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THE TEAM
CONTACT
The 25th of April 1974 still represented a rift, albeit a controlled one. Without any real ad hominem hostilities on the part of the History students, António Cruz's position of Director would prompt his dismissal (referred to as «sanitation» at the time) which lasted absurdly until 1979; and «absurdly» since although the compulsory retirement measure was forced upon the Master in question in 1975, the very next year that measure was scrapped. José Vieira de Carvalho was also removed from office, without return, having been arrested following the 11th of March coup d'état of 1975 and dismissed from the Civil Service months later.
Furthermore, for the first time since 1968, the 4th Cluster of the FL/UP recruited new teachers from outside the country, such as Humberto Baquero Moreno (b. 1934), who had graduated from the FL/UL and had recently obtained his PhD from the University of Lourenço Marques; this was also the case of Victor Sá (1921-2004), who had graduated from the FL/UC and earned his PhD in Sorbonne (1969), and whose entry into the Civil Service had always been blocked by the Regime; Similarly, Vítor Oliveira Jorge (b. 1948) had graduated from the University of Luanda and studied at the Cursos de Letras of the University of Luanda (CL/UL; held at Sá da Bandeira); and, occasionally, Orlando Janeiro Romano, who had also previously been affiliated to the CL/UL; this was also the case of Flávio Gonçalves (1931-1987), who had graduated from the FL/UC, a Baroque scholar and teacher of Art History at ESBAP at the time; and, finally João Francisco Marques (b. 1929), who had graduated from the FL/UC and was a methodologist at the time of the Liceu D. Manuel II / Rodrigues de Freitas. There was also Rafael Ávila de Azevedo (1911-1985), a teacher of the Pedagogical Sciences Cluster, thereafter connected predominantly to the teaching of Contemporary History. In the school year of 1974/75, the three afore-mentioned teachers fell under the category of assistente eventual [trainee assistant], along with several other recent graduates of the School: Natália Marinho Ferreira-Alves (b. 1948), Joaquim Jaime Ferreira-Alves (b. 1945), Agostinho Araújo (b. 1951; all for History of Art), Rui Centeno (b. 1952; for Archaeology), Elvira Mea (b. 1948), Francisco Ribeiro da Silva (b. 1940), José Viriato Capela (b. 1951, all for Modern History), Armindo de Sousa (1942-1998; initially for Prehistoric Archaeology, later [1976 ff.] for Medieval History), Henrique David (1947-1997, with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the FE/UP and then in History from the FL/UP, for Introduction to Economics and Mathematics for Human Sciences) and Maria Ioannis Benis Baganha (1950-2009; for Contemporary History).
