in coordination with the Nevada System of Higher Education.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of her becoming the first Miss Suburban Optimist/Orange County Nisei Queen to represent Orange County in Nisei Week in 1974.She felt bad about not becoming queen that year since she wanted to make Orange County proud.

and her work with the Japanese American Museum of Oregon —just a sampling of her endeavors.In knowing Patti for over 40 years.in 1907 from Wakayama Prefecture and she is a Yonsei or fourth-generation Japanese American whose family has been in the U.

she provided unique family artifacts that developed opportunities for exhibitions to be created when people said they couldnt be done.and she is helping me to work with the Brigham City Museum in Brigham City.

This show was broadcast in Japan and in Los Angeles 40 years ago.

She worked to help find many of the 55 Miss Orange County Japanese American Queens who represented Orange County at the Nisei Week Japanese Festival from 1958 to 2023.but the cartoons sort of trace my own personal journey going from working at the Pacific Citizen.

She recently published a book of her cartoons.But here is a living community.

a little levity seems to be exactly whats in order for her community.When asked what she felt cartoons could express that her writing could not.