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        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Greater Seattle Vietnam Association and American Friends Service Committee records<date calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1970/2012" type="inclusive"/></titleproper>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries</publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="2025">2025</date>
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          <addressline>Allen Library</addressline>
          <addressline>BOX 352900</addressline>
          <addressline>Seattle, Washington 98195-2900</addressline>
          <addressline>Business Number: 206-543-1929</addressline>
          <addressline>speccoll@uw.edu</addressline>
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          <p>Finding aid created by Elaine Speer</p>
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        <persname role="com" encodinganalog="100">Mohr, Norma</persname>
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      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">Records of Pacific Northwest organizing for the country of Vietnam</abstract>
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      <p>Norma Mohr is an author and journalist who has worked at the Washington Post and United Press International. She lived and worked in Hong Kong for a time. She was a senior editor at Voice of America until she retired in 1990 to write a book on malaria which was published in 2001.</p>
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      <p>Donated by Judith Henchey, March 2025. Items probably originally were donated by Norma Mohr, an early president of GSVA.</p>
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      <p>Records of the Greater Seattle Vietnam Association (GSVA) as well as the American Friends Service Committee Indochina Peace Campaign in the Western Region.</p>
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          <p>Mailings, notes, articles, and other records related to work with Vietnam by the local AFSC group. Includes a focus on the Indochina Peace Campaign in the Western Region.</p>
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          <p>Records of the organization, records of community projects in Vietnam, records of the Sister City initiative, and related work in Seattle for Vietnam.</p>
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