A few months ago, friends and colleagues of the University of the Philippines Center for International Studies came up with “A Festschrift,” a German word indicating “In celebration of” the legacy of Consuelo J. Paz, edited by Prof. Wystan de la Peña. Her youngest son, Victor, a professor of archeology at UP Diliman, said of his mother:
My sister-in-law Connie Paz raised eight kids (seven boys and a girl) and along the way, picked up an AB in English, an MA in Linguistics, followed by a Ph.D also in Linguistics, all from the University of the Philippines in Diliman.