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Miss Masago Shibuya, one of Central California's most popular and charming Nisei women, manager of the Shibuya home since relocation and an employee of her Alma Mater--Stanford University. Make it snappy, she warned the photographer who was waiting at the Shibuya nursery when she drove in from a day at her work on the Stanford Campus. Three husky men are waiting for food after a day in the flower beds and it is my job to prepare it. Evacuation--Santa Anita--Heart Mountain--the loss in camp of her mother. All these came to Masago in the black year, 1942. Then out of the blue, she says, Francis Shimmer Girls College in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, offered employment for her and education (without prejudice) to her younger sister, Mana, and rescued her from her bewilderment. Francis Shimmer College was heavenly, Masago said. In two years there was not so much as a lifted eyebrow to indicate I was different from the other girls by reason of ancestry. Now this popular girl is home again, home among the flowers of the Shibuya nursery and the sympathetic atmosphere of her Alma Mater. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Mountain View, California. 7/6/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.