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...They sacrificed everything for us," Guizar said. "I know it's an old cliche, But it's true." He explained that his father never made him work in the fields before or after school, but insisted he take time to study...
...International" might be a better word to describe Florentino Guizar '79 than foreign...
...Mexican citizen from Gilroy, California, where his parents are agricultural worders, Guizar came to Harvard after spending a year in Switzerland. He was born in central Mexico, and moved to Gilroy at eight because his parents were supporting an older brother in medical school and could not make enough money from their "two or three acre" farm to buy textbooks...
...That's the whole concept of immigrant labor, that the whole family works," Guizar said. He added that his father could have "followed the fruit," and worked year round, but instead stayed in Gilroy, working 12 hour days nine months of the year, so his children could attend school. Guizar's father never went to school, and his mother had only a fifth-grade education. "For us to gain the education they never had, that was very important to them," Guizar says...
...time Guizar was a senior at Gilroy High School, his brother had graduated from medical school in Mexico, and one day asked him if he would like to finish school in Europe. And so Guizar ended up in Switzerland for his senior year, polishing his French and Italian at the Ecole de Commerce de Neuchatel...