The Normal School of Santiago was built at the behest of the current president of Panama at the time, Juan D. Arosemena. His concept was to offer the students the best environment in which to learn. The school was constructed with some wonderful design elements. The height of design is the school auditorium which is for the most part covered in murals painted by Panama's foremost artist, Roberto Lewis, a student of the French Classical movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The school is decorated in fine marble, and the entrance to the school is decorated in a facade of finely sculpted gesso.
Here is a peek at the main entrance to the school.
The school even has it's own Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ESCUE.../25441072979On June 5, 1938, when the school was officially commissioned, a set of Panamanian stamps were overprinted with the name of the school and day of commissioning.
Here is the FDC for these issues:
The stamps are all overprinted and the two (former) air mail stamps (purple and green) are surcharged for local usage.
The square postmark on the back of the cover says"Recomendados" which means registered.
Posted 09/30/2011 11:46 pm
