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By: Admin

Admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:44:01 +0000

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:53:55 +0000

Bob
You have been so much help. Thank you for the effort that you are putting into trying to provide a mechanism for reconnecting. There has been much information that I have obtained from this site that has been/will be very helpful. Hopefully more”kids” will locate the site as time goes by
Judy

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:06:14 +0000

Judy – To look for who has registered on the Blog here look in the “Categories” on the left side Menu area. Any Saigon Kids who have registered on the blog will be listed there. Also, the *master* alumni Directory is maintained by Roy on our – Saigon Kids Web Site. There is a link to it from here. Link is located on left side Menu area at the bottom under “Saigon Kids Site”. Click the link “Home Page” which will take you to the site. Once there click on the “Contact” link (left side menu). Then send Roy an email asking him for a Password to enter the Directory section (it’s password protected to keep everyone’s contact information private and viewable by only other Saigon Kids). I just checked it, there are no Osborne’s listed. Nor, are there any registered to the blog here. The 1960 and 1961 Gecko Year books are located in our Photo Gallery (see link on left Menu area). You can look through them for Osborne kids. But, you’ll have to look page by page through the class pictures, etc. You might also trying searching the ClassMates.com site, as well as, Face Book and My Space sites. Several Saigon Kids are on those sites. Some of which have not yet found our Blog or Saigon Kids Web Site. Also, if you sign up on our Blog with Google Friends Connect it will connect you into other ‘social network’ sites where you might bump into people you knew in Viet-nam (and other places too). The Friends Connect sign up box is located on the top left side of the page on the Blog here.

By my best guess, I’d estimate there are around 2,500 to 3,000 kids who attended ACS and/or lived in Saigon from the mid 1950s through primarily 1965 (tho a few remained until 1975). Over the past 12 years we’ve only been able to locate and reconnect with about 200-250 of them. So, it is an on-going search – LOL –

I hope this helps –

Bob

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:31:00 +0000

Bob
Thanks for the feedback. As a child (naturally) I never gave that any thought. Also, is there a way to look up “kids” on this site by name. My father worked for one Col Osborne around 1960-62. I wanted to see if there was an Osborne regestered as having attended school during those yers

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:55:36 +0000

Judy – most of the homes that we all lived in while in Saigon during the late 50s and early 60s were owned by local Vietnamese and French families. The military, missionary and various American agencies contracted with the various property owners to rent the homes for their personnel, etc. For the individual property owners is was a *blessing* as renting to the Americans was *guaranteed* rent payments and generally at above the local market rate for rent. One of the few exceptions would be the JDP Compound out by the airport. It was built and run by JDP for their personnel.

Bob

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:31:11 +0000

Bruce
I am SO grateful for this information! There is no doubt that I will now be able to find the home. I know that there is so much change in Saigon, that without some details I probably had little chance of locating what I wanted to. Thanks so much!
A curiosity question…Do you have any idea who owned the homes that the American families lived in in the eatly 60s?

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:26:54 +0000

Ken
You have been in touch with Diana and possibly Lizz. I apologize that I did not respond but I have not been back on this site for awhile. I will need to bookmark it. Were you in Saigon and then moved to Dalat?

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:25:35 +0000

Thanks so much for the map. I am glad I found y’all also. Memories have faded over time and I am sure that reading memories of other will rekindle mine.

By: Diana Divers Webb

Diana Divers Webb — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:39:40 +0000

Great to hear from you Ken. Will e-mail you soon.

I am Judy Divers Plymale sister. Lizz and I attended Brent School in Bagio while Judy was in Sagon attending school. We then moved to Dalat where we went to school at the Christian Missionary Alliance School. Yes, Daddy was Ken and my History Teacher. Wasn’t he a hard teacher, Ken!??? He loved us doing essays!Hope Judy finds where we lived in Saigon.

By: Bruce Thomas

Bruce Thomas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:28:46 +0000

Judy,

I have compared the old map on this site to a more recent one on the Internet – Click Here to view map.

Your old Tu Duc Street is now called Nguyen Van Thu.

Suppose you’re standing smack dab in front of the old Presidential Palace (now Reunification Palace), facing away from it down the broad boulevard (now called Le Duan). Go 3 blocks on Le Duan (you’ll pass the Catholic Cathedral on your right at the 2nd street) to Hai Ba Trung Street (it’s still got the same name) and turn left. Then going along Hai Ba Trung, the street you’re looking for (Nguyen Van Thu) will be the 4th one on your right (just past the Petronas Building).

Bruce Thomas

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:46:00 +0000

@ Judy – How can I get in touch with your sisters, Diane and Lizz? Your Dad was one of my teachers (American History) when I attended Dalat. Hope you can help me. Ken

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:42 +0000

Welcome Judy!

Great having you here.

CLICK HERE to view a copy of a 1963 map of Saigon with old street names. A link to this map is also located on the *left* Menu bar of our blog under ACS Library section. The map is in PDF format so you can print it out and/or download it to save on your computer.

What years where you in Saigon? What grades in school?

Please feel free to visit often and share you Saigon experiences and memories with everyone by making Posts to the blog and leaving Comments to others Posts.

Also, you might want to subscribe to our The Saigon Gecko newsletter – the subscribe box is located at the top right of this page.

Again, WELCOME to our Saigon Kids family. We are all glad you found us –

Bob

By: Judy Divers Plymale

Judy Divers Plymale — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:17:09 +0000

I am returning to Vietnam in about 6 weeks. I attended the American school in Saigon, followed by a couple of years in Dalat. How can I find old city maps of Saigon. I lived on Tu Duc street. I understand that the street names were changed. I very much want to find my old home
If anyone can help me with this…I would VERY MUCH appreciate it