Hugo David Storer Tavarez

Hugo David Storer Tavarez (March 8, 1908 – June 28, 1994) was a Puerto Rican oil industrialist, horticulturalist, and writer. He was a founder of the Commonwealth Oil Refining Company He was also a founder of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity and started the Horticultural Society of Puerto Rico and Club Bonsai de P.R.

Early life Storer Tavarez was born March 8, 1908, in Utuado, Puerto Rico. He was later the sixteenth president of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity, serving in 1948, 1949, 1951, and 1963.

Career By 1954, Storer Tavaarez was the Director of Promotion of the Puerto Rico Economic Development Administration also known as Fomento. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Oil Refining Company. He was named director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Bureau on July 1, 1953.

Personal life He became interested in horticulture after visiting the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in the late 1940s. He was known as the "first person of bonsai" in Puerto Rico. He also wrote articles that were published in Bonsai: Akadama, Alnus Glutinosa, Bonsai Aesthetics, Bonsai Cultivation and Care, Bonsai Slovakia, Bonsai Styles, Deadwood Bon (University Press, 2014, ).

He died on June 28, 1994 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.