Ernesto Marroquín Bernal passed away September 1, 2017. As former Dean of the College of Education at UT Pan American in the 1990s and key in the development of the Division of Bicultural Bilingual Studies at UTSA in the 1970s, Bernal authored the first scholarly research on the Latino gifted child in the U.S. He was a prolific scholar and innovator in the fields of Bilingual Education, Gifted Education, and the Psychometric Analysis of Test Bias, and spent a lifetime speaking and publishing on the gifts of children from culturally diverse backgrounds. Dr. Bernal co-founded, along with his wife, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, a bilingual school for the gifted and creative child, Camino, and headed up the San Antonio Gifted Education Foundation, which operated from 2002-2006. Bernal began his teaching career at Keystone School teaching English and Government. He later received an MA from Our Lady of the Lake and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He served as faculty at St Mary's University, the University of Texas San Antonio; California State University Fresno; Cal State San Bernardino, Northern Arizona University, ASU and UT Pan American. Dr. Bernal served as a consultant to educational institutions and projects throughout the U.S. and Mexico, developed bilingual curriculum, and directed the Center for Bilingual Education and Research at ASU, as well as developing and administering other programs throughout the Southwest. Dr. Bernal was pre-deceased by a brother and a daughter. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Carmen Tafolla, three sons, three daughters and a grandson. Funeral service was held on September 10, 2017 at The Angelus Funeral Home Chapel 1119 N. St. Mary's St, recitation of the Rosary on September 11, 2017 followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Timothy Catholic Church, 1515 Saltillo St. Interment was at Bluebonnet Cemetery Somerset, Texas