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Parents may encourage such a switch. Says Vietnamese Refugee Le Giau, a resident of Fountain Valley, Calif.: "They should change their names because it's easier for them when they go to work." His three daughters, Hanh, Tien and Trang, are now known as Hannah, Christina and Jennifer. Food too can be a sensitive issue. "My brother wants to become American all the way," says Imelda Ortiz, 17, who left Mexico for Houston at age one. "He tells my mother to cook American food like meat loaf and potatoes. Instead we cook rice and beans and fajitas (skirt steak...
...notes Psychiatrist Coles. After school and on weekends, Le Giau's four children help out at the family's pastry shop. Hannah, 18, minds the cash register and serves customers. Vinh, 17, who has kept his name because it is easy to pronounce as "Vin," works the cleanup detail. Christina, 15, washes dishes, and Jennifer, 12, aids her mother Therese with the baking and cake decorating. "American children don't understand," says Hannah. "They don't know why I can't go to the beach." As a consequence, many immigrants' children look upon home-grown Americans only as casual friends...
...work began when, as a sophomore. Rosegrant adopted an eight-year-old girl named Christina through the PBH Big Brother Big Sister program. She admits to having been skeptical about working for the 92-year-old community organization. "I thought PBH people were going to be a bunch of annoyingly wishy-washy, do-good type of people. But it was just the opposite." From there, her social work snowballed into heading committees, raising $30,000 for a summer youth program and spending late nights at shelters for the homeless. Later she was elected president of Phillips Brooks House--the largest...
SECOND VARSITY 1 RADCLIFFE (bow Laurie Doucette; 2, Lauren Crocker; 3, Mary Farrell; 4, Christina Erickson; 5, Serena Eddy; 6, Anne Gregory; 7, Liza Paschal stroke Jocelyn Mcarther; coxswain Rachel Ward) 2 Brown 3, Northeastern...
AMONG, THE PERFORMERS Heather Johnston's mellow and throaty gave depth and emotion to her excellent renditions of Monk and Holiday Christina Wheeler as particularly strong and energetic in her powerful solos. Both Andrea Burke and Belle Linda Halpern gave virbrant performances exploring the sensuality of the music; especially memorable was Halpern's sassy "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues" Finally, there was Stephanie Wilford-Foster, who maintained the most compelling presence throughout the evening, drawing the subtle meaning out of the prose selections in a superior performance. In her closing number, evoking the Southern Baptist spirituals from which...