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Dr. Melanie Rosborough joined the University of Miami faculty as a Professor of German in 1927. She continued teaching until 1968, became head of the Language Department, and participated in several organizations and committees. Dr. Rosborough acted as secretary for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and later became president of the organization. She was elected Vice President and President of the Phi Betta Kappa Greater Miami Association, and in 1963 became the first woman president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. In 1953, while acting as national vice-president of the South Atlantic Region of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Rosborough secured the accreditation of the university by the association. In 1973, the AAUW created an endowed scholarship in Rosborough's name.

In addition to her membership in these organizations, Rosborough also served as Secretary for the University of Miami Faculty Council from 1951 to 1962, and acted as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Religious Activities and the University Council on Religious Affairs. As chairman of the committees on religion, Rosborough arranged monthly meetings with clergy, and helped students organize denominational organizations. Under Rosborough's direction, the council coordinated activities and determined university policy regarding religion. Rosborough further contributed to the university through her activities on the committee for commencement arrangements.

Dr. Melanie Rosborough joined the University of Miami faculty as a Professor of German in 1927.  She continued teaching until 1968, became head of the Language Department, and participated in several organizations and committees. Dr. Rosborough acted as secretary for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and later became president of the organization.  She was elected Vice President and President of the Phi Betta Kappa Greater Miami Association, and in 1963 became the first woman president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.  In 1953, while acting as national vice-president of the South Atlantic Region of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Rosborough secured the accreditation of the university by the association. In 1973, the AAUW created an endowed scholarship in Rosborough's name.

In addition to her membership in these organizations, Rosborough also served as Secretary for the University of Miami Faculty Council from 1951 to 1962, and acted as chairman of the Faculty Committee on Religious Activities and the University Council on Religious Affairs.  As chairman of the committees on religion, Rosborough arranged monthly meetings with clergy, and helped students organize denominational organizations. Under Rosborough's direction, the council coordinated activities and determined university policy regarding religion. Rosborough further contributed to the university through her activities on the committee for commencement arrangements.

Alberto Baeza Flores was a Chilean poet, novelist, and journalist. He was the co-founder of the magazines La Poesía Sorprendida, Acento and Expresión.

Ralph Middleton "Commodore" Munroe, avid yachtsman, successful businessman, and celebrated patriarch of the Munroe family, made Coconut Grove his home in the late 1800s. Munroe and his family moved to South Florida from Staten Island, New York, to provide a more beneficial environment for his wife, Eva Maelia Hewitt, who suffered from tuberculosis. Unfortunately, both his wife and daughter succumbed to illness and died shortly after their move to Miami.

Munroe subsequently split his time between Staten Island and the Grove, often staying at the Peacock family hotel, The Bay View House, later known as the Peacock Inn. Several years before the turn of the century he bought land recognized today as the Barnacle State Historic Park, where he built his permanent home. Munroe also founded the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, and through his continual enjoyment of sailing and boating life, met his second wife, Jessie Wirth. They had two children, Wirth and Patty.

The Commodore's passion for the sea was only matched by his interest in photographing. Munroe's constant recording of the beauty of Miami with his camera provides an invaluable and lasting visual record of the time and place. The Ralph M. Munroe Family Papers consists of letters, diaries, household accounts, journals, and photographs chronicling the activities of one of South Florida's earliest families. Among the holdings are, the typescript of the popular autobiography, The Commodore's Story, as well as diaries written by Patty Munroe detailing South Florida "happenings." Photographs offer at look at South Florida scenic sites during the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Frederic Zeigen is known as "The Forgotten Man" in University of Miami history. While he played a vital role in the founding of UM—becoming its pro bono administrator, the secretary of the Board of Regents, and spokesperson—few people know the level of his involvement. A successful banker, world traveler and writer, Mr. Zeigen devoted much of his time and his own money to help create the University of Miami. His greatest feat was convincing George Merrick to give the nascent university 160 acres, fund the first building, and create a $4 million endowment.

Olga Espejo was a cataloger at the Otto G. Richter Library and curator of The Rare Map Collection held by the Specila Collections department of the library.

On the night of April 20, 2010, following an initial forty-eight hours stoppage, a group of students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) met at the Río Piedras campus to organize an indefinite strike. They did so in response to the University administration’s proposed new austerity measures affecting the tuition waivers (Certification 98) and the possibility of a tuition increase. Through phone calls, text messages, emails, social networking sites, and word of mouth members of the student action committees spread the news to others to meet at two specific locations within the campus at 5:00 am. Once the two groups were formed, they coordinated via text messages to meet on the main road of the campus. To the astonishment of the initiators the number of people that showed up was three times more than expected and they were able to take over the campus from within by closing down its six gates. By using protest camps, physical barricades, and alternative media, such as the Internet, the students constructed spaces of resistance that initiated a lock-down of ten out of the eleven UPR campuses. Thus, on April 21, 2010, the students of the UPR officially announced the beginning of a strike that quickly broadened into a defense of an accessible public education of excellence as a fundamental right and not a privilege.

