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ONE HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS AGO OUR SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED AND, WITH IT, A NEW SPIRIT BORN: THE BELEN SPIRIT.
IT HAS PROVEN TO BE THE LIGHT AND NOURISHMENT OF THOSE WHO LIVE IT. IT HAS GIVEN TO THE AMERICAS GENERATIONS OF CATHOUt LEADffiS.
BELEN IS PROUD OF ITS MEN, OF ITS TRADITION.
THESE PAGES TRY TO GIVE AN OVERALL VIEW OF BELEN'S MEN AT WORK IN EARNING A DEEP CATHOUC EDUCATION AND LEARNING THE SPIRIT WE INHERITED: THE IGNA TIAN WAY OF LIFE.
TO THE FACULTY OF BELEN, PAST AND PRESENT.
IN APPRECIATION OF THE MANY YEARS OF DEVOTION TO THEIR CHOSEN TASK OF FORMING CATHOUC LEADERS. WE DEDICATE THIS ANNUAL.
THROUGH THEIR EFFORTS. OUR YOUNG MEN HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD. DETERMINED AND CAPABLE. WE WHO TODAY BENEFIT FROM THEIR WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE WILL NEVER FORGET.
THE 1964 BELEN IS OUR TRIBUTE TO THESE MEN. OUR TEACHERS.
REV. LUIS RIPOLL, SJ ., Rector Chemistry
REV. CEFERINO RUIZ, SJ ., Counselor Religion, French
/ REV. JESUS M. NUEVO, S.J., Principal
/ / REV. ANDRES RUISANCHEZ, s. J ., Prefect Religion, Latin Latin
A c u L T y
RAFAEL CUT IE
Belen 3.4 Soccer. baseball Economics
ORLANDO ES PIN
Belen 1.2.3.4. Honors Socality. Literary Academy Soccer History
IGNACIO DULZAIDES
Belen 1.2.3.4 Literary Academy. soccer Civil Engineering.
AUGUSTIN ESPINEL
Belen 4
Business Administration.
CARLOS F. ROCHA
Belen- 1, 2, 3,4; Medicine
GUILLERMO GUIM
Belen- 1, 2, 3,4; Yearbook Fraternity, Football Civil Engineering.
JAVIER HERNANDEZ Central C.- 2; Belen- 1,3,4; Cuban Academy, Football; Engineering.
HERIBERTO HERNANDEZ Maristas- 1,2,3, Belen- 4; Tennis; Aeronautical Engineer.
RAFAEL HERNANDEZ
Maristas-1,2,3; Belen-4; JEC, Honors; Basketball, Engineering
MANUEL MARTINEZ
La Salle-1,2, Belen-3,4; Sodality, Redaction Acad.; Swimming, Medicine.
JORGE INGUANZO Hialeah H.S.-1,2,3; Belen 4. A.c.u. Architecture.
OSCAR MENDEZ 1, 2, 3, 4; Medicine.
JAVIER MIY ARES
San Ignacio- 2, Belen-1,3,4
Sodality. Literary Acad •• Basketball, Sociology
IVAN NAVARRO
Inst. Cienfuegos-1,2,3
Belen- 4. Volleyball Medicine
ALBERTO MORALES
Belen- 1,2,3,4
Sodality, Football Honors, Economics
MAX OCHOA
Others- 1,2, Belen-3,4
Soccer, Baseball Engineering
MATEO PEREZ
Belen- 1,2,3,4; Honors, Sodality, Soccer; Electrical Engineering.
IGNACIO PRADO
Belen- 1, 2, 3,4; Honors; Basketball; Chernical Engineering.
CARLOS PINO
Dolores- 1; Belen- 2,3,4; Sodality, Cuban Academy; Honors, Economics.
JUAN PUENTES
Belen- 1,2,3,4; Sodality, Literary Acad.; Baseball; Engineering.
HUMBERTO RAVELO
Dolores- 1, Belen- 2,3,4; Sodality, Literary Acad. Honors; Medicine.
RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ
Maristas-1, 2, 3; Belen- 4; Softball; Mechanical Engineering.
MARIO REDONDO
Belen-2,3,4; Sodality, Cuban Acad.; Business Administration.
JORGE RODRIGUEZ
Belen- 4; Honors; Basketball; Engine.ering.
Belen-1,2,3,4; Choir, volleyball; .Electronic Engineering.
