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The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project The Interpreter Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Number 178 Remember September 11, 2001 [email protected] December 1, 2012 Our Mission In the Spring of 2000, the Archives continued the origi- nal efforts of Captain Roger Pineau and William Hudson, and the Archives first at- tempts in 1992, to gather the papers, letters, photographs, and records of graduates of the US Navy Japanese/ Oriental Language School, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1942-1946. We assemble these papers in recognition of the contribu- tions made by JLS/OLS instructors and graduates to the War effort in the Pacific and the Cold War, to the creation of East Asian language programs across Ensign Lionel Casson, amusing the dignitaries on the dais, R. Pineau Collection, 6-4-1-30J. the country, and to the development of Japanese- the earthenware freight hundreds of oarsmen and Dr. Casson also published American cultural rec- containers of antiquity that warriors. The Athenian trireme, “Libraries in the Ancient World” onciliation programs after carried products like honey, for example, was a war galley (Yale University Press, 2001). World War II. olive oil, wine, frankincense and with 170 oars arranged in three By piecing together findings myrrh from port to port. banks; rowing was synchronized from archaeological digs, Lionel Casson Markings preserved on many to the piping of a flutist. references from literary texts and Who Wrote of Ancient amphorae identified not only the “A trireme could sprint at a even epitaphs relating to point of embarkation but the year seven-knot speed or spin about libraries, he offered a succinct Maritime History and the month. in little more than its own view of the development of Dies at 94 Dr. Casson, a professor of length,” the book says. “Despite reading, writing and book Lionel Casson, who melded his classics at New York University its size and power, it was light collecting in Mesopotamia, mastery of classical literature from 1961 to 1979, wrote 23 and shallow enough for the crew Greece and the Roman Empire. with the findings of underwater books on Greek and Latin to run it up on a beach” so crew He sprinkled the book with archaeology in scholarly but literature and the maritime members could cook, eat and amusing asides, including all- accessible books about the history of the ancient Western sleep on shore. time best-seller-list assessments. history of ancient seafaring, from world. But there were even larger “Homer led by a wide margin, the primitive dory to the vast In one of his best-known ships in the ancient world, the with the ‘Iliad’ favored over the armadas of the Roman Empire, works, “The Ancient Mariners: “supergalleys” built by Egyptian ‘Odyssey,’” he wrote. died July 18 in Manhattan. He Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the pharaohs and their Macedonian In 2005, Dr. Casson received was 94. Mediterranean in Ancient rivals. One, built by Ptolemy IV, the Gold Medal Award for The cause was pneumonia, Times” (Macmillan, 1959), he Dr. Casson wrote, “was over 400 Distinguished Archaeological his daughter Andrea Casson said. wrote of the Egyptians, Minoans, feet long and 50 feet wide; the Achievement from the Drawing from an array of Mycenaeans, Phoenicians, figureheads on the prow and Archaeological Institute of sources — the writings of the Greeks and Romans and how stern towered more than 70 feet America. historian Thucydides and the they ventured from timid above the water, and there were Born in Brooklyn on July 22, speeches of Demosthenes; cargo voyages hugging the coasts to no less than 4,000 rowers 1914, Lionel I. Cohen (he later manifests kept by unknown bold dashes across open seas. manning its benches.” changed his name to Casson) captains; images of ships on He described how maritime Dr. Casson did not limit was one of two sons of Abraham sculptures; the dating and typing commerce progressed from himself to ancient maritime and Bess Cohen. His father of timbers taken from sunken nearby exchanges to an history. His 1964 book owned a lumberyard. vessels — Dr. Casson’s integrated network stretching “Illustrated History of Ships and Besides his daughter Andrea, gracefully written books traced from the Mediterranean and Boats” (Doubleday) traces water he is survived by his wife of 63 the trade routes that bound the Aegean Seas to shores as distant travel from the days when men years, the former Julia ancient world and described the as Britain and India. With floated across a river on an Michelman; another daughter, early evolution of shipbuilding commerce and politics inflated animal skin to the days Gail Casson; and two and naval warfare. fomenting