Introduction | Biographical Sketch | Scope and Content | Series Description | Inventory

Introduction

The Professor A. Rolando Andrade collection covers the date range 1959-2006. The collection consists of 7 linear feet of subject files, screenplays and other literary productions, scrapbooks, books and other printed material, photographic material, and audio recordings.

The material was donated to the Center for Archival Collections in August 2007 by A. Rolando Andrade. All property, literary and duplication rights of the collection have been conveyed to the Center for Archival Collections and to the public for historical research. Copyrights for the screenplays in the collection are held by Kevin R. Andrade and only he may issue permission for their use.

The register was prepared by Dana Nemeth, Library Associate I, in September 2007.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. A. Rolando Andrade is an Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. Andrade was born and raised in Mexico by his parents. His Venezuelan mother grew up in Panama and his father was a minister in Mexico and the United States. Andrade holds two bachelor's degrees from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma and worked as a pastor in Kansas and Oklahoma before beginning his academic career. His master's and doctoral degrees are from the University of Oklahoma, where he taught for two years before coming to Bowling Green.

Professor Andrade began his career at BGSU as an assistant professor in 1977 and he was promoted to associate professor in 1982. Since 2001, he has taught in the Chapman Learning Community/Chapman Community at Kohl. During Andrade's tenure at BGSU, he developed a "Summer in Mexico" program, during which he took students for a two- to six-week academic exploration of Mexico and its culture. He established and was the liaison for a cooperative program between BGSU and the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara.

His other accomplishments include being the founder of Educators in College Helping Hispanics Onward, organizing the Latino Network Committee of BGSU, and serving as chair for BGSU's Human Rights and Cultural Diversity committees. He is also the former chair of the Bowling Green Human Relations Commission, and the city's 1992 Citizen of the Year. He was president of the Bowling Green Rotary Club in 2001-2002.

Kevin R. Andrade, a BGSU graduate, is A. Rolando Andrade's son. He lives in California and is pursuing a career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

Scope and Content

The material in the collection relates primarily to Andrade's career at BGSU, the Kansas Youth Missions tours and the BGSU student trips to Mexico that Andrade chaperoned, his involvement with Rotary International, and his research interests.

The collection includes correspondence and news clippings regarding Baldemar Valasquez, founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), and a file illustrating Andrade's nomination of Valasquez for a BGSU honorary degree. It also includes a speech on the Day of the Dead traditions in Mexico, books on the Mexican constitution and Panama, FLOC publications, two Mexican Rotary publications, and an educational guide to Latino music culture of Toledo, Ohio. There are also fifteen audio tape cassettes of interviews, radio broadcasts, and other conversations with Andrade covering Latino issues, such as religion, labor, and education. It should be noted that some of the correspondence, publications, and audio tapes are in Spanish.

Also of interest is Andrade's typewritten reminiscence of the first Kansas Youth Missions Tour that he chaperoned in 1960, along with four scrapbooks for subsequent Kansas Youth Missions trips to Mexico that he also chaperoned in the early 1960s. There are two planning files for the "Chapman in Mexico" programs that Andrade developed as well as seven photograph albums of the BGSU summer in Mexico programs that Andrade chaperoned.

A particular strength of the collection is the over 1,200 color slides, mostly taken by Andrade, of Mexican cities, art, architecture, scenery, and people, covering the date range of 1959-1990. Note that the slides in boxes 5-8 were removed from a cardboard box labeled "Mexico slides." The images were arranged by subject and their original subject categories have been maintained in the inventory. The slides in box 9 were stored in individual bundles or small boxes and were labeled by subject, while one folder in box 9 contains slides of Mexico City taken ten months after a 1985 earthquake, which were removed from a carousel slide tray. The original order of these images has also been maintained. Although no scrapbook exists in the collection for the 1960 Kansas Youth Missions Tour, there are color slides in the collection from that trip.

Researchers of Mexican folk art may find a rare book on the artist José Guadalupe Posada in the collection of interest. One should also note that almost all of the publications in this collection are oversize and are in Spanish.

