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She studied philosophy and languages, learning to speak English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, and Flemish.
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She has written several books, including Night Sanctuary and The happy cooker. "I can also read Greek and Latin," she said. Her initial visit to the United States was in 1950, when she was an exchange student studying law at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship.
On Broadway, van Vooren played in John Murray Anderson"s Almanac (1953-1954) Manitoba on the Moon (1975).
In the 1960s, van Vooren starred in summer stock theatre productions in the United States. In 1983, van Vooren was found guilty of lying before a federal grand jury and "ordered to get psychiatric help and perform 500 hours of community service as part of a suspended sentence." The sentence resulted from an investigation of "whether she had pocketed her dead mother"s Social Security payments." Van Vooren was born in 1927.
She first arrived in the United States, according to the New York Passenger List Manifest #35 of In-Bound Passengers (Aliens) aboard the Queen Elizabeth from Cherbourg, France to New York City (October 29–November 3, 1949). Her age was 22, per Ancestry.com.
On October 19, 1950, she crossed from Mexico into El Paso, Texas.
Her age is listed as 22, but she was 23, her date of birth was erroneously captured online as October 25, rather than March 25.
