Alumni ReflectionsSeveral alumni who attended JIS as children were also present.

remarked how the two of them used to sit and talk for hours apart from everybody else at Japanese school.Shag showed her relentless spunk.

Elsie had a small party at Hollenbeck Palms.Butte was the high school at the Gila War Relocation Authority Center in Rivers.and Elsies sister Helen as members of the Royal Thespian club.

Mary Uyematsu Kao is the author/photographer of Rockin the Boat: Flashbacks of the 1970s Asian Movement and formerly the publications coordinator of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (1987-2018).By Mary Uyematsu KaoTwo new centenarians have hit the scene.

Shigeko Shag Morishita with grandson Craig Tomooka and daughter Kathy Block at her 100th birthday party.

They celebrated their 100th birthdays from their wheelchairs with extended family and friendsMessage From MuseumAnn Burroughs.

and to do that ignores the diversity and the extraordinary richness of the ethnic and cultural diversity that makes up this country.‘I want to believe that goodness exists in this country.

‘Hands off our history! People and places will not be erased!Arguelles added.which is why we have to continue to challenge the revisionist history.