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News • Guanajuato Branch Opens: What started with a handful of expat Unitarian Universalists and four students has mushroomed to a 150-member strong organization supporting 75 students. Now a new branch has opened in Guanajuato. • Evaristo's Journey: Having worked hard all his life and overcome many obstacles to build a successful business, Evaristo Garcia's heart is now set on helping the youth of San Miguel de Allende so that their journey may not be as long and difficult as his. • Qué Cera Será: Guanajuato Branch Launches Inaugural Fundraiser at Museo de Cera Wax Museum: Thanks to collaboration and goodwill, Mexico’s past will meet Mexico’s future at Guanajuato’s Museo de Cera (Wax Museum) on Sunday, November 22, from 5 to 8 pm. • Bright Lights Auction: Help send the Brightest Lights in San Miguel to University. It often takes a community to educate our youth, and Jóvenes Adelante started building an educational community in San Miguel in 2001 with four students. The Bright Lights Auction is part of the JA fundraising effort to help 30 additional students attend University in the fall. Photos The Art of Song: A musical journey at the Peralta.There will be something to delight all music lovers at a one-evening only recital by two extraordinarily talented and versatile performers next week. Tenor Stanley Wilson and pianist Malcolm Halliday will be at the Angela Peralta Theater on Tuesday at 7p.m., to give a benefit concert for Jóvenes Adelante. |
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Features • Marisol-From Campo to Career: The odds for a young woman from the country to get a college degree are impossibly long and defy tradition. But with the help of Jóvenes Adelante and fierce determination, Marisol graduated with honors from the University of Leon and found a satisfying career as an accountant. • Monserrat - A Career in the Making: Monserrat Zarate, a native of San Miguel de Allende, is a Jóvenes Adelante scholarship recipient currently studying Dentistry. She's been studying at the University of Michoacán School of Dentistry for almost four years. • Remedios: When the roosters begin to crow, Remedios is already up and hurrying to catch the six o’clock bus. Classes begin at 7 a.m. and her home at Rancho La Esperanza is an hour from San Miguel. At 10 a.m., her law classes over, “Reme” rushes off to her job with Licenciado Manuel Rosas at his law office on the Ancha de San Antonio. • Virginia - A Tough Road to Law School: Virginia Arteaga Gonzalez completes her first year of law at the Centro de Estudios Superiores Allende in Ceyala this June. Virginia, in her forties, demonstrated the determination, discipline and courage to return to school to pursue a law degree in spite of the fact that she has confronted many difficulties and works full time. • New Students 2009: On the first Sunday of every month, Jóvenes Adelante scholarship recipients meet for a social gathering and a brief presentation on a topic of interest to university students. The first Sunday of August is different, however, because this is the introduction of newly selected students to all the existing students and many officers and volunteers they did not meet during the interview process. One of Jóvenes Adelante’s ‘Bright Lights’: Juan Martin Trujillo Garcia is “a serious young man, and a self-proclaimed feminist,” according to Past President of Jóvenes Adelante Virginia Wheelwright, who recalls that when he first applied for a JA scholarship, “Juan Martin simply explained that he planned to pursue a degree in political science and public administration because he was determined to develop government programs in Mexico to help single mothers, like his own.” Lupillo Gets a Ride and a University Scholarship: In the Spring of 2009, then Vice President of Jóvenes Adelante Jane Casa gave a young man a ride along the cobblestone road from the pueblo of San Miguel Viejo to the train station. Jose Guadalupe Granados Gonzalez, Lupillo to his friends, surprised her with his good English. When Jane asked him where he had learned to speak English so well, he said he had spent a year in the U.S. as an exchange student when he was 15. Lupillo was about to graduate from preparatoria (high school) and wanted to be a doctor Helping Launch University Careers: One Mentor’s Story: I decided to become a Jóvenes Adelante mentor while sitting in the first row of the Angela Peralta Theater. My husband Doug and Ken Bichel had just finished a fundraising concert for JA, which finds bright, motivated but impoverished students in and around San Miguel and helps them get university degrees |
Documents • School Vocabulary: A listing of Spanish and English translations of common school terms helpful for mentors. |
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