The eight screenplays in the collection were written by BGSU graduate, Kevin Andrade, A. Rolando Andrade's son. It does not appear that any of them have yet been produced.

Material related to the Bowling Green Rotary club and District 6600 was moved from the Andrade collection to MS-934 (Bowling Green Rotary Club collection) in September 2007. Material related to the BGSU Latino Student Union was moved from the Andrade collection to the University Archives Latino Student Union collection in September 2007 as well.

Series Description

SUBJECT FILES (.5 linear feet)

OFFICE FILES
1978-2006
Arranged alphabetically by subject. Includes a notebook and a planning file for two Chapman in Mexico programs, a file on the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), and a file containing correspondence from Baldemar Valasquez (founder of FLOC) and BGSU personnel regarding Valasquez's BGSU honorary degree.

LITERARY PRODUCTIONS (.5 linear feet)

SCREENPLAYS
2006, n.d.
Arranged alphabetically.
Includes eight screenplays by Kevin R. Andrade.

REMINISCENCES
1960
One typewritten paper by A. Rolando Andrade about the first Kansas Youth Missions trip to Mexico that he chaperoned in the summer of 1960.

SPEECH
n.d.
One speech, probably given by Professor Andrade, on "Dia de los Muertos." The folder includes color transparencies used in the presentation.

SCRAPBOOKS AND SCRAPBOOK MATERIALS (1 linear foot)

NEWS CLIPPINGS
1975, 1984-1999
Arranged chronologically
Includes one clipping about A. Rolando Andrade from an Oklahoma paper in 1975 and one folder containing news clippings about Baldemar Valasquez.

SCRAPBOOKS
1961-1964
Arranged chronologically
Includes four scrapbooks for the Kansas Youth Missions tours of Mexico that Andrade chaperoned in the early 1960s.

PRINTED MATERIALS (2 linear feet)

PRINTED MATERIALS
[1968?], 1971-1998, 2002
Arranged alphabetically by type of publication.
Includes books, a brochure, an education resource guide, a manual, and a newsletter.
Includes three publications containing the Mexican constitution, three books on Panama, FLOC publications, Rotary International Club publications, and material covering other related topics.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS (2.5 linear feet)

COLOR TRANSPARENCIES
1959-2006
Original order maintained.
Includes over 1,200 color slides, mostly taken by Professor Andrade, of Mexican cities, art, architecture, scenery, and people. Also includes images from a Broadway play, migrant homes, Chicago, and images of Mexico City taken ten months after the 1985 earthquake.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ALBUMS
1978, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2006, [c. 2003], n.d.
Arranged chronologically
Includes seven photograph albums of BGSU Summer in Mexico programs assembled by Professor Andrade, as well as negatives and snapshots of BGSU academic activities and of one of Bowling Green's Black Swamp Arts Festivals.

AUDIO RECORDINGS (.5 linear feet)

AUDIO RECORDING TAPES
1976-1996, n.d.
Arranged chronologically
Includes fifteen audio tape cassettes of interviews, radio broadcasts, and other conversations.

Inventory

Box 1

Folder

1. Chapman in Mexico Program, Ethnic Studies 310R, 2002-2003
2. Notebook, Chapman in Mexico Program, 2006
3. Farm Labor Organizing Committee, 1978-1979
4. Baldemar Valasquez and BGSU Honorary Degree, 1991-1996

Box 2

Folder

1. Screenplay: "The Castle" by Kevin R. Andrade (copy 1 of 2), n.d.
2. Screenplay: "The Castle" by Kevin R. Andrade (copy 2 of 2), n.d.
3. Screenplay: "The Devil's Cauldron" by Kevin R. Andrade, February 14, 2006
4. Screenplay: "Dotting the i's" by Kevin R. Andrade, [c. 2006]
5. Screenplay: "An Ideal Candidate" by Kevin R. Andrade, n.d.
6. Screenplay: "The Prodigal" by Kevin R. Andrade, n.d.
7. Screenplay: "Redemption Song" by Kevin R. Andrade, n.d.
8. Screenplay: "Untitled Series Pilot: Symmetry" by Kevin Andrade, et al, n.d.
9. Reminiscence: "Story of the First Kansas Youth Missions Tour of Mexico" by A. Rolando Andrade, August 1960
10. Speech/Presentation: "Dia de los Muertos", n.d.
11. News clipping, A. Rolando Andrade, October 16, 1975
12. News clippings, Baldemar Valasquez, 1984-1999

