Angelica Sanchez-Clark has a full time job as managing editor of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, a publication of the Spanish Colonial Research Center, a National Park Service/UNM agency. A 10-year UNM employee, she’s also a busy student, working to complete a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese at UNM.
With an editor’s pen in one hand and a clipboard in the other, she organized a colloquium for the City of Albuquerque’s Tricentennial. For her efforts on the “All Roads Lead to Albuquerque” series, Mayor Martin Chavez designated Oct. 29, 2005 “Angelica Sanchez-Clark Day.”
Sanchez-Clark was presented with a proclamation that was read at the final installment of the “All Roads” series, held at the new Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum.
Three years ago she got involved with the City of Albuquerque’s Tricentennial activities in part because her supervisor, Dr. Joseph Sanchez, is chair of the Albuquerque Tricentennial Strategic Planning Task Force and encouraged her involvement.
“The program was held in six venues around the city and featured the best speakers addressing native trails, Mexican and Spanish trails, the railroad, modern highways and byways, recreational trails and culminating with aviation. It provided the city residents with an opportunity to learn more about Albuquerque’s history,” Sanchez-Clark said.
“Angelica, and all those involved in bringing the “All Roads” series to fruition, put forth tremendous effort and presented a quality series. It was a small acknowledgement of a tremendous effort,” said Isabelle Zamora, management analyst in the City of Albuquerque’s Cultural Affairs Division. She and Cultural Affairs Director Millie Santillanes submitted the proclamation request to the mayor.
“It really is a testament to the success of the colloquium series, which the proclamation recognized as one of the more successful Tricentennial events, and for which we all deserve recognition,” Sanchez-Clark said.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu