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Rose Mary Villanueva<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Rose Mary\u2019s father was born in 1907 in Jalisco, Mexico. He came to the United States in the 1940s as a bracero, or farm worker. He traveled between Mexico and the United States several times in pursuit of employment. Rose Mary Villanueva was born in Denver, Colorado in 1946. Seven of her siblings were also born in Denver, and five others in Los Angeles. She remembers speaking only Spanish at home.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 They didn\u2019t have bilingual programs so when my brother and I went to first grade, I remember not being able to understand what was going on in class. My father tells me that one day I came home and said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go back to school anymore,\u2019 because I didn\u2019t understand what was going on, and I didn\u2019t like it. Imagine, me, a teacher now! My mother was bilingual, so little by little she started speaking English to us and at some point we stopped speaking only Spanish and became fluent in English. The three oldest kids — my brother Rudy, my sister Gloria, and I — were the only ones to speak Spanish.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The family moved to California in the 1950s when the father found work as a custom tailor. When Rose Mary was a junior in high school, she tried to sign up for a Spanish class, but was told she was ineligible: The class was reserved for students in the college preparatory program — a program she had never been informed about. Ultimately, one her teachers stepped forward to offer tutoring to Rose Mary and another Latino student, enabling them to prepare for college entrance. Upon her graduation from high school, Rose Mary attended Santa Maria Community College on scholarship. From there she went on to UCLA, graduating in 1971 with a degree in Spanish, and ultimately went on to receive her California teaching certification. She was the only one of her parents\u2019 twelve children to graduate from college.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1973 Rose Mary entered the teaching profession and soon met her husband, Anselmo Villanueva, who is the current director of Community Alliance of Lane County. They were married in 1974. Rose Mary\u2019s first teaching job, in Oxnard, California, was a bilingual position. After returning from a trip to Mexico in 1975 Rose Mary worked as a migrant education teacher. <\/span> The Villanuevas moved to Eugene in 1979. One of Rose Mary\u2019s lasting contributions to the Eugene area has been to organize and establish a local Spanish Catholic Mass. It was held for the first time at the Newman Center at the University of Oregon campus on December 12, 1981, the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Patron Saint of Mexico). Around forty people attended the first celebration.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first moved here Eugene seemed very clean, very pristine, very white, it seemed friendly to me. One thing that impressed me was the few Latino people I would see — sometimes we my husband and I would make eye contact and would be counting — you could always count the Latino people on your left hand. Now there are about seven to nine churches that have services in Spanish, different denominations, and a lot of Spanish masses\u2026and the baptisms, there used to be one or two names, now there\u2019s ten or more at a time. And many quincea\u00f1eras and weddings are celebrated. There is a big community at St. Mary\u2019s. There are people from Oaxaca, from Michoac\u00e1n, Sinaloa, Veracruz\u2026 Zapotec, some of them are Mixtec, and many of them are very young families. Now on the Day of the Virgin de Guadalupe we can get up to 500 people or more.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose Mary has worked as a bilingual teacher in Eugene at the Buena Vista School and for the Migrant Education Program. She continues to be an advocate for bilingual education.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like our young people are not able to use their full potential when it is required that they speak only English. There were twelve brothers and sisters in my family and I am the only one who can speak, read, and write Spanish. The rest of them have lost the ability to do that. That\u2019s a loss for our communities. People who are bilingual as children — I don\u2019t care if they were bilingual in German or French or whatever — when they lose their language, they lose their ability to interact with more people and with different cultures. We need to pass our language on to our kids.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose Mary feels that as the Latino population has grown, intolerance has grown.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first got here, I don\u2019t ever remember anybody saying anything or looking at me, or calling me names. But recently I was walking along the street and I was talking with a friend in Spanish. The person in front of me turned around and said, \u2018You know, you are in America. Speak English.\u2019 I said, \u2018I thought this was a free country.\u2019 And, \u2018By the way, I am an American citizen.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mi Historia: Rose Mary Villanueva\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

El padre de Rose Mary naci\u00f3 en 1907 en Jalisco, M\u00e9xico. \u00c9l vino a los Estados Unidos en la d\u00e9cada de 1940 como bracero, o trabajador agr\u00edcola. Viaj\u00f3 varias veces entre M\u00e9xico y los Estados Unidos en busca de empleo. Rose Mary Villanueva naci\u00f3 en Denver, Colorado en 1946. Siete de sus hermanos y hermanas tambi\u00e9n nacieron en Denver y otros cinco nacieron en Los \u00c1ngeles. Ella recuerda que en su casa se hablaba s\u00f3lo espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo ten\u00edan programas biling\u00fces\u2026 as\u00ed que cuando mi hermano y yo empezamos primero de primaria, recuerdo que yo no entend\u00eda nada de lo que suced\u00eda en la clase. Mi padre me cuenta que un d\u00eda llegu\u00e9 a la casa y dije: \u2018\u00a1Ya no quiero ir a la escuela!\u2019, porque no entend\u00eda nada de lo que all\u00ed pasaba y no me gustaba ir. \u00a1Imag\u00ednenme a m\u00ed, que ahora soy maestra! \u2026 Mi madre era biling\u00fce, as\u00ed que poco a poco empez\u00f3 a hablarnos en ingl\u00e9s \u2026 y en alg\u00fan momento dejamos de hablar exclusivamente espa\u00f1ol y dominamos ya el ingl\u00e9s. Los tres hermanos mayores\u2014Rudy, Gloria y yo\u2014\u00e9ramos los \u00fanicos que habl\u00e1bamos espa\u00f1ol.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

