The US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project The Interpreter Archives, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries Number 102B zRemember September 11, 2001z [email protected] Status Report August 15, 2006

sensei, graduates, and attendees Research his site and offer corrections. Our Mission of the JLS/OLS. Our website is We still await the book by Roger In the Spring of 2000, the The papers of Charles Cross, . published their book Kanji & Pineau and William Hudson, as well as the promise of a We also had a CU graduate Codes, so that they could get this and the Archives first at- number of other donors has led student, Katie Cumpsten, who version out to those JLS/OLSers tempts in 1992, to gather the us to expect that we only had a finished a long paper that who assisted them. They papers, letters, photographs, small portion of the materials we surveys every attendee record we continue to seek a publisher for and records of graduates of should expect. Dozens have have collected to numerically the next, heavily edited, version. the US Navy Japanese/ promised their collections. Quite determine the influence that There is nothing like several Oriental Language School, a few more probably expect to USN JLS/OLS attendees had on hundred critical editors. A year University of Colorado at send their papers to The the academic education of ago last spring, a Japanese film Boulder, 1942-1946. We JLS/OLS Project, but have not America in Asian and Japanese visited the Archives to perform assemble these papers in yet discussed the matter with us. studies. I guess I have not been research for a documentary on recognition of the contribu- A number of collections have accounting for all these folks in the sensei and attendees of the tions made by JLS/OLS gone to other repositories but vain (I have roughly 415 left US Navy JLS/OLS. instructors and graduates to this is alright with us. While we who are unaccounted for). What Robert Davis published the War effort in the Pacific welcome archival contributions, percentage went into academia, Lightning Strike: The Secret and the Cold War, to the and while we believe JLS/OLS how many into Asian studies, Mission To Kill Admiral creation of East Asian materials should be saved, it how many became department Yamamoto And Avenge Pearl language programs across does not have to be saved by us. chairs, numbers of publications, Harbor, St. Martin's Press, 2005. the country, and to the At this point, R. Stuart Hummel membership in societies, The History Day team that was development of Japanese- is deciding between Cal attendance at conferences, working on a poster on the American cultural rec- Berkeley and Stanford’s Hoover influence in their fields, all these JLS/OLS last year did not onciliation programs after Institute, as the archives of his are questions she is trying to advance beyond the State level. World War II. large collection of family answer these questions Ms. Kayoko Takeda, who missionary diaries. Other definitively. teaches at the Graduate School families have sent material to the of Translation and Interpretation Status Report University of Washington, the Activities at the Monterey Institute of University of Michigan, or other Six years after renewing the US International Studies in Since the fall of 2005, the prominent repositories. As long Navy JLS/OLS Archival Project, Monterey, California, was JLS/OLS Project has continued as we know where they went, we we have increased our contacts working on her doctoral to make use of Google™ and are pleased that those papers are to over 610 to whom we have dissertation on the interpreter MyFamilyPeopleFinder™. being saved at such prestigious sent more than 152 issues of our arrangement at the Tokyo War I continued to use and update institutions. If you wish your project newsletter, The Crimes Tribunal. She asked us Winglam Kwan’s spreadsheet papers to come to the US Navy Interpreter, as well as packets many research questions and I for all JLS/OLS entrants. It tells JLS/OLS Archivial Project, with address lists articles, was able to refer her to COL me who remains to be found. please contact us. mission statements, and other Pratt, who assisted her. This fall, I started to recheck the information. The US Navy Another Japanese scholar, ‘unaccounted for’, and found Japanese/Oriental Language Small Manuscripts Professor Atsuhiko Wada, who information on at least 100 more. School Archival Project Among the small collections or was at Columbia until returning William Hudson’s “memoir” is continues to be far more additions to larger collections to Shinshu University this year, still available for