Box 3

Folder

1. Scrapbook: Kansas Youth Missions Tour of Mexico [second trip], 1961
2. Scrapbook: Kansas Youth Missions Tour of Mexico [third trip], 1962
3. Scrapbook: Kansas Youth Missions Tour of Mexico [fourth trip], 1963
4. Scrapbook [Kansas Youth Missions Tour of Mexico] [front cover not attached], 1964

Box 4 (Oversize)

Folder

1. Book: Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1971
2. Book: Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1973
3. Book: Esta es mi Patria (volume 1 of 2) [Panama], [1968?]
4. Book: Esta es mi Patria (volume 2 of 2) [Panama], [1968?]
5. Book: Nuestra Constitucion: Explicacion y Texto, 1982
6. Book: Panama, Puente del Mundo, 1973
7. Book: Posada y las Calaveras Vivientes, 1979
8. Book: 60 anos sirviendo Rotary Club Posadas - una Historia, 1989
9. Brochure, "The Farm Labor Center Building Campaign", [c. 1995]
10. Educational Resource Guide, "A Celebration of Latino Music Culture in Toledo, Ohio", 2002
11. Exhibition Book: José Guadalupe Posada [in portfolio with illustration plates], 1980
12. Manual, "Demuestre que Rotary se Interesa, Distrito 4840", 1997-1998
13. Newsletter: Nuestra Lucha [published by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee], Dec. 1978-Jan. 1979

Box 5

Folder

1. Color slides, "Art/Christian" (26 total), March 1967
2. Color slides, unlabeled [art] (25 total), April, November, 1966
3. Color slides, "Secular Paintings" (14 total), 1965, 1966
4. Color slides, "Last Supper Carving" (23 total), 1966, 1967
5. Color slides, "Last Supper Carving, etc." (24 total), 1966, 1967
6. Color slides, "Painting/Life of Christ/Art" (29 total), 1965-1967
7. Color slides, "Art" (53 total), 1978, n.d.
8. Color slides, "Art" (60 total), September 1978, n.d.
9. Color slides, "Broadway/Last Supper" (20 total), April 1966
10. Color slides, "Christian Missions/Kansas Youth Missions Tour/Mexico City University" (21 total), 1960

Box 6

Folder

1. Color slides, "Universidad Autónoma de Mexico", 1962, 1979, n.d.
2. Color slides, "San Luis Potosí" (15 total), 1960, 1969, 1985
3. Color slides, "San Miguel de Allende" (7 total), 1980, 1985
4. Color slides, "Guanajuato" (8 total), 1959, 1980
5. Color slides, "Taxco" (9 total), 1979, n.d.
6. Color slides, "Morelia" (20 total), 1985
7. Color slides, "Cueruavgua" (7 total), 1985
8. Color slides, "Chapultepec" (30 total), 1969-1987
9. Color slides, "Oaxaca" (65 total), 1987, 1989, 1990
10. Color slides, "Puebla" (22 total), 1987, 1989
11. Color slides, "Quemada" (10 total), 1980
12. Color slides, "Monterrey" (12 total), 1960, 1965, 1979
13. Color slides, "Convent" (4 total), 1962, 1969
14. Color slides, "San Angel" (7 total), 1969, 1979, 1989

