Great Council of Veterans – Academia do Porto / FAP
Américo Martins, Leader of the Veterans of the Academia do Porto
Academy is in mourning: Américo Martins, Dux Veteranorum of the Academia do Porto, holder of the highest position in the academic hierarchy since 1989, died this Tuesday. He was 73 years old.
Born in Mogadouro and a public servant by profession, also known as Americus sem Cus never finished his Civil Engineering degreein which he continued to be enrolled since the 1960s, when he interrupted his studies to carry out military service in the Colonial War, in Angola. He paid bribes all these years to stay at the Academy.
“In the academic field, I’m not a great example,” he told , in 2007, but he considered himself a “father” to all the students at Academia do Porto.
“The academic tradition is my life”stated: “from a student I became a praxist, a bohemian and a thinker of the academic tradition”. A figure always present in any procession or parade, it was considered “a professional of these wanderings”.
“Unmissable figure”
A Porto Academic Federation He has already publicly expressed “his deepest regret at Dux’s passing”, sending “his deepest condolences to his family, friends and students”.
“We will remember with eternal nostalgia the spirit of dedication, service to others and involvement with the Porto Academy. Américo Martins was Porto Academy from the first to the last day”, reads the direction led by Francisco Porto Fernandes.
O Porto University Orphean also regrets the news of the death of an “unavoidable figure in Porto’s academic history”.
“Américo dedicated much of his life to the Academia do Porto as a concept and practical experience, never leaving anyone indifferent to his passion, vivacity and inescapable presence, marking countless generations of students with his eternal youthfulness and academic spirit”, reads in do Órfeão on Facebook.
“The place of an unavoidable figure in the academic history of Porto is yours in its own right. A story that was not limited to just seeing and living, but also writing and creating”, we also read, with a poem by orpheonist Flávio Serzedello ending the farewell.
It was already decreed this Tuesday 5-day academic mourningaccording to , which means that there are no praxis activities until 11:59 pm on December 7th.
