Ponce Adoptive Citizens - Ponceñistas

Distinguished Ponceñistas (another name for Ponce Adoptive Citizens) are the following illustrious persons honored at Plaza de los Ponceños Ilustres, in Ponce’s Parque del Tricentenario:

• Mons. Vicente Murga
• Quintín Negrón Sanjurjo
• Mons. James McManus
• Nemesio Canales
• Luis Muñoz Rivera
• Carles Mascareñas
• René Taylor
• Mons. Ricardo Surinach
• Francisco Arriví
• William Sarazen
• José Azaustre
• José R. (Pocho) Labrador
• Hamlet Hazim
• Angel Luis Rodríguez Rosado

Visit the Tercentennial Park for a glimpse at the elegant wall plaques with the names of the above eminent Ponce adoptive citizens and those in many other important cultural disciplines.

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