JORGE WEHBY
La Salle-1,2; Belen-3,4; Sodality, track & field; Architectural Engineering.
If one has to define a Sodality, it is quite proper to say that it is an army, an army of men ready to fulfill God's will at any moment and at any risk.
Seventy five years ago a Sodality was founded in Belen which has given dozens of Catholic leaders to our nations. Now it is working with Cuban youth in a desire to form better leaders and better Catholics. With a hundred sacrifices our Sodality is going ahead, progressing rapidly. It is offering a spirit to live by, a way of life to every youth who desires higher ideals.
Members of the Sodality.
An Academy in session.
Eh? Pero tam bien tiene Kindergarten?
No viejo; estos son los fines de nuestro barrio, que los por la manana se reunen en el Colegio para sus clases de catecismo. Los profesores son los mismos alumnos del Colegio, y las aulas las que utilizamos durante toda la semana.
En nuestro patio juegan; en nuestro sal6n oyen la Misa sabatina de la Congregaci6n.
Son en una palabra belemitas del futuro muchos de ellos y todos esperamos reciban por medio del Catecismo que dirige la Congregaci6n, el mensaje de Cristo a los hombres de buena voluntad.
During the last twenty years, VINCAM has been an encouraging message from High.
First in Havana, now in exile, VINCAM has intended to continue its social and apostolic task.
Humberto Ravelo, Carlos Pino, Luis Gonzalez, Francisco Perez, Carlos Garcia, under the supervising of Rev. Edward s. Dunn, s. J., took charge of publishing VIMCAM this year.
Through the education and moral stature instilled by the Jesuits of this famous institution, Colegio del Belfn, many young men have risen to positions of respect and moral obligation, fully prepared to meet the responsibilities thus engendered.
These men throughout the past and present century, was founded in 1854 and seized by communists in 1961), have been found in all facets of social and religious life in Cuba and the world.
One of these men, an attendant of this school from 1933 to 1938, is now a Jesuit and Provincial for the antilles; a member of the same organization which has dedicated its life to the welfare and education of youth throughout the world.
Befoge being appointed Provincial, he elfilled the jesuit role, for he was a counselor, that most respected position, a friend of the student body of first in Havana, then in our exile in Miami, Fla.
Our Editor with the Faculty Advisor. Copy, trying to figure something worthwhile to say.
EDITOR ••• 1 .; Mario Davalos
LAYOUT •••• Guillermo Guim
Rene Loy0la
Roberto
Orlando Espin
Stephen Spillman PHOTO
Jorge Guim
Seniors are taught the principles of Sociology.
R.P. Jose Rubinos Ramos, S.J.
Naci6 en la Coruna en 1898. Murio desterrado en Miami en 1963.
Su vida se sehalo por estos grandes acontecimientos: su entrada en la Compaii'ia de Jesus en 1915 en Carrion de los Condes; su ordenacion sacerdotal en Bogota, en 1926; sus ultimos votos religiosos en Salamanca en 1929.
Autor de innumerables libros, alcanzo renombre mundial por su obra "Covadonga ", poema epico que han llamado los crfticos la "Illiada del Cristianismo".
Belen se homo con su magisterio desde 1930 hasta 1961, :I;o de la destrucci6'n de Cuba. En Miami, el pequeiio pero viejo Belen lo cuido como
"" joya preciosa hasta que Dios le llevo junto a Si.
"En el transite de Jose Rubinos" leyo el Dr. Jose I. Lasaga junto a su tumba fresca:
Gaitero Jose Rubinos
cubano de voz galaica
juglar de Santa Marfa
sabio con alma de nacar!
