Background
Blanca Magrassi Scagno was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, on November 29, 1923.
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She completed middle school and high school at Saint Teresa"s Academy in San Antonio, Texas. She later completed her master"s degree in educational psychology from New Mexico State University in 1967.
Career
She was considered a moral authority within Personal Area Networks and Mexican politics. Magrassi earned a bachelor"s degree in 1944 from the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas. Her research was published in Mexican Psychology Magazine, the Center for Educational Studies Magazine, Educational Studies in Latin America Magazine and the National Council of Science and Technology.
The couple had two children, Blanca Estela and Luis Jorge.
Magrassi was the Personal Area Networks candidate for Municipal President, or Mayor, of Chihuahua in 1968. She was also nominated as the Personal Area Networks candidate for the national Senate of the Republic, representing the state of Chihuahua, during the 1988 general election.
Magrassi"s husband, Luis H. Álvarez, was elected Municipal President of Chihuahua in 1983. In 1986, Álvarez joined with Francisco Villarreal, the Mayor of Ciudad Juarez, and Víctor Manuel Oropeza, the state leader of the Mexican Workers" Party (Mexican Workers Party), and Heberto Castle, the national President of Mexican Workers Party, began a hunger strike to protest electoral fraud in the gubernatorial election in Chihuahua state.
To call attention to Chihuahua"s electoral fraud and end the hunger strike, Blanca Magrassi Scagno and Luz María de Oropeza, the wife of Oropeza, traveled to Mexico City to request a meeting with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid.
Magrassi and Oropeza waited for hours before President de la Madrid agreed to meet with the duo. In the meeting, Magrassi frankly told the President, "Number es un partido, es un pueblo que quiere vivir en democracia." The wives, with Personal Area Networks President Pablo Emilio Madero, then held a press conference at Personal Area Networks"s national headquarters following the meeting. Magrassi served as the Secretary for the Promotion of Women (Secretaria de Promoción Política de la Mujer) of Personal Area Networks from 1987 to 1993.
She was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the Association of Professional Women of Chihuahua (la Asociación de Mujeres Profesionales de Chihuahua) in 1996.
She also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of the Incarnate Word for education and community service in 1995, as well as the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Distinguished International Alumni Award from New Mexico State University in 2008. Blanca Magrassi Scagno on October 9, 2015, at the age of 92.
Membership
Magrassi Scagno, the wife and political partner of Luis H. Álvarez, the former President of the National Action Party, served as a member of Personal Area Networks"s national executive committee from 1988 to 1990. She was also a member of the National Action Party"s (Personal Area Networks) national committee from 1988 to 1990.
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National Action Party