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Title: Oral History of Tom Phan
Creator: Phan, Tom
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-05-22
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history with Mr. Tom Phan, born in 1955 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. In March 1975, Mr. Phan was a teenager attending boarding school in Da Lat when Vietnam fell. On April 27, 1975, his family flew from Saigon to the United States. Mr. Phan enrolled in the local university majoring in computer engineering, and worked minimum wage jobs. In 1978, he was the first Asian hired at Electronic Data Systems, where he worked for eight years. On December 15, 1978, he married his wife. In 1988, he formed his own company, Customer Focus International, which developed software. In 1998 he sold the company and retired. During his retirement, he spent more time with his family and took them on many vacations, including taking his entire extended family to Vietnam for a month in 2000. In 2007, his son approached him about opening a Vietnamese restaurant, which is now called Phans 55. It currently has two locations in Irvine and Fullerton. He has children and lives in Irvine, California with his wife.
Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3).
Scope/Content: Photograph of Tom Phan in front of his restaurant, Phans 55. Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013, Irvine, California.
Type: sound
Format: 3 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:32:08
Identifier: ark:/81235/d84b3r
VAOHP0141_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14145
Language: English
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Subject: Buddhist | Business owner | Catholic | Children | College or university | Computer scientist | Education | Entrepreneur | Escape | Family | Festival | France | Homemaker | Manicurist or nail technician | Marriage | Politics | Refugee camp | Religion | Restaurants | Sex trafficking | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Tet Festival | Tradition or custom
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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