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Dan-el Padilla Peralta (also, Dan-el Padilla) is the 2006 Latin salutatorian of Princeton University. An undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, he rose from poverty and homelessness to show promise, according to one faculty member, as "one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation". ==Family and childhood== Padilla and his family entered the United States legally in 1989, when Padilla was four years old, on a six-month temporary visa, so that his mother could obtain emergency medical care arising from diabetes-related pregnancy complications. In need of continuing care, the family applied for a further visa extension but never heard back from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Padilla's father, unable to find work, returned to the Dominican Republic while his mother overstayed her visa to raise Padilla and his infant brother in homeless shelters in New York City. In 1994 Padilla, then living with his family in a shelter in Bushwick, Brooklyn, met photographer Jeff Cowen, who took an interest in the young boy.〔 With Cowen's tutelage and encouragement Padilla won a scholarship to Cowen's alma mater high school, Collegiate School in Manhattan〔 At Collegiate Padilla learned Greek, Latin, and French, participated in debate tournaments, and was described by an administrator as "one of the most powerful intellects" to ever attend the school.〔〔 Padilla applied for early admission to Princeton and was accepted in December, 2001. He admitted on his application that he did not have legal status in the United States. Princeton nevertheless awarded him a full scholarship out of its own funds (because federal aid programs are not available to non-residents).〔 At Princeton Padilla earned a 3.9 grade point average, and was named salutatorian of his class. He majored in Classics, studying ancient Rome and Greece, despite having never been to Europe. He often took twice the normal course load.〔 At the 2006 commencement ceremony, he delivered the traditional address in Latin. His mother, at the time, lived in Harlem and worked as a maid. Padilla successfully defended his Stanford Ph.D. dissertation in Classics in June 2014, and that fall became a Fellow in the (Society of Fellows in the Humanities ) at Columbia University. As a Fellow he was a Lecturer in Classics at Columbia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dan-el Padilla Peralta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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