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Those who this morning crossed the streets of Murcia with Fernanda Pozo will certainly have noticed her.
This 94-year-old woman, forced to move in a wheelchair, was walking with her relatives today, displaying the band of scholarship that distinguished her as a recent chemistry graduate.
The fact, at his age, is already striking enough, but still much more so if we take into account that Fernanda Pozo Carreño had begun his studies in 1941, just the year in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University Of Murcia, 75 years ago.
During the decade of the 40, Fernanda Pozo studied in that University of Murcia recoleta and almost familiar, reduced only to the Campus of the Favor in which only the building of the Faculty of Law existed and, later, the brand new building that hosted The Faculty of Sciences.
In that incipient Campus Fernanda spent "some of the best years of my life", studying some studies in which women were frankly the exception: "I had four companions in my career, they were the only women in the faculty."
And having a cadre of "splendid" professors, among whom the great figure of Loustau, who had been Rector of the University of Murcia until recently, stood out: "Loustau was an exceptional being, very human and a great teacher, something Out of series".
The secret of the successful completion of this company after so much time is clear: "desire to learn," she says convinced, "when these exist, there are no barriers," he said, while welcoming that now women have been Incorporated with so much force to the University and demonstrated their value and "their desire to learn new things".
Personal circumstances caused him to abandon his career in 1949, when he had only one subject left to pass, and it was now, 75 years later, that he was finally able to see that dream come to an end, since this morning, Rector José Orihuela , Has given her a degree in Chemistry A at Convalecencia, the seat of the Rector's Office, in an act attended by numerous academic authorities and in which she has been accompanied by her children and grandchildren.
The Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the UMU, Pedro Lozano Rodríguez, has had words of praise for this new titled, who has demonstrated commitment, and that "went to class at a time when the presence of women was not precisely Very abundant. "
The Dean has highlighted the role of the Faculty of Sciences in Murcia society during these three quarters of a century, and has assured that "the Faculty of Sciences has contributed development to the Region throughout its history," and "has always tried Train students to bring solutions to the needs of this land. "
When Fernanda Pozo received the edge of her promotion, with the photographs of her colleagues and teachers, the insignia of her faculty and the University of Murcia, the scholarship, and the title that credits her as a new graduate in Chemistry A, attendees They burst into loud applause.
It was the recognition of the tenacity of a very special woman when 75 years have passed since she first went through the doors of that university.
A granddaughter of the new title thanked in her name to the institution the "to have made an illusion reality, and to you, grandmother, thank you for never losing the illusion".
The event was closed by the Rector José Orihuela, who said that "today a degree is awarded to a graduate, who in a certain way already was many years ago," and stated that, "despite the time elapsed, Even we have been in time to realize that old dream ".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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