Brief biography of architect, Minoru Yamasak, his most important buildings and a few details about obtaining the World Trade Center project. Also notes some of the honors awarded during his lifetime.
The oldest graduate of the UW class of 2001, Yuki Sato lived through WWII ias an internee, raised a son by herself after her husband died and took 19 years to complete the requirements for her graduation summa cum laude.
99 years after Japanese American Takuji Yamashita was refused admission to the Washington state Bar Association because of his race, the state Supreme Court granted him that honor posthumously.