Galen Beery Collection Items

Hmong Village #3

Galen Beery (USAID) with Hmong villagers. Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

Hmong villagers #11

Hmong villagers gathering around for supplies from USAID. Galen Beery (USAID; center). Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

Classroom in session

Teacher teaching math to students in Ban Xon. Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

USAID personnel #3

L-R: Lee Seng (USAID), Edgar M. "Pop" Buell (USAID), Galen Beery (USAID). Site: L-08, Coordinates: TE 4388

Wedding #3

Wedding of Maisee Vue and Larry Martin at General Vang Pao's residence in Long Cheng. Site: LS-30, Coordinates: TG 8214

USAID workers #2

USAID workers at the going away party for Carol Mills (USAID). Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

Celebration #1

Basi ceremony for Carol Mills (USAID; holding hand up). Edgar M. "Pop" Buell (USAID; middle) sitting center. Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

Market #3

Market at the village of Ban Khoua Lay outside of Ban Xon. Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

Nursing graduation #4

Nurse Choua Thao (USAID; left) calling up names during the nursing graduating class of 1971. Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

Nursing graduation class of 1971 in Ban Xon / Na Sou. Ban Xon was actually a ethnic Lao village, across the Nam Mouay River, from the airstrip at LS-272. Previously a rice paddy, was the original name of where the airstrip was built. Site: LS-272, Coordinates: TF 5994

School class room #2

Hmong students sitting at their desks. Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

School class room #1

A teacher and Hmong students in their class room. Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

A school class room

Hmong students sitting at their desks. Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

Father and daughter

Father Lucien Bouchard in a remote Hmong village. Father Lucien Bouchard, an Oblate Order Catholic Missionary, dedicated seventeen years of his life to Laos. Proficient in both Hmong and Lao languages, he was a devout individual whose unwavering faith guided his mission. Although his primary objective was to assist those in distress, his secondary mission was to bring Christianity to the hill tribes. Known affectionately as Father Luc or Father "B," he hailed from the Boston area and was of American-French Canadian heritage. Site: Unknown, Coordinates: Unknown

Hmong children #4

Striped Hmong children in a remote village.

Hmong children #3

Striped Hmong children in a remote village.

Delivering supplies

USAID personnel delivering supplies to villagers. Site: LS-191, Coordinates: TF 9387

Ban Xon Mechanics

Albert Four (USAID) (back middle in white tee shirt) and his assistants in Ban Xon. Front, second from left, is Bounmee. Bounmee was responsible for saving U.S. Navy pilot LT Charles F. Klusmann who was shot down in 1964 over the Plain of Jars. Klusmann was captured and spent 86 days in captivity until he escaped the prisoner camp on August 30, 1964 and rescued two days later.