Published January 20th, 1982 – Eagle Rock Sentinel

Catharine Brown, assistant principal at Eagle Rock High School, is fascinated by Minh Thai, 17, working the solution to Rubik’s cube. Thai came from Vietnam three and a half years ago and is in the 12th grade. On a recent television program of “That’s Incredible” he became the champion by completing the puzzle in 26.04 seconds. For his efforts he won a trophy and $2000. Thai said it took him one month to solve the puzzle and he has written a book “Winning Solutions” to be published in Feb. He will also be giving demonstrations at the May Co.