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A remembrance from Vicky Tiel: Jean Huang--tall, beautiful, happy-go-lucky--was my next door neighbor on Montrose Dr. for all my years in high school. Her mother was the voice of Radio Free China, and yet Jean loved everything American--cheeseburgers, cokes, and rock and roll. We stayed great friends after college and Jean house-guested with me in two different Paris apartments, as we went blissfully through our twenties. She married her blue-eyed, blond dreamy German husband, had a perfect daughter, and one day her husband broke her heart. A Divorce! Jean called me to visit Paris, I was away, I missed her! Later that year she died, young, beautiful heartbroken, a perfect life broken, and she perished. I always miss her when I return to Montrose Drive and think of our Big Dreams. She would have been so proud of China today. (Jean died in February 1987.) A remembrance from Joan McInTurff Wetmore: Jean was my good friend from junior high until about the 1970s. Jean was born in China. She and her family lived in several countries in the few years between leaving their home and arriving in Chevy Chase. She spoke several languages fluently, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Spanish and of course, English. Jean developed TB in the spring of 1961 and spent about a year in a sanatorium near Baltimore.* She later graduated from Georgetown University.
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