Yoonhi Green, recently joined our Rotary Club and has now followed on with her classification talk. She was born in South Korea and left with her family for Canada at the age of 10. Her father found a job as a TV repair man and her mother worked as dish washer & janitor. The family remained poor for most of her childhood. On her first day a group of children attempted to befriend her but got no reaction. They asked her father if she was a deaf mute. After a year of ESL classes she attended Mt Pleasant Elementary & Eric Hamber High School, as Hamber had a reputation as the best High School in Vancouver, followed by a degree in Food Sciences from UBC. Her parents forbade her to marry her boyfriend, a Geophysical Engineer because he was not Korean. But they married and moved overseas.
They lived in Cairo for 5 years where her husband helped start a company. Yoonhi coordinated continuing education at Community Services Association and brought the University of Maryland programme to Cairo. They found Egypt a very friendly place.
They moved to Saudi Arabia just before the 1st Gulf war. Both her children were born in Saudi Arabia. During the 25 years at Aramco, Yoonhi worked in Exploration as Geophysical Technician, Computer Security Liaison & Office Space coordinator. She volunteered as Girl Scout leader, swim coach, reunion admin & board member of various community organizations.
They are now retired and very happy to be back in Vancouver where air & water are clean, and people are polite & law abiding.