Vietnamese woman
gets one child back
Photo by Diana Totah
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Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — A
Vietnamese mother who left her
seven children in an orphanage
while the Communists advanced on
Saigon says “I am so happy I don’t
know what word you can use” over a
court decision returning one child to
her.
“I am excited and nervy,” said
Dean thi Hoang Anh, 33, in a tele
phone interview from Great Falls,
Mont., where she lives with four of
her children.
“It’s like losing a son. We were
hoping for a miracle,” was the reac
tion of John Nelson, 33, the 6-year-
old boy’s foster father for the last 18
months. “We’re happy we’ve had a
year and a half with Ben. ”
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice
C. Edwin Moore wrote in the
unanimous decision that “the Nel
sons have rendered exceptional serv
ice in Ben’s behalf. Under this rec
ord, someone must be hurt.”
Ben, who’s real name is Doan Van
Binh, is one of seven brothers and
sisters who escaped capture in the
final days of the Saigon regime.
Their mother left them in a Friends
of Vietnam Children orphanage with
a request to get them out of the coun
try, according to court records.
Their father had just been killed, and
the court noted, “It was only after an
incredible ordeal Anh and the chil-
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eseventh grade class activities en-
re . y ' He will use a contract grade
jaugu«/ Sem which will enable the stu-
llegalaM e J s work at their own levels,
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By KATHY HENDERSON
, en the senior boots loudly
a en the quiet halls of An son
"es Jr. High School in Bryan, one
Teventh grade class knows that their
, ,®!'t teacher has arrived.
I dhert Pops” Sennette, a
mr ma 5°dng in primary educa-
mn at Texas A&M University,
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nsibility and a chance to be crea-
,e ' teacher is then available to
^d' nd ' v ' duid instruction, he
•The students are well disciplined,
en nette said, but there is one minor
fobtem. Frequently, to his dismay,
ev accidentally step on his boots.
°P S can be seen on campus
'Hug the trombone and marching
Nelly in the ranks whenever the
'g tin Texas Aggie Band steps off
[Je beat of the Aggie War Hymn.
ci's (ne Infantry Baud Battalion
Wly officer and is also a member
»Parsons’ Mounted Cavalry.
ennette entered Texas A&M as a
T Inor e in 1974 after a visiting lec
ture professor for the English de
partment, Dr. Ray Leighman,
showed him around the campus.
Sennette is from Galveston, Tex.,
where he worked as a treatment
technician at the Shriners Burn
Hospital for children, in Galveston.
Sennette, a robust fellow measur
ing 61” tall and weighing 250 lbs,
played semi-pro football for the Gulf
Coast Texans for four years.
“I even tried out for the Dallas
Cowboys,” he said.
But Sennette’s real goal is to be an
academic counselor on a high school
level. He plans to enter graduate
courses at Texas A&M after he
graduates this December.
Sennette said he spends much of
his spare time on weekends camping
out with “the guys.” “The guys are
six troops of Boy Scouts, about 55 in
all, and Sennette is their Scoutmas
ter. The boys range in age from 11- to
15-years-old.
“I’ve spent lots of nights trying to
console kids who are scared of the
dark,” he said. “It’s really surprising
how many of them are.”
The members of Sennette’s troops
are from a low income area in Bryan.
He said although the people like the
Boy Scout program, they aren ’t will
ing to help with the work involved.
“They say, ‘oh, that sounds,
when you tell them about it but
they’re busy when you need help,”
he said.
ChESTEB, III. — A Mississippi
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coyed by explosion and fire about
p)is free of its watery grave. The
fcat didn t come up — the river
‘rent down.
JForty feet of heavy timbers and
Banking — all that remains of “The
iun City — has emerged as the
Juarter-mile-wide river shrank to
paints size because of water short
ies upstream.
; On each side of the Mississippi,
about I<36 yards of what normally is
river bottom is exposed and dry.
Although the Army Corps of En
gineers is maintaining a nine-foot
channel for river traffic, the
waterway is now only about an
eighth of a mile wide.
There apparently were no crew
members killed when the ship sank,
hut persons examining the wreckage
said they found hones that may have
been part of a horse’s skeleton.
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dren were able to escape the same
fate.”
Anh, as she is known in Great
Falls, fled Vietnam and entered the
United States as a refugee on Aug. 5,
1975. She said she never gave the
orphanage permission to have her
children adopted. When they ar
rived in the United States, she
traced them through the Denver of
fice of the orphanage sponsors.
The Nelsons contended that Anh
had abandoned her children and that
Binh’s best interests would be
served by his being left with them.
But the court said Anh was “a
woman of extraordinary courage,
perseverance and full compassion for
her child. ”
The court also said there was evi
dence the Nelsons had caused Binh
to avoid contact with another
Vietnamese family in Forest City,
where they live, “. . . in effect caus
ing him to reject his cultural and ra
cial roots.”
The court did ask, however, that
there be continued contact between
the Nelsons and Binh.
Anh, who is training to be a
nurse’s aide, had already located and
reclaimed four of her children from a
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lives in a foster home in this country
and an infant is with a family in
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