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Richard John Cronenberger, Arc 1979 - Cum Laude; University of Miami

Richard Cronenberger began his Historic Preservation Career in 1978 working on summer recording teams with the Historic American Buildings Survey. Throughout his 34 years with the National Park Service working as historic architect and museum collection preservationist, Mr. Cronenberger worked on thousands of historic buildings and hundreds of museum collection storage facilities located throughout the country. He has extensive experience in all areas of the National Park Service Cultural resources programs. He was fortunate to represent the United States while attending the Architectural Conservation Program, ICCROM, International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Rome, Italy in 1993. He served on the Colorado Historic Preservation Review Board and Colorado State Register Review Board from 2006-2012. In retirement, Mr. Cronenberger is an active promoter for historic preservation in Littleton, Colorado.

Jill Flanders Crosby holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Since beginning her research in Ghana in 1991, she has focused on ritual dance forms in Ghana, Togo, and Cuba, conducting fieldwork from 1997 to 2018. Her extensive research inspired a collaborative art installation that debuted in Havana, Cuba, in December 2010 and was later exhibited in Ghana in 2013 and San Francisco in 2014.

Flanders Crosby has presented her findings on Ghanaian and Cuban dance traditions at numerous scholarly conferences, including those of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the African Studies Association, the Congress on Research in Dance, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. Her research has been published in Making Caribbean Dance (University Press of Florida) and journals such as Southern Quarterly, Material Religion, Etnofoor, Revista Catauro, as well as on the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography website. Additionally, she has explored the origins of jazz dance, contributing to the edited volume Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches (University Press of Florida).

Currently, Flanders Crosby is conducting oral history research among dancers, choreographers, and composers in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific, focusing on their creative and cultural expressions in dance.

Celia Cruz (1925-2003) migrated to the U.S. in 1960 after having had an important career in Cuba with the group La Sonora Matancera. She never returned to Cuba and died in New York in July 2003. Celia was considered "the Queen of Latin Music" and dominated the Latin music scene for almost fifty years. Her collaborations with Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, Willy Colón and the Fania All Stars in New York during the 1970s sparked an interest in salsa among Anglo and European audiences all over the world. She recorded more than 70albums during her career, received over 100 awards, and appeared in 10 movies. She recorded 20 gold and eight platinum albums and received three honorary degrees from Yale University, Florida International University, and the University of Miami, in recognition of her extraordinary musical talent.

Cruzada Educativa Cubana (C.E.C.) was an organization in exile, founded on August 2, 1962, in Miami, Florida by María Gómez Carbonell, the first Congresswoman of the Republic of Cuba. The organization promoted the diffusion of the main principles of the Cuban education and culture within the framework of freedom and democracy in the United States of America.

The theme of the C.E.C. "A la Libertad por la Educación y la Cultura" ("Toward Freedom for Education and Culture") represents the primary objective of the organization: to avoid the penetration and expansion of the international Communism in education along a path of a clear and strong democratic process. This organization looked forward to the rejection of the Communist doctrine in order to achieve complete freedom for all by means of democratic education and culture for all.

Cruzada Educativa Cubana was formed by the central Executive body and the delegates designated by the Central Executive for each state of the Union and for each country. The delegates appointed representatives in other important cities. Following the main tasks and objectives of the organization, the delegates worked by recruting professors living in the United States and Latin America. Each delegate worked towards the C.E.C. Objectives by using the media and created programs such as "Tertulias Infantiles," weekly workshops for children about Cuban history, democratic ideals, geography, music and poetry. They also proposed educational projects to the Central Executive Body.

C.E.C. prepared a variety of programs over the years. Among these programs were "Día del Maestro Cubano" ("Cuban Teacher Day"), "Día de la Cultura Cubana" ("Cuban Cultural Day"), and the "Democratic Rehabilitation of the Cuban Schools."

Cruzada Educativa Cubana also offered lectures such as "Ciclo Juvenil"("Juvenile Cycle") and "Ciclo Sin Verdad no hay Historia"("Without Truth there is no History Cycle"). Homages given to Cuban personalities were also offered by C.E.C.

