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Saigon Kids™ Stories: The First Time I Saw Teenagers Dancing Rock’n Roll

The year before I went to Saigon, my folks dropped my brother, John, and I off at St. Martins in Lacy, Washington. […]

Saigon Kids Stories: Almost Shanghaied The Night Karaoke Was Invented

By Frank Stoddard (ACS)

Saigon Kids Circa 1960/61. Left to Right: Frank Stoddard, Peter Shahpazian, Bob Layson, Kurtz (KJ) Miller, Dini Haznam, Janet Bogardus. Frank Stoddard Collection. Click Image to Enlarge.

This photo is of a bunch of my friends from the American Community School in Saigon.

Dini is the dark haired girl in […]

Saigon Kids Stories: Past and Present — Spell Checkers, Rock’n Roll, Grammar Checkers, Foreign Languages, SHUT-IT, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Skunks, Possums and Coons, Raining Geckos …

Submitted by: Ken Yeager – (ACS and Dalat School) Frank Stoddard – (ACS) Suellen (Oliver) Campbell – (ACS) Admin – (ACS)

Ken Yeager: What happened to the spell checker?

Admin: The English spelling teacher took it, saying it was *cheating*! – lol – 🙂

Frank Stoddard: Spell Checker, I should have been hired.. Only people […]

Wyoming! Freezing and $1.00 Car Repairs

by Frank Stoddard, ACS Wyoming!! I have always loved Wyoming. It is the place with wide open spaces and where the culture is not to get into other folk’s faces.

In the 60’s, some of you remember that many people were opposed to the Vietnam conflict.

Well, in late 1968 I was driving […]