A. Rolando Andrade Collection

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 and his research interests.

One of Professor Andrade's career-long interests was the study of Mexico's political plans, especially during the historic period of La Reforma. Included in the collection are his research files and an unfinished manuscript on this topic. The research files contain copies of over thirty political plans, all in Spanish. Some of the files include English translations and Andrade's comments. The manuscript contains three near-complete chapters, while the rest of the sections are in various forms of completion. Several books on the Mexican constitution in the collection complement this series.

The collection also 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. Other items of interest are a speech on the Day of the Dead traditions in Mexico, books on Panama, FLOC publications, two Mexican Rotary publications, and an educational guide to Latino music culture of Toledo, Ohio. There are also fifteen audio cassettes of interviews, radio broadcasts, and other conversations with Andrade covering Latino issues, such as religion, labor, and education. As with the publications, some of the 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. 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.

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. 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. Almost all of the publications in this collection are oversize and in Spanish.

The screenplays in the collection were written by BGSU graduate, Kevin Andrade, A. Rolando Andrade's son. It is not known whether any of them have been produced.

Photocopies of the political plans from primary and secondary sources compiled by professor Andrade

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.

Includes typewritten memoir by Andrade, a speech (along with accompanying color transparencies), manuscript of Political Plans of Mexico (by Andrade) printed out from an accompanying compact disc; and screenplays by Kevin R. Andrade

Includes newspaper clippings and four scrapbooks from the Kansas Youth Missions Tours of Mexico that Andrade chaperoned in the early 1960s

Includes books, a brochure, an education resource guide, a manual and a newsletter. Topics covered include the Mexican constitution, Panama, FLOC, and Rotary International

Fifteen audio cassettes of interviews, radio broadcasts, and other conversations. Some are in Spanish.