La familia se mud\u00f3 a California en la d\u00e9cada de 1950, cuando el padre consigui\u00f3 empleo como sastre. Cuando Rose Mary estaba en el pen\u00faltimo a\u00f1o de bachillerato (high school) intent\u00f3 inscribirse en una clase de espa\u00f1ol, pero le dijeron que no cumpl\u00eda los requisitos para entrar. La clase estaba reservada para los estudiantes del programa de preparaci\u00f3n universitaria \u00f3 un programa sobre el cual nunca le hab\u00edan informado. Finalmente, una de sus maestras se ofreci\u00f3 a darle clases de preparaci\u00f3n universitaria a Rose Mary y otro estudiante latino, lo cual les permiti\u00f3 prepararse para la admisi\u00f3n a la educaci\u00f3n superior. Una vez que se gradu\u00f3 del bachillerato, Rose Mary asisti\u00f3 a Santa Mar\u00eda Community College con una beca. De all\u00ed se transfiri\u00f3 a la Universidad de California en Los \u00c1ngeles (UCLA), de donde se gradu\u00f3 en 1971 con una Licenciatura en Letras Hisp\u00e1nicas, y finalmente obtuvo su certificado de maestra en el estado de California. Ella fue la \u00fanica de los doce hijos de sus padres que se gradu\u00f3 de la universidad.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

En 1973 Rose Mary inici\u00f3 su carrera como maestra y pronto conoci\u00f3 a su esposo, Anselmo Villanueva, quien actualmente es el director de la Alianza Comunitaria del Condado de Lane (CALC). Se casaron en 1974. El primer empleo de ense\u00f1anza que tuvo Rose Mary en Oxnard, California, fue un puesto biling\u00fce. Despu\u00e9s de volver de un viaje a M\u00e9xico en 1975, Rose Mary trabaj\u00f3 como maestra de educaci\u00f3n para migrantes. La familia Villanueva se mud\u00f3 a Eugene en 1979. Una de las m\u00e1s duraderas contribuciones de Rose Mary a la zona de Eugene, fue la organizaci\u00f3n y el establecimiento de una misa cat\u00f3lica en espa\u00f1ol. \u00c9sta se celebr\u00f3 por primera vez en el Centro Newman de la Universidad de Oreg\u00f3n el 12 de diciembre de 1981, el D\u00eda de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Santa Patrona de M\u00e9xico. Alrededor de 40 personas acudieron a esa primera celebraci\u00f3n.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCuando me mud\u00e9 a esta zona, Eugene me parec\u00eda\u2026 muy blanca, me parec\u00eda amistosa. Una cosa que me impresion\u00f3 fue que\u2026 se ve\u00edan muy pocos latinos. A veces mi esposo y yo los ve\u00edamos a los ojos y nos pon\u00edamos a contar. Siempre se pod\u00edan contar los latinos con los dedos de una mano\u2026 Ahora ya hay entre 7 y 9 iglesias que ofrecen servicios en espa\u00f1ol de muchas denominaciones, as\u00ed como las misas en espa\u00f1ol\u2026 y los bautismos, antes hab\u00eda uno o dos nombres, y ahora se celebran diez o m\u00e1s a la vez. Tambi\u00e9n se celebran muchas quincea\u00f1eras y bodas. Hay una comunidad grande en la iglesia St. Mary\u00b4s. Acuden personas provenientes de Oaxaca, Michoac\u00e1n, Sinaloa, Veracruz\u2026 Algunos zapotecos, otros mixtecos, y muchos de ellos son familias muy j\u00f3venes. Ahora el D\u00eda de la Virgen de Guadalupe llegamos a ser 500 personas o m\u00e1s.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose Mary ha trabajado como maestra biling\u00fce en Eugene tanto en la Escuela Buena Vista, como en el Programa de Educaci\u00f3n a Migrantes. Contin\u00faa gestionando a favor de la educaci\u00f3n biling\u00fce.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYo siento que nuestros j\u00f3venes\u2026 no pueden alcanzar su potencial m\u00e1ximo si se les pide que s\u00f3lo hablen ingl\u00e9s. En mi familia fuimos doce hermanos y hermanas\u2026 y yo soy la \u00fanica que sabe hablar, leer y escribir espa\u00f1ol. Los dem\u00e1s han perdido esas capacidades. Esa es una p\u00e9rdida para todas nuestras comunidades. Las personas que crecen de manera biling\u00fce\u2014independientemente de que su otro idioma sea alem\u00e1n, franc\u00e9s o lo que sea\u2014cuando pierden el otro idioma, pierden la capacidad de interactuar con muchas personas y diferentes culturas. Necesitamos heredarle nuestro idioma a nuestros hijos.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rose Mary siente que conforme la poblaci\u00f3n latina ha crecido, tambi\u00e9n ha crecido la intolerancia.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCuando yo acababa de llegar, ni siquiera recuerdo que alguien me haya visto mal, o dicho algo, o insultado. Pero hace poco iba caminando por la calle hablando con una amiga en espa\u00f1ol. La persona que iba enfrente se volte\u00f3 y dijo: \u2018Oye, est\u00e1s en Estados Unidos. Habla ingl\u00e9s.\u2019 Yo le contest\u00e9, \u2018Pens\u00e9 que este era un pa\u00eds libre, y por cierto, yo soy estadounidense.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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