By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
MIAMI | Miami Dade College (MDC) has selected Carlota Morales, principal at Sts. Peter and Paul School, for induction into the 2015 MDC Alumni Hall of Fame for her contribution to the field of education.
Morales and other distinguished MDC alumni
will be recognized at an awards dinner on April 9.
Since 2003, the MDC Alumni Hall of Fame has honored its
alumni for their contributions to their respective fields, in and around the
MDC community.
“The Alumni Hall of Fame honors extraordinary alumni who are
leaders in their profession, while raising much needed scholarship funds for
over 175,000 students,” said Eduardo Padron, the president of MDC, in a letter
to Morales. “These people, now part of our alumni family, walked through our
doors with dreams of a brighter tomorrow and most have made their dreams a
reality.”
In l964, Morales completed her Associate in Arts degree in
teaching from MDC and transferred to the University of Miami where she
completed her bachelor’s degree. Continuing her scholarly quest, she earned a doctorate in education, served as teacher and assistant principal at Sts. Peter
and Paul for 22 years and then became principal at St. Agatha School in Miami
in 1990. She returned to Sts. Peter and Paul in 2001 as the school’s
first lay principal.
“I have been in education since 1968 and, in a way, the induction
at MDC Hall of Fame is perhaps the recognition of my hard work and my desire
to give the best that I could to a field that was the only one that I ever
considered: education,” Morales said.
“I firmly believe that all of us, principals and teachers,
alike have a call. Those of us that have
chosen to work in a Catholic school have done so because we want to be
missionaries of the Lord,” said Morales. “If at the end of my career, someone
has come to know the love of our Lord, I have not have lived in vain. If I have made a difference in the life of a
child, I have not lived in vain.”