Dear Fellow Hoya,
Welcome to your Georgetown home away from the hilltop! We are an association of over 100 Georgetown Alumni living and working in Panama. Our purpose is to attend to the community of professors, alumni and friends of the Georgetown Community in Panama.
Our Club aspires to:
- Support and promote the interests of Georgetown University in Panama
- Connect Panamanian based Alumni to the University and to each other
- Promote the Jesuit values: "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam"
- Serve the local community
We look forward to seeing you at a future event and welcoming you into our organization.
Hoya Saxa!
Gladys Navarro de Gerbaud (B'94)
President of the Georgetown Alumni Club of Panamá
Our Club's History:
The first ever mention of the Georgetown University Alumni Club of Panama was at the end of the 1980's, in one of the yearly Alumni Admissions Program (AAP) Committee meetings headed by Charles Deacon, whom at the time was Dean of Admissions at Georgetown University. In one of the yearly committee meetings an alumni saw there was an active involvement by Georgina de Alba, Roberto Boyd and the other members of the AAP of Panama and asked why there wasn't an alumni club in Panama. At the time, the Georgetown Alumni in Panama were few and there were limited resources so the idea of creating a club was postponed.
About 10 years later, in another meeting, Charlie Deacon and Paul Goodrich prompted Roberto Boyd to establish an association of alumni in Panama to raise funds for the John Carroll Scholarship Committee. Roberto Boyd accepted the challenge and gathered fellow alumni to create the first ever meeting of the Georgetown Club of Panama. The first members of the Georgetown Club of Panama were Alvaro Arias, Samuel Lewis, Angela Arias, Dalia Gateño, Ximena Eleta de Sierra, Maria Luisa Navarro, and Gladys Navarro de Gerbaud. In the first half of 2000 Charlie Deacon and Paul Goodrich made their first official visit to Panama to meet the alumni club of Panama. With the visit, the club raised US$50,000 for the John Carroll Scholarship Committee.
