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Ur. .BaITy Oor J Huahes
"3'tiolee I!lii tOZ'
.T'iMI Cana§J.ee
16 Tonge street
'foronto 1, Canada
Deer rir. Bu,ehoua
1•m oo.olotdng tho 800--tvol'6 ai•tiole on 1'cll'Onto't$ Mse Slizebeth.
Brown. c-s TTell as scna blaoJt�mite photos. · J hope tide ls � 90118
value to yc,u.
In tho evmt 70\l should neod. eame ert1clcs from here in the f'u.'.ture,
1 1 4 �prec1 to hearing hGID you. - Pbotographer Jim P.lokerell hasiji loft
Vietnam, but I-•• mw working wt th o'lhern of the aame oellbz'e.
Could ycu pleaoe llalte e:ny p JmODta, in tho evor.t thc:ro a.re fmY•
to the follo�'dng addreCJet •tae ?leverly lleope, Cstizena stnte :'Banke ,
Oorleton, Bebrt akn, u. · , • .ft•

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Beverly nn Deepo
64A Tione mo.p Tu
Sa1g-on, Vietnl:.U

SAIOOB, VIE'ffi.AII
On n hot SUlllller day,

e Vtetn

:'.'le wanerm

1"1 th t·�10 �11 beys

tl'Undled tl'll'ough the 1§1 te � the Footer Parent:3• Plan oftlce, v.hioh
---..
� a gl�aming �te nlla Sn the oenter o� this harrted• ncnous oepltol+
Rapidly,

he expltiti�,

children v.ro1·e killed

"!heee a.re IQ' nephews.

VJben their house

,'la

'J'be12" mother and tm other

bombed by American nlrCraft.

'ftleae t1,t;10 "ere playing outdde and eaDaped death..
"But I have '1118 own f'Nldly and I' can•t afford tw more mouths.
Can you help?"

"ot

course, we•ll help,"

Ba IOlaci DoOJ

replied !'onmto•a &lisabetb

ao tho YtetMmene coll her,,

Brom.

the

moard.-.g .._adame the DI.rector.•

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Canndien--pa ;0 2

A

ho.. d of Po tor ,�ronts• Plan,

nn.,

Ja.3e Brown

in Tietnem•

le, the ,rivacious, dlgnlf1ed bebind-the-eoanos godmother for 6:,, 000 Tiotnr.im.er.:ie
families who have been a4opted by the peraon-t
o-poroon,
,
aelt8"0.

· .,,-I

1n the

relict 01"BBM0&tion.,

goverment-npp1"ovod

She ia the, solo Canadian eem.ng as director

eleven ·oountrtes l,n tmtoh Poeter Parents• oper te.

direotore . erve in <JNeoe,

roroa,,

Ame:d.con

the, Ph!.lippineo, Colcmbia, BDuador, •�

Bong �ong, Boli'Vin, Jtrmd.l and Xtol.7• 1
"!'he Amerl.0811 state J>epartment bao a l"Ulln& thnt ,men
sgom,y distributes auppllea and money abroad,
J,me ·tor.in,•

Riss Brown o:1tplalned.

the direc,tor must be M

She, emilod 8l'l4 Bddedt

25 per oont of' the Poster Pnl'ents are C&llBdi
waived theix- l'eg,:Jlation in my oa e. •

65,

tn a Cana4a,

stl-t ti on B., Montreal,, Quebeo.

"But, beotiU13e

the �t 'te Department

A �ent addition to tho .11-man

Poster Pr..irento• board of diZ'Oltt
, oJ-s ts Jlontrea.11 s Paul
st. saoroment st.)..

o.n.v voltmt�

a..

U. J.iDd:987 ( of 212

the J'oslo Parents•· address 1a p.,

o.

Boz

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4l'he, roster

ot �.·!1¥11

(t-oetev, oh!la.ren)

onl;; the trt�es ,of the blooa;,

'f

r;)ey under<l0velopod

o.ountz,u.,

fflll'•

but al so the et10urgo, of d1 see� ,of

Children \'Jboae £athers have been ldlled et ther

b:r tho :pro-Oornmmd.ot ftot Cons,

r

or b3' �1oen banblnGo o

in tho ortHi!llfiro o6 both are lnolUded.

an

in 'ftetnem imludee not

a1mp17 cauetit

::to are the ohildrQl'l �Jhooe f'a.tbors
t

aiok "li 'th tuberoulosls;� cemer � a othw o.i.lmontn tioh prbhlb1t

et."'I)lOJmont ano. reduces the lf'omil7 imaae.

� expl�im,1 nbeoause other relatives :r.,eo.oh OU"t and accept the, Children.
co the11·

t.1�..

