Timeline
This English archive currently offers 23 articles: six by OMC, seven by OMO, five by OJMC, and five by Valeria Castillo. More translations will be added progressively; the complete collection remains available in the Spanish archive.
Timeline of LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES
Key moments in his education, family life, journalism, thought on municipal government, university teaching, and notarial practice. This timeline includes only documented facts and will expand as research in the archive progresses.
Born on March 31.
He attends the Philosophy and Letters baccalaureate at the National Preparatory School in San Ildefonso. He expressly acknowledges Antonio Caso's teaching as an influence on his education.
He writes the fifteen poems that decades later will make up the family volume Eran sólo tus ojos.
He serves as secretary of the Central Board of Mexican Catholic Action; he is elected to the Central Committee of the Catholic Association of Mexican Youth and heads its Study Section.
He publishes in Novedades “The Weakening of Authority,” the earliest article with a complete date preserved in the family archive, and prepares “The Church's Doctrine on Education” for the Fifth General Assembly of the ACJM.
He earns his law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico with the thesis La restauración municipal en México. That year he also joins the first National Council of Juventud Cívica Nacional.
He marries Teresa Casanueva Moreno in a civil ceremony on May 11 and a religious ceremony on May 12. He publishes a series of articles on municipal government, including “A Municipalist Formula” and “For an Authentic Municipality.”
He publishes “Bridges” in Rumbo Nuevo of Villahermosa, Tabasco. That same year there appear in Novedades the two installments of “Dialogue of the Clouds.”
He participates in the Fourth Inter-American Municipal Historical Congress, held in Buenos Aires, and continues the journey to Montevideo.
He joins the essay jury of the Sor Juana competition organized by Novedades and publishes seven monthly installments of “Literary Chords” in Carnet Musical, a magazine associated with XELA Radio Metropolitana.
He publishes “Truth of the Alma Mater,” an autobiographical evocation of his former school and his “early orphanhood.”
He receives the Club España Journalism Prize for May for “Divining South America,” published in Viajes.
He receives a second Club España Journalism Prize, for August, for “Hispanic Humanism,” published in Novedades.
His work also circulates in Ábside, a Catholic and literary magazine, through republications, further documentary witnesses, and the contribution “Vasconcelian Readings: Don Evaristo Madero.”
He publishes a series on corporate communications and begins teaching Sociology of Work at the Universidad Iberoamericana's School of Industrial Relations, where he remains until 1960.
Vanguardia of Santiago Ixcuintla republishes “The Municipality, Talisman of Youth” in two issues under the title “University of Citizenship.”
He publishes “The Problem of the Countryside” in Vanguardia and begins his teaching career in UNAM's academic structure of Psychology.
He publishes at least seventeen contributions located in the magazine Ingeniería Civil.
He receives his appointment to Notarial Office No. 6 of the District of Tlalnepantla, a position he will hold for more than forty-six years.
He participates in the academic group strengthening the Occupational Psychology specialty at UNAM; that work is reflected in the 1971 curriculum.
The Psychology College becomes a Faculty. His teaching continues within UNAM's new Faculty of Psychology.
He concludes a thirty-five-year teaching career at UNAM.
Notarial Office No. 6 is renumbered as Notarial Office No. 17 of the State of Mexico, based in Tlalnepantla. He retains the appointment.
The Faculty of Psychology collectively recognizes his career alongside those of other professors. That year the family gathers in Eran sólo tus ojos the fifteen poems dedicated to Teresa Casanueva Moreno.
He dies on October 5, aged ninety-four. On October 31 his appointment is declared ended and Notarial Office No. 17 vacant.
The timeline draws on academic documents, periodicals, official gazettes, civil records, photographs, family testimony, and materials preserved in the archive of LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES.
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