls • New Auto Standards • Impressive "Track" Record for UC • Contamination Causes Jelly to Lose Long-time Companion • Restaurant Review: Columbia not as Foreign as You Think? • Portion Distortion and "Super-Sizing" It • UC at National Black Student Leadership Development Conference • Students in Free Enterprise: Advice from the Alumni • Opinions: Why Bush Should be Prosecuted for Crimes; Obama's Oration on Religion Sparks Outrage

Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 41, February 5, 2009, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Obama Recommendations: Iv, Kate Merkel-Hess

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The search terms “Obama China” have brought a lot of readers to China Beat over the past two months. We are by no means the only ones experiencing an Obama-related reader boost (though we are the second hit on Google, right behind the BBC for a search of “Obama China”!), nor the only ones getting an Obama-related content surge. If you are looking for smart commentary on the recent Obama administration’s China snafus, for instance, check out James Fallows’s analysis from last week (hat tip: kuluyi). Those interested in live (as in right now) discussion of Sino-American relations under Obama …