Quede en silencio la lira, frene sus cuerdas el arpa; , cante la guitarra nuestra una elegia de gaita. En la iglesia del recuerdo hay que tapar las
ya no hay poetas que ensenen, ya no hay maestros que canten. La clas ya termin6, pero esta vez sin campanas, o con campanas que suenan, mas solo las oye el alma. La virgen de las Cantigas lo ha cubierto con su capa mientras un angel gaitero iniciaba unas folidas. Y en el libro de la vida en pagina de oro y ambar. se puso la ultimo estrofa de una cronica rimada. Herido de mal de ausencia quiso morir en su cama, pero en el lar de Belen la puerta estaba cerrada, clavada con garfios rojos, de veneno, sangre y lava. Y en el frio del exilic busc6 hallar calor de casa, y en las aguas del Byscaine oir las r!as de su Espaila. y en la noche floridena ver las estrellas cubanas. Maestro Jose Rubinos, gaitero de la esperanza, cuantos sedientos de fe iban a beber tus aguas! Consolador de la noche, Profeta de la alborada! Cuando volvamos a Cuba naderan tres rosas blancas: una en tu catedra rota, una en tu ara profanada y una en la tierra sin nombres donde tus manos descansan: tus manos bendecidoras que al ensenar abrazaban! Padre y Maestro Robinos, juglar de robles y palmas, gaitero da mina terra da miii'a terra cubana!
Cuadro que preside el altar de nuestra capilla. Ful pintado por el alumno de decimo grado, Emilio Falero, reprod9ciendo la imagen de nuestra Senora de que presidia La Iglesia del Colegio en La Habana.
TO ALL WHO DO GOOD TO US FOR YOUR NAME'S SAKE, WE BEG YOU, 0 LORD: GRANT ETERNAL LIFE.
This is the daily prayer of the Society of Jesus for its benefactors. ,. On the following pages are the names of the benefactors of Belen, up to the time this Year Book was sent to the printer, March 1, 1964. We ask that you join us in our prayer for them.
MR. MANUEL ASPURU
MR. JONAS H. OTTENS
MRS. FLORENCE SETTER
MR. BERNARD MASTERSON
XAVIER UNIVERSITY
MSGR. WILLIAM BARRY
MR. JAMES N. MCARTHUR
MR. HARDY MATHESON
MR. WILFRED TWIST
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY
MR. JOHN L. RAFTERY
MR. RICARDO DIAZ ALBERTINI
EL GOZO BAKERIES
MR. GUILLERMO KOHL Y
MRS. GRACIELLA BACARDI
MR. ARMANDO LOPO
MR. JOSE GASH
ALIANZA INTERAMERICANA
MR. JOSE M. BOSCH
MRS. ENRIQUETA DE BOSCH
MRS. MARIA A. GELA T S
MRS. CARIDAD BOLIVAR DE BACARDI
EL DOMINO
MR. ALBERTO GARCIA TUNON
MR. JORGE BOSCH
MR. JACK GUITERAS
MR. NARCISO GELATS
hrough the efforts of Mrs. Virginia Torruella, founder af the Inter american Alliance, several scholartips were granted to Belen School from the J. N. McArthur F"oundation. Accompaning Mrs. Torruella Mrs. Arsenia Medina, who with the aid of her sister, Miss Rosario Medina, have been a constant help ) the school. We also want to thank Mrs. Graciella del Portillo de Zubizarreta for her help in seektg
Mr. Ricardo Brito
Mr. Ray Fagerty
Dr. B. Fernindez
Mr. Jorge de Ona
Campos Typewriter
Mrs. Gertrude Malaussena
Mr. J. Zach Miller III
Mr. Richard Sabella
Dr. Torrado
Mr. G. N. Pfeiffer
Dr. Arturo C. Ortiz
Mr. John Baxt
Mr. Maurice A.
Mrs. Conchita Morales
Mr. Robert J. Haller
Mr. Frank Catterson
Mrs. Catherine Blasena
Mr. J. F. Gadka
Mr. Edward J. Mottola
Mr. Edgardo Vasconi
Mr. Sal Fiore
Mrs. Argentina Mesa
Dr. Miguel Figueroa
Mrs. Edith de Lagueruela
Mrs. Frances B. Klingenberger
Mrs. Joseph
Mr. Lorenzo G. del Portillo
Mrs. Cheita A. Vda, de Pedroso
Mr. Manuel Gonz!ilez
Mrs. Ane Michaels
Mr. James J. Garry
Mrs. John Dorl
Mr. Jorge Born balier
Mr. Andres Morrell
Mr. G. Fantony
Mr. Evelio Govantes
Mr. A. M. Montero
Mrs. Lily Hildago de Conill
Mrs. M. Cabassa
Mr. Francisco Zayas
Mrs. Rosario G. T.
