Twenty intermediate-school students from the Garden Grove Unified School District, of whom 8 have identifiable Vietnamese surnames, will be honored by local Masons. The awards ceremony on April 30 is a part of Public Schools Week activities. Read the GGUSD’s press release here.
The award recipients include, from Alamitos Intermediate School, Monica Nguyen; from Bell, Daniel Tran; from Doig, Phuc Ngo; from Irvine, Ngoc Bich Cao and John H. Do; from Jordan, Silvia Tran and Westin Vuong; from McGarvin, Courtney Truong.
The Garden Grove USD covers most of Garden Grove and portions of six surrounding cities – Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster. The entirety of what is commonly considered the “Vietnamese area,” including the commercial area known as Little Saigon, falls within the GGUSD. Three out of five members of the Board of GGUSD are Vietnamese-American: Lan Quoc Nguyen, Trung Nguyen and KimOanh Nguyen-Lam.
