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Big Game Dinner | Charitable Contributions
from Hokubei Mainichi The California Japanese Alumni Association (CJAA) has provided a $1,500 grant to the Asian American Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley for purchase of doctoral dissertations on Japanese Americans in the United States. More than 160 such papers have been written in the past 50 years. The Asian American Studies Library moved into its new quarters last April at 101 Wheeler Hall with 16,000 titles of books and unpublished materials, 20, 000 archival papers and 172 journals and newspapers. The latter includes the Pacific Citizen, Nichibei Times and the Hokubei Mainichi, much of which is on micro-film. Head Librarian Wei-chi Poon welcomes library use by visiting scholars and the general public. U.C. Vice Chancellor/Development Curtis R. Simic expressed appreciation for the contribution and CJAA's interest in the university. He indicated that there is now discussion among the Chinese American alumni for the funding of an Asian Studies Center in Berkeley. CJAA recently inaugurated annual scholarship awards totaling $10,000 in conjunction with the National JACL Scholarship Program. Five scholarships of $2, 000 each will be awarded to students of Japanese ancestry attending any of the nine U.C. campuses. This replaces the CJAA Student Aid Program. In 1983, CJAA contributed $5,000 to the Harry L. Kingman Memorial Fund of U.C.'s Stiles Hall in tribute to the yeoman services of both Harry Kingman and his wife, Ruth, to the Japanese American community and Nisei students during the traumatic evacuation and resettlement years. Chairing the fund drive was Yori Wada, now president of the U.C. Board of Regents. Two contributions of $5,000 each were made in 1982 to the National JACL redress committee and to the California Alumni Foundation. In the garden of the Alumni House in Berkeley stand two stone lanterns which were donated in 1934 by the U.C, Alumni Association of Japan. There were moved from the Faculty Glade when the Alumni House was built. Serving on the current board of directors of CJAA are George Kondo, president; Hatsuro Aizawa, vice president; Moriaki Noguchi, secretary; Stephen Nakashima, treasurer; and Steven Kodama. Gordon Kono, Elsie Nakamura and George Yasukochi, directors. from Nichi Bei Times BERKELEY, Jan. 11 - George Yasukochi of the Japanese American Alumni assn. Of the University of California presented a $1500 grant to Vice Chancellor Curtis R. Simic and Professor Ling-Chi Wang, Coordinator of Asian American Studies Program. The presentation took place at 101 Wheeler Hall, U.C. Berkeley. The Asian American Studies Library at U.C. Berkeley collects materials on various aspects of Asian American experience, especially history and contemporary issues relevant to Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Indochinese Americans and to Asian group overseas. The materials assembled are directed towards providing students, faculty, researchers and the community people with information on the social, economic, political and cultural life of the Asian Americans. The library has suffered some budget cuts for acquisitions since the passage of Proposition 13. Some valuable research material are unable to obtain due to the budget constrains. The Asian American Studies Library is most grateful to the Japanese American chapter of the U.C. Alumni assn. for their generosity and support to the library. "We welcome any donations of research materials or grants from the Asian American communities and organizations and individuals," Mrs. Wei Chi Poon, librarian of Asian American Studies Library at U.C. Berkeley, said.
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