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Tu-Anh Phạm •
Determination Defined a Life Meeting Tu-Anh Pham for the first time, you'd notice that she emoted from head to toe, like "a tiny little live wire who just smiled and glowed," said Frank Durham, an investor in the brewery she wanted to build in the .
Hurricanes would defeat the concept, but it was just one adventure in her busy life.
As a teenager, she was airlifted out of with her father and siblings in 1975, while her mother stayed behind in .
It was months before they were reunited, and Tu-Anh stepped in. "She took care of us," said her younger sister, Mai-Anh Pham, a physician in Atlanta.
She met her husband, Tom Knobel, when they both worked at Dow Chemical in Texas in the early 1980's.
He stayed with the company while she attended business school and held a series of jobs before joining Fred Alger Management as an analyst in 1997.
She loved her work. He became a novelist. For years they longed for a baby, and the smiling Vivienne Hoang-Anh Knobel was born last July.
After a six-week maternity leave, her mother, who was 42, returned to the office on Sept. 10.
A memorial to the trade center victims in Princeton, N.J., where she lived, consists of stones bearing a single word to remember each one.
Tom Knobel chose "determination" for Tu-Anh Pham.
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Tu-Anh Pham of Princeton Township died Sept. 11 during the attack on the World Trade Center. She was 42.
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Born in Vietnam, she was able to escape as Saigon fell in 1975. She settled in Oklahoma and later Texas, Philadelphia, Cambridge, England, Madison, and the Virgin Islands before moving to Princeton eight years ago.
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She was vice president of Alger Management in New York and Sept. 11 was her second day at the World Trade Center after returning from maternity leave.
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Two years after beginning high school in Tulsa, Okla. with no knowledge of English, she graduated, at age 17. She then earned a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and worked at Dow Chemical Co. in Texas, implementing developments in recyclable plastics and earning four patents.
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She attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a master’s degree in business administration in 1989.
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She then accepted a position with Scientific Generics in Cambridge, England. In 1992, she returned to the United States, working as a management consultant for UMS Group in Madison, advising utilities on cost control.
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She then decided to enter the entrepreneurial world, spending five years in an attempt to establish a microbrewery in the Virgin Islands. Weeks before the company’s initial public offering, the island was struck by Hurricane Marilyn.
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Facing projected construction delays of two years, she abandoned the project, returning a substantial portion of the proceeds to investors. •
After moving to Princeton with her husband, she consulted for Wm. Sword & Co. in Princeton and Echocath in Monmouth Junction before joining Alger Management, an investment company.
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"Tu-Anh was one of our best analysts," said company Chairman Fred Alger. "Diverse of talent, she covered many different areas, most recently picking up a tough area, financial services. As with everything Tu-Anh did, she attacked the sector with intellectual vigor."
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An avid traveler, she and her husband vacationed in Europe, Asia and especially the Caribbean. She enjoyed skiing, snorkeling, mountain hiking and was an accomplished pianist and classical guitarist.
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She is survived by her husband, Tom Knobel and daughter Vivienne Hoang-Anh, both of Princeton; parents Kim-Anh Nguyen and Cuong Pham of Atlanta; sister Dr. Mai-Anh Pham of Atlanta; and brother Nam-Anh Pham of Atlanta.
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Memorial donations may be made to the Vivienne Knobel Education Account at First Washington State Bank, P.O. Box 500, Windsor, NJ 08561, attention Sharon-West Windsor.
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••• 🙏🏽 😔 Rest in Peace my fellow Americans, I pray for your family during this lost. 😔 🙏🏽
••• 🙏🏽 😔 I will keep you both in my prayers and share your life stories with my family and friends. 😔 🙏🏽
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The American Dream
When she was 42, Tu-Anh Pham gave birth to her first daughter. After a six-week maternity leave, she returned to work at Fred Alger Management, located on the 93rd floor of the north tower.
The date was Sept. 10, 2001.That week, Pham had been “anxious and enthusiastic to go back,” her husband Thomas Knobel recalled. “She was doing important work.”
Hours after she left home the morning of Sept. 11, she became one of 35 of the firm’s 39 employees to die in the attacks.
In her early years, Pham would not have been a likely candidate for a position at the center of New York’s financial world. She arrived in the United States when she was 15, after she and her family were airlifted out of South Vietnam in 1975 because of the war.
Despite knowing no English when she came to the country, she graduated from high school with high honors.
Looking back, Knobel said he remembers his wife as having a “very entrepreneurial spirit” and being “highly analytical.”
It was that drive and determination that landed Pham a spot in Wharton’s MBA program in 1987.
Going to Wharton “helped her career dramatically,” Knobel said. “It opened so many doors for her and widened her perspective,” he explained, adding that he has kept in touch with many of her friends from business school.
Twelve years after his wife graduated from Wharton, Knobel watched on television as the twin towers crumbled to the ground.
“We lived in Princeton at the time,” Knobel recalled. “But I moved back to my hometown in upstate New York [after the attacks]. Part of the reason was to avoid a lot of the emotion that was flowing in New York and New Jersey.”
In the years that followed, his family in upstate New York helped him raise his 6-week-old daughter, Vivienne Hoang-Anh Knobel.
Fast-forward to today, Vivienne is starting fifth grade.
“She is a top student in her class,” Knobel said. “She has intelligence and mathematical skills that she inherited from her mother.”
Although Knobel has explained to his young daughter what happened to her mother, he feels it is important to “keep the kids away from the geopolitical aspect of Sept. 11.”
“It’s easy to become obsessed with the implications, the religious conflicts, the wars that we’ve fought since,” he said, but, for his daughter, “it’s just important for her to grow up knowing about her mother.”
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