Vicente López – The military Naval Liceo “Admiral Guillermo Brown” (LNAB) commemorated the 78th anniversary of its creation with a ceremony held in the Plaza de Armas of the general Directorate of Education of the Navy.
Of the act, chaired by the Director General of Education of the Navy, Counter Admiral Juan Carlos Romay; The Deputy Chief of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces participated, Vice Admiral Marcelo Alejandro Dalle Nogare; The Head of the Liceos Division of the national Directorate of training of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel (Re) Claudio Testa and the Liceo Director, Captain Juan Carlos Marra.
In addition, the president of the Brownian National Institute, Admiral VGM (Re) Daniel Alberto Enrique Martin; María Cristina Brown, direct descendant of Admiral Guillermo Brown and the president of the Graduate Center of the Military Naval Liceo, Eduardo Zabalza.
Authorities of the Argentine Navy and the Argentine Army also attended the commemoration; Veterans of the Malvinas War; military, civil and teachers of the LNAB; cadets; alumni, including Dr. Alberto Cormillot; Family members and special guests.
After the intonation of the Argentine National Anthem, the director of the Institute, captain of the ship Juan Carlos Marra, in his speech he reviewed the origins of the Liceo, founded in 1946 by the captain of the ship Guillermo Plater, and evoked the words of the first director, pronounced in the inauguration of 1947, who encouraged the cadets to be formed in “a school of permanent sacrifice and work” Brown
He affirmed: “To those who today have to take the helm of this military Naval Lyceum, it is a source of pride to verify that, in the 78 years of life, it continues to fulfill those values for the general and concrete benefit of our country and our young people.”
Next, an address of the professor of history of the teaching staff and graduate of the 42nd promotion of the Naval Lyceum, Luis Fernando Furlán, who made a tour of the history and evolution of the institute, highlighting the formator and transformer of the Lyceum throughout these almost eight decades.
Professor Furlán stressed the historical context that motivated his creation, after the world wars, and highlighted the vision of the captain of Ship Plater, who conceived the Lyceum as a bridge between citizenship and the sea, with the aim of promoting a real maritime consciousness.
In that sense, Furlán emphasized the current need to value and protect the maritime resources of the country, inviting cadets to assume an active commitment to the nation and with the Brownian spirit, as citizens prepared to serve the homeland from their professions, spreading the naval legacy and love for the sea.
Then, the military chaplain of the Navy, presbyter Hernán Ezequiel Vigna, offered a religious invocation to bless the educational community.
The ceremony ended with the intonation of the song of the cadet and the march of the Navy, followed by the traditional parade of the cadet body.
First Naval Liceo in the country
The “Admiral Guillermo Brown” military high school was created on December 28, 1946 by Presidential Decree No. 22,892 and opened on April 17, 1947, at which time for the first time he opened the doors of his classrooms, becoming the first Naval Liceo created in our country.
His promoter was the Captain Guillermo Plater, who in turn was director of the Military Naval School. Plater was then director of the recently formed Naval Liceo that initially located in the old facilities of the Naval Military School in Río Santiago, where a large number of graduates were formed.
The mission assigned to him was, and remains, to form a set of young people fully prepared in the intellectual, naval and physical: with solid moral principles; that are able to project them to the bosom of society. With the feeling of a deep affection for the Navy, which, together with a clear concept of it and the sea, contributes to the training of the Naval Reserve personnel and create a solid maritime consciousness in the country.
His name is the legacy of one of the most brilliant and undisputed heroes of our national history: Admiral Guillermo Brown, who with his heroic feats contributed to the formation of our country and shaped the Argentine Navy.
