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Rev. and Mrs. Isao Tanaka and their 16-year-old son Shin, all Issei from the Central Utah Relocation Center, are shown at the main entrance to New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospital, where they are all employed. Shin, who plans to be a doctor, is receiving excellent training during his summer school vacation as a junior laboratory assistant to Dr. Joseph H. Globus, the hospital's neuropathologist and associate neurologist. His father is employed as a technician in the bacteriological department, and his mother as a nurse's aide in the babies' ward. Nearly 30 other evacuees are employed at the hospital. Shin left the center in October 1943 to enter Pennington (N.J.) Preparatory School. His parents came to New York last April after visiting friends for several months in Salt Lake City. Prior to evacuation, the Tanaka family lived in Oakland, Cal., where Rev. Tanaka was associated with the Oakland Junior Methodist Church. At Topaz he was active in the United Protestant Church, Mrs. Tanaka was supervisor of music and teacher of voice, and Shin worked on the hog farm while attending school. Rev. Tanaka came to the United States as a student in 1916. He has degrees from Duke, Clark and Yale Universities. He returned to Japan in 1924, where for thirty years he was associated with a missionary college and in the field church. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- New York, New York. 8/?/44

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.