Heriberto Sedeno attended elementary school at Escuela Primaria del Centro de Dependientes del Comercio de La Habana

1. Heriberto Sedeno Has Been A Student
Of Bachillerato

2. At the age of 5, Heriberto Sedeno attended elementary school at
Escuela Primaria del Centro de Dependientes del Comercio de La
Habana. After passing 5th grade, he took an early entrance exam
to be admitted to an academic center to pursue a “bachillerato”
degree which is comparable to a preparatory and first year
undergraduate school.

3. Heriberto Sedeno Attended Havana
Business Academy
From 1957 to 1958, Heriberto Sedeno attended Havana Business
Academy to prepare for the entrance exam to “bachilllerato” studies.
After clearing this competitive exam lasting three days, his parents
enrolled him at a private school, Colegio Academia Pitman
accredited by the Cuban Department of
Education through one of their agencies, the Instituto Superior de
Segunda Ensenanza de La Vibora, Havana, Cuba.

4. Heriberto Sedeno Attended Academia
Pitman
The Cuban revolution and the access to power by Fidel Castro
in January 1st of 1959, was coincidental with his first year of
"bachillerato" at Colegio Academia Pitman. Heriberto Sedeno
continued halfway into his third year of bachillerato. Bachillerato
education consisted of a five-year program to earn this degree.
The last year of Bachillerato curriculum was chosen by the
student to major in Liberal Arts or Sciences depending on the
professional path he would follow.

5. Heriberto Sedeno Studied At The Alliance
Francaise
While waiting for his exit permit from the Cuban government to
immigrate to the USA, Dr. Sedeno from 1961 to 1962 attended
the Alliance Francaise de La Habana, where he became
conversant in French. Prior to this, at the Havana Business
Academy, Heriberto Sedeno became proficient in English.

6. Heriberto Sedeno Emigrated To USA
In 1961, the Castro communist regime began to apply drastic
measures like the abolition of private education. Academia Pitman
Castro’s regime took away Academia Pitman from its rightful
owners. This school and other private schools were taken over by
the regime to impart its communist ideology to the Cuban youth.
Due to the disillusionment with the changes occurring in Cuba,
Heriberto Sedeno chose to leave his country and immigrate to
USA in order to continue his studies unimpaired by communist
propaganda. He left Cuba on October 2, 1962 looking for freedom
and begin a new life in USA.