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Mission Valley CA (San Diego Col San Diego Weekly News (Cir. 2XM 20,000) ov 1 91986

Lmh Huynh 1s a 20-year-old chemistry maJor at the versity of San Diego. Huynh. the daughter o a mi e-class high chool teacher who was imprisoned by the commumsts for more than three years, fled Vietnam at the age of 15. With a 38 grade point average at Mount Car- mel l/1gh School, she obtained scholar- ship to gain admittance to USD. This is the /ir.;t she has written about her pain- ful experience By Lmh Huynh '1pec111! to The Tribune I s I'lLL remember one afternoon in May 1980, when I had just gotten home after school. My mother sat down be 1de me at the dinner table. She looked around very calmly and careful- ly. Suddenly, she asked, "Do you want to escape?" Even though I was not surprised, my mind didn t seem to get the whole idea about leaving hke that. After a while, I looked back to her. ''Do you and daddy go with us?" • h mil d and aid, "Take your ch nc , baby.' I didn't answer my mother right then. I a ed my friends and listened to the terrible tories about escaping by boat. I heard that anything could happen. Peo- ple were killed on some of the boats. Women were raped. And I heard that people ate the people who died on the boats. More than once, I told Mom and Dad I didn't want to go. When I started hlgh school m the sev- enth grade, I knew that my chance to go on to study under the communists was not so good because my father was in the military before 1975, the year that Saigon fell In April 1975, the communists took my father to what they called a re-education camp At first, they said my father would be released after 10 days. My father did not come home until August 1978, more than three years later. We were allowed to visit him only once, six months after he left, and for only 10 minutes. While my father was away, life was more complicated and miserable than before. Cluldren of South Vietnam's sol- diers were discnminated against. Some students about my age and older became disappointed and dropped out of school to get a small job helping their families. The night before my brother and I es- caped, I couldn't sleep. I stayed up say- ing goodbye to all my friends. We left the house about 4 a.m. My mother and I

of cotton and anything else •,\e could find. There were 10 peopl<> :u our cabin. We lived in the r11llippines for five months before going to the United States. I liked the Philippine refugee camp much more than Malaysia because we had classes all morning, to learn English and other subjects. In the afternoon, I studied typing. Since elementary school, I have been interested in math and science. I hated literature and history. That's kind of funny because my fatber is a literature teacher. He still teaches in a high school in Saigon. My mother is a housewife. I also have two brothers who are still in Viet- nam: Huy, 19, and Phuong, 16. We lived in a house about five or six miles from downtown Saigon. I don't know if I will ever see my par- ents again, but I know they are happy that I live in a country where I can do what I want to do. My parents and brothers tried to get out once but were not successful The boat trip was canceled. If I make enough money, I may be ble to send for them. Every time I receive a letter from my parents, I feel bad because I can't help them. At first, I was getting a letter every two or three months. ow, I receive just one a year because it is so expensive. I don't know why, b1.t it costs my Dad one month of his salary to send a letter. When I first came to the United States, we landed in Seattle. Then we were taken to Boise, Idaho. The University of Idaho sponsored my uncle's family and me and my brother. We lived in the home of a Vietnamese family for one month before moving here in June 1982. We were the guests of another Viet- namese family in East San Diego before we moved into a home in Poway. We share the rent with my uncle. Sometimes I feel at home right here, but sometimes I miss my family. I don't feel comfortable here because it seems like nobody can understand me. The cul- tures are so different. I do like San Diego. J have been able to make friends here. Most of my friends are classmates at USD. After I graduate, I want a job in a research laboratory. Everything in a lab is exciting to me. I'd also like to work on a master's degree in chemistry. I always have praise for my beloved country. I hope Vietnam bas a better fu. ture, not only for my parents' sake, but for all Vietnamese.

