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Chinh Le expresses himself through art, medicine
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“Berry Picker” and “Lovebug” are two examples of the type of artwork Chinh Le has mastered since retiring as a physician. By DENISE RUTTAN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS
Through his art, medical practice and life, compassion has proven a driving force for Chinh Le. The Corvallis man is a retired physician, Vietnamese American, Buddhist and silk painter. But none of these identities individually define Chinh Le. “I have the mind of an engineer for sure, but I’ve also always liked the humanities and literature, history and philosophy,” Le says. “I’ve always liked to be close to people. I can’t say that I wanted to be a doctor since I was 5 years old. I have just always had a sense of people’s needs and have wanted to help them. Medicine was a way to help people.”
Le, now 68, moved to Corvallis with his wife, Jeri, in 2004 from Davis, Calif. He left behind a decades-long career as an accomplished physician for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento and Santa Rosa. In his new home, he worked part-time for Benton County Health Department. He had traded the high-tech environment of world-class hospitals for the intimate setting of the Children’s Farm Home, which helps children who struggle with a range of mental health challenges. He retired from this work in 2013. “Corvallis turned out to be the perfect place,” Le says.
Tumultuous beginnings The world wasn’t always so peaceful for this engaging man with a gentle
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demeanor. Yet Le adamantly confesses that luck, in a word, has characterized the arc of his life. He graduated from high school in Vietnam and did his premed schooling there. A US-AID scholarship gave him the opportunity to attend medical school at University of California, Davis. While he studied about infectious diseases in textbooks and lecture halls, the Vietnam War raged. Le was just 18. The boy who had strayed far from home could not be there to help. Even so, he counts his blessings. “I’ve been a very lucky kid all along,” he says. “A lot of people, including people in my family, were drafted into the war. Since I was in school, I was never drafted in the military.”
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His family, meanwhile, remained behind in Vietnam. His father was a judge, a humble civil servant who worked hard to provide for his family. His mother stayed at home to care for Le and his 14 brothers and sisters, or as Le put it, “she managed the family.” His family may seem large, but they were close, bonded by the loss and upheaval that war and natural disasters bring. “My parents had to be refugees three times,” Le says. From the French to the Japanese, they fled. “They lost everything three times and had to start anew each time. In the war they lost their house. But we were very lucky.”
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There goes Le again, quick to shine a light on his fortune amid the suffering. His home never got burnt or bombed. His brothers and cousins and nephews had to go to war, but most of the time, his family was out of the height of danger. “Our story is not unique,” he says. “Everybody’s lives were disrupted many times during those 30 years of war. For myself, I was very lucky to never have to face physical danger.” Initially aiming to return home, Le turned his sights in school to specializing in infectious diseases. He presumed he could use that knowledge to help his country. Such diseases are prevalent in Vietnam. But then Saigon fell. And the young doctor never left America. Two worlds Since then, Le has spent the majority of his adult life as an American, trained to think like a Western scientist. But his Vietnamese culture and his Buddhist religion also have guided his philosophy. “I consider myself an American in terms of my work ethic and mentality,” Le says. “Deep down in my heart, however, I feel very much Vietnamese. That dichotomy exists. I have two homes, but they’re not two full homes.
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Chinh Le came to the United States as an 18-year-old to study medicine, and it was several decades before he was able to return to his home country of Vietnam.
I’m always half here and half there.” That feeling is not just Asian, but distinctly Vietnamese. “Our way has always been defined by the past,” Le says. “We’ve been threatened and invaded by other powers, by the French, Chinese, Japanese, and we’ve had a lot of natural disasters such as
typhoons and floods. Deep down we are a very resilient and humble people, a tightknit community. Through all these natural disasters and calamities, we know that community and family bind us together.”
