the first time for 30 years to Faye Maltese.

as well as a swimming and diving training program.and driven progress that has transformed California and the world.

She and mens platform winner Sammy Lee also became the first divers of Asian descent to win Olympic gold medals.the California Hall of Fame honors history-making Californians who embody the states spirit of innovation and have changed the state.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.Taking pictures at the Nisei Week Grand Parade in 1971.

Boyle Heights was like a melting pot – you had Asians.Reyes received honors from Nisei Week.

and my uncle [then-publisher Aki Komai] and other staff members were supposed to take their own photos.cameras had film and film had to be processed.