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La Escuela Normal Juan Demostenes Arosemena

Escuela Normal

The President of Panama, Dr. Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, was elected June 7, 1936, in an election that were labeled as nothing transparent. The opposition led by Domingo Diaz Arosemena shouted that there was electoral fraud. However, on 1 October of that year, he assumed the highest office in the country, with due recognition of the Grand National Election Board.
Since its inception the Arosemena administration was showing signs of strong leadership, progressive and patriotic as it was headed by a person of great objectivity in decision making, solid academic training bases, with strong character and vocation for the great works for the history.
Innovative as few, came into the open roads and thus began to germinate the idea of shifting the Institutores Normal School, who was in the neighborhood of the exhibition of this city, Santiago de Veraguas, in the heart of inside the country.
The total land area was of 42,500 square meters, of which 3921 were used for bedrooms, 4123 Education Building, 870 for houses and deputy director, 518 devoted to hallways.
The ability for students was 1200 (12 Venezuelan girls started in this center, as well as 10 Fellows funded by the newspaper El Panama America and one by the Miramar Club de Panama).
As the original core were appointed on May 25 to 30 teachers, the director Agustin Alvarez Villablanca, Chilean and as deputy to Mrs. Agnes Fabrega Prieto, a native of Santiago de Veraguas and prominent national educator.
The original enrollment was 864 boys and girls, of which 536 were girls and 91 boys inside. As external scored 113 women and 124 men.
Source: alonsoroy.com