POSTON REUNION 2011 DVD

Yes, it is FINALLY done!!  

Thank you everyone for your patience. 

 

Orders already placed will be mailed shortly.  

As an added bonus, included with every order will be a CD of the scanned

50th Poston Reunion Memory Book, courtesy of Jim Yamashita.

Anyone still wanting to place an order ($20 each) should call:

Susan Komatsuka-Rodriguez (714) 412-6897 by May 31, 2013.

Tak Kohatsu

Poston Reunion 2011

Recent acquired artifacts...more!

Poston Camp 1 location of barracks

Poston camp 2 location of barracks

Poston camp 3 location of barracks

            Recently acquired artifact donations from Mrs. Mine (Matsumoto) Ikeda 221-5-D

KEEP THOSE ARTIFACTS COMING........

51st Anniversary Reunion

Poston Block 221

51st Anniversary 

September 4, 1993

Fresno, California

Photos 30 years after camp

Poston camp 3 Reunion

30 year reunion (1975)

Camp 3 Reunion Committee (San Jose area) 

Front (L-R): Betty (Nishiyama) Hagiya, Sadako (Kai) Ikeda, Tooru Hirose, and Shinobu (Kodama) Maruyama. Standing (L-R): Shoichi Araki, Yasue (Sato) Otani, Betty (Kurotsuchi) Inouye, Betty (Tanaka) Uchida, Hiro Sera, Mary (Nakagawa) Izu, Tokio Onishi, Hamako (Hatakeda) Nakagawa, Mas Konatsu, and Mas Tanaka.

 

FORMER  HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS AT CAMP 3

Front row (L-R): James Urata, Frank Saita, Sumi (Himaka) Shimada, Alice (Morioka) Suyeda, Frances (Cushman) Pierce (principal) , Barbara (Washler) Curry, Ayako (Doman) Mayeda, Aiko Owashi, and Tom Doi.  Back row (L-R): Harry Morofuji, Steve Nakashima, James Okada, Leo Owashi, Junichi Hatakeda, Masumi Nakamichi, George Takaoka, Ruth (Nishi) Yoshida, and Sachi (Yamane) Matsui.

CLASS OF 1943

Front row (L-R): Bill Nakagawa, Hiro Sera, Sakiko (Okamoto) Kada, Haru (Kawamoto) Urata, Kiku (Kawamoto) Koga, Miyeko (Tanaka) Takaoka, Fusaye (Domon) Yamashita, and Takemi (Oda) Shimizu. Middle row (L-R): Kei Nakamura, George Kimura, George Yamada, Noboru Nakamura, Tots Ishida, Emi (Himaka) Shimizu, Michi (Ishimoto) Nishimura, Isao (Chingus) Nakagawa, Lloyd Kurihara, and Gene Shimaji. Back row (L-R): George Hasabe, Jiro Murai, Gordy Miyamoto, Tok Morikawa, Chiyo (Kusumoto) Nakagawa, Honey (Watari) Renge, Ben Nobuhiro, Ben Honda, Chet Kaneyuki, Shinobu (Kodama) Maruyama, Mo Noguchi, Johnny Nishida, and Mike Furusho.  

CLASS OF 1944

Kneeling (L-R): Yukio Kawamoto, Taro Ohashi, James Tajiri, Hiro Kajiya, and Ken Matsumoto. Seated (L-R): Terry (Miyata) Yamaguchi, Toyo (Hattori) Hirai, Sadako (Kai) Ikeda, Yasu (Tashiro) Ieno, Dorothy (Takahashi) Treakle, Akira Takeshita, Tooru Hirose, Shigeko (Ogata) Oye, Terry (Hamaguchi) Mizufuku, Miyako (Sasaki) Yamaguchi, Ruth (Furusho) Noonan, and Sam Katano. Middle row (L-R): Roy Tsutsumi, Miyoko (Mikasa) Nakamaru, Pat (Goto) Takeshita, Yasue (Sato) Otani, Ruby Sakamoto, Eleanor (Nakashima) Toi, Walter Fujimoto, Misao (Nakamura) Tomita, Teruko (Shimizu) Shibata, Johnny Hayakawa, Min Koide, Ben Hayakawa, Nob Takasaki, Sho Miyamoto and Masato Asakawa. Top row (L-R): Mitzi (Tsuji) Osumi, Mary (Kajioka) Nakashima, Edythe (Hirase) Harada, Sachi (Urata) Nishida, Kazuko (Nakamichi) Ozaki,  Minoru Maruyama, Hitoshi Shinoda, Charles Taguchi, Betty (Tanaka) Uchida, Emily (Kuwada) Ibarashi, Yo Takehara, Choke (Karasawa) Umekubo, Thomas Tajiri, Betty (Kurotsuchi) Inouye, Saburo Uyeji, Sumiko (Iwamura) Ishida, Mas Konatsu, Yas Hashimoto, John Tanaka, and James Morioka.  Camera shy: Art Kubo and Stella (Kitahara) Tsutsumi.

CLASS OF 1945

Front row (L-R): Sati (Ohashi) Yoshida, Molly (Ohashi) Yamamoto, Mary (Arata) Smith, Mary (Nakagawa) Izu, Fumiko (Fujimoto) Tajii, Chizuko (Takeda) Kubo, Kiyoko (Kunishige) Kakuuchi, Dukie (Shirokawa) Kawahata, and Eva (Kai) Iwanaga.  Middle row (L-R): Seichi Shinoda, Jim Shinohara, Jane (Yamaguchi) Takeshita, Josie (Hirai) Nishida, Alyce Honda, Hamako (Hatakeda) Nakagawa, Michiko (Nakahara) Matsuda, Elaine (Morikawa) Okimoto, Masako (Nakahara) Kawata, Masako (Uota) Kobayashi, Mariye (Okino) Kataoka, Lilyan (Nagata) Kiyomoto, Tomoko (Uzuhashi) MIzukami, Tomiko (Yokota) Abe, and Mas Tanaka. Back row (L-R): Ben Kitahata, Babe Karasawa, Kenji Sekishiro, Kenji Iguchi, Shig Kitauchi, Frank Horibe, Mickey Shinoda, Howard Kuyama, Michiyuki Nakamura, Akira Tajiri, Bill Yamada, Walter Kurihara, George Masumoto, Harvey Sadahiro, Kiyoshi Aoki, and Terry Nishida.

CLASS OF 1946

Front row (L-R): Marian (Kikuchi) Oyama, Helen (Ozaki) Takeshita, Mae (Takayama) Shishido, Dorothy (Yamamoto) Mizono, Betty (Nishiyama) Hagiya, Doris (Kuwada) Kunimura, and Ayako (Ashida) Kodama.  Middle row (L-R):  Sadako (Noguchi) Marshall, Chiyoko (Mukai) Hosaka, Mary (Morioka) Ishida, Sumiko (Nakagawa) Ichiuiji, Bob Yamauchi, Kenji Osaki, Willie Fujino and Shoichi Araki. Back row (L-R): Tokio Onishi, Hank Yamada, Ken Miura, Hajime Yoshii, Bob Masukawa, and Franklin Abe. 

Oh those lifeguards!

Recognize any of these life-saving young men?