Vol. 29 No. 313 (2024)
Guyo Sember: teaching, passion and rebellion
I try to describe it in a few strokes: 23 years and an intense life abruptly stopped by the terrorist wrath of a thirsty State; a Physical Education teacher, a teacher and another athlete, in a body dedicated to life. A companion who guarded the supportive camaraderie, a friend who considered friendship as a dedication, an endearing brother. Guyo was endowed with a capacity for seduction that enhanced his teaching vocation, because what is teaching if not the ability to seduce and enthuse in learning? Standing on the grass, with his feet a little apart, a guitar hanging with his fingers at the height of the blade and a soccer ball under his other arm: that would be the still photo of him.
It is curious that the years go by and the memory, which is always fading, does not stop growing in him. Forty years after being lost in the darkness of the murderous State, those who were his students, who were eight years old at the time, created a website with his name: such is his presence in the minds of those children who are now adults. Later came other tributes, here a public natatorium in Lomas de Zamora, there an open professorship, awards with his name, a physical education movement that carries him as a banner of creative rebellion... and now the students and teachers of Secondary School Nr. 68 choose him to symbolize their direction: they were the ones who elected him in a democratic vote, strengthening his legacy more and more every day.
The kid in the photo, the one with the guitar and the ball, with his rebellion demanding social justice, won the game against oblivion: Guyo Sember... Present!
Silvio 'Lito' Sember - Barcelona, June 2024
Published:
2024-06-02
