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Monday, November 14, 2016Bonita Unified’s Hands on History program.“Third-graders studying California history do hands-on activities on Native American traditions, the Spanish ranchero period and the Gold Rush era at San Dimas Canyon Park, Pomona’s Palomares Adobe and forested canyons above Glendora,” Neeley said. “Nanette Hall, BUSD’s assistant superintendent of educational services, would work with Galen to create a curriculum. We all agreed it’s important children know not just state history, but local history, too. He would be helping create the next generation of historians.”Retired educator Joanne Wagoner said Doris Beery had already categorized and written the display’s texts and Galen Beery had completed drawings for the gallery.Galen BeeryGalen was born Nov. 15, 1937, in La Habra, the oldest of La Verne College professor Cleo Beery and his wife Miriam’s three sons. His brothers, Harvey Beery and Quinter Beery, said he was always a role model, even as a child.“When I was younger and disturbed about anything, I’d go to Galen,” Harvey Beery, a retired mechanical engineer living in Placentia, said. “We’d do things together, he’d tell me stories and soon I’d forget what upset me. He was the go-to person for feeling OK.”AdvertisementGalen Beery’s volunteerism began in childhood, Pat Wilson of La Verne said. Starting at age 15, the two were among Brethren teenagers who spent summers volunteering on kitchen and maintenance crews at Camp La Verne, a Brethren recreational retreat in Angelus Oaks.The Brethren nonviolent, peace philosophy prompted the Brethren-raised Galen to become a conscientious objector and join the Brethren Volunteer Service as the Vietnam War loomed. He worked with the International Voluntary Services, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department to help people in Laos and Cambodia build schools and public-health facilities, dig wells and improve rural farming techniques for 10 years, starting in 1959 after graduating from Bonita High School and earning a bachelor’s degree in history from La Verne College.During a leave, he earned a master’s in municipal administration at USC.When Saigon fell in 1975, he became the Church World Service’s Indochinese resettlement program director and went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where 80,000 refugees fled Vietnam and Laos in overcrowded boats. A December 1979 edition of La Verne Magazine reported he expanded the office from a one-man operation to a staff of six U.S. Embassy officials, 14 Americans and 53 Malaysians and helped resettle 50,000 to America and the remainder to France, Australia, Canada and other countries. He stayed in touch until his death with some expatriates in America and volunteered as an interpreter for Hmong and Laotian families in their legal and business affairs.Chuck Cable, former Hillcrest Homes chief execut...
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Monday, November 14, 2016Bonita Unified’s Hands on History program.“Third-graders studying California history do hands-on activities on Native American traditions, the Spanish ranchero period and the Gold Rush era at San Dimas Canyon Park, Pomona’s Palomares Adobe and forested canyons above Glendora,” Neeley said. “Nanette Hall, BUSD’s assistant superintendent of educational services, would work with Galen to create a curriculum. We all agreed it’s important children know not just state history, but local history, too. He would be helping create the next generation of historians.”Retired educator Joanne Wagoner said Doris Beery had already categorized and written the display’s texts and Galen Beery had completed drawings for the gallery.Galen BeeryGalen was born Nov. 15, 1937, in La Habra, the oldest of La Verne College professor Cleo Beery and his wife Miriam’s three sons. His brothers, Harvey Beery and Quinter Beery, said he was always a role model, even as a child.“When I was younger and disturbed about anything, I’d go to Galen,” Harvey Beery, a retired mechanical engineer living in Placentia, said. “We’d do things together, he’d tell me stories and soon I’d forget what upset me. He was the go-to person for feeling OK.”AdvertisementGalen Beery’s volunteerism began in childhood, Pat Wilson of La Verne said. Starting at age 15, the two were among Brethren teenagers who spent summers volunteering on kitchen and maintenance crews at Camp La Verne, a Brethren recreational retreat in Angelus Oaks.The Brethren nonviolent, peace philosophy prompted the Brethren-raised Galen to become a conscientious objector and join the Brethren Volunteer Service as the Vietnam War loomed. He worked with the International Voluntary Services, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department to help people in Laos and Cambodia build schools and public-health facilities, dig wells and improve rural farming techniques for 10 years, starting in 1959 after graduating from Bonita High School and earning a bachelor’s degree in history from La Verne College.During a leave, he earned a master’s in municipal administration at USC.When Saigon fell in 1975, he became the Church World Service’s Indochinese resettlement program director and went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where 80,000 refugees fled Vietnam and Laos in overcrowded boats. A December 1979 edition of La Verne Magazine reported he expanded the office from a one-man operation to a staff of six U.S. Embassy officials, 14 Americans and 53 Malaysians and helped resettle 50,000 to America and the remainder to France, Australia, Canada and other countries. He stayed in touch until his death with some expatriates in America and volunteered as an interpreter for Hmong and Laotian families in their legal and business affairs.Chuck Cable, former Hillcrest Homes chief execut...
