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THE TEAM
CONTACT
History (4th Cluster, once again) and Philosophy (6th Cluster) were the founding disciplinary areas of the current FL/UP, plus the unloved Pedagogical Sciences Course. Further provisions were made for the academic year 1961/62 when the School was housed in part of the former Medicine building, which soon held the stocks of the Library of the first FL/UP; and, obviously, with the recruitment of the teaching staff, through the launch of tenders for the transitory category of encarregado de curso [Course Coordinator], already previously tested in the Faculty of Economics/UP [FEP/UP] (1953 ff.).
Among the candidates, there were two names that were rejected outright by the Executive at the time, by resolution of the Council of Ministers: Joel Serrão (1919 -2008) and Joaquim Barradas de Carvalho (1920-1980). For the first four available places, the jury selected the following names: António Augusto Ferreira da Cruz (1911-1989), at the time Director of Porto's Municipal Public Library; José António Ferreira de Almeida (1913-1981), the only one holding a PhD at the time, and who had been working at Porto's Faculty of Arts since 1940 as a contract professor; Carlos Eduardo Bastos de Soveral, mentioned above; and Sérgio Augusto da Silva Pinto (1915-1970), librarian of the FEP/UP, at the time in commissioned service as a teacher at the Primary Magesterium of Braga. These were the first four «Clio priests» of Porto, who taught there from the academic year 1962/63 (year of the effective opening of the School). They would be joined a year later by assistants: Luís António de Oliveira Ramos (b. 1939), transferred from the FL/UL, where he had graduated and assisted Manuel Heleno (1894-1970), Vitorino Nemésio (1901-1978) and Virgínia Rau (1907-1973); he completed his PhD at the FL/UP in 1972; Jorge Henrique Pais da Silva (1929-1977), who taught at ESBAP and later at the FL/UL; and Flórido Teles de Meneses e Vasconcelos (1920-2005), later Director of Cultural Services at Porto's City Hall (1968 ff.). Other assistants would join in the following years, including Bernardo Xavier Coutinho (1909-1987), who held a PhD from Louvain and whose academic situation was only nationally resolved to his satisfaction in 1975; and the later mayor of Maia, José Vieira de Carvalho (1938-2002).
