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Elected to National Airlines' board of directors in 1974, Louis J. Hector (1915-2005) had distinguished himself as an attorney in private practice and with the Federal government. He was a partner in the Miami law firm of Steel, Hector & Davis. His career in public service included three years as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, from 1957 to 1959. He was also involved for almost 20 years with various aviation and administrative law activities for the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. State Department, the American Bar Association, and the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Hector was a member of the Board of Directors of Southeast Banking Corp and also served as chairman of the bank's executive committee for several years. He was a past director of the First National Bank of Miami and of the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He was an emeritus trustee of the University of Miami, a member of the Rockefeller University Council, and a Smith College trustee. He also served on the Dade County (Fla.) Council of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hector was a member of the Florida Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Dade County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He was the director of the Center For Administrative Justice and a member of the American Judicature Society.

During World War II, he was an assistant to Under-Secretary Edward Stettinius in the U.S. State Department, a Lend-Lease Administration attorney, and served with the Office of Strategic Services in the Southeast Asia and China Commands.

Born in Fort Lauderdale, Mr. Hector received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard and Williams Colleges and his LL.B from the Yale Law School. He also attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer and actress (born Oct. 9, 1922, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba—died July 12, 2010, Miami Beach, FL) who was known as “la reina del bolero.” Guillot’s career spanned over fifty years, during which time she recorded in excess of sixty bolero albums and appeared in more than 20 Mexican films, as well as making numerous television appearances. She garnered countless awards and honors; for example, she won three consecutive awards as Cuba’s best female singer and in 2007 she was honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin Grammy Awards. Guillot also pushed boundaries by becoming the first Latin American artist to give a gala concert at Carnegie Hall in New York - bringing bolero to a huge non-Spanish speaking audience - and also toured internationally.

Guillot’s family lived in Santiago de Cuba until she was five years old, at which point they relocated to Havana. She first started performing at the age of nine and formed a duo with her sister, Ana Luisa, called “Dúo Hermanitas Guillot,” debuting on a radio show called La Corte Suprema del Arte (The Supreme Court of Art). Ana Luisa subsequently quit in 1940. In 1945, Guillot was discovered by the influential Facundo Rivero and later travelled to New York City to record her first album. She achieved fame in the U.S. in 1946 with her Spanish version of the song “Stormy Weather.” She got the opportunity to make her first record in 1954 after signing to an independent label and released “Miénteme,” composed by the Mexican bandleader Chamaco Domínguez, which was not only a hit throughout Latin America, but became the first gold-selling record by any Cuban singer; “Miénteme” became Guillot’s signature song. Guillot became infamous for her passionate, heartfelt, and dramatic way of telling stories via the ballad form, as well as reworking classic boleros sung from a masculine perspective to reveal a female voice and point of view. During her recording career, many of her records achieved gold or platinum status.

In 1961, after having strongly criticized Fidel Castro’s government, Guillot left Cuba for good and split her time between the U.S. and Mexico, although Mexico was her permanent country of residence. Guillot also had a house in Miami Beach and was very active in South Florida’s Cuban-American community. She died in 2010, leaving behind one daughter, Olga María Touzet-Guillot, who she had with the composer, René Touzet.