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Our Mission some other experience, but that or bitterness. When we arrived in Graduated from Detroit is not the way it was for me. On Kyushu, the people weren't University in 1944. He was a In the Spring of 2000, the Sunday, December 7, 1941, I exactly friendly, but they retired Lt. (jg) in the U.S. Navy, Archives continued the origi- was getting ready to graduate certainly weren't hostile. That attended Oriental Language nal efforts of Captain Roger from college and on that day the didn't particularly surprise me. School for Japanese in Boulder, Pineau and William Hudson, happened. CO, and worked for the Office of and the Archives first at- I started looking around - no What was your first impression? Naval Intelligence. His vocation tempts in 1992, to gather the heroism in it - at ways to get My impressions were varied. As in life was working as an papers, letters, photographs, through the war in relative safety far as the Japanese were astronautical engineer. He and records of graduates of and comfort, and I came across concerned, I thought they were enjoyed sailing, computers and the US Navy Japanese/ the Japanese language, rather marvelous in the way they his home in Wisconsin's north Oriental Language School, specifically the Navy Japanese- very quickly shook off the shock woods. University of Colorado at language school. That was the of it all and went to work. That The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Boulder, 1942-1946. We beginning of it. Up till that point, time in Sasebo in Kyushu was March 21, 2003 assemble these papers in I had no interest in Japan what really convinced me I ______

recognition of the contribu- whatsoever. should make a career of tions made by JLS/OLS Japanese. It was the behavior of Otis Cary, 84; instructors and graduates to How did you learn Japanese? the Japanese that convinced me the War effort in the Pacific Navy Linguist It was a revolutionary way in that the country would amount to and the Cold War, to the those days and hasn't changed something again one day. I did (Cont‘d) Cary organized a group creation of East Asian much since. The service not foresee an economic miracle, of POWs to assist in writing language programs across language school assumed that it but I saw that the language was propaganda and surrender the country, and to the was possible for us to learn worth studying. (to be cont‘d) leaflets. According to Straus, the development of Japanese- Japanese. Before the war, it had Edward Seidensticker group's most important American cultural rec- been assumed that only the JLS 1943 contribution was its swift onciliation programs after Japanese could learn Japanese - a JAL inflight magazine translation of the Potsdam World War II. ridiculous assumption. But the January 2003 Declaration, the July 1945 Navy language school said we ______Edward Seidensticker statement drafted by three Allied could, providing we had a John P. Wamser leaders — Harry S. Truman, A Direct Translator reasonable amount of ability and Winston Churchill and Chiang intelligence. They taught what OLS 1945 (J) When it comes to Japanese Kai-Shek — that delineated the literary translation there are few was called the natural method. Wamser, John P. Friday, March terms for Japan's surrender. who enjoy the reputation of We didn't learn grammar, but 21, 2003 Wamser, John P. Age The document had been Edward Seidensticker. From his learned from speaking and 83 of Milwaukee. Born to suppressed by the Japanese consummate translation of the listening, the way a child does. Eternal Life on Tues. March 18, government, so Cary's POWs eleventh-century classic Tale of I'm not sure it's a very valid 2003. Beloved husband of 58 translated it for dissemination in Genji by theory, but it was a good school, years and best friend of Mary leaflets dropped from B-29s all through to his efforts with such probably the best I've ever been Louise (nee Oltman) for 71 over the country. The leaflets modern masters as Jun'ichiro in. By the end of 14 months, we years. Loving father of Catherine dispelled widespread fears in Tanizaki and the Nobel Prize- were able to read a newspaper. Ann (Bob Fitzpatrick) Schneider, Japan that the surrender terms winning , Before the war, that would have Margaret Louise (Milt) would be excessively punitive Seidensticker has done more been thought impossible. The Klingsporn, and Brian Peter and put pressure on the Japanese than most to spread the Army required its language (Becky). Proud grandfather of government to accept the popularity of Japanese literature students to be soldiers, but the Carolyn Lewis, Lisa Gill, Karen declaration a few weeks later. abroad. But as well as being a Navy didn't require anything of Welniak Jamiola, Laura Cary's influence was so translator, he is also an author us. Except that we study Vasquez, Jonathan Schneider, strong, Straus said, that his name of considerable merit, and his Japanese. It was complete Tiffany Wamser and Jonathan "was the only one cited books he has written about concentration on one subject, Wamser. Dear great-grandfather repeatedly" by many former Japan have won wide critical which is not how most of Kelsey Gill, Mackenzie Gill, POWs years later in written acclaim. The scholar talks to universities work. And we Deborah Lewis, and Hayley accounts of their wartime Jonathan Watts. worked on it steadily without Jamiola. Fond brother of Odile captivity. For many of the relief. Mary Fleissner and brother-in- prisoners, Cary was the one who How did you first come to law of Eleanore Wamser. Also brought their families the news Japan? What were your feelings towards survived by many other relatives that they were alive. I was with the Occupation, with Japan before you came? and loving friends. Preceding Ingrained with the ancient the Marine Corps. I was a I was always very suspicious of him in death were two brothers samurai code that it was a Japanese-language officer and propaganda and therefore the and one sister; Edwin Joseph disgrace to be taken prisoner, was ordered to come to Kyushu anti-Japanese propaganda had Wamser, Robert George many of the Japanese POWs in September 1945. Others have the opposite effect on me. It Wamser, and Bernice Elizabeth wanted to be thought dead. Their inspirational stories about seeing convinced me that they couldn't Graham. Graduated from government felt the same way cherry blossom in bloom or be that bad. I didn't feel hostility Messmer High School in 1937. and sent death notices to their families. When Cary was however, and when he had an Harvard alum, may have been not a good counterfeiter. There assigned to duty with the Allied opportunity to join a Denver firm the first to throw a makeshift has to be a spiritual bond occupation, he carried many he jumped at the chance, and in Frisbee at CU Boulder. Many between the translation and the letters from POWs back to due course became a partner. have been thrown here since.] original work, which means the