            During the sixty-two days that the first wave of student protests and occupations lasted, traditional and alternative media covered the events until it ended with a mediated agreement between the Students’ National Negotiating Committee (CNN) and the University’s administration in a seeming victory for the students. However, in retaliation the government quickly increased the number of members of the Board of Trustees to gain the majority vote within the University’s decision making. This effectively allowed the University’s administration to breach the agreement, suspend students from the CNN by accusing them of leading and organizing the strike, and hastily impose an $800 student fee active in January 2011 (to be $400 per semester thereafter). For students at the UPR, this increase meant a more than 100% hike in tuition which would prevent about 10,000 students from continuing their studies for lack of economic resources and opportunities.[1] The administration’s steadfast refusal to negotiate the tuition increase initiated the second wave of student protests, which began on December 14, 2010. Prior to this, the administration had removed some of the university’s main campus gates and welded others open in order to prevent students from controlling the campus again. The administration also requested the police force including: mounted police, snipers, K-9 unit, Riot police, and the SWAT team to occupy the university and enforce the gag law prohibiting student demonstrations on campus premises. The presence of the police force inside the UPR main campus violated the “non-confrontational agreement” that was established to promote peaceful dialogue after the violent incidents during the 1981 UPR student strike. As a result, students (re)constructed their spaces of resistance by using emotional narratives, organizing nonviolent civil disobedience acts at public places, fomenting lobbying groups, disseminating online petitions, and developing alternative proposals to the compulsory fee. The protests continued until March 2011, when it came to a halt after the traditional media overstressed a violent incident that involved physical harassment to the University’s chancellor, Ana Guadalupe, during one of the student demonstrations.

[1] This estimate was calculated by the UPR administration, and was born out after the fee was imposed.

Venancio Díaz-Maique (1916-2003) was born in Guanajay, Cuba. He began his career as a photojournalist when he documented the devastation caused by the hurricane of 1940. For these photographs he received his first award from a photography contest in his home town of Guanajay. As well as having a long and internationally celebrated career he was also the co-founder of the Photography Club of Cuba.

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Dr. Martha Lizabeth Phelps is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Miami in 2012.

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the early 1900s. During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921. She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the 1910s.  During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921.  She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

Lydia Cabrera was born in Havana, Cuba on May 20, 1899. Her father, Raimundo Cabrera, was a lawyer. He was a member of the pro-independence intellectuals known as the “generation of 1868” and founder of the literary and political magazine Cuba y America. Lydia, an avid reader, was taught at home. She was strongly influenced by her father’s nationalist feelings and cultural background, her sister Emma’s love of art, and her nannies’ African and Afro Cuban stories, language and traditions.

Lydia completed her secondary school without ever attending classes and started auditing college courses. Although she published her first articles in the Diario de la Marina at age eighteen, her first love was painting, and she attended the San Alejandro Academy of Arts for a brief period.

In 1927, Cabrera moved to Paris to study painting and remained in France for eleven years. Graduating from L'Ecole du Louvre in 1930, she subsequently studied with Russian exile artist Alexandra Exter. During this time, Lydia began to study Asian cultures and religions, and her research in this area lead to a renewed interest in Afro Cuban culture. Later in her life, Cabrera stated that she “discovered Cuba in the banks of the Seine”.

During short trips to her native country while living in Paris, Cabrera began to make preliminary contacts with the future informants of her ethnology research. Back in Paris, she wrote her first Cuentos Negros. The stories were read at literary gatherings and later published in several reviews such as Cahiers du Sud, Revue de Paris, and Les Nouvelles Littéraires. A French translation by literary critic Francis de Miomandre was published by Gallimard in 1936 as a collection entitled Contes Nègres de Cuba.

Cabrera returned to Cuba in 1938 with the purpose of doing research on the subject of folklore, conscious of the need to preserve this vital element of Cuban culture for posterity. The first Spanish edition of Cuentos negros de Cubawas published in1940 in Havana; a second work of fiction, ¿Por Qué? Cuentos Negros de Cuba, Colección del Chicherekú, was published in 1948.

Cabrera distinguished her work by writing with a new voice and style and positioned herself at the forefront by conducting field research, which required her to spend years gaining the trust of her informants. She traveled within the island conducting interviews, collecting oral histories, recording stories and music, documenting rituals and practices, and cataloging “Africanisms” of Cuban Spanish. The result was El Monte (The Forest or The Wilderness), published in 1954, a formative work on Afro Cuban religions and liturgy.

Cabrera left Cuba as an exile in 1960 and she did not produce any writing for ten years. In 1970, Cabrera published Otán Iyebiyé, Las Piedras Preciosasand in 1971 the third volume of “cuentos negros” Ayapá: Cuentos de Jicotea, followed by other publications. She published one of her most well known works, Anaforuana, about the secret Abakuá society, in 1975. Her writings in exile are considered by some critics to be among her best because of the intellectual and emotional maturity she had achieved. She had become internationally recognized and honored for her contributions to literature, ethnology and anthropology.

She died in Miami on September 19th, 1991. During her long and prolific career Cabrera produced what is considered the most complete and important body of research on Afro Caribbean religions and folklore. She was one of the first to recognize the richness of African culture and its vital contributions to Cuban identity. Her work remains a leading authority of Afro Cuban culture.