Saigon Reunion 2015 -- Final List of Participants.

[Carl Robinson]

OK, folks, here is our more or less complete list of those attending this coming week's Vietnam Old Hacks Reunion in Saigon under the general imprimatur of Vietnam Foreign Affairs-sponsored "Foreign Press Week in HCM City - 25 April to 1 May 2015."    Most are staying at the Rex Hotel but not all.  We have 24 participants, plus wives and relatives.     

Tim Page and myself are planning a Friday 24 April arrival in Saigon so will be on-hand to welcome you.   

Dates of arrivals vary and so let's make this message a gathering point with your personal dates of arrival in Saigon -- and I'm sure you're also in touch with Mr Tung at FA.   Not all will be there on 25th and, right now, I have Peter A on 26th; Ut on 27th; Edie Lederer and Ray Wilkinson on 28th.    

Fyi, we are already generating lots of media interest -- including Reuters, AFP and AP -- and this list will be passed along to others.  So, if I've got dates & affiliations wrong, please advise me asap.   If this is anything like 2010, I'll also end up playing PR for the group and getting as many of your stories told as possible.    

I look forward to seeing you in good ol' Saigon.  

Best regards,

Carl 

NOTE:  This List is also sent as an attachment. 

 

 Attendees for Foreign Press Week in HCM City.

25 April – 1 May 2015.

 

List as of 21 April 2015 (Tuesday)

-Carl & Kim-Dung Robinson.   AP Photographer & Correspondent.  1968-75. (USOM/USAID ’64-68.)  Convenor, Google Group “Vietnam Old Hacks” and Reunion Organiser.  [Sydney, Australia]

-Tim Page & Marianne Harris.  Time-Life Photographer. ’62-69. [Brisbane, Australia]

-Loren Jenkins.  Newsweek Bureau Chief. 1973-75. [Colorado, USA.].

-Tony Clifton.  Newsweek correspondent.  1971-75. [Melbourne, Australia] 

-Don & Deanna North.  NBC & ABC correspondent. [VA, USA]

-Peter Collins.  VOA. CBS.  1971-75. [Rex not required].

-Al Rockoff.  Freelance Photographer.  1971-75.

-Edie Lederer.  AP Correspondent.  1970-72.

-Peter Arnett and son Andrew.  AP correspondent. ’62-75.

-Nik Ut.  AP Photographer.  [Rex Hotel not required]

-Ray Wilkinson.  UPI correspondent.

-Lance Woodruff.  US National Council of Churches. Empire news. 1966-68. 

-Nik & Pamela Wheeler.  UPI Photographer.  1967-70. Newsweek magazine, April 1975.

-William M. Reilly.  UPI correspondent..

-George Lewis.  NBC correspondent. [Rex Hotel not required].

-David L Terry. Freelance photographer.  1969-71.

-James & Milly Pringle.  Reuters Correspondent.  1969-72. Also covered Cambodia War.

-Matthew E. Naythons and son Will Naythons.  SIPA/Time.  1975. [Hotel not required] 

-John Giannini.  Freelance photographer & documentary maker. 1971 – 74.

-Willis “Skip” Brown.  Cameraman. CBS News.  [San Francisco, California, USA].

-Don Kirk.  Washington Star ’67-70; Chicago Tribune, ’71-74; NYT magazine & other publications. Author: Wider War and Tell it to the Dead.  [Seoul, South Korea.]

-Stewart Dalby. Financial Times.  1971-75.  Covered Liberation of Saigon on 30 April 1975 remaining until 30 May. [London, UK] .

-Sarah Errington.  Covered Liberation of Saigon for AP and departed September 1975.  [London, UK]

-Barry Fox.  Cameraman. ABC News.  1974-75. [Adelaide, Australia].

 

Total:   24.

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CANCELLED OUT.

-Jon Swain. AFP and Sunday Times.  1970-75, including Fall of Phnom Penh.  [London, UK].

-David Burnett.  Freelance Photographer.  Time.  1969-73.

-Robert Hart.  Reuters ’66-67.  Then 1972.

 

 

 

[tony clifton]

This Mainly for Carl

 

Tony Clifton will be arriving tomorrow, Wednesday 22^nd, and will check into the Rex after arriving, if on schedule, on Vietnam Airline VN780 at 16.25

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[dalb...@aol.com]

Hi Carl, I have finally got my visa and shd arrive at 10 oclock Saturday April 25 at Tan Son Nhut Terminal 2, on Malaysia Airline system Berhad  confirmation number W3CNH flight 750  from KL.

I will email Tung Pham the details. Are we being met at the airport, or do we make our own way to Tu Do as was.

Look forward to seeing you all

Best

Stewart Dalby 

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[Barry Fox]

Carl,

I am on the same Malasian flight ex KL into tsn a/p arriving 10:00 on the 25th.

That is if my passport has arrived back from Viet consulate. Seems to be MIA for the time being.

Barry

[Lance Woodruff]

Hello Carl and all,

I should adjust my Old Hacks listing. 

I was accredited as correspondent of the US National Council of Churches, employed by Church World Service (its international relief and development arm), which together with Lutheran World Relief and the Mennonite Central Committee formed Vietnam Christian Service, which we first called VCS. Because VCS looked like something else, we went Vietnamese-style for Viet Nam Christian Service (VNCS). VNCS was not a missionary organization, but what would now be called an NGO. I was information officer and visited Quang Ngai, Tam Ky, Nhatrang, Pleiku, Dak To, Quang Tri and Di Linh where we had American and Canadian doctors, nurses, social workers and community development specialists posted.

 

I free-lanced with Empire News. Hal Ellithorpe and Paul Avery assigned me to cover R&R in Bangkok and Singapore (some Singapore Girls in 1967 were short-time GI companions, not air hostesses). An Empire News assignment in Bangkok helped me meet my first wife, who now lives in suburban Cleveland. I spent some 'quiet time' with Bob Ellision's chest of photo gear after he was killed in Khe Sanh. Like the Mennonites and Quakers, I became anti-war, but in San Francisco, the men and women of Swords to Plowshares told me I was a veteran too, though I was never in the military.

Before going to Saigon I worked for the Cleveland Press, a Scripps-Howard paper. In Danang I met Scripps-Howard's Jim Lucas, who introduced me to the Marine Press Center. 

-Lance Woodruff. US National Council of Churches/Church World Service. Vietnam Christian Service. Empire news. 1966-68. Asian Christian Service,

Looking forward to see you all in Saigon.

Lance Woodruff

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[Sarah Errington]

​Hi Carl,

 

As planned, all being well I'll arrive TSN on Sat 25th

Vietnam Airlines Flight 235: 1.35PM (from stopover in Hanoi)

This will be wonderful. Thanks so much for all the hard work.

Best

Sarah

 

Sarah Errington

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Devon England

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[Jim Laurie]

Carl

I have given your name and the names of some of the other old hacks to Tara Joseph of REUTERS and her cameraman AJ Jackson – both friends from Hong Kong.

They are doing some features while in HCM for the next week or so.

Hope you can help them out. 

 

cheers

 

 

From: Carl Robinson

Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 4:01 PM

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Subject: Saigon Reunion 2015 -- Final List of Participants.