Jack Agüeros (September 2, 1934 â€" May 4, 2014) was an American
community activist, poet, writer, and translator, and the former
director of El Museo del Barrio.Jack Agüeros was born September 2,
1934, in New York City, and grew up in East Harlem. His parents,
Carmen Diaz and Joaquin Agüeros, had immigrated separately from
Puerto Rico to New York. Carmen worked for many years as a seamstress,
while Joaquin was in the merchant marine and also worked in
restaurants and factories. Agüeros attended Public School 72 (now the
Julia de Burgos Cultural Center) and then Benjamin Franklin High
School, East Harlem's first public high school, from which he
graduated in June 1952.After serving for four years in the United
States Air Force as a guided missile instructor, he attended Brooklyn
College on the G.I. Bill, intending to become an engineer. Inspired by
Bernard Grebanier, a charismatic professor of English, and his
lectures on Shakespeare, Agüeros began writing plays and poems, and
instead graduated with a B.A. in English literature and a minor in
speech and theatre.
community activist, poet, writer, and translator, and the former
director of El Museo del Barrio.Jack Agüeros was born September 2,
1934, in New York City, and grew up in East Harlem. His parents,
Carmen Diaz and Joaquin Agüeros, had immigrated separately from
Puerto Rico to New York. Carmen worked for many years as a seamstress,
while Joaquin was in the merchant marine and also worked in
restaurants and factories. Agüeros attended Public School 72 (now the
Julia de Burgos Cultural Center) and then Benjamin Franklin High
School, East Harlem's first public high school, from which he
graduated in June 1952.After serving for four years in the United
States Air Force as a guided missile instructor, he attended Brooklyn
College on the G.I. Bill, intending to become an engineer. Inspired by
Bernard Grebanier, a charismatic professor of English, and his
lectures on Shakespeare, Agüeros began writing plays and poems, and
instead graduated with a B.A. in English literature and a minor in
speech and theatre.
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