… Month … ELAC is celebrating … National Hispanic Heritage Month … by highlighting a few individuals who have made a lasting impact. We as a campus honor these and so many other Hispanic trailblazers, educators, scientists, artists, … his home country when he was just 16 years old. When he moved to the United States in 1955, he had never seen a baseball game, but in only three years, he found himself on the Spanish broadcast team for the first Dodgers season in Los Angeles. … the Hispanic community. Dr. Zapanta was a founding member of the USC Mexican-American Alumni Scholarship Fund, has given 7,500 scholarships, and raised more than $14 million. He frequently mentored high school, college, and medical students and …