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Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center / Special Collections has made these materials available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any uses beyond the spirit of Fair Use require permission from owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See http://library.rice.edu/guides/publishing-wrc-materials"]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:27 M:02 Y:2011"},{"label":"Publisher","value":["Rice University"]},{"label":"Language","value":["vie"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"wrc02769_xscript"},{"label":"Description","value":"Vo My Le was born on 11 November 1949 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her occupation both here in the United States and in Vietnam is as a teacher. She is Buddhist. She arrived in the United States in July 1975. Vo My Le fled Hanoi to Saigon via boat with her mother in 1954 (father had passed away the previous year). She distinctly remembers American soldiers carrying her to the boat. Her family owned a bookstore in Hanoi. In Saigon, Vo My Le's mother had to raise five children singlehandedly, jumping from job to job selling bicycles, rice, rain jackets, and wedding cakes. Vo My Le's two sisters pursued careers as pharmacists, one brother became an engineer, and one became a dentist. She wanted to pursue a career as a teacher and was supported by her mother, who encouraged her to go and study in Paris, France. She returned to Vietnam in 1972 and taught elementary school children until 1975, when she made preparations to open her own school with her husband, Vo Dang, who helped her build it. In April 1975, the Viet Cong invaded and Vo My Le and her husband consequently fled. Vo My Le's mother received airplane tickets from her brother in-law's father (friend) who did not leave the country then was later sent by the new regime to the re-education camp in North Vietnam for more than 10 years. Vo My Le's mother gave the tickets to Vo My Le's pregnant sister and Vo My Le, who had a 17 month old child. They flew out of Vietnam on 23 April 1975 to Guam then to Pendleton, California. Vo My Le was eventually reunited with her family (who immigrated via boat). Vo My Le and family moved to Cooper, Texas (brother-in-law, a physician, was sponsored by the town due to a need for a new doctor), a small town of 2500 people. The town provided a furnished apartment, cans of soup, and toys for Vo My Le's son. Vo My Le re-took the ECFMG under the town's sponsorship. Vo My Le moved to Houston, where she worked at Houston Montessori Children Center from 1978-1985. She furthered her education in San Diego and eventually took over the Houston Montessori Children Center and the affiliated training center in 1987. Vo My Le remembers the terrors of the TET Offense (1968) in which the Viet Cong attacked Saigon and other cities of South Vietnam. She was frightened every night by mortars of Viet Cong who shelled the city and the news of husbands' friends who died at the battle fields. After the Communist took over South Vietnam, her brother-in-law was sent to the education camp and her family did not know where and when he died. When Vo My Le came back to Vietnam in 2005 and 2006, she saw a big difference between the rich and the poor. She hopes Vietnam will be free and democratic soon. She loves her country; she feels a sympathetic pain in her heart for the people in the agonies of poverty. She joints the \"Messenger of Love\", a non-profit organization which helps poor children in Vietnam. During the visit to Vietnam in 2005, she met a shoe-shine boy who dropped out of school because he was so poor. His parent died and he was living with his grand-mother. Vo My Le told him that she would give him money monthly if he went back to school for continuing his education. He was a high school student. For her children, her grand-children or Vietnamese students, Vo My Le teaches them to be polite, to respect family and country, to be honest, and to preserve Vietnamese Culture and History, and never forget their own language."},{"label":"Abstract","value":"This recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation and donated to the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes video recordings of interviews with Vietnamese Americans native to or living in Texas. This interview forms part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project conducted by the Vietnamese Heritage Foundation."},{"label":"People and Organizations","value":["Le, Vo My"]},{"label":"Accessibility","value":["This item may have accessibility enhancements created by AI, which means there might be misspellings and/or grammatical errors. 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