The Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Lanzarote, the Arrecife City Council, the associated centre of the UNED in Lanzarote and the Teaching Staff Centre (CEP) of Lanzarote have joined the Mercedes Medina Díaz association in the organisation of a tribute to Pedro Hernández Cerdeña.
The teacher from Arrecife, who is celebrating his 100th birthday, will be accompanied by other colleagues "of advanced age and identical youthful spirit", as well as the authorities, family and friends, as highlighted by the capital's Town Hall. The event will take place in the Aula Magna of the UNED this Saturday from 12.00 noon.
Pedro Hernández Cerdeña was born in Arrecife at the end of 1914 into a family from Lanzarote. His father was Francisco Hernández Arata, doctor and politician, and his mother María Cerdeña Bethencourt, daughter of the former mayor of San Bartolomé, Pedro Cerdeña Armas.
As for his professional life, he worked as a primary school teacher at the Escuela Unitaria de Orientación Marítima de Arrecife, opposite the old Parador de Turismo, from the 1940s to the early 1980s.
"Pedro Hernández Cerdeña has trained several generations of young people in our city and is valued and appreciated by all those who have known him, for being an upright and coherent person", said the Mayor of Arrecife, Manuel Fajardo Feo.
