Posted on 12/21/2004 12:20:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
When Lan Nguyen entered Andrew Hill High School as a sophomore in 1984, he had about two years to learn English, graduate and adjust to life outside the homeland he had fled in the bottom of a fishing boat.
Twenty years later, Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-American trustee in the school district he entered as a refugee. The soft-spoken social services analyst represents a dramatic shift in a community that once largely ignored local politics, focusing its energy instead on fighting communism abroad.
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Van may ông Lan Nguyen!
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