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Carmen Pilar Santos Cruz | |
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| Born | May 11, 1928 |
| Died | May 30, 1985 (aged 57) |
| Occupation | Educator |
Carmen Pilar Santos Cruz (11 May 1928-May 30, 1985) was a Puerto Rican educator.
Early and personal life
[edit]Carmen Pilar Santos Cruz and her twin brother Jesús Santos Cruz were born in the costal town of Ceiba on 11 May 1928 to Catalino Santos Figueroa and Isabel Cruz Gómez. Growing up, Carmen was known as Carmelita or Pilar. Her parents had 18 children, 13 of whom survived childhood. Carmen completed her elementary and high school studies in Yabucoa and Humacao. She identified strongly with Humacao, where she grew up. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
Carmen's family suffered multiple losses in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One brother, Luis Santos Cruz, drowned in 1949. Another brother, Domingo Santos Cruz, was a teacher who died on November 7, 1950, at age 24, while serving in the U.S. military during the Korean War. Her twin brother, Jesús, also served in the military and died shortly after, at age 23, on September 22, 1951. Her father, Catalino, died in a car accident in 1952.[1]
Santos Cruz met her husband, Pablo Dávila Escribano, at a dance of the American Legion of the El Recreo Urbanization of the Municipality of Humacao. Dávila Escribano was born in the town of San Lorenzo but raised in the Municipality of Humacao. He was a veteran (1951-1953) and an athlete. They married on 23 December 1956 and settled in Rio Piedras, San Juan, where she continued to work as an elementary school teacher. The couple had two children: Pablo R. Dávila Santos, an economist and bank manager, known by his family and closest friends as Pablito, and Pilar Del S. Dávila Santos, a biologist and professor with a doctorate in education, known by her family as Pilarcita. Santos Cruz later had grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Career
[edit]Santos Cruz began her career as a primary school teacher at the Regalada Rivera School in Humacao. At that time, she had the opportunity to offer a demonstration class on reading teaching led by Prof. Ángeles Pastor. On that occasion, she received a Certificate of Merit for her services in demonstration classes on reading teaching. She also worked in Río Piedras, San Juan at: the Second Unit School in Caimito, the Evaristo Ribera Chevremont Community School in Vista Hermosa, and the Juan B. Heike School in Altamesa (Santos Vda.de García de la Noceda, R., 1990). In 1973, she arrived at the Patagonia School, located at Bda Patagonia #50 Humacao, Puerto Rico, where she worked as a reading teacher, leaving behind a great variety of teaching materials that she prepared as a memory of that experience. She dedicated the last four years to teaching reading skills (Santos Vda. De García de la Noceda, 1990). In 1983, her last year of service, the 6th grade graduation ceremonies were dedicated to her.
Santos Cruz died on May 30, 1985 at the age of 57 from breast cancer.
Awards and recognition
[edit]Her teaching work was recognized by the Supervisory Circle of the Río Piedras District. Among the recognitions given to Santos Cruz for distinguished services to the educational system are the following:
- Diploma of honor from Mrs. Asunción Alicea, Superintendent of the Humacao School
- Plaque conferred as Exemplary Teacher of the Patagonia School
- Certificate of Women's Week, 1980
- Certificate of Merit from the Institute of Culture
- Certificate of Recognition awarded by Dr. María Socorro Lacott, Secretary of Instruction, upon her retirement as an educator
- Plaque of recognition from her colleagues for the efficient work rendered.
Mayor Ramón Vega Sosa invited Santos Cruz's family to the last day of the celebration of the Patron Saint Festivities, on December 22, 1991, with the purpose of giving her public recognition “for the great contribution that she has given to the people of Humacao as a person, individually and as a family. For her great moral solvency, her professionalism, her Christian faith, as well as her civic and cultural contribution for the pride of all Humacaeños and Puerto Ricans in general” (Letter from Brother Ramón Vega Sosa, November 5, 1991).
On December 11, 1992, Patagonia Elementary School was renamed the Carmen Pilar Santos Cruz Elementary School. School Authorities, members of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, members of the Association of Absent Humacaeños (president María F. Carrillo), students, parents and the general public met at the Patagonia Elementary School for the official renaming (El Oriental Newspaper, 1992).
In the 1992-1993 academic year, the Santos Cruz and Dávila Santos familes presented the first Carmen P. Santos medal to a student with academic excellence and commendable human values.
References
[edit]- ^ J.R., Reguero (1995-05-29). "Golpes de dolor de una familia". Periódico el Nuevo Día.
Bibliography
[edit]- Anales (1993). La Escuela Elemental de Patagonia en Humacao lleva el nombre de la primera maestra del plantel: Carmen Pilar Santos. Revista de la Asociación de Humacaeños Ausente. Año 1993 17 pp 1-6, San Juan, PR.
- Carta del Hno. Ramón Vega Sosa, 5 de noviembre de 1991
- Dávila Santos, P.S. (2020). Carmen Pilar Santos. Presentación Power Point Carmen Pilar Santos, 18 de abril de 2020.
- Periódico El Oriental (1992, 23 de diciembre). Honran maestra de Patagonia. El Oriental, p-17
- Santos Vda.de García de la Noceda, R. (7 de mayo de 1990). Semblanza dedicada a la profesora Carmen P. Santos de Dávila (Q.E.P.D.).
- Santos Vda.de García de la Noceda, R. (5 de mayo de 1992). Semblanza a la profesora Carmen P. Santos Cruz (Q.E.P.D.).