James Tanaka:
CLASS OF 1953
Twin Falls High SchoolClass of 1953
Twin falls, ID
James's Story
I have been volunteering at the Los Angeles Japanese american National Museum since retiring in 2000 from 39 years as an El monte High School science teacher. I have been involved with a couple of projects. I do outreach work at different schools about life in the WRA Minidoka Relocation Center and the Twin Falls, Idaho farm labor camp. A Morgan Young has put together an exhibit about that life at the farm labor camps helping meet the shortage of farm laborers in the sugar beet industry during WWII to help with the extreme shortage of rubber by using the alcohol to help produce synthetic rubber to help the WWII effort. The exhibit started in Ontario, Oregon and is now nearby you in Rupert, Idaho. I was able to contribute my two cents of infor...Expand for more
mation to the exhibit.
Also for those of you who did not read my article from me to the class of 1953, I posted an article in the Twin Falls Times-News that should be in the Twin Falls Library Archives on line edition the day after your 50th alumni meeting.
Read it and know that it was written with true appreciation of your friendships from that time period of my life.
If you are in the Los Angeles area in the future, please e-mail me when you will be here. I volunteer at the Museum
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ask at the visitors desk for me as I am not always out on the gallery floor.
P.S. Does anyone know about Robert Inama?
Anyone reading this please say, "Hi to Kenneth Boyd, my first Twin Falls contact."
Your former classmate, James K. Tanaka
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