Tage 6
TEE MEXICO VOICE
March
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SCHOOL and s^er.icorc¿- clv.b mc®2" • * ario?.ig IJexican youth. Joe now attends the University of California, at Berkeley. Ibshing dishes and doing janitorial work, (yes again) for living expenses. He is active in other activities, being editor of an honoraiy,- fratemiV paper and a member of the editorial staff of ’’Blue and Gf)ld,” tlie college Tear-book. Joe looks forward to Christian service and is thinking of attending the- San Francisco Theological Seminary.
LOCAL BOY
Los Angeles’ own son was the next president- of the Conference. Reared in Santa Paula he was graduated from Santa Barbara high sch. f^-ul, who lives with Ms grandparents, became president at a verjr opportune nonent. When proposed activities were emerging into
MEXICAN Youth
We have Yfitc'-ied with eagerness-and < -s _
interest the growth of the Mexican Youth Conference. We were hi'gnly thrilled to be able to participate in some of its activities and thereby gain great benefits in encouragement and inspiration from its leaders, and it is with great joy arid anticipation for further good work; in their endeavor to help our people that we congratulate the Boy’s Conference as the date for its Annual San Pedro Conference approaches. " They are indeed to be highly comended for their fine unselfish spirit of coperation and the excellent record they have set during the past year. That the work is going on and will continue in the same exhilerating growth mst naturally follow after the fine basic fundamental principles on which they have based the formulation of their plans of ac-
reality, Paul’s foresight, tireless worlt, did finch in correlating
*' th^s^adtitities v8r;r successfully Paul Coronel is a devotee of music an excellent violinist, earning his college expenses b;r giving lessons. Most of his life he had to contend with poor health, tut he .carries on with a cheerg’- spirit. At Santa Barbara State he majors in Sociology and plans to attend UCIA next September. He has been very active in club work for many years. His interest is our people and sees their needs as a challenge to his fu*Qro.
note.....
Dear reader, notice that all of past presidents have suffered from some handicap, loss of parents, physical handicaps, yet have managed somehow to overcome these barriers. Talking, meeting, know-ini; these young men has been a pleasure, because they typify the best of Mexican youth..___________
It-has -oSten be-an renarked that this is the era of opporVuiity for youth to express themselves and really accomplish with characteristic energy and ambition what .their far-sighted but cautious el-
ders may long have realized is Í needed. The impetuous courage of youth is essential in a movement such as ours to mal’^e the initial decisive plunge into the socioeconomic whirlpool where we are at best onl'T trj.ring to do something for our people that has not been attempted before.
So to the Bo”1s Conference we tal^ off oxir hats as we repognize in then the leaders of váat my prove to be the salvation of the Mexican Americans in the United. States of knevica through education.
,.., .Hebecca Munoz