University Places 58 Nisei in Other Schools

By MAXINE GIRSON
Fifty-eight Nisei students were placed in 15 different colleges in 12 states throughout the nation before the final period of evacuation, Robert W. O’Brien, chairman of the Student Relocation committee, revealed yesterday.
There are still more than 300 former Washington students of Japanese descent living in evacuation centers in Puyallup, Washington; North Portland, Oregon; Pinedale and Manazar, in California, who are waiting while plans are being formulated for their transfer to schools in other sections of the nation.
Such plans are being developed with the cooperation of the Federal Relocation Authority and the American Friends Service committee.
Following up letters written to other college presidents on behalf of the American-born Japanese students by President Lee Paul Sieg, the local committee secured admission for them in colleges in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah and Washington.
Permits for Nisei students’ travel were secured from the Wartime Civilian Control Authority and the Presidio in San Francisco.
During the last three weeks that Nisei were in attendance here, individual recommendations were collected for the majority of them, and should aid considerably in placing more Nisei students in schools in non-restricted areas.
Pinch-hitting for O’Brien as official campus director of the Student Relocation committee while the former was in the East attending the Institute of International Education, has been Harold Adams, assistant dean of men. O’Brien is assistant dean of arts and sciences.