•rov«-Dec. 1959
THE MEXICAi: VOICE
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PERSON AU TIES
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AMELIlVi PERALTA
JOE VIDaL
On the Peterson Brooke Steiner and Wist softball team, state.champtons from. Tempe, Arizona, pla,vs ¿melina Peralta who eighteen ears of age and is <3 senior in high school. As a p5.tch.Gr and right fielder she was fortunate to compete in the Softball 1’ation-,-.l Tournament. This is vhat she has to sa^; about her adventures.
•'On the da'* of August 26, 1939, we b^-irg the champions of .he state left on a barnstorming trip to Chicago to compete in the .ational Toirnament. There were forty-three teams representing their respective states. On our trip we played, several exhibition carnes 5n ]’e"i Orleans, Louisiana; Memphis, Tennessee; and Murphy-borough, Illinois. While in Chicago we stayed at the Sherman. Hotel, one of the outstanding hotels of t.te city.
Also last year we were champions of Arizona, and we were considered -so outstanding that "o were asked to play at Madison Square Gardens in " ev? I'ork City. While .there we visited Radio City, Auslc Háll, Coney Island, ."-nd Chinatown. We also wltresnod a-major baseball game between the Pirates and the f.y. Giants. The most thrilling moment was meeting former World’s heavyweight champion Jack Dompse'y. He was our host at a banquet given in our honor. Among the outstanding baseball players that I met and spoke with v/ere Joe DiMaggio, Lou 3ohrlg, Dizzy Dean, and the Maner bruthdra.
At Chicago v/e were chosen the best dressed team In the Softball National Tournament. Among the Forty-three states represent;;ted there, I was the on-ly Mexican.''
One of the most outstanding Mexican-American students at UCLA is Joe Vidal. He was born in El Paso, Toxas, august 22, 1915, llv-.-d and /ent to school in Mexico until ho -as ten years old., in 1925 he came to Los. Angeles where he attended the Grape Street Elementary School. In 1930 he entered David Starr Jordan High School and was one of the outstanding students of that school during the time ho •■•'ent there. He was president of the Scholarship society, president of the Matn Club, Direc cor of the Knights, captain of the varsity basketball team in 1934, received the /jnerlcan' Legion plaque for scholarship, was clas president for four years, and •was elec tod Ephebian of the graduating class of 1934.
i In the fall of 1934 he entered the University of California at Los Angelos .".nd majored in Frer.ch and Mathematics. Ho was elocte.d to Pi Delta Phi, the national honorary French fraternity, and to Sigma D'-lta pi, the national honorary Spanfc} fraternity. He speaks fluortl.. Spanish, French, Italian, and English. He has worked his wa; through high school and colic, by tutoring ■french-, Spanish, nua Math, and by working in a dopa?: rent store. In 1938 he recelv < tho Bachelor of Arts degree fror UCLA, and in 1939 the General Secondary Crcditlonal which enables him to teach in any junior or senior high school. Ho intends to m turn to the Univorsit; for v/ork toward the Master's Degree during the coming year. I" • timatel; ho hopes to be a svp.-'-vlsor of foreign language." -nd a ^public school ncminisCrat"or.
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