[1] Guillermo Uribe, Rebecca's father, left the Basque Country and moved to Guatemala City, where he met and married Maria Teresa Bone.
At the time, the university was opening its doors to suitably qualified women, and her teachers had been very good mathematicians and chemists.
[2] Her sister Guillermina said in 2004, “Mi papá estaba adelantado para la época, por eso nos estimuló muchísimo.
"[4] Rebeca Uribe Bone was taught by Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez, Colombian civil engineer, businessman and writer who later served as 12th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations.
[1] On 19 October 1945, Rebeca Uribe Bone received her degree from the Pontifical Bolivarian University (then the Bolivarian Catholic University), and qualified as an industrial chemical engineer[1] As a new graduate, she began working in the Bavaria brewing company's quality department,[5] and before completing her first year as a chemical engineer, she met the son of a friend of her father's.