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DA LAT AND MEMORIES

OF THE VIETNAMESE

NATIONAL MILITARY

ACADEMY

In April 1968, after submitting my master's thesis of

History at the Faculty of Letters (Saigon University), I was

officially appointed Assistant of Public Relations to The Vice

President of The Senate. In October of that year, I was invited
by the President of Da Lat University to teach at the Faculty
of Letters for the 1968-69 school year. At that time (1968),

while both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Science from
the University of Saigon offered doctoral classes and issued

PhD degrees, the Faculty of Letters under Saigon University

had not yet granted any doctorate degree. We completed the
Master's degree program from 1968 but it was not until 1972
that we were actually able to att end the first doctorate class

for the 1972-1975 school year at The Saigon Faculty of Lett ers.
Even our senior graduate Pham Cao Duong, who obtained the
first Master of History degree at this Faculty, had to register

for a doctorate at the University of Paris (France).
Mid-October 1968, I left Saigon, went to the Highland
of Da Lat to start my early days of lecturing at the Faculty
of Letters from The University there.At that time, at the

Vietnamese National Military Academy (also known as Da Lat
National Military School ),class 22 was divided into class 22A
and class 22B. Class 22B followed a 4-year program similar to

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