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Oral History of Nguyen Van Lanh
No full textOral History of Nguyen Van Lanh (or Lanh Van Nguyen), born in 1941 in Quang Tri, Vietnam. HI father was part of the French military. He attended Da Lat Military Academy and fought in the Vietnam-American War, then was put in reeducation camp for over seven years. He left Vietnam via the Orderly Departure Program to resettle in the U.S. in 1994 with his wife and six children. One of the distinguishing aspects of his interview was his discussion of his interest and expertise on the Book of Changes and feng shui.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Thuy Thi Nguyen
No full textAn Oral history of Thuy Thi Nguyen, born in 1961 in Ba Ria, Vietnam and grew up in Vung Tau. At the time of interview, she is a librarian at Santa Ana College in Orange County, California. Thuy talked about her family’s escape from Vietnam as boat refugees and their process of resettlement in Orange County. She also discussed how she met and married her husband, their family life, and her Catholic faith.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Stefan Nguyen
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Stefan Nguyen, who explains his upbringings under a Vietnamese household in America, allows us into his past to understand how challenging it was to be “different.” This interview focused on his experiences escaping Vietnam and growing up in America. Using current events, Stefan gives examples of certain situations that have occurred to explain certain experiences about his past. Mr. Nguyen is a business man who is also heavily apart of the Vietnamese community.Recorded Digitall
Example stimuli for "Bimodal distribution of performance in discriminating major/minor modes"
No full textAuditory stimuli (fifty sound files in WAV format) used in the experiments reported in C Chubb, CA Dickson, T Dean, C Fagan, DS Mann, CE Wright, M Guan, AE Silva, PK Gregersen and E Kowalsky (2013), "Bimodal distribution of performance in discriminating major/minor modes," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (in print). Included also one PowerPoint file for demonstration of all fifty sounds.Created and preserved digitally in .WAV format
Oral History of Khoan Huu Le
No full textMr. Khoan Huu Le, a retired Boeing engineer arrived in the United States as a Vietnamese boat refugee. He was born in Long Xuyen, Vietnam in 1940. The interview is focuses on four major events in Mr. Le’s life, beginning with his early education and career path as a teacher in French education system, followed by his experiences during the war and communist occupation, his experiences as a refugee, and finally re-establishment in the United States.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Danh Nhut Quach
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Danh Nhat Quach, a pharmacist from Orange County, CA. The interview explores how Quach, along with other like-minded businessmen, contributed to the development of Little Saigon in the 1980s. He earned his pharmacology degree in Vietnam through the French education system and served as the Cabinet Chair of Health during the war. After his arrival to the United Sates, he attended pharmacy school in Connecticut and later moved to Southern California to open and pharmacy and shipping business to serve the budding Vietnamese community.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Suzie Xuyen Dong Matsuda
No full textDr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda graduated from Chapman University with a bachelor in the field of Psychology and further her education to a career as a Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda struggled emotionally and verbally as a child. She was one of the boat people who arrived in a refugee camp in Indonesia. In the interview, Dr. Suzie Xuyến Đông Matsuda, discusses her achievements, involvements and overcoming obstacles to be where she’s is in the moment.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Nicole Nguyen
No full textAn oral history with Nicole Nguyen, a graduate from University of California, Irvine where she majored in International Studies. This interview focused on her experience as being a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American growing up in Oklahoma and Southern California. She grew up not having an understanding of her family’s past because her parents did not find it necessarily. She discovered her identity upon joining the Project Ngoc organization at UC Irvine. She reflects on her experiences with the organization and the handful of boycotts she staged.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Ung Canh Bui
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Ung Canh Bui, a refugee and boat person of the Vietnam War. The interview’s beginning focus is on Ung’s life and the hardships he faced as a child growing up in poverty during the War. This interview then focused on his experience during the Vietnam War to the fall of Saigon as an officer of the Air Force and how the war affected him and his family. Ung describes his journey to America and his transition from a Vietnamese to a first generation Vietnamese American.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Stephanie Tran Vo
No full textAn oral history narration with Stephanie Tran Vo, a graduate from California State University of Long Beach where she majored in Computer Science and minored in Mathematics. This interview gives insight on the life of a fifteen year old girl from Saigon who left to the United States in 1975 by boat. Growing up with only her three of her brothers and leaving behind her mother and oldest brother, Stephanie explores the difficulties in adjusting to life in America. She concludes with how identifies strongly with the American society and has no intentions of going back to Vietnam.Recorded Digitall