Former history teacher speaks about Hmong culture

WAUSAU - The Hmong population in Wisconsin didn't really begin to grow until the early 1980s. And when it did, no one really understood who these people were. A former history teacher in Wausau wanted to find out more about their culture.

"The first students came just before I resigned in 1983," said former Wausau West history teacher Rick Lohr. "And I found them to be very good students. And I was very interested in them, and I knew that a lot of them were coming over. And so it'd be a benefit to the community and to the schools if I went over and got some background."

In 1989, Lohr traveled to a refugee camp in Thailand. He wanted to know more about the new group of people that was beginning to make its way to central Wisconsin in the late 1970s.

Full story: WJFW

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