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  2. Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia

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    Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) [29] to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

  3. Philippine Children's Fund of America - Wikipedia

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    [2] [1] PCFA was founded to serve the needs of children left behind by the U.S. military closure. the Pearl S. Buck International foundation estimates there are 52,000 Amerasian scattered throughout the Philippines.

  4. List of Far Eastern University alumni - Wikipedia

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    Rosalind Wee - President of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Philippines, Inc. and co-founded the W group of companies [14] Corazon Dayro Ong - Founder of CDO Foodsphere [15] Menardo R. Jimenez - Former CEO of GMA Network and director of San Miguel Food and Beverage and Magnolia [16]

  5. Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    The Pearl S. Buck International Foundation estimates there are 52,000 Amerasians scattered throughout the Philippines. However, according to the center of Amerasian Research, there might be as many as 250,000 Amerasians scattered across the cities of Clark , Angeles City , Manila , and Olongapo . [ 160 ]

  6. List of Filipino Nobel laureates and nominees - Wikipedia

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    23 March 1980 in Makati, Philippines Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) United States 1973 [55] Jose Roy: 19 July 1904 in Moncada, Tarlac, Philippines 14 March 1986 in Manila, Philippines Marcelo Nubla (1898–1984?) Philippines 1973 [55] Ferdinand Marcos: 11 September 1917 in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines 28 September 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii ...

  7. Amerasian - Wikipedia

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    Novelist Pearl S. Buck is credited for dubbing the term Amerasian. Denny Tamaki, a politician of mixed Japanese and European American heritage, is the current Governor of Okinawa Prefecture. The term was coined by novelist Pearl S. Buck and was formalized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

  8. apl.de.ap - Wikipedia

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    The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, an organization that finds healthier living environments for young, abandoned, or orphaned American children, matched him with a sponsor named Joe Ben Hudgens, a lawyer, through a dollar-a-day program. Allan initially came to the US at age eleven for treatment for nystagmus, an involuntary movement of the eyes.

  9. Pearl S. Buck Birthplace - Wikipedia

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    Pearl Buck gave her valuable manuscript collection to the Birthplace Foundation in 1970. The collection (minus The Good Earth, which was missing at the time) was acquired in 1974 and is presently stored at West Virginia Wesleyan College , under a special arrangement made with Senator John D. Rockefeller IV , then President of the college.