Various awards were established by C.E.C. honoring Cuban educators and historians who made important contributions to education in general. Some of these were Candelaria Carbonell Award, Francisco Vicente Aguilera Award, José de la Luz y Caballero Award, Juan J. Remos Award, and José Antonio Saco Award.

Félix Cruz-Álvarez was born in the town of Cárdenas, of Matanzas province, Cuba, on October 18, 1937. He attended primary and secondary school in his home town of Cárdenas at the Colegio Presbiteriano La Progresiva, graduating in June 1955 with a degree in Bachiller en Letras and went on to study law law and social sciences at the University of Havana in 1955-1956 and 1959-1960. In 1960 he discontinued his studies for political reasons.

In 1957-1958 Cruz-Alvarez served public office as secretary in the city council at Cárdenas. During this time period, he also was elected president of the conservative group, Juventud Demócrata, and in 1959 he joined the Ministry of the Sugar Industry, where he worked until 1965.

From 1959 to 1965 Cruz-Alvarez participated in acts of conspiracy against the Communist government of Cuba, and in 1965-1968 he was directed to engage in a series of forced voluntary works for the government. As a result of his anti-government actions, he endured political persecution until he left Cuba via the Freedom Flights, on November 6, 1968. He resided in Chicago between 1968 and 1971 and then resettled in Miami.

Cruz-Alvarez received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 at Biscayne College (currently, St. Thomas University), the Master of Arts degree (1979) and the Ph.D. degree in philosophy from the University of Miami. The title of his dissertation is: Los poetas del grupo de Orígines, which is currently in the holdings of the Otto G. Richter Library at the University of Miami.

He has been a professor of Spanish since 1976, teaching at various local institutions, including Miami-Dade Community College (1976-1981), Florida International University (1981-1982), the Miami-Dade County public school system since 1983, and Miami Springs Senior High School.

Félix Cruz-Alvarez wed the former Xiomara Carbot Estabil on March 7, 1964 in the town of Carlos Rojas, Matanzas province, Cuba.

Graciella Cruz-Taura is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Florida Atlantic University. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Latin America, with a specific focus on Cuban and Cuban-American studies. Dr. Cruz-Taura arrived in the U.S. from Cuba in 1962 and completed her PhD in History at the University of Miami in 1978 with a thesis titled: “The Impact of the Castro Revolution on Cuban Historiography.” She has authored, edited, and provided translations for a variety of scholarly works from books to stand-alone articles and chapters. In 1989 she co-edited Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba: Contemporary Cuban Visual Artists and in 2009 she published Espejo de paciencia y Silvestre de Balboa en la historia de Cuba. Cruz-Taura also completed an English-language edition of the latter work with the help of a D.F. Schmidt College Scholarly and Creative Activity Fellowship. Topics of her articles have included women’s rights and the Cuban constitution of the mid-twentieth century, education in Cuba, national identity in Cuba, and work on specific individuals such as José Martí. The breadth of Dr. Cruz-Taura’s research and teaching is vast – extending from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present. Adjacent to her writerly endeavors, Cruz-Taura has curated exhibits devoted to Cuban history and the Cuban diaspora; for example, in 2005 she curated the exhibition: “In Search of Freedom: Cuban Exiles and the U.S. Refugee Program,” which drew from the collection of Cuban Refugee Center Records at the Cuban Heritage Collection and was originally displayed at Miami-Dade County’s Stephen P. Clark Building in 2005 and later, in abridged form, in the Roberto C. Goizueta Pavilion in the Otto G. Richter Library in 2011. From 2003 to 2016, Cruz-Taura served on the Board of the AMIGOS of the Cuban Heritage Collection. She is known as an advocate and authority pertaining to the Cuban-American population and has been recognized for her service to the South Florida community in particular in various capacities.

Omar J. Cuan is a historian and associate professor of American history at Palm Beach State College.