USC gives honorary degrees to Japanese American students who had education cut short amid WWII

Carolyn Classen clutched a gold-framed black-and-white photo of her late father, Francis Sueo Sugiyana, as she wiped tears from her eyes.

In order to honor the former Japanese American students, USC President Carol Folt made an exception to the school’s policy not to award degrees posthumously. But her father “persevered and became a dentist, a good dentist,” Classen said. “There was closure for him.” Francis Sueo Sugiyama, pictured in the early 1940s, was a dental student at USC. Sugiyama fled to Chicago before being forcibly removed by the U.S. government and never finished his degree.

USC officials also dedicated a rock garden at the northeastern corner of campus Friday morning to honor the university’s Nisei students, the American-born descendants of Japanese immigrants. Even at the camp, Tad Ochiai put his education to use — he had a teaching credential from Stanford — and taught high school chemistry. He eventually completed four years of dental school at St. Louis University after being released and opened his own practice in Orange County.

Seki was the editor of the yearbook and had completed the necessary coursework for graduation. He worked three jobs to pay his way through school and aspired to become a lawyer or a judge, his daughter Kathleen Sakamoto said.

Mills College President, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt lobbied Prez Roosevelt to allow the students at Mills be exempted from Exec Ordr 9066 if they stayed on campus. He refused, she sent Profs. to the camps to help these young women complete their degrees. all4mills

ohhh, when the UnitedState of America dropped the nuclear bomb onto civilians, and Japan became the American lapdog. Fascinating world

Beautiful if not long overdue. theyfoughton

Long overdue. Glad it's happening though.

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