Back to the future Le learned how much he had changed when he returned
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to Vietnam in 2000. It was the trip, that as an 18-year-old, he always imagined he would make. Le worked for a non-governmental organization, or NGO, in Vietnam. Its mission was to study the problems of women and families at a time when Vietnam’s economy was transitioning to a more capitalistic system. He focused on HIV and AIDS education and research. Soon, he connected with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which hired him as a consultant to conduct a needs assessment of the healthcare system in the area of HIV prevention. Between 2001 and 2004 he flew back and forth between
countries. He traveled the country talking to doctors and nurses at hospitals all over the country. “To my amazement, Vietnam’s HIV epidemic was no different at all from the epidemics in other countries,” Le says. This man caught between two worlds learned something else about how much he had changed. “Mentally, I was that U.S.trained scientist and clinician who absolutely wanted to get things done now and efficiently,” he says. “We have a problem, let’s solve it. I was naive basically, not thinking about another country’s cultural and bureaucratic hurdles.” The program didn’t officially get implemented until 2011. Even so, Le found the experience an unforgettable and rewarding one. It reminded him why he specialized in infectious diseases such as AIDS. “The word ‘compassion’ comes from the Latin, ‘to suffer with,’” Le says. “During my practice as an infectious diseases consultant and doing 70 percent HIV care, at the time there was not the same that we could do about HIV that we can do today. People were suffering and dying quite a bit. Sometimes the only thing I could do was just suffer with them. That’s what compassion means.”
Art of the common man In Le’s home studio, these two worlds seem to dissipate into his watercolors. “To me art is a way of being compassionate with others and expressing the way I feel about humanity,” Le says. This self-taught artist has tried a little bit of everything, from woodworking to stained glass to ceramics, and has set-
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tled on silk painting. He discovered it at a slumber party workshop in Bodega Bay, Calif., in 1995. Van Gogh provides inspiration in this quiet space, cluttered with canvases and art supplies. “Van Gogh brings so much compassion into his work,” Le says. “He painted poor people, people working in the fields. Others painted kings and princesses and rich people. He made us discover the rest of humanity with his compassionate eyes. I fell for his art.”
The human condition inspires Le to tell his stories. He first sketches a scene in pencil. Then he stretches his silks with a stretcher bar. The pencil drawing becomes an outline. He traces that outline using the many vivid colors of gutta, a water-based resist, or a product that protects portions of the fabric from dye penetrating into them. Next he places the paints and dyes in the gaps between the lines of the resist. Then the paints and dyes are set with steam, heat or chemicals. A tube of gatta in this humble, paint-stained world has replaced a stethoscope. In Le’s art, people’s faces are turned
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away, their eyes and mouths missing. He wants you to focus on their stories instead of their expressions. In one of Le’s paintings, a large family congregates around a table, eating food and sharing stories of their day. The scene is warm and inviting. The colors are painted in earth tones. It is Vietnam, but this scene could be anywhere, any country. It’s peaceful here in this studio, surrounded by the stories of others. ■ Courtesy photo
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You might not expect to see much gray hair among the students of Linn-Benton Community College. But at 71, Jimmy Eggerton of Corvallis is not your traditional student. Don’t assume his age places him at a disadvantage, however. With a ready smile and gregarious personality, this former teacher and engineer brightens up campus — and he keeps up just fine with his younger classmates. “I’m a big talker,” Eggerton says. “Most engineers don’t like to meet people and like to be alone and sit in their cubicles. I’m the opposite. If I see a group of young people, I will go and introduce myself and find out what’s going on with them.” He did that once in a campus coffee shop and met a former child warrior in the Sudan. The Texan math whiz and the 6-foot-6-inch African man got to talking. “He was a really nice young man, but he didn’t know much math so I said I would help him,” Eggerton says. “He wanted to be a doctor so he could go back home and help his country.” That helpfulness is typical
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Jimmy Eggerton is bucking the trend that says fewer older adults are returning to college. After a long career in engineering and teaching, he’s hoping to find new work in factory automation.
