March 1940
TjnS MEXICAN VOICE
Page 13
PERSONALITIES
BY
- REBECCA MUNOZ —
Followitig up last issue’s article oh'Mr. ■ Pedro Guerrero we bring-you this rronbb h5.s son, Adolph.' ''' A young iran any one would be "proud to call his son.	.
Adolph Guerrero was born in Florence, Arizona. Tie attenflod gram-rpár school apd high school, in Mesa Following thatjae "ent to the Art Center in ios Angelos, California, where he .studied drawing and .painting for four years- with a view to specializing in portraits in the futfire. ills favorite medium is charcoal but he "frequently works in oils.
Leaving the Art Center .after having completed his course, he returned to Mesa where ho is well known as a nroyinent young designer who is now wori'inr for an r-.d-vertisir.g' firm in that city. According to the art critics of the Valley of che San be has displayed, amazing talent among the stu.deiet artists of that region.
Besides his work Adolph finds tirv-ta be an active rember of the 20-«50 club of Mesa " hich he represented as a delegate to the "20-30 convention in Flagstaff during: February.
Adolph is'intensely interested in the problems facing our people at presen# and considers Conference work rn Arizona, an imperative necessity. He is doing much In help, ing the Club Juvenil Progresista of Mesa in all he can and is looking forward to'seeing the Mexican-Amerleans take their place in the communities of Arizona.
Johnny Rodríguez, son of Its. Mary Rodríguez of Flagstaff, and better kno’";; over the nation as Don Juan Roifr/.go, "toast of two continents'* is the director of a ten piece orchestra, now playing in the MI-Lo Club of Battle Creek, Michigan.
After taking one year of harmony and arranging at the Arizona. State Teacher’s College at Flagstaff, he left, to go out on his own as .an orchestra leader. That was sev-m years ago. Since then he has played in the famous resorts ^no. ¡hotels of Mexico City, Juarez, I Agua Ca1lente, 0incinna11 i, and ! B.1 rm? ngham. Last summer he played 1 vt'5.-th port of his regular orchestra
h	t Cosr.e’s Cafe and Lodge’s tight । Club of Tucson, ariz-onn.
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I Tie plays the riauo, piano accor-dí -n ..'?.nd is a vocalist. He is heralded as ''the pi’nee of Poi son-। allty” by newspapers of the sec-। tinn where h» is now nlayiny. He I is listed, in "Down-Beat,‘,l a music
i	publication, as one of the nationally prominent orchestra leaders.
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Dan Grijalva has boon an active Mexican youth leader in Arizona for many years. Son of one of the most prominent pioneer families of Arizona, Dan was always Characterized by the pep and z"est with which he organized the young peopl< into active groups. It was through his unbounded Interest that the Federation of Mexican yovn.g people of the Valley o^ the (continued on p. 14)