distribution. successful than anticipated. Such that have arrived since the last is preparing a book about the Upon request, we copy the acquisition projects usually status report are those of James collection history of Japanese memoir and mail it out. Anna require years to attract major Falk, Duane Flaherty, David language books in the US, Peterson finished the work of collections. Since our last Status Stocking, Philip Myers, William mainly before 1970. He was Rachel Newton and Anne Getts Report, there has been Morganroth, David H. Green, surprised to discover the role on a composite guide to all considerable activity and work Gerald Hoeck, Nicholas Vardac, played by USN JLS/OLS JLS/OLS photographs (so far), performed. Tom Deering and additions to instructors and graduates on the so that we, and researchers, can Major Collections George Nace, Mike Foley, compilation of Japanese locate appropriate images more Charles Cross, Glen Slaughter, language libraries after WWII. rapidly. While the Archives holds such Jack Craig, Glenn Nelson, He is with the Faculty of Arts at For those who have taken to large collections as those of Robert W. Christy and Donald Shinshu University. He is also the computer, we continue to Edward Seidensticker, Roger Keene. We usually wait until we completed a Japanese translation update our website: Pineau, William Hudson, are certain we have everything of our JLS/OLS website up on , adding newsletter issues, promises, parts, and complete with the response of those whose u.ac.jp/~jbcp/colorado/index.htm changing the status of collections holdings of as many as 90 other donations include primarily their l>. Anyone with fluency in acquired. At the request of Larry JLS and WWII experiences. Japanese is welcome to look at Myers, we placed much of our backlog to #120 up on the foreseeable future. As the project University of Colorado at Boulder Government in a Boulder County website. A library staffer said continues, I still remember when UCB 184 High School. Jennifer Hampson, that this may take the “suspense” Mollie and Olivia asked me how Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0184 BA History 2003 is employed in out of the newsletter, I told him long the newsletter would last. Southern Colorado. Megan Donation rules have been that since most of these stories We would not have thought it Applegate, BA 2002, is still in tightened up to insure that were 60+ years old, how much would still be running into 2009. Michigan. Megan Lillie, donations are placed in the suspense could there be? We The upcoming issues include graduated with Honors in history appropriate account. But to added photographs to our stories about all classes, and Classics in May 2004 and insure proper donation, donors webpage and Glenn Nelson WAVES, and sensei, as well as found work at a technical library must state their wishes. Direct turned out to be our poster boy. the Russian, Chinese (Mandarin, in Laramie, WY. Sarah donations to the CU Foundation I have also contacted Cantonese, Amoy and Johnson graduated in 2005 may not end up in the JLS/OLS university alumni associations to Foochow), and Malay programs. finished a 6-Month Temporary account. advise them of their JLS alumni, There are also a scattering of Staff in the Archives. She found seeking to prod them into Marine Enlisted Linguist and work at KinderCare, but is Assistance to Other Archives honoring them. Army MIS stories. I have also looking for other opportunities. and Programs written some stories about Rachel Newton graduated in Chinese, Russian and Malay prominent Boulder businesses. We continue to assist other 2005 and Ashleigh Mayer, Programs All of the Archives student universities, World War II Elizabeth Campbell, Anna workers lend a hand in preparing museums and centers, and Wagner, Matt Muzia and Elliott We continue to attract attendees the newsletter for mailing. Please institutions in Japan in pursuit of Croog will all graduate in 2006. of the other OLS language send us your ideas and widening the awareness of our The entire student staff has programs. Their stories have comments. We believe this is USN JLS/OLS Archival Project. worked on JLS/OLS collections, been gracing the newsletter for your newsletter, not ours. While it is an unrelated correspondence, Interpreter more than a year. We have project, we continue to assist mailings, and emails. All new discovered that there is no small Funding Professor Roger Dingman and students in the Archives work amount of crossover in Dr. Pedro Loureiro in their grant- sometimes on JLS/OLS projects. friendships and experience. We As of April 19, 2006, the funded project to build an oral They