Happy Birthday to the fabulous entertainer and humanitarian Rosa Dolores Alverio, born in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931. Known on stage as Rita Moreno, the multi-talented star is the only woman and the only Latina to win the entertainment industry’s four top awards: Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Emmy. Moreno struggled with being typecast as a… Continue reading Happy Birthday to Rosa Dolores Alverio
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Latinos and Coca Cola: empowering an American Icon
One of the most successful Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) at Coca-Cola, an iconic American company, was Cuban immigrant Roberto Crispulo Goizueta. Born in Havana, Cuba, on November 18, 1931, Goizueta earned a BS in chemical engineering at Yale University. He returned to Cuba and started as a production supervisor for Coke plants. He immigrated to… Continue reading Latinos and Coca Cola: empowering an American Icon
Happy Birthday to Manuel Phillip Berriozábal 1931
Happy Birthday to Manuel Phillip Berriozábal, an educator, mathematician, and humanitarian born on July 21, 1931, in San Antonio, Texas. Berriozábal’s life is a passionate commitment to developing programs to help Hispanic and other minority students to stay in school and to succeed at higher level education. His focus has been on mathematics, and in 1988, his findings… Continue reading Happy Birthday to Manuel Phillip Berriozábal 1931
The “Boss of Bosa Nova”
Happy Birthday to musician and composer Joao Gilberto, born on June 10, 1931, in Juaseiro, Brazil. As he titled himself in one of his albums, Gilberto is the “Boss of Bosa Nova”, the jazz-inflected Brazilian pop style. Gilberto began playing the guitar at age 14, and was influenced by the norteamericano big band sounds of… Continue reading The “Boss of Bosa Nova”
Birthday of Argentina’s First Woman President
February 4, 1931 was the birthday of María Estela Martínez Cartas, known as Isabel Peron. Peron was the third wife of Argentinian general and president, Juan Peron. Her husband began his third term of office in 1972, and after his sudden death, Isabel was sworn in as Argentina’s first woman President on July 1, 1973. … Continue reading Birthday of Argentina’s First Woman President