Box 7

Folder

1. Color slides, "Charreada" (6 total), 1959
2. Color slides, "Bullfight" (18 total), 1962, 1990
3. Color slides, "People in Rural Aguascalientes" (39 total), 1985
4. Color slides, "Scenery" (39 total), 1959-1985
5. Color slides, "Zacatecas" (16 total), 1979, 1980
6. Color slides, "Queretaro" (12 total), 1985
7. Color slides, "Guadalajara" (9 total), 1962, 1965, 1985
8. Color slides, "Pabellon, Ags." (6 total), 1960, 1965
9. Color slides, "Anthropological Museum" (24 total), 1969-1987
10. Color slides, "Aguascalientes" (54 total), 1960-1985
11. Color slides, "Barde" [Laredo] (9 total), 1965

Box 8

Folder

1. Color slides, "Pyramids of Teotihuacan" (32 total), 1962, 1969, 1985-1989
2. Color slides, "Basilica de Guadalupe" (20 total), 1962-1989
3. Color slides, "Mexico City" (45 total), 1969-1986
4. Color slides, "Mexico City" (42 total), 1962-1989
5. Color slides, "Guadalajara" (34 total), 1965, 1980, 1992
6. Color slides, "Autónoma University of Guadalajara" (44 total), 1992
7. Color slides, "Mexican People" (64 total), 1965-1990

Box 9

Folder

1. Color slides, "Migrant Homes" (10 total), October 1979
2. Color slides, "Chicago, Ill." (14 total), [c. 1960s]
3. Color slides, "Mexico" (33 total), 1961-1979
4. Color slides, "Mexico" (43 total), 1962-1987
5. Color slides, Unlabeled [Mexico] (68 total), 1969-1989
6. Color slides, "Mexico City, July 1986 - 10 months after the 1985 Earthquake" (80 total), July 1986

Box 10

Folder

1. Photographs and negatives "At End of School Year", 1978
2. Photo album, [Summer in Mexico Program], 1993
3. Photo album, "Summer in Mexico Program", June 30-August 8, 1997
4. Photo album, [Summer in Mexico Program], Summer 1999
5. Photo album, [Summer in Mexico Program], 2006
6. Photographs (digital scan printouts) [BGSU and Mexico], [c. 2003]
7. Photo album (small) [Summer in Mexico Program], [2003?]
8. Photo album, [Summer in Mexico Program], n.d.
9. Photo album, [Summer in Mexico Program], n.d.
10. Photographs and negatives [Black Swamp Arts Festival?], n.d.
11. Photographs, "Ethnic Studies", n.d.

Box 11

Folder

1. Audio tape cassette, "Chicano Colloquim" (1 of 2), March 25, 1976
2. Audio tape cassette, "Chicano Colloquim" (2 of 2), March 25, 1976
3. Audio tape cassette, "The Latino Culture and American, Education, LUEL, BGSU, first session", May 5-6, 1978
4. Audio tape cassette, "Morning, Rev. Arturo Andrade, Dupl. WCBC", July 16, 1978
5. Audio tape cassette, "Report on Priest Q/Mass SLP", August 5, 1981 (?)
6. Audio tape cassette, "Father Chinchacoma lecture", July 10, 1985
7. Audio tape cassette, "Interview with Miguel G. Aguayo", July 22, 1985
8. Audio tape cassette, "Interview with Roberto Collazo", July 24, 1985
9. Audio tape micro-cassette, "Second grade of school, Manual Acosta/Fourth grade of school, Manual Acosta", March 13 & May 12, 1990
10. Audio tape micro-cassette, "Friday of Lent in Oaxaca" [March?] 1990
11. Audio tape cassette, "TV Show 'What's Happening' Teresa Arena, Alfonso Macias, Ricardo Garcia, A.R. Andrade/ KGOU Radio Program", March 21, 1996
12. Audio tape cassette, "Teresa Arena, Ricardo Garcia, Omero Suarez, Rolando Andrade", n.d.
13. Audio tape cassette, "Sr. Andrade, Gerenta (?) del Hotel San Francisco", n.d.
14. Audio tape cassette, "Labor in Mexico/Conversation with Priest Marelia Michocion [illegible]", n.d.
15. Audio tape micro-cassette, "Berenice Callazo, 2nd grade, Aguascalientes", n.d.

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