help edit the newsletter, continue to look for more alumni Archives has raised $28,510.00 history interview project on the answer much of the of these programs and continue in the past six years for the US JLS at the Pacific Basin Institute correspondence, and keep the to welcome their stories. Navy Japanese/Oriental at Pomona College. We have JLS/OLS files in order. Students Language School Archival also assisted archival institutions gradually work up to organizing Project, $1,425.50 of which The Interpreter holding the collections of many small JLS collections. I will be constitutes the CU Foundation’s Our mailed project newsletter is of those on our mailing list. It is recruiting two more students this 5% fee. $14, 182.13 was spent now up to #102B (B being this our belief that JLS/OLS fall. Karen Gifford works half on the 2002 Reunion, of which status report, we use this “B” materials need to be preserved time on university materials. $9,625.00 was paid by reunion issue for status reports so as not and made available for research, guests. $16,000 has been moved to take up a regular issue on our but not necessarily entirely by “Present or Accounted for, into the Archives JLS Fund to be “chest beating”). We continue us. We welcome all efforts to Sir!” used to pay work-study student the JLS/OLS “delayed preserve this valuable material. wages (triples the value) on That spreadsheet of all JLS/OLS conversation” between and JLS/OLS Project duties. attendees on our entrance list among the readership by Staffing $6,527.37 remained in the CU continues to be useful. I made interweaving the stories, spacing Foundation JLS account as of Ever since Molly Tindle and another run through “Google” particular writers, spreading out March, 2006. The remainder of Olivia Kaferly kicked off the last fall, we have accounted for class groups, incorporating all the fund is being brought over to third stage of the JLS project by all but 415 of a total of 1650 programs, including Sensei and our Archives account this spring. re-locating and contacting many Boulder attendees, as of April WAVE stories, as well as adding On November 1, 2005, the of the graduates and their 2006. In other words, I found wife and kin stories. In order to JLS/OLS Archival Project Fund families, we have enjoyed great grave sites, bibliographic maintain the newsletter’s spirit, I received a $10,000 grant from fortune with student workers in information, articles, obituaries, still add in my own asides and the Freeman Foundation. The the project. Olivia is moving Social security information, or editor’s notes to provide comic funds were used to hire from Berlin to the States, and is addresses for 156, after have relief, further information, and Katherine Harris, Ph.D. History, looking for work, and Molly still completed such a search just last addresses. Forrest “Woody” 1983 CU, to process the Marion lives in Florida. Lena Potyondy, year. Out the 1235 accounted Pitts, OLS 1946, our volunteer Levy and Charles Cross Papers. worked for the Service for, 609 attendees or their kin are proof-reader, continues to edit All donors not only receive Employees union in Denver and currently on the mailing list, and most of the newsletters prior to our hearty thanks, but also the has since gotten other work. 626 are in the Pineau, Hudson, mailing. We welcome his gratitude of the rest of our 609 Scott Shaver spent two years or JLS/OLS Collections’ contribution. contacts. Remember, if you wish with us before graduating and Individual Files. I will continue Since we continue to print to send a contribution, make the entering the accounting field. We to go through the Google search longer multi-part letters, as well check out to the University of helped find Alvie Sellmer and again in the future to see if more as WAVE biographies from their Colorado Foundation specifying Cynthia Ploucher archival work folks appear. 1993 Boulder Reunion, we have in your letter that you wish the with the US National Parks Bill Hudson sent me a copy completed issues until issue #120 check to go to the US Navy Service. They are both of his current address list. I (February 1, 2007) and partial Japanese/Oriental Language contemplating graduate school at worked my way through it to issues until #132A (February 15, School Fund, and mail the letter this point. Jessica Arntson, MA find new “recruits” and 2009). The backlog up to #120 is to: East Asian Languages and information to add to the posted on our website. The good History, 2003, still teaches JLS/OLS Collection’s Individual news continues to be that the David Hays Japanese and American files. newsletter will run on into the Archives ______