Joseph I Lamas

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.