of Eggerton, who says he found his calling teaching electrical engineering at Oregon State University. It was a second career for this engineer, who designed missile simulation systems for Raytheon in Dallas, Texas for 30 years. At OSU, Eggerton stood in front of classes filled with up to 240 sophomores and, with a booming voice and boundless enthusiasm, he taught them about electrical engineering. It was a job he loved for 10 years. “When I came home after I had started teaching, my wife said to me, for the first time in over 30 years, ‘You seem happy at work.’ After I thought
about it, I guess I was. It’s a liberating feeling,” he says. “It was hard to give up a regular job to go teach because it didn’t pay a lot and we had kids growing up and bills to pay, so I never did it. I probably should have done it a long time ago. They were the best years of my life.” Eggerton, unfortunately, got laid off from his OSU job. He and his wife Ann moved to Nevada, then to California to be closer to grandchildren, but it was too expensive. The couple returned to Corvallis to settle. After a time of applying fruitlessly for another teaching job, he changed gears and now is seeking his third career. This
time he aims to pursue factory automation. Even though he already has a doctorate, Eggerton wants to be more employable. “I decided to go back into the workforce and decided I needed to update my skill set to do that,” he says. Retirement is not all it’s cracked up to be, after all, he says. You get bored. And you need money for fishing gear. Eggerton has audited classes at LBCC, OSU and Lane Community College since last spring. This term, he is taking four classes. His dedication to his studies means he drives 50 miles one way to Eugene for one of his classes, on top of
doing hours of homework every night and coding programs for assignments. “I’m pretty busy but by the end of this term, I think I’m going to be employable,” Eggerton says. “My wife thinks that at my age I won’t be employable but I think I will be. I can make equations as good and get as good of grades as these young people. I can do the work. I think I’ll get a job, I just don’t know what or when. I’m definitely not your standard student, so we’ll see. It will be interesting.” Though Eggerton’s story is not unique, statistics show there are not as many older students as in the worst years of the economic recession of the late 2000s. Of LBCC’s approximately 22,279 students in 2011-12, 556 of those were between the ages of 46-65 for fall term only. In 2013-14, of 20,419 students, just 385 students were 46-65 years old — a decline. These figures are from Lori Fluge-Brunker, communications specialist in the LBCC Advancement Office. As for Eggerton, he feels right at home in a classroom again. “I still have really good health and I am still functioning at a high level,” he says. “I’ve been able to make high grades in classes with young people and compete to do any of the work that any of them are doing. I don’t want to brag but I’m making As in my classes so I know I can do the work.” Eggerton sees a lot of promise in factory automation, a field that needs more skilled workers. “It’s bringing automation to
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Any gardener will tell you there is a never-ending list of projects to be done to maintain their little slice of heaven. It might be compost to spread, bulbs to plant, dead foliage to haul to the compost pile and much more. And just as we finish picking up all the fallen debris from the last storm, the forecast calls for more wind. Sometimes it feels like futility. Dealing with the vagaries of Mother Nature can be frustrating, so it sure helps to have a healthy sense of humor. We can’t take it too seriously. One year in particular comes to mind. It was the week between Christmas and the New Year. I had time off from work and was planning to steal away some time in the garden. But wouldn’t you know it, that was the year two feet of snow blanketed my best intentions. Because gardening requires working with the elements, it is largely a trial and error undertaking and mistakes are inevitable. This is the time of year I like to take stock of my garden’s performance during the previous growing season. What did I love about my garden? What plants exceeded my expectations and which gave me fits of frustration? How should I correct my blunders? And how should I implement all those ideas kicking around in my head? I’d say at least 50 percent of my gardening blunders come from placing plants in the wrong spot. The specimen will either get too big and crowd its neighbors or not get big enough and be dwarfed by its neighbors. Or to make things really interesting, it will do both. Centaurea altopurpurea, a type of perennial bachelor
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ple of plant misplacement happened after a renewed interest in growing dahlias. I bought several tubers and tucked them — admittedly a bit haphazardly — into bits of space between perennials with the idea that they’d all mingle together and look pretty. (My sister does this flawlessly.) However, by summer’s end it became clear to me that the experts are correct when instructing the gardener to plant them in full sun. The tubers in semi-shade bloomed very little, if at all. Sometimes plant placement starts out well and good but after say, 10 years, it’s time to rethink things. Such is the case with my “Autumn Bliss” raspberry plants. Those poor plants really suffered this past summer with the record-breaking heat. The soil was so compacted that no amount of watering made a difference. My solution has been a project in the works for the past several weeks. I got rid of all the old raspberry plants and my son helped me build a raised bed. We’ll be adding amended soil and new plants next spring. I have high hopes. Sometimes moving the misplaced plant isn’t an option. A few months ago we cut down an old, sad pear tree. Now that it’s gone, I’ve got big ideas for filling that space. I’m sure it will take a lot of trial and error to get it the way I want it. But I won’t take it too seriously. ■