Postor .Parunt.,•

!he family is the atroD{."8at link in fletnameoo aoOi�t�,.trtoe to

EJll

help keep tbe forli.ly together JI w.t. t,h f1D.U»ia.1

and put into iDati 'tutions.

(More)

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f3Mi�..l "'Orker� who po.' .(mf\lly in�#t'Vie" and a.:<�1Gt thfi f'Amiliea .of
'th� f& :.2g;;;f_9.'rn fo�ter obil ,,.e�.

-mt ._-ci.1, offien-.

fto-:;.�ly ?O per cent of the 6 ., 000

'l'he ,o O!Xll'lJ onoe e, m<,nth to rene1va their oaeh ,grP.nto and

our,"PlieA �h. no v:\'tPPtiftflt mar,1 tmrt.ilo�, r�tn 008/tr3 e"nd ehoe�
Olltf'li �o ...,f �-� i ri:on,
!'ho Plan
� :tn

al110

R

':ir('

a. dnoen oenter� a.-d �t tor dfi rural oM l :ll!'an.

1no1ste on 90hool1
--�

f!li"

for all "1le1r f>oater1 children of eohool

n.. >'111.YJ 1 t eleo � med.teal osre by

·and seoka to 1mprO'V'8 the houd.ng of

eBt<3ffl etanderds

eeoh oi:' thoh• t'tmtl.li,os.

"W8 oould expand if' �had.more eeourtt7 on the rJ«s N'ld_J.! •
�-�;; �
oould {"Gt more be ined poracat.el :, •• 111.AG Bl'Ot"Jll OX!)lained. the l1teeu, wbioh
or, '. toB �ome of the need tor fttater Pal"ente• t

Bl.so Um1 tf1i 1 tm gl'OWth.

aooentl�• J oent two ·of oar oa o \"JOrka:r-s t.o, talk to 'tho 1()6dEml•·
.
• II ll:!�......,.;;.;:.
__.-., --...;..;...__
,_..
of t1�.10 oOOlrllUrl.1, tie a outnide of ·salgon 1:n tho •o1tong Del ta aroa.i !he g:lrls
0

hour.

r-in_rl

t. en they had to tum baok bcorm <1e they met a military O!?er<1t'ton

-on the r� and thay

· oould he�- gunfire in the di tonoe.

(Mor )

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Be.fore. oald.ng to Vietnam ,.

Uios Brown. deaoribes her life eo

$b& tmo graduated from the Um.verst·ty of 'lbronto in 1928,

"oheokc1�ed.• n•

institution• s centennia:l.

After working in a �nto doportment store, ohe

went to Ne, Y:ork1 and etudiod. peroonnel wo:rk a:nd gulclanoa,

gzMUtiiJli

graduating with a llla."3tor•s, degree 1n 1939 � Columbia university.
thi o timo,

ohe also \'JOl'ked in

the

peroormol ctepe.rtmGnt of a ohe,;4ng

gum f2.etory in the Bew ?on: aubmbn.
cloubt about that, 8

Dm-ing

ahe remt•soed.;1).,

("�at no

a rot1e)1 oor;perie
. me, no

'fben she worked a.a

direotor in a Bow Tork aettlement house.

f"Wt,

aacooiate,

�rganizecl processions. of

mothers to oi ty Ml.1 to drop the pr1oe or milk from 13 to 11 cents a quart11 )
During

orld war II,

,.

abe served in Ottawa ns ,an_1loyment ru:I.Visor for

vromtm and M'tei- that 9be heeded the United Be,tions Beli� and. Bobabilitation
.. dmintat:ration (ummi)·

tn P
. alostine, Lebanon and s,vria during the ohaotio

mov1:H1 of refugoos to and from th t area.
"I'm not in eny ,greater. de.neez' in Vietnam than l: was in J'
. oruao.lem
whon th.c Jewish tenorlsta were fiGhUng the British, ...
"When I f:l .• tgjftc 'fttl fl�·s
. t wont thero
Bverytimo. I got in the Cttr1
grew 'i'l'or e.
Whenever I

tn

1944•

she explains oalmly.

I had a. CJla.egow drive.,

I tripped over his Blble.

'fhen the ffl a1 tuation

'Ibo llM ti sh mill tr-a1:·y e,ave mo a Welsh dl"lver a.nd t""I> boc.\yguard:s.
·ot 1n the oar, I 'tripped over their tomny eµna.

lki)fo.re I left

in 1947, tho Briti eh took the dr1 n".r S\'lllY frcn mo, - : o&ying 1 t was ._ too
dengeroua f'or their soldiers tc, take· me where I ht1d to 6'0• n