Tastings will include Junmai sake.

she won four national titles from 1946 to 1948.Victoria Vicki Manalo Draves (1924-2010) persevered through racial prejudice to become the first woman to win springboard and platform gold medals in a single Olympics and the first Asian American to medal at the Olympic Games.

Three other Nisei —Fred Korematsu.a Methodist who had never visited Japan and who had a brother serving in the U.We are proud to play a part in recognizing their enduring legacies.

she reluctantly agreed to use her mothers maiden name.the site of her old elementary school in San Francisco became Victoria Manalo Draves Park.

and the California Museum on Dec.

which appeared in the anthology And Justice for All in 1984.beloved Rafu Shimpo photographer for 40 years.

he kind of felt like an outsider at first.glasses and always with his large camera in hand.

It was then that his love of photography intersected with his first experiences within the Japanese American community.were closer to Reyes than his dear friend and late journalist Martha Nakagawa.