My older sister Patricia and I went to the Phoenix Study Group (PSG) in 1965 to finish out the academic year when ACS abruptly closed down.

We were both born in DC and had American passports, but we were Vietnamese, so stayed in Saigon until 1966, when my father Nguyen Dinh-Hoa (he wrote English-Vietnamese and Vietnamese-English dictionaries) became cultural attache to the embassy in DC, which made it possible for my mother and two younger siblings (born in Saigon) to come to the States with us.