Full title:These guest at a get-acquainted party-sponsored by the Rochester, N.Y., Committee for the Resettlement of Japanese Americans are participating in a community sing following a buffet supper in the Rochester Y.W.C.A. Some sixty persons, including twenty-five evacuees from most of the centers who have resettled in Rochester and vicinity, attended the party. Those standing are (left to right): Mrs. David Fukushima, Colorado River; Hyman Sandow, WRA relocation reports officer, Middle Atlantic Area; Mrs. John Niemeyer; Roy and George Takaya, Granada; Mrs. Robert M. Corbin, one of the committee's co-chairmen; Dr. and Mrs. Merlin Smith; Richard C. Hart, the other co-chairman; Claude C. Cornwall, WRA relocation officer, Rochester; and Isaac Igarashi, Tule Lake. The U.S. Cadet Nurse seated in the foreground is Miss Alice Kawasaki, formerly of Minidoka and now in training at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester. Seated beside her is Mr. Cornwall's daughter Connie. Other Japanese Americans in the group are Mrs. Ken Murai, Issei, a resident of Rochester for the past 23 years, Miss Fumi Yamasaki, a non-evacuee; and the following evacuees from various centers: Mrs. Tom Kawakami, Miss Tomi Nagasawa, Miss Yoshiko Osada, and Miss Alice Kimura, Gila River; Mrs. Tama Otamura, Heart Mountain; Miss Mary Iwata, Central Utah; Miss Tomi Yasuda, Manzanar; Miss Irene Fukushima, Rohwer; and Miss Frances Yuge, Granada.<lb /> Rochester, New York. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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