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Former State College mayor talks about her own experience on trade in China

Looking at a photograph taken with a Polaroid instant camera, one can hardly tell that the curly haired woman sitting on a train bunk bed with a silk fan in her hand is the same woman now in her seventies, with clean short hair wearing a pair of wire framed glasses.

It was in the summer of 1983 when Elizabeth Goreham made her first trip to China as the coordinator for Gray Tool Company, a small family-run business from Houston, Texas.