Word: yau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying, changed his first name from Yau to Hiram to honor a venerable Congregational missionary, Hiram Bingham.* The University of Hawaii was tougher, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed...