Fuyo Kai group at the University of Washington

Fuyo Kai group at the University of Washington

Nisei Veterans Committee

U.W. Fuyo Kai group at the Columns on the University of Washington campus, May 28, 1941. Fuyo Kai (Hibiscus Club) was a Japanese American student club for women, founded in 1922 in response to Japanese exclusion from the traditional sororities. First row: From left, Yoshiko Uchiyama (Tani); Chiyo Nakata (Horiuchi); Tama Inouye Tokuda, Japanese dancer at Mimasukai Dance Group now living at Nikkei Manor; Kiyo Kamikawa; Sachiko Nakauchi; Kazuko Abe; Yoshiko Yano; Chie Aoki; Mieko Fujii. From right, Yoshie Fujihara; Florence Tateoka (Fujita), valedictorian; Fuji Fukiage. Second row: From left, Toshiko Baba; third from left, Michiko Watanabe; fifth from left Takako Yoda, active Buddhist Church and JACL member now living at Nikkei Manor; Aya Hoshimoto Sakamoto; Dorrie Abe; ninth from left, June Kumakura (Momoda), who was a pharmacist in camp NVC; eleventh from left, Miyo Kamihira, Yukie Fukuzawa; May Kubota (Yano), of the Kubota Garden family. Second from right, Grace Watanabe. Third row: Second from right, Martha Nishitani, dancer and teacher; Atsuko Yano; Marjorie Ota; Esther Kambe; Teru Nakata (Kiyohara), worked in special education at Lowell Elementary School; Misako Kondo; Sachi Fukiage; Sakiko Shiga (see Shiga family photos) competitive swimmer; Toshiko Hiroshige; Kazuko Fujii; Tama Koriyama (Inaba), active in JACL, in NVC; unidentified; Harue Morinaga. Fourth row: Phyllis Yasunobu; Mary Shimoda (Morio), now lives in Bellevue, was a pharmacist; Fumiko Shitamae (Nishi), was part of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) in Japan, researched Japanese bomb victims, worked in Nutrition; unidentified; Miyoko Senda (McCoy), now at Nikkei Manor; Margaret Ouchi, active in campfire girls, a nurse; Amy Okabe; Haruko Kuroiwa; Misayo Morinaga.

Takano

1941

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