Award for Granma
International contributor
THE Association of Hispanic Canadian Professors
is pleased to announce that York University Spanish
Lecturer Pastor Valle-Garay and York graduates
Camilla Esther Beniluz, Sara Kun and Helen Mayer,
Spanish Majors in York’s Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics, will be awarded Merit
Plaques and Diplomas in recognition of their
scholarship and their outstanding academic and
community accomplishments.
Camilla Esther Beniluz, now pursuing a Masters
degree in Spanish at the University of Guelph; Sara
Kun, studying for a Masters degree in Humanities at
York and Helen Mayer about to enter Law school, are
being honoured for their scholastic achievements.
According to their York University Professors, all
three students consistently earned the highest marks
in Spanish and graduated either Magna Cum Laude or
with Honours from York.
Valle-Garay, now a Senior Scholar, has had a long
and distinguished career as a York Spanish Lecturer,
a Diplomat, a published writer and a volunteer in
Toronto’s Spanish-speaking community. He has taught
Spanish at York University’s Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics for the past 39 year,
and during the last 16 years he has also taught
Business Spanish in the International Master of
Business Administration (IMBA) program at the
prestigious Schulich School of Business, also at
York University. Between 1979 and 1989 he held the
Diplomatic posts of Charges d’Affaires A.I. and
Consul General of Nicaragua in Toronto. As a
political analyst Valle-Garay has published
extensively in newspapers and magazines in Toronto,
GRANMA International and La Jiribilla in Cuba, as
well as Latin America and Europe newspapers and made
numerous appearances as an education and political
panellist on radio and television. Valle-Garay is
listed in the Who is Who in Toronto and Who is Who
in Canada. In honouring Professor Valle-Garay the
Association of Hispanic Canadian Professors also
wishes to recognize his outstanding services to
numerous venues in Toronto’s Spanish-speaking
community and his commitment to volunteer work on
behalf of the less fortunate in Canada and in
Central America.
