Scholarships
Each year, a portion of the Gator Guayabera Guateque proceeds help to support the Association of Hispanic Alumni Scholarship Program coordinated through the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures at the University of Florida. In its fourth year, the scholarship program will award 13 current and future University of Florida students in five scholarship categories in the total amount of $15,000! Please see the following fact sheet for an overview of all scholarships and requirements.
Scholarship Applications:
Rafael and Fe Angulo Scholarships:
Awarded on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, this scholarship is granted to students who have made a positive impact on the Hispanic-Latino community by excelling in leadership, service, or academic scholarship.
Rafael and Fe Angulo Undergraduate Scholarship
Rafael and Fe Angulo Graduate Scholarship
Colonel Glenn A. Farris Scholarships:
Also awarded on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, students are recognized based on their leadership, service, academic scholarship, and the impact they have made on the Hispanic-Latino community.
Colonel Glenn A. Farris Undergraduate Scholarship
Colonel Glenn A. Farris Graduate Scholarship
Maggie Enjamio Gator Mom Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to an undergraduate student, this scholarship is granted to a student who through his or her community service has served as a role model to the Hispanic-Latino community.
Maggie Enjamio Gator Mom Memorial Scholarship
For all other Dean of Students Office scholarships please visit http://www.dso.ufl.edu/scholarships/.
Biographies
Colonel Glenn A. Farris:
Col. Glenn A. Farris, a 1931 graduate of West Point, served in the U.S. Army from 1931 to 1961, including service in Puerto Rico, World War II and the Korean conflict. After retiring from his post as professor of military science at the University of Florida, he returned to school and received a masters degree in education from UF in 1962. He then briefly taught French at UF prior to being offered the job of foreign student advisor in which he served the university for 10 years, retiring as dean of international student affairs in 1973. Col. Farris passed away in 2001 at the age of 92. During his lifetime, he was married to Mary E. Farris and had six children: Christine Farris Edwards, Dr. Glenn J. Farris, Gregory P. Farris, James D. Farris, John M. Farris (deceased), and Mary S. Farris.
The University of Florida established the Colonel Glenn Farris Scholarship for Hispanic-Americans in honor of Col. Farris. During the 1960s he helped hundreds of recently exiled Cubans to enter the university and successfully pursue degrees. A group of Cuban-American UF graduates, now successful in business, the professions and in public life in Florida, initiated a fundraising effort to endow a scholarship fund in honor of Col. Farris. Annual interest from the Farris Scholarship Fund will be used to support awards to Hispanic-American students in the field of Latin American Studies at the University of Florida who have excelled in academics, who have demonstrated leadership skills and who are preparing for a career dealing with Latin American or Hispanic-American affairs.
Dr. Rafael and Mrs. J. Fe Padron de Angulo:
Dr. Rafael and Mrs. J. Fe Padron de Angulo were born in Cuba. Rafael was a circuit court judge in Santiago de Cuba, and Fe was a housewife. They had two sons and a daughter, Rafael, Raul and Lourdes. They were practicing Catholics.
In 1960, after Castro took over, Rafael was forced to retire from his judgeship by the Castro government. The family immigrated to the United States in January 1962, and in 1963, after a short stay in Pahokee and Miami, they moved to Gainesville so their oldest son (Rafael) could attend the university.
Dr. Rafael worked a summer at the University of Florida teaching Spanish. He suffered a stroke soon thereafter that left him paralyzed for many months. The couple found themselves in the dilemma of what to do to support their family. They opened a diner in their home for students, mainly Cuban and other Hispanics, looking for an inexpensive home-cooked meal. Soon afterwards, the diner became a popular place with students because they were not only treated to Fes excellent cooking, but they also found a home away from home. Students found a place to relax away from their studies and a place to establish and foster new friendships and camaraderie. The Angulos home, a place full of laughter and joy, became the hub of information for the Cuban community in Gainesville.
As the demand grew for more home-cooked meals, the Angulos moved to bigger houses. In 1965 they opened their home to young Cuban girls who were studying at the University. Their parents wanted them in a home where they could be properly chaperoned. At one point there were as many as eight young women living with the Angulo family. The ACU (a Catholic-Jesuit run student organization) bought a home in front of the Angulos residence. There, many young men found inexpensive housing with a Catholic identity, where they could live and celebrate their faith.
Many of the Cuban young ladies met their husbands at the Angulos Diner, also known as the Cuban fraternity FeKappaAngulo (a private joke among the students). In 1972 the Angulos opened a restaurant on the west side of Gainesville, named the Spanish House. It was sold in 1978, and they retired to Orlando to be with their eldest son and his family.
In Rafael, Fe and their children, the students also found friends who supported them in their time of crisis at a very young age. Rafael died in 1979 and Fe died in 1992. Their legacy is the same as the many Cuban families that came to the United States trying to live their lives in freedom. In the process they found themselves serving and giving to the many students who passed through their home during those many years in Gainesville.