Executive Committee Members

John Balaban, President

Brad Crittenden, Vice-President

Ngô Trung Việt, Vice-President

Board Of Directors

John Balaban, President, Cary, NC

Lee Collins, Palo Alto,CA

Brad Crittenden, Pittsboro, NC

Lê Phạm Lê, Pittsburgh, CA

Stephen O. Lesser, Treasurer, Los Angeles, CA

Ngô Trung Việt,, Vice-President, Hà Nội, Việt Nam

D. Neil Schmid, China

Virginia Jing-yi Shih, Berkeley, CA

James Đỗ Bá Phước, HCM City

Advisory Council

Dezso Benedek, Athens, GA

Madeline Duckles, Berkeley, CA

Donald L. Holley, Paris, France

Hồ Văn Tiến, Genève, Switzerland

Lê Mai Phương, Alabama, USA

Dr. Lê Phạm Ngưng Hương, Genève, Switzerland

Prof. Lê Xuân Khoa, Bethesda, MD

Prof. Dr Sci Nguyễn Quang Hồng, Hà Nội, Việt Nam

Steve Nichols, Palm Springs, CA

June Pulcini, Hermosa Beach, CA

Prof. William Seraile, New York City, NY

Gabrielle Thielman, Gilbert, AZ

Trần Thắng, West Hartford, CT

Prof. Trần Văn Dĩnh, Washington, DC

Gillam Hall, Pittsboro, NC

Phạm Kiều Diễm, Queens, NY

Gabriella Karsch, Hollywood, CA

Nôm Na Office In Hanoi

Alexandre Le

Lê Văn Cường

Lương Thị Hạnh

We are thankful for their exceptional service:

Phạm Kiều Diễm, Vice President (2007-2009)

Ngô Thanh Nhàn, Vice President (1999-2007)

Đỗ Tuyết Khanh, Vice President (2000-2004)

In Memoriam, 

Father Anthony Tran Van Kiem (L.m. An-tôn Trần văn Kiệm), 1920-2012. Those who value the cultural heritage of Vietnam written in the medieval Hán-Nôm scripts will be forever grateful to Father Anthony for his Giúp Đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt, his ground-breaking life-work which was one of the first dictionaries of the Hán-Nôm writing systems printed in True Type fonts and accessible via the internet.

Father Anthony Tran Van Kiem (L.m. An-tôn Trần văn Kiệm) died on June 16, 2012
at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Father Kiem was 92 years old and a priest
for 62 years.

Father Kiem was born on Dec. 31, 1920 in Phát Diệm, Vietnam, and was ordained
a priest on June 29, 1946 for the Diocese of Phát Diệm. In 1975 he was accepted
into the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida. He retired to Seadrift, Texas,
in 1991 but continued to serve the Vietnamese fishing village there until 2006 when
he moved to Atlanta.

Those who value the cultural heritage of Vietnam written in the medieval Hán-Nôm
scripts will be forever grateful to Father Anthony for his Giúp Đọc Nôm và Hán-Việt,
his ground-breaking life-work which was one of the first modern dictionaries of
these pre-modern writing systems.

It was an honor for our Foundation to work with Father Anthony, digitizing his
dictionary, publishing it in print in True Type Fonts in 2004, and subsequently
making it available at this website.