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UW Daily – 6.9.1942

Evacuees Given Posts in Midwest

Misako Kondo, a senior Nisei student evacuated at the beginning of spring quarter, has just been awarded a tuition scholarship for graduate study in sociology at the University of Chicago, according to word received by the department of sociology yesterday.
Going directly to the University of Chicago, Miss Kondo earned the award on the basis of work done there during this last quarter.
At the same time the sociology department has been informed of the advancement of two Japanese instructors formerly with the teaching staff here.
Frank Miyamoto, former teaching fellow, has been awarded the Social Science Research Council Fellowship to make a study of assembly centers and relocation camps for Japanese in the United States.
In his study, Miyamoto will be working with Miss Dorothy Thomson, outstanding woman sociologist in the country today.
Another teaching fellow, Martha Okuda, has just been accepted by the University of Nebraska to teach in the school of social work there.
Prior to her evacuation, Miss Okuda worked for the Maritime Civilian Control association.

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