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363-08330 to 363-08335
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Title
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Article about Elizabeth Brown from Toronto
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Description
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Original title: "Canadian", Keever's title: N/A, Article draft about Elizabeth Brown from Toronto, for The Canadian
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Draft transcripts were automatically generated via Google Document AI and are currently under review. Please report significant errors to Archives & Special Collections at archives@unl.edu.
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Mr. Barry Conn Hughes
Articles Editor
The Canadien
snigon, Vietnam
May 8, 1967
60 Yonge Street
Toronto 1, Canada
Dear Mr. Bugheas
I'm onoloning the 800-word article on Toronto's Miss Elizabeth
Brown, as well as some black-and-white photos. I hope this is of some
value to you.
In the event you should need some articles from here in the future,
I'd appreciate hearing from you. Photographer Jim Pickerell has loft
Vietnam, but I'm now working with others of the same onlibre.
Could you please make any payments, in the event there are any,
to the following addreces Miss Beverly Doope, Citizens State Bank,
Carleton, Nebraska, U. A.
My many thanks.
Boat of luck in the future.
Best regards,
B
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Beverly Ann Deepe
64 Hong Thap Tu
Saigon, Vietnam
May 7, 1967
Canadian-page 1
On a hot summer day, a Vietnamese womens
SAIGON, VIETNAM
with two small boys
trundled through the gate of the Foster Parents' Plan office, which
As a gloaming white villa in the center of this harried, nervous capitol.
Rapidly, he explained,
"These are my nephews.
Their mother and two other
ohildren more killed when their house was bombed by American aircraft.
These two were playing outside and escaped death.
"But I have my own family and I can't afford two more mouths.
Can you help?"
The answer:
"Of course, we'll help," replied Toronto's Elizabeth Brown, the
Ba am Doo, as the Vietnameno call her, meaning "Madame the Director."
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Deepe
Canadian po 2
An head of Foster Parents' Plan, Inc., in Vietnam, Miss Brown
in the vivacious, dignified behind-the-scenes godmother for 6,000 Vietnamese
families who have been adopted by the person-to-person, government-approved
She is the solo Canadian serving as director
o relief organization.
in the eleven countries in which Foster Parents' operate. American
directors serve in recce, Korea, the Philippines, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,
Hong Kong, Bolivia, Brazil and Italy.
"The American State Department has a ruling that when any voluntary
agency distributes supplies and money abroad, the director must be an
American," Miss Brown explained. She smiled and added "But because
25 por cont of the Foster Parents are Canadian, the state Department
waived their regulation in my case." A rocent addition to the 11-man
Foster Parents' board of directors is Montreal's Paul S. H. Lindsay (of 212
St. sacrement St.). In * Canada, the Foster Parents' address is P. O. Box
65, station B., Montreal, Quebec.
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Deepe
Canadian-page 3
The rostor of oan mot (foster children) in Vietnam includes not
only the tradedies of the bloody war, but also the scourges of disease of
any underdeveloped country. Children whose fathers have been killed either
by the pro-Communist Viet Cong, or by Americen bombings or simply caught
in the aromafire of both are included. No are the children whose father
are sick with tuberouload syb cencer or # other ailments which prohibit
omployment and reduces the family income.
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"Even with both parents dead, few children are abandoned,"
Brown explaine, "because other relatives reach out and accept the children
as their own. The family is the strongest link in Vietnamese society,
tries to help keep the family together with financial
resources rather than having the children op rated from the relatives
Foster Parents'
and put into institutions.
"30venty five per cent of all the 10,200 children in Tictaomece
orphanages have relatives living," she continued. "wo feel that it is much
bottos to try to keep the children in the family at home."
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Doope
Canadian--page 4
During her four years in Vietnam, Miss Brown's daily schedule
includes supervising the staff of 40 full-time Vietnamese, 24 of which are
social workers who personally interview and assist the families of
the fine foster children. Roughly 70 per cent of the 6,000
Vietnamese families under Foster Parents' live within 60 miles of the
migon office. Thero como once a month to receive their cash grants and
supplies such as vitamina, soap, textiles, rain confite and shoes.
a dozen centers exist for the rural chileron.
Outside of Saigon,
The Plan also insists on schooling for all their foster children of nohool
が
ape in the family; it also as for medical care by Western standards
and seeks to improve the housing of ench of their families.
"We could expand if we had more acourity on the redde and if we
could put more trained personnel," Hias Brown explained. The itself, which
oreates some of the need for Foster Parents', also limited its owth
"Recently, I sent two of our case workers to talk to the leaders OWN SA
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of two communities outside of Saigon in the Mekong Delta area. The girls
wont in our Volkswagen with our driver. They were gone two or three
hours and then they had to turn back because they met a military operation
on the road and they could hear gunfire in the dintance.
"Soveral weeks before that, two of our case workers were accosted
on a road that once was safe. They had to turn back to their home office
in the highlands. Now, we don't drive that road anymore."
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Deepo
Canadian pace 5
Before coming to Vietnam, Miss Brown describes her life as
"oheckered." she me graduated from the University of Toronto in 1928,
where she e president of the women's undergraduate association during the
After working in a Toronto department store, she
institution's centennial.
went to New York, and studied personnel work and guidance, grundig
graduating with a master's degree in 1939 from Columbia University.
this time, she also worked in the personnel department of a chowing
gum factory in the New York suburba.
doubt about that," she reminėsced.).
director in a New York settlement house.
During
("That was a rough experience, no
Then she worked as associate
("We organized procossions of
mothers to city hall to drop the price of milk from 13 to 11 cents a quart").
During World War II, she served in Ottawa as employment advisor for
women and after that she headed the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration (UNRRA) in Palestine, Lobanon and Syria during the chaotic
moves of refugees to and from that area.
"I'm not in any greater danger in Vietnam than I was in Jerusalem
when the Jewish terrorists were fighting the British," she explains oalmly.
"When I ffe th first
Everytime I got in the at thore in 1944, I had a Glasgow driver.
I tripped over his Bible.
Then the St situation
rew worse. The British military gave me a Welsh driver and two bodyguards.
Whenever I got in the car, I tripped over their tommy guns. Before I left
in 1947, the British took the driver away from mo, saying it was a too
dangerous for their soldiers to take me where I had to go."
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Date
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1967, May 7
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B191, F3
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