rivalries, warships of steel-skinned nuclear grandchildren. A particularly useful source evolved from flat-bottomed submarines. Dr. Casson received his for Dr. Casson were amphorae, rowboats into leviathans bearing bachelor’s degree in 1934, his [Ed. Note: I just had to include the In March 1946, we made help. Those who came to work shot of valedictorian, Lionel Casson, preparations for our return home. for me included a pastor, a causing CPT Welch, President Part of our preparation included seminarian, three future Stearns, Florence Walne, and others purchasing a homemade wooden landscape architects, two to crack up on the stage. The only nd way you can really see the image box trailer. We attached this veterans of the 442 , and others. was to have it enlarged considerably. trailer to our old 1937 Plymouth We were all in similar situations We provided a copy of this image to car, and this was how our family of just starting out after the war. the Casson family.] returned to Oakland. There were We often survived on peanut _______________ five of us: my dad, Ida, our two butter and jelly sandwiches that children and I. David was two- got us through those early days. Memoirs and-a-half years old; Stanley was We did not know until years later four months old. Mother was in when one person who helped me Of Ari Inouye Salt Lake City, Utah, at the time. remarked that those peanut butter (Cont’d) My father called All the belongings we needed – sandwiches were the only things Boulder “paradise” after the all the baby things and whatever he had each day. Our income experience of living behind we could possibly take – were was such that it was a time of barbed wire and guard towers loaded onto our trailer. Our feast or famine for the family, New York University located in the Sevier Desert of furniture and other belongings not only for us, but for many. Lionel Casson Utah; this new experience must had to be packed and made ready While in private practice, I have indeed seemed like paradise for the Navy to ship back to us in also worked with Howard master’s degree in 1936 and his to my parents. We were very Oakland. Under these Gilkey, a landscape architect doctorate in 1939, all from New happy to get them out of camp circumstances, none of us really who had a private practice and York University, and was hired and to see them enjoying their wanted to leave Boulder, but we was a Master Designer of the as an instructor at N.Y.U. In freedom once again. were fortunate to have a home to Oakland Home and Garden World War II, he attended the My brother, Michinori, was in which we could return. Many did Show. In those days, the US Navy Japanese/Oriental the armed service at the time and not. Oakland Garden Show was an Language School at the was stationed at an Army Making a fresh start and annual show. It was a spectacular University of Colorado, was hospital in Fort Worth, making a living for the family show of beautiful gardens valedictorian of his class, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. He came was not an easy task. Feelings designed by some of the leading served as a Navy Japanese to visit us every other weekend against the Japanese were still landscape architects. As the Language Officer, interrogating on weekend passes. We were so very strong. I’ll never forget the Master Designer, he created the Japanese prisoners of war. fortunate that this was possible time when my father, ill as he entire show around a central Andrea Casson said that when in spite of wartime conditions. was, helped me cut weeds in a theme. One year it would be her father was a teenager, he and vacant lot. We were paid for this; Giant Redwoods, or Sequoias, a friend bought a small sailboat it was the new beginning of the Giant Ferns, and the and soon began plying the waters making a living for the family. Waterfalls that roared down from of Long Island Sound. In 1952, A fellow landscape architect I the ceiling to the floor. There while teaching at N.Y.U., he had known since high school would be rhododendrons, received a Guggenheim called me and offered me the use azaleas, orchids and anthuriums. Fellowship. It allowed him to of the office he was renting. He All the participating entries study ancient maritime was willing to leave all of his would plan their entire gardens commerce and spend a year equipment for me since he was around the central theme. A examining the site of every offered the position of State person could only minimally important ancient harbor on the Landscape Architect and was appreciate the grandeur of the European coast of the moving to Sacramento. Another garden until they attended one of Mediterranean and most of those old high school friend, Kirk these shows.
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