Araceli De Varona, student:

I am a former student of the Camagüey Vocational School, from its first graduation -1978- and took part in the construction of the school. I still remember when you and Arch. Carlos Quintanilla went to the controls. He showed me the plans and I was delighted. After graduating I studied Architecture. As an Architect, I took part in the remodeling of the Topes de Collantes Sanatorium and the development of the Trinidad Tourist Hub.

In my years at the Vocational I met the late Arch. Roberto Segre with whom I had a friendship for many years. He was kind enough to quote me in one of his writings, where I explained my feelings in the Student Meetings Plaza.

Thank you very much to you on behalf of my classmates, because we lived part of our youth, desires, longings in an architectural work that served as the backdrop to help us dream. We still remember it so fondly...

Elvira Siso, the School's first principal:

Source: Periódico Adelante, 30 Agosto 2016.

At that time, the school attended the clinic -although methodologically it depended on Public Health-, the transport base, the warehouses that were overwhelmed so we had to occupy classrooms to keep all those things: hairdressing materials, scissors, brushes, combs, dyes and dandruff lotion.
When these children came they were given pajamas, tampons to the girls, boots, bedding, also the school uniforms for classes. The bed sheets were supplied by the school, as were the rubber boots to be used in the fields when planting taro, poplar or attending the hydroponics.

Elvira was in charge of the school for four courses and does not forget the content of the inaugural speech in which a call was made to study, to take care of the campus and how the students should behave, many of them now turned into excellent professionals, even -she explained- those who have emigrated meet regularly in what they call: the vocational student.

When the time to go home for the weekend arrived I told them sometimes, seeing them so reluctant to take the buses: hurry up gentlemen! And they answered: the truth is that we go because we have to. So good they felt.
There was a music combo at the school, an extensive cultural program at the amphitheater, premieres of movies, plays, dancing in the outdoor areas with the best orchestras that visited Camagüey and ballet performances. They were delighted!

Normando Suárez Fonte, Physical Education Teacher:

Source: Periódico Adelante, 26 Agosto 2016.

This has been my only workplace since I graduated. I started teaching practice in 1984, and I stayed. I don't know how many students have passed through my hands. I recently studied for a degree in physical rehabilitation having as a teacher one of my students, Dr. Julio Cesar Rodriguez. Many are the names, but I remember among my first pupils the Camagüey Television journalist, Orestes G. Casanova.
Not everyone likes Physical Education. I have to explain the benefits for intellectual performance derived from a systematic  physical activity, this way I convince them. What negatively impacts is the timing of our classes, as the students sweat and there are no conditions for washing up, neither place nor time to dress and return to the classrooms for other subjects. I think Military Training and Physical Education should be taught, as it was before, in different sessions than the regular classroom subjects, so they could get the most out of the physical exercise.

He speaks with understandable sadness of the lack of sports equipment, the loss of the pool, the running track, the indoor basketball courts and the poor condition of all the other sports areas.