History of VSA :

The Vietnamese Student Association at Orange Coast College (VSA-OCC) is a non-profit organization. Our missions are to promote, as well as to preserve, the Vietnamese culture and language and to create a friendly social environment of Vietnamese-American students on and off campus. VSA has become more and more successful each and every day for the past 25 years and VSA certainly will continue this tradition for many years to come. Below is a brief of our history:

1978:   VSA was established with Counselor Ron Kleine as Advisor.

1982:   The annual fundraising concert – Vietnam & Human Love (Que Huong va Tinh Thuong) started and had raised over $30,000 for Vietnamese children at the Southeast Asia Refugee Camps within the period of 1982 – 1992.

1985:   Dr. Hue Pham became VSA advisor

1990s: VSA actively participated in Walk-a-Thon for the Vietnamese village in the Philippines, other Human Rights movements, and the Vietnamese TET Festival.

1997:   The Foundation for Vietnamese Students Scholarship was created. Since then, VSA was awarded over $15,000 of $500 each for our most dedicated members.

1998:   VSA began hosting its annual Vietnamese Culture Night, a many hundred-hours student-production that attracts over 1000 visitors from the community to Robert B. Moore theatre every year.