{"id":9686,"date":"2013-04-09T00:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/oregon-multicultural-archives\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:32:06","slug":"colegio-oralhistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/oregonmulticulturalarchives\/2013\/04\/09\/colegio-oralhistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral History Interview Regarding Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez advertisement, Silverton-Appeal Tribune–Mt. Angel, Sept. 1980 (Andrew Parodi on left)<\/p>\n

Several years ago Andrew Parodi and Karen Olivo shared a part of their lives with the OMA through their\u00a0donation of a collection of materials pertaining to the\u00a0Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n

As the first and only independent Chicano-oriented and managed four-year college to emerge in the nation, Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez occupies an unparalleled place in Chicano history. Andrew\u00a0and Karen\u00a0were a part of that history; they lived at the Colegio\u00a0from 1980-1982. Arthur Olivo, Karen’s husband was a student at the\u00a0Colegio as well as the\u00a0campus\u00a0groundskeeper.\u00a0For more information about the collection, be sure to view the collection’s finding aid: Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Collection<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Andrew and Karen again shared their lives with the OMA, this time through an oral history interview. In the interview, Olivo and Parodi begin by chronicling Karen\u2019s early life and her time spent living in Alaska. They continue by discussing how Karen met Arthur Olivo, her future husband, while attending De Anza Community College; Arthur\u2019s work at Center for Employment Training in central California; and how Arthur and Karen began their relationship. The bulk of the interview begins when they explain Arthur\u2019s decision to move to Oregon. During this part of the interview they detail their time working and living at Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez in Mount Angel, Oregon. They discuss the physical grounds of the college; the people they interacted with while they were there; events at the college; ethnic discrimination they endured; and the politics behind the closing of the college. Throughout the interview the two discuss aspects of Mexican culture and the family structure of the culture. They conclude by explaining the end of Arthur\u2019s life and how having him in their life impacted them.<\/p>\n

Interview Information<\/p>\n

Title: Andrew Parodi and Karen Olivo – Oral History Interview
\nDate: July 23, 2012
\nLocation: Corvallis, Oregon
\nLength: 02:26:43
\nInterviewees: Andrew Parodi and Karen Olivo
\nInterviewer: Natalia Fern\u00e1ndez
\nTranscriber: Hannah Mahoney<\/p>\n

Interviewee Brief Biographies<\/p>\n

Andrew Parodi (b.1975) was born in Mountain View, California. He is the son of Karen Olivo and the stepson of Arthur Olivo. He lived at Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez with Karen and Arthur from 1980 \u2013 1982. He attended Western Oregon University.<\/p>\n

Karen Olivo (b. 1939) is the widow of Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez student and groundskeeper, Arthur Olivo. Born in Chicago, at age 6 her family moved to Anchorage, Alaska to Yakutat where she lived with the Tlinget indigenous people. In 1977 while living in Sunnyvale, California and attending De Anza Community College, she met Arthur Olivo. Arthur was a teacher for the Center for Employment Training. When he was offered a job in Tigard, Oregon in 1979, Karen and her youngest son Andrew moved from Sunnyvale, California to Oregon with Arthur. In the Fall of 1980 Arthur enrolled at Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and was also the college\u2019s groundskeeper. Karen, Arthur and Andrew lived on the property of Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez until they were asked to vacate in 1982.\u00a0 Karen has lived in Gervais, Oregon, since 1983. She has volunteered for nearly a decade with the Foster Grandparents organization as a \u201cGrandparent\u201d at the Western Oregon University Day Care Center and the Jensen Arctic Museum.<\/p>\n

Interview Transcript<\/a>\u00a0and Interview Audio<\/p>\n

For more information about the Colegio’s history, read the book\u00a0Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism<\/em> <\/a>by\u00a0 Glenn Anthony May<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Also, check out two\u00a0digitized items from the Colegio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez collection:
\nColegio Catalog, 1978-1979<\/a>
\nColegio Newspaper Advertisement, 1980<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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