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the factory line, like bottling up Coke or syrup,” he says. “You need sensors to tell if a bottle is filled or missing. A computer can help keep track of all of that and tell UPS what to ship. LBCC is training technicians to do this work. I’m a very unusual duck. I’m learning what the technicians are learning, but I am taking it a step further because I understand control theory and I’m trying to learn the programming necessary to put it all together.” That means becoming well versed in C++, Java, C Sharp and other object-oriented programming languages that are new to him. “I want to apply my knowledge and experience in control theory to a factory-type
“I think I’ve learned I can still compete and make good grades ... I feel really good about my future and I feel I can help some company somewhere get the job done.” ~ Jimmy Eggerton, 71 LBCC student
environment, perhaps something to do with the Northwest forest industry,” Eggerton says. “Factories are having to do more and more automation in software to get the job done and to be com-
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petitive.” But he doesn’t care what job it is or what industry; Eggerton just wants to contribute to a team again. That’s his dream, in a nutshell. And the experience of going back to school later in life has taught him that it is never too late to pursue your dreams. “I think I’ve learned I can still compete and make good grades,” Eggerton says. “I find that a lot of people have a low opinion of community colleges, but I’ve picked up a new respect for them, for the teachers and students. There are a lot of good students there waiting to be hired by companies. I’m going to try to get jobs for my friends there if I ever get a job. I feel really good about my future and I feel I can really help some company somewhere get the job done.” ■
SCOOBY DOO Scooby Doo, where are you? Why, at SafeHaven of course. This 2-year-old Chihuahua mix is just as mellow as his famous namesake, and loves snacks just as much. Scooby is gentle, affectionate
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and does well with kids and other dogs. Think Scooby is the dog for you? Come meet him and the other adoptable animals at SafeHaven Humane Society at 32220 Old Hwy 34 in Tangent. We are open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Sunday and Monday from noon to 5 p.m. You can also see all our adoptable pets online at safehavenhumane.org. We are a nonprofit full adoption humane society that does not euthanize animals for population support. Not ready to adopt but want to make a difference in the lives of the animals? Call us today at 541-9282789 for more information about volunteer opportunities, becoming a foster parent, making a donation and more. ■
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bedroom apartments with private balconies, on-site laundry facility, community room & a courtyard with a nice Koi pond. All in the heart of downtown Eugene! Call 541-3430433 for more information! Lawrence Court Apartments provides equal housing opportunities. Emerald Property Management, 541-741-4676.
AVAAILABLE: CASITA/ STUDIO, Palm Desert Sun City. 55+ gated community. Includes all utilities, washer/ dryer, refrigerator, kitchennette. $1095 HUD SUBSIDIZED UNmonth/lease + depos- ITS for senior citizens 62 or older, disabled its. 503-780-0454. and/or handicapped, Vacation Rental available at this time. We are committed to LINCOLN CITY OCEAN providing equal housFRONT, fantastic view, ing opportunities. All fireplace, TV/VCR/ utilities paid. SurfDVD, 2 bdrms, kit/ wood Manor, 4545 SW dishwasher, no smok- Hwy 101, Lincoln City, ing, no pets. Very 541-996-3477. comfortable. 503-8433157. Email: holton@ HUD SUBSIDIZED UNITS for senior citizens macnet.com. 62 or older, disabled Units for Rent and/or handicapped, available at this time. HUD SUBISDIZED AP- We are committed to ARTMENTS for senior providing equal houscitizens, 62 or older. ing opportunities. All We offer spacious one utilities paid. Briar-
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BASEBALL & SPORTS MEMORABILIA wanted. Buying old cards, pennants, autographs, photographs, tickets, programs, Pacific Coast League, etc. Alan, 503-481-0719.
CASH FOR PRE 1970 sport & non-sport gum or cigarette cards, model kits, comic books, old toys, old car or?? Private OLD SPORTS CARS collector. 503-313WANTED: 1948-1972. 7538. Alfa, Austin Healey, Ferrari, Jaguar, MerCASH FOR GOOD CONcedes, MG, Porsche. DITION reloading eq“American Classics uipment & supplies. also!” 503-538-8096 541-905-5453.
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CASH for DIABETIC 30+ YEARS TRUSTED, TEST STRIPS. Help REPUTABLE ANTIQUES those in need. Paying BUYER. ALWAYS BUYup to $30 per box. Free ING: old photos, postcards, costume jewelEQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY ry, most anything All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act antique or vintage. which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, Please call 503-422- or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal 8478. custodians; pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.
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