Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is an all-male, Catholic, Jesuit, college-preparatory school founded by the Society of Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1952. It has educated some of most influential figures of Puerto Rico, such as Ruben Berrios and Raúl Juliá. It is considered a college prep school since all of its graduates go on to colleges, outside Puerto Rico in half the cases, mainly in the continental United States, often at top-ranked colleges and universities such as Boston College, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Princeton University, Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.
Location
The school was originally located in Santurce, but the Jesuits moved it to its current location in Rio Piedras in 1956. Colegio San Ignacio resembles a small university campus as it has several buildings: two identical buildings consisting of classrooms, named San Luis Gonzaga (formerly "Building A") and San Francisco Javier (formerly "Building B); one building with a resource center on the first floor and a library on the second floor; the Padre Pedro Arrupe Building which houses classrooms and offices; the cafeteria building; "Building C" which houses the science classrooms and laboratories and a science and math resource center; the Complejo Cultural, a new state-of-the-art humanities building completed in the year 2004 which houses English, Spanish, music, drama, and oratory classrooms and an auditorium; the administration building which houses most of the administrative staff.
School mission
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola seeks to offer a superior, Catholic education in the Jesuit tradition to all young men who show aptitude, motivation, and their families' support, and so to serve society and announce the Kingdom of God.
School anthem
León de mi escudo/ marcial y rampante/ levanta los ojos/ y alumbra el sendero/ que brinda la vida/ tu pecho guerrero/ y avanza con paso/ triunfal adelante.
Ya tensas tu cuerpo/ de recio granito/ tu firme pisada/ levanta en la tierra/ redobles con ritmo/ de marcha de guerra/ que canta rugiente/ el clarÃn de tu grito.
Indomito lucha/ ¿quién puede arredarte?/ Verás que a tu paso/ por ambas orillas/ el fiero enemigo/ caerá de rodillas/ al brillo que irradia/ tu regio estandarte.
León de mi escudo/marcial y rampante/levanta los ojos/y alumbra el sendero/que brinda la vida/tu pecho guerrero/y avanza con paso/triunfal adelante!
Notable alumni
Politics
- Ruben Berrios Martinez, Class of 1957; President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, former Senator and gubernatorial candidate
- Rafael Cox Alomar, 2012 candidate for Resident Commissioner for the Popular Democratic Party.
- Fernando MartÃn GarcÃa, Executive President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, former Senator
- José Ramón Oyola, class of 1968, President of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank (1985â€"1986)
- Luis G. Rivera MarÃn, Class of 1978; Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (2009â€"2012), Executive Director, Puerto Rico Tourism Company (2012â€"present)
- Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl, Class of 1977; 2012 gubernatorial candidate for the Puerto Rican Workers' Party
Arts, education, & publicity
- Raúl Juliá, actor, class of 1957
- Eduardo Lalo, writer, photographer and filmmaker, class of 1977
- Armando Riesco, actor, class of 1995
- Alfredo De Quesada, actor, class of 1994
- Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, historian, author and dean: UPR General Studies Faculty
- Héctor Feliciano, journalist, author, professor, class of 1970
- Rafael Luis Bras, Provost of the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, historian, professor, academic administrator, former Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Family Affairs
Science & medicine
- Reinaldo Rampolla-Selles, class of 1992, medical co-director and transplant pulmonologist for Oschner Medical Center, Transplant Services in New Orleans, Louisiana
References
External links
- Official Website Colegio San Ignacio
