San José de la Salle school Medellín

San José de la Salle is one of the most traditional schools in Medellín and the first school of the La Salle brothers in Colombia.

History

San José school was founded by La Salle brothers in 1890, in the city of Medellín. These persons arrived to Aburra Valley, after they went to Barranquilla, and then this group of brothers went to Puerto Berrio in the department of Antioquia and finally they arrived to Copacabana. This community started classes on April 7. In 1907 was the first group of holders of a bachelor’s degree. In 1911 the Biology Museum of the school was founded by Brother Nicéforo Maria.

The first place of this school was behind the Hotel Nutibara, on the street Caracas with the street Palace in the downtown of Medellín. In 1940 the school celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of foundation with all community and the education minister Jorge Eliécer Gaitan. The flag, the shield and the anthem were adopted as symbols. In 1955 the school changed of location, before in Medellín downtown, but now in a new campus with more commodity than the old one behind Nutibara hotel. This location was named “Morro de Cuatro Vientos”. In the same year the school received the Boyacá Cross when the brother Ignacio Felipe was the principal. In 1974 the school that accepted only boys, changed this politic and it accepted girls also when the principal brother Andres Rosero Bolaños founded the kinder garden. In 1976 the school received the Antioquia Star. In 1980 it celebrated his first twenty five years there.

In 1990 the school celebrated one century of the foundation of San José School. It was an important celebration for the community of La Salle because also was one century of La Salle in Colombia. In this year the school received important recognitions of many institutions in Colombia and Antioquia.

In 2005 the school celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the campus on “Morro de Cuatro Vientos” and 2007 the school changed the location to a modern place with all technologies in La Cola del Zorro, in the district of Poblado in Medellín.

School Principals

1. Brother Julio, 1890–1892
2. Brother Filemón, 1893–1894
3. Brother Juan Teodoro, 1895–1903, 1916–1918
4. Brother Amós María, 1904
5. Brother Antonio Dionisio, 1905–1913, 1925
6. Brother Atanasio Pablo, 1914-1915.
7. Brother Salustiano, 1919.
8. Brother Marcos, 1920-1924.
9. Brother Gervasio Elías, 1926–1930, 1933-1937.
10. Brother Gaspar María, 1931–1932, 1941.
11. Brother Norberto, 1942-1945.
12. Brother Ignacio Felipe, 1946-1957.
13. Brother Arnoldo, 1958–1961, 1971.
14. Brother Daniel de la Inmaculada, 1962-1964.
15. Brother Néstor Suárez Alzate, 1965–1970
16. Brother Andrés Rosero Bolaños, 1972-1974.
17. Brother Octavio Martinez Lopez, 1975–1978, 1982–1983, 1988-1991.
18. Brother Néstor Maya Uribe, July- December 1983.
19. Brother Octavio Sanchez, 1984.
20. Brother Jaime Augusto Bedoya, 1985-1987.
21. Brother Jairo Lopez Correa, 1992-1995.
22. José María Ruiz Galeano, 1996-1999.
23. Brother Alvaro Llano Ruiz, 1978–1982, 2000-2008.
24. Brother Henry Ramirez Romero, 2009-2010.
25. Brother Leandrov Vallejo Vallejo, 2011-