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| The Gutierrez' Family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Gutierrez Family Tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gutierrez-Poucel-Oosthuysen family | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luis Emiliano Gutierrez-Poucel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We have had little contact with my Father's side of the family, except with his brother, my uncle Alfredo and Joachim his son, and recently with my cousin Maria Luisa. Photos: On the left, my mother (Martha Poucel), myself and my Father (Arnulfo Gutierrez). On the right, Lester, myself, Male, Ivan and Christopher. |
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| This page is under construction, hoping other family members will contribute with tales, photos and the like. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A little family bakcground (as I remember): | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Grandfather Alfredo: | |
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| His name was Alfredo Gutierrez Zamacona, from the state of Jalisco, a Colonel in the Mexican army, fighting for General Victoriano Huerta. (Hey, nobody is perfect!) He married Maria Luisa Gomez de la Torre in 1909. They had two boys (Alfredo and Arnulfo) and three girls (Maria Luisa, Ana and ???). He died relatively young. My uncle Alfredo remembers him as a little overweight and sanguine (his face was always red, and would get redder still when he got mad). He got along well with Alfredo, but my father would lock horns with him pretty often. | He is a civil engineer from the national university of Mexico, with a master's in engineering from MIT. He built, among other things, the "Insurgentes Condominium" in about 1950, a daring and bold design for the times. He lives in Garmisch, Partenkirchen since the 1950s, where he married sweet Anke and had two sons: My dear cousin and good friend, Joachim, and Misha, an enlightened academic form the University of Munchen. We are in the photo at our house in Leicester, England, where I was studying for my Ph.D. at the University in 1973. We are in the photo myself, Bethany, Anke Misha, Joachim and Alfredo. |
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| Grandmother Ana Luisa: | Arnulfo Gutierrez: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| My Grandmother was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She and her sister were orphans at an early age, thus adopted by a Polish couple named Petrov. He was a bell master hired by the Mexican church. When working on a bell in Guanajuato, he accidentally fell to his death. His wife remarried a wealthy Spaniard and the girls were converted to Catholicism. My grandmother was a devout catholic, having a private chapel in her house in the street of Hamburgo in the pink zone, Mexico City. She always reminded us that she had been so lucky to have been converted from Lutheran to catholic. She was very Germanic indeed! | He was an electric engineer from the national university of Mexico, and had a master's from Caltech in California. He was an inventor. I remember in the early 50s a toy car that would bump against a wall and reverse until it bumped against another obstacle and went forward, a hand fan, etc. He also designed a fast train in a vacuum tunnel going from Mexico City to Cuernavaca, betting that it would allow commuters to live in Cuernavaca while working in Mexico City. He died of asthma in 1972. There is my father in the photo with my half sisters and myself someplace I don't remember! |
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| Christopher, Ivan, Lester y Omar 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| See the Future of Transport: An essay by Popi & Luis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nachito, Francisco & Luis 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francisco Arnulfo & Leonardo 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Essay sent to the Economist for an international contest. We lost, but we had a lot fo fun doing it! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||