FIU remembers Cuban national hero at annual breakfast

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Eli Vera/Contributing Writer

What better way to celebrate a Cuban national hero than with some cafe con leche and pastelitos?

In observance of Jose Marti’s birthday on Jan. 28, FIU commemorates the literary figure by hosting a breakfast for the Jose Marti Scholarship Fund.

The Fourteenth Annual Jose Marti Scholarship Fund Breakfast will allow students at BBC a morning filled with cultural enrichment, celebration and free food.

The annual breakfast celebration helps bring awareness to Marti’s accomplishments, as well as help fund the scholarship program.

“Free for the entire community, anyone can come and also donate if they want to,” said Mayra Exposito, member of the Jose Marti Breakfast Committee.

Every year outstanding undergraduate students attending BBC are awarded from $2 hundred to $1thousand at the scholarship breakfast.

This year, the event will be hosted by NBC6 reporter Laura Rodriguez. A Miami native, she started out as a weather anchor for Telemundo and worked her way up the ladder as a general assignment reporter at CBS58 in Milwaukee and then as a co-anchor for the Noticiero Telemundo in Wisconsin.

Her achievements in her career serve her as a role model to other students making an effort to get an education and make their dreams come true. Her participation at the Jose Marti Scholarship Breakfast brings motivations to future graduating students.

There will be scrambled eggs, Cuban toast, cafe con leche, ham croquettes and pastelitos. The breakfast is free to all attendees.

Jose Marti, a revolutionary, independent freedom fighter and poet, was famous for his literary work, including “La Niña de Guatemala,” “Los Zapaticos de Rosa” and “Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca.”

“Jose Marti was an idealist. He was able to see beyond the present,” said Raul Moncarz, professor emeritus at the College of Business.

His work will once again come alive with the collaboration of the students from the David Lawrence Jr. School. Students participating in this event range from K to eighth grade.

They will perform poetry, dance and sing the famous Cuban song, “Guantanamera.” Another participant at the breakfast will be keynote speaker Dr. Eduardo Lolo, Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Literatures at Kingsborough Community College.

This year, all participants had to answer the following question, “In spirit of Jose Marti, what are the main values to universal human rights and the definition of global citizenship?”

The event will take place on January 28 at the WUC ballroom from 8:15 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

“Until now, this date has always been respected, even if it lands on a weekend we would still celebrate it as a brunch,” said Moncarz. “We have received a lot of participation from the community and different units of the University.”

 

-bbc@fiusm.com

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