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Show Vietnamese girl speaks at club A former Vietnamese girl and a missionary to that country coun-try furnished an interesting program for Modern Mothers Club members Wednesday, when they met at the home of Ann Bartlett. Ora Pyper, program chairman, chair-man, introduced Tu Trinh Dam of South Vietnam and Larry Lyman of Monticello, students at BYU. They told of the country coun-try and people and the girl gave highlights of her travels before coming to BYU. When the Communists took over her country, her 'family moved to Siagon, leaving all their belongings. belong-ings. Her father became an interpreter in-terpreter for the American Embassy and through the embassy, em-bassy, she and a sister received scholarships to colleges here. She spent two years at Carbon Car-bon College, Price; two years in Oakland, Calif., where she became interested in the LDS Church and later to BYU, where she has studied for two years. She played several piano pi-ano selections for the group, appearing in a beautiful native costume. The former missionary showed show-ed slides of the countries in the Far East. He and Miss Dam are engaged to be married and plan to return to the Far East. President Mary Wright was in charge of the meeting and welcomed two other guests, Betty Isaacson and Nadine Williams. Refreshments were served by the hostess at the close of the program. |