Her passion for reading and learning
has helped Lupe create a distinguished
destiny. But none of the honors she has
received means more to her than the
success of her own children, the reason
she made that frightening journey to
seek classes in English so many years
ago. Today Mario is a physician. Victor
and Martha are lawyers, both having
earned doctor of law degrees. Together
with their mother, with her Ph.D., they
are four “Dr. Quintanillas”—as she
laughingly says, “one retarded, and
three slow learners.”