The Mercedes Medina Díaz Association has honored teacher Asunción González, who worked in Arrecife for many years and is turning 100 years old.
According to the association, Asunción is a native of León, the youngest of four siblings, born "from the union of the secretary and the town's teacher, who instilled in her a love for teaching, and whom she helped from the tender age of ten, to teach her more than eighty students, on the beautiful banks of Vegas del Condado."
She studied Baccalaureate in León, where "she had to face the harsh educational reform of the 1934 Baccalaureate Study Plan, which increased its duration, going from six to seven years, and imposing a revalidation in the last year that she successfully passed."
A teacher since 1945, she did internships near Riaño, in León, obtaining her first destination in Portilla de la Reina, in the Picos de Europa, from where she moved to live in Vigo. Later, the association recalls that she finally arrived in Lanzarote, "to work for many years in the educational center known as 'El Grupo', the Generalísimo Franco, the current La Destila of Arrecife, in which the palm tree that she planted upon her arrival, on the corner of Duende Street, still stands majestically."
"In addition to being a skilled and diligent teacher, she was also a close teacher" and "the pioneer of Arrecife in taking trips with students, inaugurating them with a magnificent, and unexpected for many, trip to La Palma," highlights the Mercedes Medina Association. "Not only did they travel around the islands, but also to distant destinations at that time such as Galicia or Ceuta, to which most of the young people went for the first time," she emphasizes.
