Full title:Harry Osaki, a Nisei veteran from Gila River, who is now a fine arts senior and the only returnee at the University of Southern California, proudly puts his American Legion button in his lapel. Harry was recently invited to join the American Legion Post 320, in Los Angeles, and did after much persuasion. He lives in a campus dormitory with Caucasian veterans, all of whom are very friendly. Harry was one of the outstanding Boy Scouts in the entire nation, having earned 87 scouting merit badges before he was 18 years old, and won 103 of the possible 106 merit badges during his Boy Scout training. In 1942 he was the national intercollegiate archery champion from Washington State College. He trained with the 100th Battalion but did not go overseas, and received a medical discharge in July, 1944. He has a great deal of talent in sculpturing and industrial design. On March 5, 1945, he entered the University of Southern California, majoring in sculpturing and fine arts under Prof. Merrell Gage, and has Hollywood contacts for a studio job after graduation. He has a brother, Moro, in the Army and four other brothers and sisters at Gila River, five of whom have attended college. His sisters Alice and Grace have both sought permission to join the WAC's.<lb /> Photographer: Mace, Charles E.<lb /> Los Angeles, California. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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