Background
GAY CALBÓ, Enrique was born on October 11, 1889 in Holguin, Province of Oriente. Son of Joaquin Gay Vicens and Teresa Calbó Olivera.
GAY CALBÓ, Enrique was born on October 11, 1889 in Holguin, Province of Oriente. Son of Joaquin Gay Vicens and Teresa Calbó Olivera.
School teacher, 1910. Co-founder (with Juan F. Sariol) of the review Renacimiento of Santiago, 1911. Chief of the editorial staff of the Oriente Literario.
Chief of the editorial staff and later director of the daily El Comercio of Cienfuegos, 1912-1916. Founder and director of El Diario of Cienfuegos, 1914. Reporter of El Día of Havana, 1917-1918.
Professor in the Escuela Nueva de El Dique of Havana, 1917. Editor of Universal, 1918- 1919. Of Cuba Contemporánea (also secretary), 1918-1927.
Of the Heraldo de Cuba (also secretary), 1920-1921. Of La Nación, 1921; of El Pais (also founder), 1922. Of El Sol, 1923; of the Revista de la Habana (also founder), 1930.
Director of the Heraldo Masónico, 1931. Consulting attorney of the “Intervención General de la República,” 1925-1928. Secretary of commissions of the Sixth Pan-American Conference of Havana, 1928.
Legal adviser of the Secretariat of State, since 1928. Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the First Inter-American Congress of Municipalities. Diplomatic adviser of the Secretariat of State, 1934.
Member: Society Bolivariana, Society Cubana de Derecho Internacional, Society Teatro Cubano. Ateneo de La Habana, Colegio de Abogados, Comité France-Amérique, Society Económica de Amigos del País, Asociación de Reporters.
Married Alicia Urrutia Lleó. Children: Mireya and Enrique Eugenio.
