Donald Robishaw would later earn a PhD in Education from Amhearst and marry a woman he met in the camp.

In the camp, because the teachers lived in the camp, refugee romances were fairly common. During the three years that I worked in Thailand, where we did not live in the camp with the refugees, I never heard of it happening. In the Philippines, as is the case everywhere, some of the women prostituted themselves.

Don later said that after working in the camp, it took him a year to get his confidence back.