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Alberto Arredondo Gutiérrez was a journalist and economist born on August 28, 1912, in Havana, Cuba.

Arredondo owned a daily newspaper in Havana and was active in the study of Cuba’s economy, focusing especially on agriculture. He served as head of the Departamento de Economía Interna of the Consejo Nacional de Economía in 1958 and, later, as the Cuban delegate to the VII Inter-American Conference on Agriculture and the VI Conference of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. He also served as an economic advisor to the Comisión de Fomento Nacional of Cuba and as the director of economic research for the Confederación de Trabajadores del Cuba (CTC).

Arredondo went into exile in 1960 and was a professor of agricultural economics at the Centro Interamericano de Estudios Económicos y Sociales (CIDES) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 1963 to 1964. He later moved to Miami, where he remained active in several professional and political organizations. He also worked as a researcher for the Cuban Economics Research Project at the University of Miami.

Arredondo authored several conference papers, economic studies, and books. Some of his works include El Negro en Cuba(1939), Cuba, Tierra Indefensa(1945), and La historia secreta del comunismo cubano y sus purgas (1965).

Alberto Arredondo died in Miami on April 17, 1968.

Julia F. Morton was Research Professor of Biology and Director of the Morton Collectanea at University of Miami, a research and information center devoted to economic botany. She was an internationally recognized authority on economic plants, particularly ornamental, edible, medicinal and toxic species. She was the author of 10 books and co-author of or contributor to 12 others; she wrote 94 scientific papers and co-authored 27 others.

Ivor Armstrong Richards was born on February 26, 1893, in Sandbach, Chesire, England. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honors in moral sciences. Known as the founder of modern literary criticism, Richards participated in groundbreaking work in aesthetics, semantics, literary criticism, elementary reading, and second-language training. While participating as a lecturer at Magdalene College from 1922 to 1929, Richards authored some of his most famous and influential works, collaborating with C.K. Ogden, a British writer and English teacher. The two coauthored Foundations of Aesthetics (1922),which developed the theory of synaesthesis, and The Meaning of Meaning(1923), where Richards and Ogden created the triadic theory of semantics. During this time, Richards also wrote Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and Practical Criticism (1929), which outline Richards' method of close reading and other aspects of his literary criticism, known as New Criticism.

In 1929, Richards took a position as a visiting professor at Tsing Hua University in China. He then served as director of the Orthological Institute of China from 1936 to 1938. While serving these positions, he taught Basic English to Chinese students and began utilizing media for reading and second language instruction. Basic English, created by Ogden, was seen as a “beginner’s first” language. With only 850 words, this simplified version of English was intended to become an international language that all would be able to understand. Richards collaborated with Christine Gibson to create a Language Through Pictures series, which combined the use of textbooks, workbooks, film, audio, and other media for learning both primary and secondary languages. These were adapted into many different languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian.

In 1939, Richards became an English professor at Harvard University, where he continued work in primary education and author books on criticism, poetry, semantics, and language instruction. He is also known for acting as a mentor and influence to other prominent critics, including William Empson and F.R. Leavis. Richards served as a professor at Harvard until 1963, when he began to write his own poetry, publishing four collections and three verse plays. In 1974, Richards returned to Cambridge, England. He fell ill a few years later while lecturing on language instruction in China and died on September 7, 1979