The first graduates of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University had not seen each other for half a century. Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University (Unphu)graduated in November 1971, until yesterday they managed to fulfill the promise of meeting once again in the center where they turned professional.
In an activity promoted by the house of higher studies itself, 15 of the 17 students who were inducted in 1971 They chatted with their former classmates and received recognition from the university, founded in 1966.
the current principal, Miguel Fiallo Calderonwho encouraged the holding of this meeting, stated that it produces “many emotions for everyone and has a high symbolic value for the life of Unphu, our alma mater.”
The academic expressed that “now we see these facilities (of the university) renovated, with new facilities, more technology and knowledge, but always being our home with open doors to receive us.”
“We have always said that we are a great family and this meeting is proof of that,” he said.
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Commitment fulfilled
On behalf of the graduates he gave a speech Gladys de Jesuswho graduated in Economics on November 19, 1971 and who also spoke to them on that occasion.
“That was a day of triumph, but it was also a day of sorrow, because these young people had survived five years of arduous university studies together and on that day they had to separate to meet their individual destinies. They said goodbye with a ‘we have to get together’ and each one took his own, “said the economist.
“It took them more than 50 years to achieve ‘the juntadera,’” said De Jesús, the first woman from the Dominican Republic to receive, in 1983, a doctorate in economics from a university in the United States of America.
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Gladys de Jesús said that one of the reasons for the graduates to meet was to honor the dedication and effort of the first rector of Unphu, Jose Antonio Caro Alvarez.
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They also dedicated the meeting to all the founding academic authorities, professors and students due to their “innovative spirit”.