Dr. E. Munoz
Mr. Guillermo Garcia
Mrs. Rachael Barnes
Mrs. Ramona
Mr. Francisco Grovas
Mr. A. Balseiro
Mr. Ramos
Mr. Gabriel Balasquide
Mr. Rafael Arrieta
Mrs. R. s. Boggs
Mrs. Jean Rivera
Mrs. Urpiana de Ramos
Sr. Mario Ariet
Esteban Blanco
Wilfredo Blanco
Reginaldo Blanco
Antonio CampiD.a
Pablo Carreno
Gilberto Cepero
Antonio Crespo
Jose A. Cubeiias Peluzzo
Jorge Echenique
Oscar Espin
Fernando Foyo
I. Garcia-Bengochea
Francisco Garcia- Bengochea
Amado Garcia Fournier
Jack Guiteras
I orge Martinez
Lucas Lamadrid
Carlos Maruri
Fernando
Eduardo Morales
Alberto Montero
Mario Munoz Bustamante
Jorge Munoz Bustamante
Carlos Nunez
Francisco Perez Vich
Josf Rovira
Eugenio Santiago
Jose M. Santiago
Mardonia Santiago Garcia
Juan Jose Samiento
Jorge Sowers
Octavio Sust
Tamayo
Jorge Valera Acosta de Velasco
walterio v oigt
Juan Aleman
Marcelo Alonso
Manuel Alonso
Manuel Ant6n
Emilio Arango Nunez
I o'e L. Balbona
Sr. Jorge Luis Barinaga
Charles Barroso
Antonio Benitez
Ricardo Calvo
Carlos Curatas
Ernesto Fern,ndez Dalmau
Jorge I. Dominguez
Oscar Echevarria
Formoso
Juan Jose Garcia
Agustin Goytisolo
Alberto Hidalgo
J. Luis Jacquet
Jorge 7affitte
Jose Lopez
Maseda
Luis Parajon
Marcelino
Anibal Porta
Emiliano Prats
Bautista Ramil
Julio Ramirez
I Rodriguez
Omar Santamarina
Ignacio Silva
Silva
R. J. Smith
Smith
Solaun
Manuel
Jorge Sufirez- Marill
Rogelio de la Torre
Luis G.
Francisco del Valle
Luis Valls
Armando Acosta
Almeida
Alvare
Alberto Armas
Fernando Casado
Nicanor Diaz
Sr. Espino
Ignacio Espino
Luis
Hello Gimenez
Jorge Hern,ndez Miyares
Ignacio Lamas
Carlos Lamas
Casildo de la Moneda
Gonzalo
Pedro Portela
Gustavo Trujillo
Jorge Pfrez Haedo Urquiaga
Carlos del Valle
Silva Alvare
Ignacio
Jorge Capo
Antonio Bartlett
Lawrence Cal!away
Manolo Arvesu
Luis Santamarina
Laureano Garrote Peluzzo
Francisco Pujol
Alberto Suarez
Felipe Silva
Antonio Navarro
Josf A. Herrero
Jose Abalia
I orge Miranda
Andres Tria y
Jes6.s Alvarino Govantes
Armando Abay
Jose Ignacio Rivero
Francisco Basterrechea
Antonio L6pez
Carlos Muller
Javier Muller
Jose Alvarez
Antonio Abel-la
Victor
Luis Blanco
I ose D. Acosta
Graduation Mass.
"THE GRADUATION CLASS OF 1963 WISHES TO EXPRESS ITS SINCERE THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO MADE POSSffiLE OUR GRADUATION."
New Alumni
El Reverendo Padre Francisco Barbeito, s. J., durante de un cuarto de siglo uno de los principales educadores en el Colegio de Belen de la Habana.
Antes de la del 1961, el P. Barbeito durante algunos anos subdirector en la Habana de la Agrupaci6n Catblica. Universitaria.
En el exilio, el P. Barbeito sigue siendo subdirector de la Agrupaci6n y profesor de Espanol en Desde este curso, es ademas el Director de la Asociaci6n de Antiguos Alumnos del Colegio de Belen. lo sea por muchos anos.
we salute the
Congratulations and best wishes for your every success in the coming years. More power to you! Where do you go from here? College is your best friend. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Florida. These fine institutions of higher learning are located right in your own "front yard."
They offer golden opportunities because a college education is worth many more money in lifetime earnings than its cost.
Prepare for rewarding careers in fabulous Florida. No other state offers greater promise for action-minded, well-trained young people in the exciting years ahead.
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