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浦瑛開講：生日快樂Giahoa Ryan

   Ryan表示,50多年來,她在美國克里夫蘭成功地代表亞裔走進政界企業和敎育文化界。她來自越南但她代表亞裔的聲音,她創建基金會,還幫助自己國家越南無家可歸者設立學校,還有她在克利夫蘭著名的世界公園里設立越南公園,她過去現在都在做,她表示只要她還活着她會繼續努力工作下去。
  這里祝福Ryan永遠年輕,生日快樂!

朋友的祝福
by Joseph Patrick Meissner
Tonight We have 25 of Cleveland’s very very best citizens from all sorts of different groups and ethnic organizations. We‘re here to celebrate the birthday of our special friend in Cleveland, Miss Giahoa Ryan the Director of the Friendship foundation. She is from Vietnam was an interpreter over there for the US military She married a man in Aviation and was stationed on a small island in the South Pacific called Guam and later came to Cleveland 1971 Giahoa is actually one of the oldest Vietnamese residents here in our city and one of the oldest ethnic leaders from Vietnam since 71. She has helped many Vietnamese resettle here and her own family. She helped over 40 people, children and adults to be able to come here and become US citizens. Right now her big project of the friendship foundation in the United States is to build a cultural garden. This will be joining the other 40 cultural gardens on Martin Luther King Blvd. near the Cleveland art museum in the sky gardens are meant to celebrate the history of human traditions and arts of a particular country we have 40 them now like Poland, Ireland, Italy etc. The Vietnam Garden has seven different statues that are commissioned in Vietnam by Vietnamese artist made out of white marble. People may not realize it but Vietnam has beautiful marble places where you can collect the marble used for art or architecture. The white marble come from Marble Mountain and the seven different statues are being made including a statue of a Vietnamese lady shown in the center of the garden celebrating women from all over the world and the statue that weighs 25 pounds is 14 feet tall so everybody will be invited this year 2022 to the grand opening of the entire garden with all those statues over in Vietnam. By the way Giahoa Ryan is now building her eighth school over in Vietnam. So here tonight we’ve got a nice dinner celebrating her birthday and all of the people from Cleveland are having a wonderful meal at the Saigon restaurant run by Mr. Bon Thai’ and Nhung Vo. We recommend everybody to come enjoy Vietnamese cuisine at the Saigon restaurant , the food is wonderful and very fresh.

朋友的回忆
By Cindy
I will never forget Christmas 2014 my friend Andrea Cato and I crashed a Christmas party at the Saigon Plaza on Detroit. It was Miss Giahoa Ryan's annual Christmas party and that was the same night I had met my good friend Pierre Benjani. When I met Giahoa I was awe struck at how beautiful and gracious she was. When she showed me pictures of her beloved Vietnam and told her story I asked if I could do her documentary, it was a rich story and I wanted to help her get it on film, she agreed. Although we have not tackled the documentary yet we did become friends. It wasn't until years later though, 2019 I think. She needed a little help with the garden and I thought it was a worthy assignment especially since she was also honoring all the military that helped Vietnam. Funny thing is when we became friends I had learned that she was stationed on Guam 10 years after we were. My Dad got orders there in 1960 and my little brother was born there. What a small island and small world...Can hardly wait until the Marble Lady arrives to make Giahoa's vision come true. We will be there...thank you Giahoa and The Friendship Foundation for all of your hard work and dedication. You have helped so very many children and their children rise above through your 8 schools so they may have, not to mention all the people you helped reach the shores of America...God bless and save you...Happy Birthday Sis...love always….