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Hugo David Storer Tavarez (March 8, 1908 – June 28, 1994) was a Puerto Rican oil industrialist,
horticulturalist Horticulture (from ) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and mo ...
, and writer. He was a founder of the
Commonwealth Oil Refining Company Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc. (CORCO) was an oil refinery established in the towns of Peñuelas and Guayanilla in Puerto Rico in the second half of the 20th century. At one point, the company was ranked among the 500 largest in the Un ...
He was also a founder of
Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha (), commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternity originally established as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puerto Rico by twelve students and a professor ...
fraternity and started the Horticultural Society of Puerto Rico and Club Bonsai de P.R.


Early life

Storer Tavarez was born March 8, 1908, in
Utuado, Puerto Rico Utuado () is a Utuado barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central mountainous region of the island known as the ''Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico), Cordillera Central''. It is located ...
. While a student at
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puer ...
, Storer Tavaarez and other students founded what was to become
Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha (), commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternity originally established as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puerto Rico by twelve students and a professor ...
fraternity on October 22, 1928. He was later the sixteenth president of
Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha (), commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternity originally established as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puerto Rico by twelve students and a professor ...
fraternity, serving in 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1963.


Career

By 1954, Storer Tavaarez was the Director of Promotion of the
Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) — (or simply ''Fomento'')— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico authorized and empowered to attract private capital to Puerto Rico to establish trade, cooperatives, a ...
also known as Fomento. He was one of the founders of the
Commonwealth Oil Refining Company Commonwealth Oil Refining Company, Inc. (CORCO) was an oil refinery established in the towns of Peñuelas and Guayanilla in Puerto Rico in the second half of the 20th century. At one point, the company was ranked among the 500 largest in the Un ...
. He was named director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Bureau on July 1, 1953.


Personal life

He became interested in
horticulture Horticulture (from ) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and mo ...
after visiting the
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in the late 1940s. In 1970, Storer Tavaarez founded and was the first president of the Horticultural Society of Puerto Rico. In July 1977, he organized a group that would later be called Club Bonsai de Puerto Rico to promote
bonsai Bonsai (; , ) is the Japanese art of Horticulture, growing and shaping miniature trees in containers, with a long documented history of influences and native Japanese development over a thousand years, and with unique aesthetics, cultural hist ...
to all corners of the island. He was known as the "first person of bonsai" in Puerto Rico. In 1977, he was the editor of the book ''Catalogo Filatelico de Puerto Rico'' (''Philatelic Catalog of Puerto Rico'') for the Sociedad Filatelica de Puerto Rico. He also wrote articles that were published in ''Bonsai: Akadama, Alnus Glutinosa, Bonsai Aesthetics, Bonsai Cultivation and Care, Bonsai Slovakia, Bonsai Styles, Deadwood Bon'' (University Press, 2014, ). He died on June 28, 1994 in
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Guaynabo (, ) is a Guaynabo barrio-pueblo, city and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico. Located west of the capital San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, east of Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Bayamà ...
.


See also

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List of Puerto Ricans This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the governm ...


References

1908 births 1994 deaths Bonsai artists Phi Sigma Alpha founders People from Utuado, Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico alumni {{Authority control