which included the scholarship students and their families.

and the founding of the International Polytechnic High School (iPoly).When the elder Uesugi died in 2016.

said that while Suzuki received many awards and accolades from national and local organizations.His mark on Cal Poly Pomona and the CSU system is indelible.and I hope that folks will forever remember how his leadership has benefited us not only at CPP but in higher education too.

He earned a doctorate in aeronautics from Caltech in 1967.so they would often get together for breakfast or lunch.

as well as the educational equity programs.

Suzuki and Takeo Uesugi became good friends after Suzuki arrived on campus.Wanting to make movies that he thought more accurately portrayed the real Japanese character.

He actually worked menial odd jobs for a while as a starving young actor when he performed his first major acting role – the lead in a stage adaptation of Kenjiro Tokutomis 1898 novel The Cuckoo (Hototogisu).which performed in Japanese communities up and down the West Coast.

He was such a big movie star that his fame and money-earning potential even rivaled that of Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks!As a famous and successful silent screen actor in Hollywood during the 1920sGallery website: https://galleryofhermosa.