Going Back - Gom Benn Scholarship Fund

Chinese laborers at citrus packing house, c. 1890s. Source: Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Little Gom Benn

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Post published:October 11, 2019
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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

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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

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Bing S. Wong, one of the founders of the Gom Benn Scholarship Fund. Bing Sum Wong 黄植礼 was one of the key founders of the Gom Benn Scholarship Fund, which…