After his graduation from Yale in 1918. Dr. Yen volunteered to assist the Chinese Labor Corps. a group of laborers brought from China to France during the Second World War to perform a variety of tasks for the Allies. While in France. Dr. Yen began to teach the illiterate and homesick Chinese coolies to write and read letters from home. His success with the education of the cooliesand his subsequent invention of a simplified vocabulary of Chinese charactersbegan a distinguished career that would always be characterized by his efforts to assist others. At the close of World War II. Dr.
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