The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico School of Law marked its 65th anniversary on Friday, November 6, with a 6:00 p.m. celebration at the Spellman building on the Ponce campus, free and open to the university community.^[1][2][3][4] The evening began with a welcome cocktail and a gastronomic offering prepared by students of PUCPR's Culinary Arts program in Mayagüez.^[5][6] Artist Andrés Cortés unveiled a commemorative mural that will become part of the law school's spaces, and the program included music and a meeting between different generations of students and graduates.^[7][8] The school traces to August 1961, when Monsignor Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver founded the law school in Ponce on the assignment of Monsignor Jaime Eduardo McManus.^[9][10] Puerto Rico's only law school that year was the state's; the Catholic university's school gave the island a private alternative.^[11] Its first class, enrolled from 1961 to 1964, graduated on May 22, 1964 - 24 men and 7 women.^[12][13] The American Bar Association granted the school final accreditation in August 1972.^[14]