Committee Formed To Assist Nisei

To coordinate all resettlement plans of Japanese American students forced to leave the Pacific Northwest area, the Northwest College Personnel Association this week set up a Student Relocation Committee with Robert W. O’Brien, assistant dean of Arts and Sciences, as chairman, it was announced yesterday.
This committee will take over the work of various local groups which have sought to deal with the problem.
According to O’Brien, the aim of the committee is three-fold. It will seek (1) to gather data on the Nisei in the Pacific Northwest; (2) to collect character references for the students; (3) to help relocate Nisei in other colleges after their evacuation.
Of the 17 appointed members on the committee, four will represent the University. They are, in addition to Chairman O’Brien, Dean Newhouse, dean of men; M. D. Woodbury, executive secretary of the University YMCA; and May Dunn Ward, dean of women, who will act as an ex-officio member.
With 456 American students of Japanese ancestry enrolled at the beginning of the school year, the University of Washington has by far the biggest resettlement problem of any Pacific Northwest school, O’Brien explained:
Seattle College had 45 Nisei, while Oregon State College came next with 41. Enrollment of American-born Japanese students for the 1941-42 period totaled 30 for the College of Puget Sound, 22 for the U of Oregon, 17 for Multnomah Junior College, 13 for North Pacific College and 10 for Williamette University.