The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 275, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 18, 1983 Page: 8 of 68
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Youngster From Vietnam Finds Rewards In United States
WHITTIER, Calif, fluency includes “Oh, Although Nick Is traordlnary sttf Nations came to pick In addition to his But there was one someday visit It,” he would he.”
(AP) - To Nhut Ha, wow!" not critical of his dent," says Anne up people and we savings bond award, monument at the top said. When ««ed what
a 13-year-old lmmi- Nick recently won classmates, he says Lear, his eighth- signed up to go to Nick also received a of his list that he ask- Nick said he vya» he likes best about
grant who escaped the *2,000 Grand that classroom at- grade teacher at America,"herecalls, week-long visit to ed to see first: the not disappointed. It America, Nicks
from Vietnam, Prire In the eighth tltudes here are less Krantz Junior High The family was New York City, Statue of Liberty, was a really wonder- swer Is Immediate
America is truly the annual Q-tlps cotton stimulating than the School in Whittier, sponsored by Nick’s where the many art “Wha» I saw pictures ful feeling. The and enthusiastic:
land of opportunity swabs art contest for ones he knew in Viet- where his father aunt, Xuan Dleu centers Intrigued of It In Saigon, I Statue of Liberty was Oh, boy its
he dreamed about, elementary school nam. teaches computer Downey of Merced, him. ^ always hoped I would Just like I thought It freedom!
Not only has his art children. Nick feels competi- programming at the Calif., where they Uv-
work been singled out Although math Is tlon In school Is a no- Rio Hondo College. ed for a year. In 1981j
for a national prize, one of his main In- no here and it sur Nick was bom In the Ha family moved
but he graduated terests, he enjoys art prises him. But he ex Vietnam In 1969 but first to El Monte,
from junior high with and is a skilled pects school to be his family escaped then Whittier. Nick,
ail A’s and made the craftsman. To enter hard work and he from Saigon In 1979. whose English is
the contest, he com- takes it seriously. “We were almost fluent, learned most
blned his math with “Kids in my class like boat people,” he of it after arriving in
Nhut Ha —; Nick to his artistic talent and thought algebra explains. They spent California
his friends — spoke constructed “The1 came easily to me," a year in a primitive
little English when Temple of the Forbid- he said, “but I often government refugee of English in my
he, his parents and den City,” a colorful, had to stay up until 3 camp on the Indone Saigon school,” he
three sisters arrived architecturally pre- in the morning to gel sian island of Air says. “Then they]
changed to studying
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ball teams.
I had two months
CITIZENS BANK TOWER
THE NEW BUSINESS CENTER OF BAYTOWN
in California two else desk-top version it right
years ago. Today, his of a Chinese temple
Raya
Then the United Russian
He was an ex
Borrower Denies ‘Decimating’ Holdings
GROUNDBREAKING: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
FORT WORTH studied theology at says he
(AP) — A former Texas Wesleyan for suspended for one Spicer’s record
Texas Wesleyan 3V4 years but did not year on a conduct
suspension that was
'was formation about Spicer administered
the estate for two
years, later moving
Mrs. Barrett gave into her Fort Worth
rescinded within two Spicer power-of- home and hiring
David Broiles, an weeks of the time it attorney status over nurses to care for
attorney represen- was issued. I was her estate after he her.”
ting the guardian, asked to begin some moved Into her Gleb replaced
“decimated’’ her Robert Gleb, said psychiatric counsel- garage apartment In Spicer as guardian of
cash holdings. Monday that court tag related to pro- February 1981. the estate-
Documents filed in records show Spicer blems with my
court here contend was expelled after temper.”
accusations surfaced
that he defrauded
Mrs. Barrett.
FOR LEASING INFORMATION:
464-2258
University theology graduate
student denies allega-
tion s that he
befriended a wealth
widow an
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that Phillip Doyle
Spicer of Abilene bor-
rowed more than
$700,000 from the
woman, Mary
Elizabeth Failor Bar-
rett, and transferred
a deed to 40 acres she
owned in Louisiana to
his name.
The documents, fil-
ed by the guardian of
Mrs. Barrett’s estate,
also claim he pur-
chased with her
money 14 pieces of
Fort Worth property
and took the woman’s
home, car, 28-foot
yacht and other per-
sonal effects.
Spicer, 31, said
Monday that he
received only $200,000
from Mrs. Barrett
and ‘‘I never
transferred a deed of
anything anybody
owned to me: Granny
B transferred it to
University officials
said Monday they
Spicer, however, could not release in-
We hold the
key to
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elect to amend your 1982 tax return
and receive a possible refund NOW
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“I was extorted out
of this money and out
of my rightful posi-
tion in Granny’s
life,” Spicer said.
Spicer, who waived
a jury trial in probate
court last week after
settling the matter
out of court, was
among scores of
students who attend-
ed college through
scholarships set up
by Mrs. Barrett. He f
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 275, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 18, 1983, newspaper, September 18, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154236/m1/8/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.