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1. Duarte School 1936 Graduating class - 1936

   Back Row: Lawrence Chappelow, Catherine Carman, Philip Bramble, Aileen Rub, Tom Masterson, Louise Cummings. Front Row: Roedel St. Clair, Mary Gotten, Maxine Powers, Paul Tsuneishi.

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2. Duarte School 3-4 Grade

   Back Row: Nadine ?, Evelyn R., Bonnie Barnes, Don McAdam, Tom A., Don Garcia, Raymond Loody. 2nd Row: LaBana?, Dorothy G., Ruth W., Dorothy A. Dick Norton,, John, Jackie Hobbs. 1st Row: Rose Tsuneishi, Ellen Mae M., Joan Smith, Betty Berry, Ila Jean ?, Ernest Bruke, Glenn R., Norman McAdam, L.V. Norton

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3. Duarte School 6-8th Gr 1930 - 1930

   Back Row: Bill Clappelow, Arnold George, Dave Carman, Harold Wells, Harold Howard. 3rd Rose: Teach Miss Jenkins, Vivian Harrington, Alice, Prager?, __ Kincade?, Ruth Felberg, Virginia Griffith. 2nd Row: Tsuneishi, Georgette Schaller, ?, Billie Haines, Tsuneishi. Front Row: Gene Adams, ?, Toby Radice.

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4. Duarte School 6-8th Gr 1931 - 1931

   Back Row: Homer Stankey, Billie Jane Haines, ?, Ruth Felberg, Teacher Miss Jenkins, Violet Bowers, Virginia Griffith, Vernal White. 3rd Row: Toby Radice, Bill Chappelow, Arnold Georgi, Harold Howard, Harold Wells, Dave Carman, Gene Adams. 2nd Row: Georgette Schiller, Ruby Hanchette, ?, Ruth Leppert, Myrtle Scott. Front Row: Bobby Haines, ?, Fred Felberg, Arthur Tsuneishi.

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5. Duarte School 6-8th Gr 1935 - 1935

   Back Row: Marion Mason, Louise Cummins, Aileen Rub, Marion Jackson, Mildred Gates, Betty Gale, Eleanor Sweet, ?, Bonnie Moore. 3rd Row: Bill Bushnell, Lawrence Chappelow, Philip Bramble, Byron Borsvold, Merl Wooten, Bill Adams, Yoshio Kobayashi, Harold Greenburg. 2nd Row: ?, Helen Nickels, Francis Kirkpatrick, Catherine Carman, Maxine Powers, Mary Gotton, Catherine White, Fadiko Kobayaski, Paul Tsuenishi, Noel Tsuneishi. Front Row: Dan McFarlan...

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6. Duarte School 6-8th Gr 1935 - 1935

   Back Row: Marian, Catherine Carman '36, Louise Cummins '36, Betty, Aileen Rub '36, Philip Bramble, Tom Merle Masterson, Yoshio Kobayaski, Lawrence Chappelow. 3rd Ros: ?, ?, Ruth Cahppelow, Catherine White, Mary Gotten, ?, ?, ?, ?, Norma Gilmore '3. 2nd Row: Noel Tsuneishi, ?, Donald Hess, Rordel St. Clair, Dan McFarland, ?, Charles Hess. 1st Row: Lloyd Norton Herbert Bown, Paul Stuneishi '35

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7. Duarte School 8th Gr 1935 graduated 1936 - 1936

   Back Row: Roedel St. Clair, Merle Masterson, Philip Bramble, Elsie Jenkins, Laurence Chappelow, Paul Tsuneishi. Front Row: Catherine Carman, Louise Cumins, Aileen Rub, Mary Gotten, Norma Gilmore (is not in graduation picture)

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8. Duarte School unknown grade

   Paul Tsuneishi bottom row fourth from left.

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9. Julian Fisher & Satoru Tsuneishi - Monrovia High Class - 1914

   Julian Fisher is seen in the back row, the first African American to graduate from Monrovia High School. He was the son of John I.W. Fisher, black-smith and farrier for Lucky Baldwin. He was Monrovia's first African-American police officer, after whom Julian Fisher Park is named. Satoru Tsuneishi (1888-1987) far left third row from bottom emigrated from Kochi via Santa Monica in 1907, and is the first Asian American to graduate from Monrovia H...

