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Patience is essential. Roland and Maribel Vasquez of Worcester County, Mass., already had two biological children when they decided to open their home to Michael, 17. Over a period of 10 months, the couple and the boy struggled to get to know and accept one another. Michael wondered if perhaps it was too late to adapt to family life. And turning 18, on Feb. 13, was a big event for him. It was not only his first birthday with his adoptive family but also the first time that his birthday was celebrated with gifts and a cake...
When the father of Maribel Hernandez ’04 tells his friends that his daughter goes to Harvard, they don’t believe...
That’s because many kids don’t even finish high school in the Houston neighborhood that the family—which immigrated to this country from Mexico City when Maribel was 13—calls home...
...Maribel Hernandez, Harvard provided the interest in ethnicity and the intellectual framework that may have inspired a life-long commitment to helping underpriviliged immigrants...
...Maribel Hernandez ’04, who represented RAZA, added that “the white, the black, the Mexican—we’re all in this society. We might as well unite...