Hernandez, Etelvina; Garcia, Monica; Barrera, Maribel H. (mother/daughter/daughter). Discovery Green Park, 2009-12-10T12:30:00
Interview Description
Etelvina Hernandez (81) is interviewed by her daughters, Monica García (47) and Maribel Barrera (45) about her childhood in México, her life in the U.S. and her job with Mary Kay Cosmetics.
1:39 Etelvina nació en Michocan; su abuela; no le gusta el rancho
5:34 getting trouble in school; started working at 14 years old; hours she worded; money that she earned
18:41 making food: tortillas and cookies in the middle of the night; making lunches for her children everyday
23:00 introducing Mary Kay to la gente Hispana without literature in Spanish; Etelvina translated all of the Mary Kay materials into Spanish
30:00 "Dios primero, familia segunda, negocios tercera "; su fé viene del tiempo en escuela con las monjas
36:09 Como te sientes de tus hijos?; un chiste
Dates
- Creation: 2009-12-10T12:30:00
Topical
- Abuela
- Achievements and Awards
- Birth
- Bosses
- Buñuelos
- Catholicism
- Changes In Education
- Children
- Christmas
- Christmas traditions
- Coming Of Age
- Community History
- Coworkers
- Customers and Clients
- Dances
- Dementia
- Director of Mary Kay
- Earliest Memories
- Engagements
- Ethnic Foods
- Extended Family
- Farm Life
- Favorite Foods
- Fe
- First Job
- First Meetings
- First Mexican Director of Mary Kay in Houston
- Grandparents
- Immigration Stories
- Job Satisfaction
- Marriage
- Mary Kay
- Michoacán, Mexico
- Neighborhood Life
- Occupational Traditions
- Parents
- Recipes
- Reina de Mary Kay
- Schools
- Siblings
- Students
- Tamales
- Teachers
- Tortillas
- Town Life
- Traumatic Memories
- Uruapan, Mexico
- Weddings
- Workday Life
- almuerzo
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- bigote
- cohorts (groups of friends)
- cookies
- craft, skills, and procedures
- dancing
- dancing with Mary Kay
- el rancho
- family characters
- family favorite songs and poems
- family heroes
- family in-jokes
- family naming and nicknames
- family prayers
- family trips and excursions
- first impression of America
- galletas
- la escuela con las monjas
- lunch
- meeting Mary Kay
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- money
- monjas
- oracion
- personal experiences
- praying
- ranch life
- religious beliefs and practices
- ritual foods
- school day memories
- school lunch
- selling Mary Kay
- social beliefs and practices
- spouse
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu