Close Up 2018
Fifty-five juniors taking the U.S. Government course at Belen Jesuit traveled to the nation’s capital on January 14 to participate in Close Up.
Students connected what they have been learning in class to the history, culture, and politics of America. The group met with Congressman Carlos Curbelo ’98, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and a panel of distinguished Belen alumni who now live in metropolitan Washington. Special thanks to Eduardo Abascal '15, Manuel Vazquez '90, Alejandro Carriazo '17, Roy Schultheis '02, Edward Acevedo '01, Rolando Diaz '87, John Barsa '84, Jason Burrows '01 who participated in the annual alumni panel hosted in the Rayburn House Office Building.
Close Up took students to the Smithsonian Institution as well as Presidential Memorials. A favorite part of the Close Up experience was meeting and discussing politics with peers from California, Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, and Puerto Rico. Close Up and Belen have been partners in civic education since 1975. The third annual Close Up middle school program starts March 24.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.