A View at the Hispanic Genealogical/Historical Conference of Sept. 2009

                                            

Gloria Campos     WFAA Channel 8 (Dallas) Anchor

 

Gloria Campos, originally from Harlingen, Texas, is Channel 8 WFAA anchor in Dallas. Her interest revolves around issues related to education, women and family.   She is very proud of the honorary life time membership of the Texas PTA which she received because of volunteer speaking engagements at career days, Hispanic Heritage events, as well as serving as a mentor and reader in public schools.   Some other awards and recognitions include 2006 American Women in Radio and Television Dallas-Ft. Worth Chapter – “Broadcast News Personality: Award of Excellence, The DALLAS 25 one of the North Texas region’s most influential residents; 2007 Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Reader’s choice Best TV Newswoman, 2007 “Women of Spirit” award from the American Congress of Jewish Women Dallas Chapter, 2007 nominee Texas Trailblazer award, 2002 Mother of the Year (one of three recipients) Dallas Can Academy, 2001 Buck Marryat Award for career achievement from the Press Club of Dallas, the 2001 Woman of the Year award from LES FEMMES DU MONDE, Lifetime Achievement award from WOMEN IN FILM: Dallas, 1995, MAURA AWARD Women Helping Women Award from the Women’s Center of Dallas,  the 1994 American Women I Radio and television Dallas-Ft. Worth Chapter;  “TV Personality of the Year” award and 1991 Girl’s , Inc. “She Knows Where She’s Going Award. 

She was in the third grade when she first thought of becoming a TELEVISION NEWS REPORER. And, the assassination of John F. Kennedy rekindled her desire to be a journalist.    When asked, “what quality do you have to have to make it in this business?’  She replied, “number one quality is to be a people person; someone who cares about people and someone who can get along with different personalities and attitudes displayed by diverse people.”  She went on to say that, “Every day is different!  Today’s news is tomorrow’s history.”

Gloria has been married to Lance Brown, who is a freelance writer, and broadcasts sporting events for Irving Community Television, for more than 20 years.  She enjoys spending quality time with their twin sons, in addition to reading, gardening, movies and what a friend calls, “junk-tiquing.”  She collects all sort of “stuff”.   Among her “stuff” is an extensive butterfly pin collection which she wears “on-air”, occasionally.

Gloria Campos is a life time member of HOGAR de Dallas and will be the Master of Ceremonies at the Saturday night banquet, September 26^th.

 

 

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Dra. Carolina Castillo Crimm  -

                                     History Professor at Sam Houston University

Dr. Carolina Castillo Crimm is an award-winning author and teacher who was born and brought-up in Mexico City, Mexico. She came to the United States in 1963, and finished her BA at the University of Miami, her MA at Texas Tech and her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin.  She has taught on the high school level for 15 years, and started at Sam Houston University in 1992. Her latest book, De León: A Tejano Family History has won numerous awards, and she has won teaching awards at Sam Houston University, and as one of the best teachers in Texas.  She is married and has three children and 7 grandchildren.

 

 

 

Publications:  2006 -"Drawings Inspiration from Your Community" , Touchstone Corner, Austine Texas. A Bright and Shining Hope: Vocational Training for Adjudicated Youth, The History of Gulf Coast Trades Center, Accepted for publication by Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press, (2007) : 2006 "Mary (Mollie) O. Taylor Bunton, Mrs. James Howell Dunton,"  Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, College Station: Texas A&M Univeristy :  2005 Introcution, Hers, His and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas, Author Jean A. Stunta, Lubbock: Texas Tech Univerrsity Press, 2005.  2005 "Petra Vela and the Kenedy Family Legacy," in Tejano Epic: Essays in Honor of Felix Almaraz, Jr., E. Arnoldo de Leon, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, Summer 2005.  2004 De Leon: A Tejano Family History, Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press, Spring w004.  2003  The Hoffman Collection: San Diego at the Turn of the Century, Austin: Univeristy of Texas Press, Fall 2003.

 

                                         SYNOPSIS OF KEYNOTE SPEECH: 

Tejano families suffered land loss and often loss of life after the acquisition of Texas by the United States in 1848. Despite the promises of protection by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, they faced threats and devastation. Why did they stay? How did they survive?  How did they retain their culture and how much did they acculturate to the new Anglo-American culture?  As the modern descendants of those early Tejanos begin to expand their power and become a significant majority, it is important to look at the mechanisms by which those early Tejano families survived the challenges they faced during the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

 

 

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