Mayagüez and its ties with the Dominican

I had no intention of writing a second part, on the genesis of this idea, but an impossible task to summarize in a few pages, what the name Mayagüez means as a city, for the Dominican Republic. Due to an involuntary error, the name of the illustrious Eugenio María de Hostos, teacher of teachers, collaborator of Salomé Ureña de Henríquez at the Escuela Normal de Señoritas, was omitted. He revolutionized Dominican teaching, with solid principles called Hostonian Morals, with frontal opposition from the Catholic Church. Commissioned by the Government, he redesigned Creole education and founded the Normal School of Santo Domingo and Santiago, and graduated its first teachers in that discipline, as a unified system. Hostos died in Santo Domingo on August 11, 1903 with an enormous patriotic work, of unity of the Antilles, of the entire America and promoter of sociology in these Latin American lands. An illustrious Mayagüez inserted in the national marrow that marked us forever. More than 40 years later, the first Dominicans go to study at the then College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts: George Arzeno Brugal, Rubén Cortina, Rafael Berrido Camilo, Socias, Welter Messina and other pioneers who opened the door to hundreds of Dominicans who emigrated as students. to Mayagüez, with privileged tuition payment conditions and other services that include student medical insurance. With the Dominican in our hearts, we inserted ourselves and positively influenced the society of that Mayagüez of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. After the fall of Trujillo and the opening of the country, many families found at the University of Puerto Rico and its Mayagüez campus, then CAAM, spaces for their children to continue their professional studies in a first-class center. A secretary of Public Works, a minister of Foreign Affairs, two CDE administrators, a member of the Monetary Board, an administrator of the National Housing Bank, a director of Infratur, executive officials at the Central Bank, directors of dozens of decision-making bodies of the State, a founding rector of two universities, many outstanding in the Creole political rainbow and many more that would make this list very long, are part of the “menu” of positions achieved by that unrepeatable generation of Dominican graduates from Mayagüez. Wherever they have been established they have been successful. In the private sector, there are innumerable business and commercial successes of these graduates, in the entire labor and academic scale, which have had a positive influence, contributing to building the dynamism and strength of the Dominican economy. In banking, insurance, in agriculture, in industry. Today the society that brings together these graduates, after active action, embarks on a path to a reunion with their alma mater, tries to reweave the silver cord that unites us to it and fosters academic agreements and much more, with Dominican universities that show interest On it. In addition to academics, we will assume an active role, in two ways, to stimulate work agreements, open commercial spaces of interest in both countries. The debt with Mayagüez is great and we are looking for ways to settle it honorably.