Teachers

Interview Description Best friends David Rodriguez, 28, and Pilar Mendoza, 27, reminisce about their high school and college experiences. Facilitator Subject Log 0:50 DR and PM remember how they met during an Honors English class at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. 9:25 Friends recall failing to study for an Advanced Placement (AP) test and going to church to pray. 14:00 Friends discuss at length applying for college. PM pushed DR...

Interview Description Rosa Rodriguez (49) talks with son Alfredo Alexis Rodriguez (30) about their family and her life. Facilitator Subject Log 01:58 Rose was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. She talks about leaving when she was six-months old. 02:45 Rosa talks about going back to Guadalajara in 2004 to see her father for the first time in 42 years. 12:40 Rosa talks about her grandparents and the store they owned named "El Pirri. "Her...

Interview Description Manuel Ronquillo, 32, and his sister Rebecca Ronquillo, 33, remember their mother and their older brother and share some of their favorite memories of both their family and their upbringing in the housing projects of East Los Angeles. Facilitator Subject Log 0:50 RR explains purpose for coming to StoryCorps booth: remembering death mother. 1:55 MR talks about what he misses about his mother. SIblings talk about their mother's...

Interview Description Edward H Ruiz (73) talks with facilitator Jorge Rios (24) about his life in Los Angeles, Ca. Facilitator Subject Log 01:00 Edward reads a story he wrote about his life. He talks about moving from Arizona to Van Nuys, Ca and some of his first jobs. 03:00 Edward talks about being a shoe-shiner when he was 7. He also talks about finding a treasure chest when houses were being vacated at Bunker Hill. 10:30 Edward talks...

Interview Description Nicole Di Rocca asks her parents about their recent family trip to Cuba and her parents' immigration from Cuba over 40 years ago. Facilitator Subject Log 01:22 Thais reads a poem she wrote called "49 years "about the recent family trip back to Cuba. 10:08 Thais and Javier talk about their parents' exodus from Cuba following Castro's revoution. 15:30 Thais expected to have her Quinceañera in Cuba but couldn't go...

Interview Description Deborah Martinez (55) interviews her friend, Alfie Salazar (74) about her life, especially in relation to her identity as Hispanic. Facilitator Subject Log 02:19 Alfie talks about her patents, and her childhood on her father's farm in Monte Vista, CO where she was born. 06:14 Alfie tells stories of the magpie bird tattle telling (in Spanish!) on Alfie and her siblings and cousins when they would get into trouble....

Interview Description Patricia Samarripa talks with her daughter Tori Leal about growing up with a single father. Facilitator Subject Log :38 Patty grew up in Uvalde, TX with her father; the values her father taught her; town drunk 6:30 Tori is a hero at her age; story of Tori saving a child's life at McDonald's; Tori's memory of that day 18:40 Patty was driver of the year in Houston; memories of Tori at Metro; they do everything together;...

Interview Description Rosalinda Sanchez (43) and Carmen Abeyta (63) talk about their experiences as Latinas and Chicanas, their families and their experience with "curanderos ", or healers. Facilitator Subject Log 00:48 Rosalinda was born in Washington State. Her parents were migrant farmers with a cucumber farm. Carmen was born in Montrose, CO and her parents were also farmers. 09:30 Rosalinda talks about dealing with racism and discrimination in her...

Interview Description Paul Francis Sanchez Yates, 42, talks to his friends Johnathan Eisen about his upbringing, the racial attitudes of the town where he grew up, his mother's alcoholism, his education, and filmmaking. Facilitator Subject Log 1:38 PS talks about his childhood in Darien, CT. He stood out and was discriminated against for not being White. His parents split when he was two years old. 4:30 PS shares the faint memories he has of his...

Interview Description Felix Sepúlveda (77) is interviewed by his son, Carl Sepúlveda about coming to the United States from Perú to do his medical residency in Florida. Facilitator Subject Log 1:25 Felix landed in Miami as a medical student working as a intern in the emergency room 12:16 moving to Houston from Florida; loved Florida because it was similar to Perú; finished residency in pediatrics 19:34 Felix's mother encouraged him to stay...