Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: "My mother used to stay up," says Arícelí Lerma, an attorney. " Not to check up on him, but to bring him a plate of food because she knew how hard he was working!" He would teach anybody who wanted to learn — they didn't have to be designated gifted and talented by the school. Sandra Munoz, a former Escalante student
Escalante, whose students mischievously nicknamed him "Kimo" (a play on The Lone Ranger's Kemosabe moniker), would not only work with his students until they were all ready to drop from exhaustion, he employed them in the summers as tutors. And he showed them that the best colleges in the country were not beyond their reach. Lerma reels off a partial list of where she and other Escalante students from the class of 1991 went: Occidental, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, MIT, Wellesley. Dolores Arredondo, who is now a bank vice president went to Wellesley. She said that one year, Escalante appeared at the Pachanga celebration for Latino students that the Ivy League and Seven Sisters colleges held o