Yamashita Family Archives

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1944 10 24 Helen Paul to Kay, informal.jpg
Helen Paul writes a personal letter saying that she doesn't think Kay will be satisfied in the job that she's being offered at the WRA compared to her job at the Student Relocation Council, invites her to stay with her to do more job hunting in…

1944 10 24 Helen Paul to Kay.jpg

1944 10 20 Kay to Helen Paul.pdf

A2_ pg175-176 date 11_16_44.pdf
A letter from Kay Yamshita to Helen Paul expressing thanks for a recent letter she sent her. Kay is trying to decide whether or not to stay with the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council. She likes her job but is having difficulties…

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1945 1 1 Letter to Kay from someone in Gila about student reloc 3.jpg
Handwritten and informal, this letter from someone at Gila Camp worried about being able to close the camp and get people on their feet again, and the possibility that Niseis in school will have to drop out again to help their families. Also…

A2_ pg176.92-.94 date 1_1_45(?)_Page_1.jpg
Betty (fellow administrator at National Japanese American Student Relocation Council?) is glad that Kay will stay on until March with AFSC Student Relocation Council. She also says that the WRA has approved travel grants to students.

John Nason, president of Swarthmore College at the time, writes to Kay thanking her for her work staying on with the Student Relocation Council for a few more months.

1945 1 12 Letter from Kay to Bill _Page_2.jpg
A letter from Kay Yamashita to Bill Stevenson, a former colleague of hers, updating him on events in Philadelphia. She also includes information about her personal life, that her brother and two other family members have been drafted, and that she is…

Kay mentions how her brother, Tom, brother in law, Min, and nephew, Ted, have been inducted and in basic training. (Description not complete)

Kay worked or got an income from Sunway Fruit Company in Chicago, the YMCA in Chicago and AFSC in Philadelphia. She was also supporting her mom, Tomi Yamashita.

1945 1 19 Letter from Bill to Kay_Page_1.jpg
Bill discusses wartime disillusionment and the state of people in camp at the end of the war- for those who lost everything Bill asks where will they will move once the camps are closed and expresses concern for the situation that many will find…

Notebook A2 Page 187_11.4.45

From Sylvia and Goth) just signed card, Also a card from Josephin W. [Duveneck] cut off in scan

Kay writes to John Nason, now the head of Carleton College, and mentions that she had wished that the National Student Relocation Council would have worked with a black group in 1943. She had proposed it "meekly" during one of her last meetings, but…

John Nason, president of Carleton College, responds to Kay's letter about her niece Karen planning to go to college. (A2.197-202_1.69)

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