At least 500 people, in various states of undress, participated in the sixth edition of the World Naked Bike Ride

More than two decades ago, soon after he decided that teaching was to be his vocation, American School General Director David McGrath sent off applications to 63 schools in Central and South America.

Promoting citizen participation in the legislative process is a key part of the work of Jalisco Congressman Pedro Kumamoto, the 26-year-old college graduate who stunned the political establishment with his landmark victory as an independent candidate in the June 2015 state elections.

A group of 16 eighth-grade students from the American School Foundation of Guadalajara visited 26-year-old independent Congressman Pedro Kumamoto in the Jalisco State Legislature last week to tell him all about their idea for new legislation.

In 1991, when Father Charles Hood of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church told Debbie Matthew, a young musician from Texas who had already lived in Guadalajara for 11 years, that he wanted to start a choir at the English speaking church and that she should direct it, her reply came quickly.

In this monthly series, the Guadalajara Reporter republishes a few of the headlines from its May editions 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago.