Photo Caption: Alice and Conservatory faculty after their "Courage and Compassion" performance, March 2018
Alice Imamoto Takemoto ’47 was among the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack were uprooted and sent to prison camps strewn across the U.S. Alice and her family in 1942 were sent from California to Jerome, Arkansas. Hearing later that Oberlin was one of the colleges that stepped forward to accept students of Japanese ancestry, Alice applied to and was accepted into the Oberlin Conservatory. She left the incarceration camp and spent 4-years on campus, graduating in 1947. Afterwards she taught piano, performed, raised a family, and over recent years has been a featured speaker at civil rights programs.
Alice lives in Maryland and remains active in music. She welcomes the opportunity to chat with friends in the Oberlin community. In contributing to the historical record, Alice offers important lessons that can be applied in our era of racial profiling, forced family separations and caging of children, and political race-baiting.
Please join the conversation. Your children also are welcome to participate in this educational event.
Here are some links with additional background:
https://issuu.com/oberlin/docs/oberlin_alumni_magazine_-_fall_2013
https://www.facebook.com/events/courage-and-compassion-exhibit/260745904459823/
https://www.jampilgrimages.com/
For further information contact Clyde Owan ’79: clydeobie@verizon.net
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Attendees
- Sunandita Banerji (1981)
- Jeanne (Alexander) Bohlen (1960)
- Hilary Meggin Bolea (1996)
- Eliza Braverman (2021)
- Barbara Callander (1972)
- Susan Cho (1995)
- Sam Chung (1998)
- Kyle DeMars-Johnson (2009)
- Diana D'Agostino (2000)
- Georganne Cassat D'Angelo (1972)
- David Ehrenstein (1988)
- Tammy Eng (1990)
- Janice Faden (1965)
- Michael Faden (1965)
- Suzanne Farace (1984)
- amy fielder (1961)
- Balint Gergely (2000)
- Ray Gergen (2010)
- Donn Ginoza (1974)
- Donn Ginoza (1974)
- Laura Gray (2015)
- Cassandra (Cassie) Guevara (2013)
- Mary Anne Hardy (1977)
- Hana Mariah Hatta (1993)
- Letizia Paganini Haynie Haynie (1994)
- Holly Hoang (2017)
- Alan Houseman (1965)
- Susan Houseman (1966)
- Deeana Jang (1979)
- Jeff Test Jeff (2003)
- Satoko Kanahara (2006)
- Mimi Kim (1995)
- Kenneth Kitahata (2020)
- Vera Kochanowsky (1978)
- Judith Kozlowski (1974)
- Samantha Lam (2020)
- Vivian Liao (2004)
- Jenna Lindeke Heavenrich (2009)
- Nien Lung Liu (1958)
- Jo Loi (1962)
- Ivy Main (1980)
- Brian Martin (1984)
- Kim Meinert (2007)
- Kim Meinert (2007)
- Julie Min
- Julianne Mueller (1978)
- Fumi Murakami (1981)
- Mariette Hiu Newcomb (1958)
- Jessica Oi (1993)
- Eisuke Okada (2003)
- Toju Omatete (1990)
- Miko Osada (2006)
- Clyde Owan (1979)
- Katherine Owan
- Alena P (2007)
- Christina Perry
- Yasmine Ramachandra (2019)
- Kaylyn Ready (2023)
- Renee Romano
- Ann Sakai (1972)
- Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura (2015)
- Elizabeth Schmidt (1977)
- Erin Shiba (2002)
- Yukiko Shimazaki (1987)
- kt shorb (2000)
- Juliani Sidharta (1980)
- Regina Sieh (1990)
- Dixie Sommers (1970)
- Howard Spendelow (1966)
- Maury Sterns (1962)
- Rahula Strohl (2002)
- Sally Takada
- Alice Takemoto (1947)
- Paul Takemoto
- Marianne Tassone (2006)
- Robin Tatu (1982)
- Cheska Tolentino (2009)
- Cheska Tolentino (2009)
- Olivia Vasquez (2020)
- Marjorie Weingold (1951)
- Carolyn Weinstein (2013)
- John Wiecking (1977)
- Tori Willbanks (2017)
- Elaine Wu (2021)
- Mary Wyckoff (1979)
- Kari Yasuda (1994)
- Georgia Yuan (1975)
