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The fifty valedictorians and salutatorians featured in Nisei Voices attended 42 public high schools, junior high schools and grammar schools in 35 cities and towns all over California in the 1920s and 30s.
The table below has the list of students sorted by school, city where the school was located, student's name and the topic of his or her graduation speech. More than half of the students in Nisei Voices are female. During World War II, almost 75 percent of the scholars were incarcerated in concentration camps by the U.S. government. Some avoided internment by moving away from the West Coast. Others were in Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan and China during the war. |
|
School |
City |
Student |
Speech Topic |
|
|
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Joe
Masao Nakanishi |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Haruko
Fujita |
|
|
Arroyo
Grande Union H.S. |
Arroyo
Grande |
Pearl
Kurokawa |
Graduation |
|
Audubon
Junior H.S. |
|
Doris
Fujisawa |
Olympics |
|
Brawley
Union H.S. |
Brawley |
Matilde
Sumiko Honda |
Education |
|
Canoga
Park H.S. |
|
Shizue Ohashi |
Olympics |
|
Carpinteria H.S. |
Carpinteria |
Thomas
Hirashima |
|
|
|
|
Mary
Toshiko Miyamoto |
|
|
|
|
George
S. Takaoka |
|
|
|
Dinuba |
George
Nishida |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Chizuko
Doi |
Women |
|
|
|
Kameko
Yoshioka |
Education |
|
Foshay
Junior H.S. |
|
Norio
Yasaki |
Education |
|
Fowler
H.S. |
Fowler |
Hidemitsu
Ginoza |
|
|
Fowler
H.S. |
Fowler |
Ayami
Onaka |
Leisure |
|
Fowler
H.S. |
Fowler |
Toshio
Yamagata |
Leisure |
|
|
|
Kiyoshi
Murakami |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Frank
K. Yamakoshi |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Kiyoshi
Nobusada |
International
Relations |
|
|
|
John
Fujio Aiso |
|
|
|
|
Jimmy
Nakamura |
Education |
|
John
Burroughs Junior H.S. |
|
Kozue
Fujikawa |
|
|
|
|
Sakaye
Saiki |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Yukiko
Sanwo |
Education |
|
|
|
Shizu Komae |
|
|
|
|
Charlotte
Shimidzu |
Other |
|
|
|
|
Other |
|
Long
Beach Polytechnic H.S. |
|
James
Hajime Hashimoto |
Education |
|
|
|
Fujio
Frank Chuman |
Graduation |
|
|
Orosi |
Michiko
Naito |
Graduation |
|
Manual
Arts H.S. |
|
Roku Sugahara |
|
|
McKinley
Junior H.S. |
|
Ida
Ikuye Shimanouchi |
International
Relations |
|
|
|
Goro
Murata |
|
|
|
|
Yoshiko
Higuchi |
Women |
|
|
|
Jimmie
Tabata |
International
Relations |
|
|
|
George
J. Inagaki |
|
|
|
|
Mitsue Matsumune |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Helen
H. Hirata |
Other |
|
San
Francisco H.S. of Commerce |
|
Ayame Ichiyasu |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Akiko
Sawada |
Graduation |
|
|
San
Martin |
Helen
S. Kuwada |
Graduation |
|
San
Pedro H.S. |
San
Pedro |
Katsumi
Yoshizumi |
|
|
Sanger
H.S. |
Sanger |
|
Education |
|
Santa
Maria Union H.S. |
|
Jimmie
Chikao Hamasaki |
Graduation |
|
|
|
Mary
Fukuye Asada |
Other |
|
Sequoia
H.S. |
|
Charles
Inouye |
Graduation |
|
Sweetwater
H.S. |
|
Dorothy
Chiye Yoshida |
Other |
|
Thomas
Starr King Junior H.S. |
|
Michiko
Yoshihashi |
International
Relations |
|
University
H.S. |
|
Kazuya
Sanada |
Education |