Roy McDonald is one of the members of the American Community School, Saigon alumni group. The group operates a website called SaigonKids and Bob Layson, another member of the group, runs a great blog connected to the group. The group has been very generous in assisting me over the years with my various quests to find PSG alumni. They have extended an invitation to PSG students/teachers and to others who attended schools in Vietnam (including the French schools) to join their website and blog. Over the years they have held reunions and invited us to attend. Roy sent me an e-mail about a reunion they are having from the 30th of July to the 2nd of August 2015. The reunion will take place at the Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, which is just outside of Phoenix Arizona. Based on Roys e-mail it appears that this will be their last reunion. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend because my son is graduating from high school and my oldest daughter is receiving her doctorate from NYU. However, this reunion may interest some of the people in this group who have the the time and financial means to attend. Included in this post is the partial text of Roys e-mail. If you may be interested in attending this reunion send me a private message on Facebook with your e-mail address and I will forward you the full e-mail with information to contact Roy. I have also included in this post a video of the Wigwam Resort that Roy included in his e-mail. Partial text of Roys e-mail: The last Saigon Kid’s Hurrah! Roy McDonald and Frank Stoddard are planning and preparing for a Reunion to take place Thursday the 30th of July to Sunday the 2nd of August 2015. The event will be at the Wigwam Resort, in Litchfield Park just outside of Phoenix Arizona. The first Saigon Kids Reunion took place here in the summer of 2000 on the night of a “Full Moon”. This one, like all the reunions have taken place when the moon is full and this will also be the second one that will also happen during a “Blue Moon”. We hope many of you are enthused as we are. This is the deal, however, we need your support. It will not be long before we have to sign a contract with the Resort. Of course once this happens; we have to obligate ourselves to time and money. We are more than glad to do this if you really want this thing to happen. We often talk about how Saigon was such a wonderful place for our teenage years. When we write, talk or see our old friends from those days we see them as they appeared 50 years ago. This memory of the friendship is still just as strong today. We also realize that many of us are getting up there in life, and thus the years ahead are limited, thus this will be the last attempt to get so many of us all together once again. It does not matter if you lived in Saigon in 1958 or 1964. It does not matter if you went to ACS or a French School. It does not matter if you went to ACS or you worked there later when it was a hospital. We would like to open the reunion to everyone…friends and family alike. We all have something very much in common. Now that Wigwam is pretty “neat”. There is plenty of vegetation, water and shade on the outside areas that make it very pleasant in the Arizona heat of July (It is not like downtown Scottsdale). It has a couple of different pools, the main one being a vocal point for food, drink and laughter (and plenty of umbrellas, misters and towels). Do you remember “Le Cerc Sportif Saigonnais”? There are also restaurants and bars indoors. The Wigwam is located about 25 minutes west from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. The Wigwam has a shuttle bus, and if we knew when folks arrived, we could try and coordinate “pickups” in order to cut down on the fee. Phoenix is a very spread out city, and it is automobile dependent in order for people to get around. If you wish to see other sites, Rent-a-Cars are also readily available. The Wigwam has free parking. youtube/watch?v=K6bZmEZxNJg&fs=1
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:46:04 +0000
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