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cried, but I didn't see my father and brothers cry. We took a bus in Saigon to a small village near the river where the boat was. I think it was the Mekong River. I had never been there before. At 1 or 2 a.m., y began to take us to the boat in small groups. We were on the river for a half a ay before we reached the ocean. I was fortunate to go on my uncle's boat. Son Ehan, my uncle, was the cap- tain of a fishing boat. My brother, Tung, who was 12 at the time, went with us. My uncle took his family with him. There were 196 people on the boat, which was about 24 meters long and five meters wide. I was fortunate. Other boats leaving Vietnam had many more people on them. We left Vietnam from a small port vil- lage outside Saigo . It took us eight days to get to the refug camp in Malaysia. When we reached Malaysia, we were taken to a refugee camp, where we stayed for 41k nths. We lived in a cardboard cabin t11d made our beds out

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Briefcase Donald Worley, a San Diego real estate specialist, will be chairman the 1987 Salz- burg/Waidring Conference sponsored by McGeorge School of Law. Worley is a partner in_the firm of Worley, Schwartz, Garfield & Rice, and is a board ~ember of the San Diego County Interna- tional Trade Commission. This is the fourth year he has chaired the conference, held an- nually in January in Salzburg and Waidring Austria. ' Worley says the conference is an out- growth of McGeorge's work-study program for law students and graduate lawyers. This year•~ conference runs from Jan. 24-31 with licensmg agreements, patents, know-how, trade secrets and software to be covered in program resentations. The program is open to any interested law- yer, Worley says, with participants coming from many European and Asian countries. Americans tend to be in the minority among program attendees, he says, and past conferences have always been oversubsubcribed. Worley, 48, got involved in the program when he took a European internship in 1981 working in Copenhagen in the law depart~ ment of a shipping and trading company. He says bis. participation in the program brought him the surprising discovery of the similarities among lawyers from around the world. "Get rid of the accents and so forth and there is surprisingly little difference " he says. "I've found that lawyers throughout the world tend to think alike even though they come from vastly different systems." Worley is a graduate of Yale University. Following service in the Navy, he entered the AJni,ersi"· of San-Diego where he received his law degree. He also has a masters degree in international law and tax from McGeorge. Although he has a strong interest in interna- tional law, he says his international client base has shrunk, mainly because of the pre- sent weakness of many of the Latin Ameri- can currencies. But now many of the international clients are European rather than from Latin ;America, and he says some have come to him through connections he made as a result of the McGeorge program.

Peter McCuen has been elected to Pacific Legal Foundation's Board of Trustees, a Sac- ramento-based non-profit public interest law firm with a conservative orientation. McCuen is co-owner and chairman of McCuen & Steele, a Sacramento commercial real estate investment and development farm. He is a former director and executive committee member of the American Elec- tronic Association, and is a member of the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education in California. He is a director of the Sacramento symphony Association, the Crocker Art Musewn, and the Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Ass?Ciati?n, He was an assistant professor of engmeermg at Stanford University and founded and served as president of Acurex Corporation of Mountain View, a research and_development firm in the fields of energy, envu-onrnent, space, and defense. The 13-year-<>ld Pacific Legal Foundation has participated inmore than 500 cases in the a!eas of fi:ee. e!lterprise, private p~rty, nghts and mdiv1dual freedoms, acco · to a spokesman. McCuen will be one of the foun- dation's 19 trustees from the public and pri- va~ sectors who meet five times a year at theu- own expense. Cecil Matthews has been named president of Ringler Associates, which claims to be the nation's largest firm in the structured settle- ment industry. Matthews will succeed David Ringler, founder and chairman of the pri- vately held Newport Beach-based firm. .Before _coming to Ringler, Matthews was vice president and Chicago branch manager for Interstate National Insurance Group and has also held posts with Allstate Insur~nce ~nd America Reserve Insurance Group. He IS a graduate of the University of Texas. The Long Beach Bar Association's annual ~s-secretary holiday luncheon will be held Friday, Dec. 5, at noon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Long Beach. Tables of eight or 10 may be reserved in advance by calling 432. 5913. ./

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