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Esther La-Madrid Esparza
Esther LaMadrid-Esparza was born in Brownsville, Texas.
She attended Brownsville Junior College after World War
II, and graduated from Texas College of Arts and
Industries (now Texas A & M University, Kingsville) in
1949 (BA, cum laude) with a major in Spanish and a minor
in French and English. She received a master of science
degree in 1955 with a major in elementary education.
She began teaching in a county school near Brownsville
in 1947. Her 41 years of teaching experience include all
elementary grade levels from pre-kindergarten to 8th
grade and a migrant school in McAllen, Texas. In January
1971, she was employed as an Elementary Education
instructor at Pan American University in Edinburg,
Texas. She retired from the University in 1983 and her
last experience was teaching for three years on a
part-time basis in a pre-K class for four-year-olds.
Thomas Esparza Jr.
Thomas Esparza, Jr., is the editor/publisher of Star
Light Press. He is the son of Esther LaMadrid-Esparza
and the late Dr. Thomas Esparza of Edinburg, Texas. Tom
has been a Licensed Attorney for more than 29 years and
is a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law in
Austin.
With his mother, Tom has created, edited, and
published several bilingual educational products
for children and adults. He attributes much of
his success to his parents who taught him to
acquire the necessary skills to fulfill his
dreams. Through his legal practice he discovered
the need and opportunity to provide bilingual
educational products to his clients and other
practicing attorneys. Tom and his wife
Minerva have three children.
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Robbie Miller
Robbie Miller was born in Greenock, Scotland in
1962. She went to Glasgow University, but
dropped out, after years of fruitless study and
the realization that Astronomy/Mathematics and
her were not good friends.
In search of a career, in the late 80’s, she
taught herself how to use computers to create
artwork. In furtherance of this, she went to
James Watt College, Greenock where she took a
course in CAD, taking her first steps in 3D
computer graphics. Using this experience, she
entered the video game industry where she was an
accomplished artist for more than 9 years. She
worked for several companies as a 3D modeler,
texture artist and animator, and worked on more
than 14 published games.
In 2002, she decided to pursue a different
branch of the art world and joined Star Light
Press as an illustrator. So far she has
illustrated two books, a video game and seven
disks of printable activity sheets for Star
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