IHE BATTALION
Wednesday, July 16, 1969
College Station, Texas
Page 3
HELPING FOREIGN STUDENTS
J, P. Bhatt of India helps Ai Lan Doan arrange a mailing list of foreign students for the
Texas A&M Baptist Student Center. Bhatt, a horticulture doctoral student, has been at
A&M three years. Miss Doan is a summer student coordinator of International Student
Affairs at the BSC. She is a senior at Texas Woman’s University.
Vietnam Girl Says That
‘Americans Are Friendly’
An 18-year-old pre-medical stu
dent from South Vietnam con
tends that if more international
people got to know Americans
there would not be wars.
"Americans are very friendly,”
Ai Lan Doan maintains. “No
body wants to fight a friend.”
A senior at Texas Woman’s
University in Denton, Miss Doan
knows a lot about war — she has
lived with one most of her life.
Ai Lan is one of two student
coordinators of International Stu
dent Affairs assigned to the
Baptist Student Center this sum
mer.
She says the College Station
climate is similar to her native
Da Nang, but she still misses
her homeland, parents and five
brothers and two sisters.
“My family, and all our
friends, appreciate the presence
of Americans in Vietnam. Our
greatest compliment is from the
GI’s who volunteer for second
and third tours” in the war zone,
she declares.
If American troops are pulled
oiit of Vietnam she expects the
Communists to try to take over
her country.
‘‘One thing all Vietnamese peo
ple know is to not trust the Com
munists,” Ai Lan declares.
She said the Vietnamese are
“weary of war” and it is a result
of many years of fighting.
“There was a war when my
32 Bankers Go
Back To School
Thirty-two Texas bankers went
back to school this week as
A&M’s College of Business host
ed a one-week special manage
ment seminar for the Federal
Intermediate Credit Bank of
Houston.
Thirty-two executives repre
senting the FICB, production
credit associations, discounting
associations and companies as
sociated with banks started the
seminar Monday morning.
J. P. Abbott, distinguished
professor of English, explained
how to improve performance and
productivity through group crea
tive thinking.
Abbott said managers must
build a working team.
William Oncken Jr., president
of the William Oncken Co. of
New York City, told the bankers
what a manager must know and
what it means to be a manager
during the afternoon session.
Oncken heads one of the top con
sulting firms in the nation and
has been an A&M seminar speak
er for 15 years.
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father was a young man,” she
states. “My family has never
lived without war.”
International students who vis
it the BSC ask Miss Doan about
the people and customs of Viet-
A&M Hosts 370
Workshoppers
Texas A&M will host 370 high
school journalists from 69 schools
during the 11th annual High
School Publications Workshop
July 27-Aug. 1, announced work
shop director Mrs. C. J. Leabo.
The annual program is spon
sored by A&M’s Journalism
Department.
“High school juniors and sen
iors who are editors and staff
members of school yearbooks
and newspapers will attend the
workshop,” Mrs. Leabo said.
Also attending will be approx
imately 12 faculty sponsors and
22 workshop faculty members,
including several special instruc
tors.
Beginning and advanced classes
in reporting, layout and pho
tography, with both lectures and
laboratory instruction, will be
held daily during the workshop.
Mrs. Leabo said two publica
tion experts will present lectures.
They are Wayne Brasler, publi
cations adviser at University
High School, Chicago, whose
newspaper staff set a record for
awards won in a single year,
and Miss Hattie Steinbert, ad
viser at St. Louis Park High
School, Minneapolis, Minn., whose
1966 yearbook was judged one
of the 10 best in the nation.
In addition, there will be a
“Meet the Professionals” night
Monday when journalists from
the local and Houston area will
be available to meet the students
and discuss career opportunities,
Mrs. Leabo reported.
She said approximately 270 of
the students will be housed in
college dormitories with coun
sellors supervising the student’s
activities.
This year’s enrollment is ex
pected to be about 158 more
than attended the workshop in
1968, Mrs. Leabo noted.
Returning faculty members
include Mrs. Pete Peters of Pasa
dena High School, Mrs. Peter
Dunsavage of A&M Consolidated
High School here and George
Pearson of St. Cloud, Minn.,
State College, all newspaper ex
perts, and Mary Frances Free
man of Beaumont South Park
High School, Mrs. Leabo, Mrs.
Henry Prichett of Houston
Memorial High School and Tay
lor Publishing Co. production ad
visers, all yearbook experts.
nam. Americans, she says, only
ask her about the war.
However, the war has touched
her only once. Her father’s
brother, the oldest son in her
father’s family, was killed during
the Tet offensive in 1967.
Born and reared in Da Nang,
population 200,000, Miss Doan is
the only member of her native
Vietnam family to go overseas.
Her father is an X-ray techni
cian in a Da Nang hospital and
her mother is a secretary.
She came to the United States
through the efforts of a Navy
chaplain, Lt. Cecil Threadgill of
Pilot Point, Texas, now stationed
aboard the U.S.S. New Orleans
at San Diego, Calif.
Miss Doan met the lieutenant
at a Da Nang church when she
was 16. He learned she was in
terested in becoming a medical
doctor and arranged for her to
return home with him to live with
his family. Lt. Threadgill has
two daughters about Miss Doan’s
age.
“I knew some English and my
parents could speak English,”
she remembers. “When I found
out I was coming to America I
studied very hard and could
read and write English very good
when I arrived.”
A junior in Da Nang schools,
she found she had completed all
requirements for a high school
diploma when she arrived — ex
cept for American history and
government.
With the help from Pilot Point
teachers, she completed the
course and was allowed to grad
uate one year early.
Five months after arriving in
the United States in 1967, she
was a freshman enrolled i nsum-
mer school at TWU.
Miss Doan plans to complete
studies this spring, and hopes
she will be admitted to Baylor
Medical School.
“I want to stay in Texas,” she
says with a big smile. “I’ve
grown very fond of it.”
Money is a major problem,
but she had made many friends
and they all chip in some funds
for her education.
Ai Lan said she hopes to re
turn to South Vietnam next sum
mer and wants to serve Vietnam
as a doctor when she completes
medical school.
“I owe America two debts.
One for making my country free
and another for my education,’
she reminds.
She has one bit of advice for
Americans.
“Get to know international
students. Don’t be afraid to ask
them anything, or be afraid you
will embarrass us. If you get
to know us, we get to know you,
Ai Lan urges.
“Friends don’t fight,” she in
sists.
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