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12/31/17

THE BRICKS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED!

We are in the process of planning the FIRST POSTON PILGRIMAGE !!!

...to officially celebrate the installation of the bricks at the Poston Memorial Monument.

...to celebrate the stabilization of the Poston 1 Elementary School adobe brick classrooms, a recognized National Historical site

...to screen our documentary film, "For the Sake of the Children" with Marlene Shigekawa, executive producer

. .............More official details coming soon..........

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

8/21/14

Then and Now: Recent gatherings of old friends.....

(L-R) Amy N (305), Mary M (305), Hankus N (308),

Lilyan N (305), and Mary H (305)

BLOCK 305 GIRLS at Poston, Ariz. 1945

(L-R): Mary M, Lydia N, Mary O, Mary H, Amy N, and June K

(L-R): Nori H (305), Midori N (318), Larry I (308),

and Sammy N (318)

BLOCK 308 at Poston, Ariz. 1945

(L-R): Amy I, Ann I, Larry I, Charles I

Block 305

(L-R): Lilyan N., Ed N., and Ron N.

BLOCK 305 at Poston, Ariz. 1945

Lilyan N.

BLOCK 305 Resettlement photo 1945

(L-R):Lily, Ron N and Ed N.

Photo credit: National Archives

BLOCK 305 Resettlement photo 1945

Ed N.

Photo credit: National Archives

BLOCK 305 Resettlement photo 1945

Ed N.

Photo credit: National Archives

Seated (L-R): Mollie (305), Aiko (305), and Louise (305)

Standing (L-R): Herb A. (305), Rosie (309), Kenneth M. (309), Tosh (308),

Hiko (327), Lilyan N. (305), Taye (305) and Frank A. (305).

BLOCK 309 Resettlement photo 1945

(L-R): Kaudy M, Kenneth M, Akiko M.

Photo credit: National Archives

BLOCK 305 Resettlement 1945

(L-R): Shigeko A, Frank A, Kenji A

Photo credit: National Archives

BLOCK 305 Poston, Ariz. 1945

Front (L-R): Herb A, Gordon N

Standing (L-R): George N, Lydia N, Tamaji N,

Wm K (camp 2), Lily and Ron N.

7/21/14

REUNION, Anyone?

Are you interested in attending

the next Poston REUNION?

Family, friends, and kids are welcome!

Lots of helpers are needed. Post your reply on "comments" below.

5/17/13

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

5/2/13

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.

8/30/12

UpDate: 2011 Poston Legacy Reunion

Tak Kohatsu 59-5-C

Good news and finally -- The 2011 Poston Legacy Reunion books are completed.

It's in the mail!

As for the DVD, we're still encountering some technical difficulties.

Thanks for your patience.

Tak Kohatsu & committee

7/8/12

UpDate: Poston Legacy Reunion 2011 Souvenir Book & DVD

UpDate: Poston Legacy Reunion 2011 Souvenir Book and DVD release

Due to some delay caused by the heavy school year-end printing and video demands, our revised release date is estimated to be around early part of August, 2012.

Thank you for your patience.

Poston Reunion 2011 Committee

Tak Kohatsu

4/22/12

UPDATE: 2011 Legacy Reunion Booklet & DVD

A message from

the 2011 Poston Legacy Reunion Committee......

The 2011 Poston Legacy Reunion Committee continues to work on the reunion booklet and DVD. These items were pre-ordered. We are close to being completed but we have run into a few major problems over the last several months. In addition those working on it have life's regular and unexpected commitments and happenings.

The original date of completion was the end of April. We are hoping for no later than an end of May mailing. Thanks for helping us "spread the word" and for your patience and understanding.