Felix Rolon Laureano, signed 9 Oct 1934,
nephew of Digna Laureano Guardiola


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Autograph Book

Names from the Autograph Book of Carmen Socorro Rivera Arroyo, my mother, who was born in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1920.

She attended schools in Old San Juan and these books have a collection of some of her friends during the 1933 - 1938 period.

 
Signers
(Firmantes)
Autograph Date
(Fecha de Autografo)
Barreto, Luz Maria *N/G
Campos, Marina 10 May 1935
Contreras, Carmen *N/G
Cuebas, Judith *N/G
Emerson, Teddy 13 Dec 1934
Fagundo, Carmen R. 20 Sep 1933
Fernandez, Maria Luisa 27 Sep 1934
Fernandez, Josefina *N/G

Agapito "Jr." Lopez Diaz
(b.1916 d. 1978)
my mother's future husband and my dear father.

School History

Name: Carmen Socorro Rivera
School: Roman Baldorioty de Castro    
Principal: Josefa Cuadrado
Graduating Teacher: Mrs. Rodriguez
Date of Graduation: June 26, 1935

 

Dimas Garcia?, student, lived
in the Morro Castle lighthouse

Ramon "Mon" Perez

Signers
(Firmantes)
Autograph Date
(Fecha de Autografo)
Ferreras, Carmen Emilia 13 May 1937
Guiot, Lydia 12 Nov 1934
Hernandez, Rafael 18 Apr 1935
Lamadrid, Belen H. 20 Jul 1933
Leon, Maria 20 Dec 1934
Lopez, Sylvia 3 Jun 1935
Maldonado, Petra 11 Dec 1934
Melecio, Aida 20 Feb 1934
Mirabal, Luz M. *N/G
Negron, Ester *N/G
Padilla, M. *N/G

Eddie Lopez

Signers
(Firmantes)
Autograph Date
(Fecha de Autografo)
Remarks
(Notas)
Aguilar, Ana

12 Oct 34

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Baez, Monserrate

13 Dec 1934

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Barrios, Belen C.

*N/G

Teacher, Abraham Lincoln School2
Caballero, Nydia E.

3 Jun 1935

Later married musician Pablo Elvira
Carrero, Elisaura

15 May 1935

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Corcelles, Olga

*N/G

Student and descendant of the owners of
the Corcelles movie theater in Puerto Nuevo
Cottes, Mary

*N/G

Student
De Jesus, Carmen M.

*N/G

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Escartin, Lydia

*N/G

Student
Faura, Olga

31 May 1935

Student
Fernandez, Carmen R.

12 Oct 1934

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Franco Laureano, Amparo

9 Oct 1934

Student, daughter of Digna Laureano
Guardiola and Candido Franco
Gil de Lamadrid, Gladys

14 Jun 1937

Cousin of Rafael Gil de Lamadrid,
reporter of El Imparcial newspaper
Gonzalez, Ester

27 May 1937

Lived in Calle Loíza #215, Santurce
Guardiola, Domitila

16 Jun 1937

Niece of Digna Laureano Guardiola
Lalaite?, Angel

9 Aug 1937

Student, Ramirez Business College3,
lived in Calle Fortaleza, Old San Juan
Laureano Guardiola, Digna

26 Mar 1938

Married to Candido Franco Arroyo,
both originally from Bo. Rio Lajas, Toa Alta
Lopez, Francisco

23 Dec 1934

Lived in Edificio Borinquen,
Caleta Las Monjas, Old San Juan
Lopez, Hilda

29 Jul 1936

Lived in Calle Sol 54 Altos, Old San Juan
Lopez, Pedro V.

*N/G

Canóvanas, PR
Mendez, Maria Cristina

19 Dec 1934

Embroidering teacher
Mojica, Jenny

26 Sep 1934

Later married Perfecto Rolon
Montilla, Carlos Raul

*N/G

Lived in Calle San Sebastián #42,
Old San Juan
Padilla, Margarita

*N/G

Student
Perez, Neida L.

12 Oct 1934

Student 8th grade
Baldorioty de Castro School1
Ramos, Edith

11 Aug 1937

Later married Federico? Godoy
Rijos, Lucia

*N/G

Student
Robles, Gloria

12 Aug 1937

Student, Ramirez Business College3
Robles, Milagros

*N/G

Student, lived in Calle San Sebastián #52,
Old San Juan
Sainz, Martha

3 Jun 1935

Later worked for Autoridad de
Energia Electrica (AEE)
Salgado, Rosa M. "Baby"

17 Oct 1934

 
Sanabria, Rafaela

11 Dec 1934

Descendant of a musical family
Santana, Victoria

18 Dec 1934

 
Santiago, Juan

*N/G

 
Sosa, Aida

3 Jun 1935

Her father had a military career.
Soto, Joe "Jr."

*N/G

 
Toro, Carmen

12 May 37

 
Torres, Alicia

11 Dec 1934

 
Vera, Jose "Jr."

*N/G

 

 
Signers
(Firmantes)
Autograph Date
(Fecha de Autografo)
Pagan, Emma *N/G
Pagan, Rafael *N/G
Pena, Ruth *N/G
Ramirez, Nydia R. 4 Aug 1937
Rios, Alicia 6 Dec 1936
Rodriguez, Edith C. 23 Oct 1933
Rolon, Ana L. 8 Aug 1938
Rolon, Maria M. 8 Aug 1938

Rafael Rolon

Author's Notes

*N/G =  Not given but it was between 1933 1938.
1 =  Baldorioty de Castro School

1918-Se concluye la obra de la Escuela Graduada y Técnica Román Baldorioty de Castro, fue equipada para el otoño de este año por el municipio de San Juan. Localizado en la calle Tanca, donde antiguamente estuvo el Monasterio Franciscano por largos años y a finales del Siglo XIX se utilizo para cuartel del regimiento español, hasta el 1898. (Tomado de San Juan de PR Guía Histórica 1508-1993, Jaime Monge Rivera, 1995)


2 =  Abraham Lincoln School

1924-Se construye la escuela elemental Abraham Lincoln. En el mismo lugar donde anteriormente estuvo hace más de cien años el Polvorín de San Sebastián. A principios del siglo esta escuela estuvo localizada en la Calle Fortaleza, hasta este año. (Tomado de San Juan de PR Guía Histórica 1508-1993, Jaime Monge Rivera, 1995)


3=  Ramirez Business College
     (presently known as Ramirez College of Business and Technology, Inc.)

Founded in 1923 and originally located in Calle Fortaleza on the second floor of a building across from Plaza Provision. Owned and operated by a married couple. They offered short secretarial and business courses. My mother remembers the wife's name as Acasia Ramirez. She gave typing lessons and had a daughter named Zoe Ramirez.

Through an interview with present (August, 2001) Vice-President Evelyn Mercado de Ruiz, we further learned that aside from the San Juan Campus they now have a Mayagüez Learning site. According to Mrs. Mercado, a well-known educator, Don Esteban Ramirez, founded this college and it is the first and oldest private college of its type in Puerto Rico. The college is presently located on Ponce de Leon Avenue #70, Hato Rey, PR. Their mailing address is P. O. Box 195460, San Juan, PR 00919-5460. Telephone: 763-3120. (Our sincere thanks to Carmen L. Santos Colon who conducted this interview for us.)

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