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10. Monrovia High with Satoru Tsuneishi and Julian Fisher - 1914

    Satoru Tsuneihi (1888-1987) - far left in second row from top -- emigrated from Kochi via Santa Monica in 1907, and is the first Asian American to graduate from Monrovia High in 1914. He was in the same high school class as the first African American male to graduate, Julian Fisher - top row fourth from left. Tsuneishi then attended one year at USC and wrote a paper against WW1. Satoru was founder of a haiku magazine in America in the 1920s and ...

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11. Monrovia's Asian American History

    Details the stories of Monrovia's Asian American residents, including the Asano, Uyeda, and Tsuneishi families -- where they lived and worked and their experience in internment camps in WWII. Quotes from interviews with their descendents.

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12. Satoru Tsuneishi - 2017

    Brief highlights of his life, as if spoken by him.

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13. Satoru Tsuneishi and bride, Sho Murakami - 1913

    Satoru Tsuneishi (1888-1987) and his bride, Sho Murakami (1891-1952), will have a large family including Hughes, Florence, Frances, Arthur, Warren, Paul Noel, James, Rosie, and Henry. Henry died in his infancy and is buried at Live Oak Cemetery. Satoru is the first Asian to graduate from Monrovia High in 1914. Most of his children graduated from Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte (MAD) High School and PJC. Florence graduated from UCLA in 1939 and Warren wa...

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14. Satoru Tsuneishi and the Tsuneishi Family - 2018

    The story of the Tsuneishi family

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15. Shisei (Satoru) Tsuneishi

    Photo in his book of Haiku poetry.

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16. Sho Tsuneishi & Shima Yamaguchi Taketa at Heart Mountain, WY - c. 1944

    Sho and her husband Satoru Tsuneishi were sent from Monrovia, CA to Heart Mountain, Wyoming -- the WWII Japanese American Confinement site.. Sho (left) is holding a 4 Blue Stars Flag representing her four sons (Hughes, Warren, Noel, and Pau) who were serving World War II even as their parents were interned at Heart Mountain. Their daughters Florence and Frances also served as civilians for Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS). Satoru...

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17. Tsuneishi Family in Monrovia - 1928

    Front row: Frances, Noel, Paul, Warren, and Florence. Back row: Arthur, Mom Sho with baby James (1928-2000). The Tsuneishi family lived on Euclid Ave before the war and ran a strawberry stand on Huntingon Drive. The family had 10 children, although Henry died in infancy.

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18. Tsuneishi family on Route 66

    Huntington Drive or Route 66's roadside stand. In front from left to right: Arthur (1920), Paul (1923), Noel (1924), James (1928), Rosie (1929), and Warren (1921). In the back are Hughes (1916), Dad Satoru, Frances, unknown in black skirt, Florence (1917), and Mom Sho. Hughes, Warren, Paul, and Noel all served in WW2 and Florence and Frances were civilian employees of the ATIS in Tokyo. James served in the Korean War and became disabled. Hughes a...

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19. Tsuneishi on strawberry farm - 1934

    Labeled: On the occasion that Shige Murakami goes back to Japan. Father Satoru Tsuneishi had hoped to be a minister and graduated from Monrovia High in 1914. He was a pacifist and vocally supported the Fair Play Committee during World War II - although he had four sons in military service. He was a "poet at heart" and advocated haiku in the Los Angeles area.

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20. Tsuneishis in Duarte - 1917

    Issei Satoru with his wife, Sho, and their first son, Hughes Takuma (1916-1988). Hughes graduated from Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte HIgh School in 1934, before attending Pasadena Junior College. He was drafted to serve in the ATIS before Pearl Harbor. He influenced 5 of his other siblings to also serve ATIS. In 1948, he founded Tsuneishi Insurance and in 1949, was a co-founder of Western Pioneer Insurance Company that served Japanese Americans primari...

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