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Joseph I Lamas
1942 - 2014
Joseph I Lamas
1942 - 2014
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BORN
1942
DIED
2014
Joseph Lamas Obituary
Joseph I. Lamas, 71, passed away due to heart failure on January 25, 2014. He was a graduate of El Colegio de Belen, Havana, Cuba and Loyola University Chicago. He received numerous awards for his community involvement and support of innovative educational studies. Upon retirement he pursued his love of photography and travel with his habitual zeal and enthusiasm for each new venture.
Joseph Lamas was a teacher and an insatiable student all his life. He started one of the nation's earliest global education programs in the mid 1970s. More recently he founded, with a group of outstanding educators, the Cambridge Global Studies Academy in Miami-Dade, Fl. He developed and taught the course, "Global Perspectives." (PUBLICATIONS: Connecting the Past to the Present (International Thompson Publishing); Dade County in the Global Community: a Resource Guide for Teachers, co-author (Florida International University); Teaching About Prejudice and Discrimination (American Psychological Association). He is survived and missed by his siblings, Carlos Lamas, Maria Lamas, and Ana Silverio; in-laws Ramon Silverio and Rosa Maria Lamas; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Oscar Sanchez
January 27, 2019
Your psychology class was one of my favorites. I have fond memories with my friends involving your class. Thanks for presiding over them.
April 23, 2014
Like you told Carmen a long time ago that you wanted on your tombstone...
"I will see you soon"
Love always,
Anita
Maria Lamas
April 23, 2014
And when the stream that overflows has passed,
A consciousness remains upon the silent shore of memory,
Images and precious thoughts that shall not be,
And cannot be destroyed.
-William Wordsworth
In line for Thanksgiving turkey.
Maria Lamas
April 23, 2014
I can't believe that you are gone. We will miss you so much...Thanksgiving, Nochebuena...how will we get used to not having you there?? Love you....
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