Chew, right, and Yowly Hoi
Chew and Yowly Hoi
The family of Chew and Yowly Hoi has donated $10,000 to the Gom Benn Scholarship Fund to establish a memorial scholarship to be awarded annually to a top college student.…
Chinese laborers at citrus packing house, c. 1890s. Source: Riverside Metropolitan Museum
Little Gom Benn
They came to lay track. They stayed to pick oranges. And eventually prospered cooking up chop suey. The history of Gom Benn in America began with the building of the…
Wing Gun Wong, his wife, Ngut Ngor, and their children, Danny and Shirley.
Wing Gun Wong
By Thomas Chang, the 2018 and 2019 Ron Chin Scholarship winner, a UCLA graduate computer science student. My grandfather, Wing Gun Wong, was born on March 3, 1927. He was…
Mr. and Mrs. Bing S. and Ting F. Wong ran the Cathay Inn restaurant in San Bernardino.
Scholarship Fund Founder: Uncle Bing
Bing Sum Wong was one of the key founders of the Gom Benn Scholarship Fund, which he helped start with a $12,000 contribution. Through the years, his Bing Wong Scholarship…