Japan, often delivering the I believe it was sometime in Robert R. Brown translator must like the original missives after the families had the early 1970's that Lee Perry OLS 1945 work. But if someone tells you held their funerals. [JLS '43] [I have been unable to ______your translation is better than the

One of the letters went to the find LeRoy B. Perry] called to original, you should consider it family of Isamu Nakano, a tell me that Bill had died - victim Edward Seidensticker an insult because that is not what Japanese naval officer captured of a drunk driver, as I recall. The A Direct Translator you're supposed to be doing. in Guam. After the war, Cary archives of the Denver Post must (Cont‘d) How did you move into You are not supposed to be helped him get a job at Doshisha, have details of the incident, The translation? improving. where he served as caretaker of last address I have for his widow On my second visit to Japan, I Amherst House for 25 years. He [I will look her up and see if I stayed in until 1962. I Do you check with the authors is now 93 and living in Kyoto. can enlist her]. was several things: a graduate when you depart from their "Otis changed my dad's life," PS: To add further confusion student at the University of original? said Nakano's son, Takaharu, an to the Columbia song issue, I Tokyo, I taught at Sophia It's useless because authors don't international business consultant submit that the song most University and I did a little like to talk about their work. At in Kyoto. "He saw hope in identified with Columbia is freelance translation and writing. least the ones I have known best following this man and believed ―‗Roar, Lion, Roar"..." for Alma The first long translation I did don't like to talk about their his life would be changed. We Mater on the Hudson shore". work. I never asked Tanizaki was a scholarly thing that could have been very much blessed Paul E. Hauck not be called professional - a about anything, but it was very because of his help to my dad." JLS 1943 diary from the tenth century. clear: Tanizaki is a very lucid During the early months of ______writer; there are almost no Then I was approached by the occupation, Cary became Recalling the Alfred Knopf in New York. My problems of comprehension. I acquainted with Emperor did ask Kawabata, but he was Chinese Program first translation from that Hirohito's youngest brother, publishing house was a Tanizaki never any help, so I stopped. Prince Takamatsu, and his wife, & Frisbees novel. I then did Kawabata and Princess Kikuko. He suggested I continue to enjoy The moved back and forth between What was your most satisfying to the prince that the emperor, Interpreter, especially with the Tanizaki and Kawabata. translation? who by tradition was considered mention of the Chinese program. That's easy - Tale of Genji. It a deity, begin to show a more Those were my friends on Why did you choose those two? was very difficult. Translation human side by traveling among arriving at Boulder: Don Because I thought they were becomes a bore if it is not the people and releasing informal Mitchell, Ross Thompson, good. They were very delicate, difficult. I enjoyed translating photographs of the imperial Lucien Pye and Ed Vaughn. very powerful novelists. I chose Genji more than anything else I family engaged in aspects of Mitchell and Thompson were Tanizaki and Kawabata because did. And that is largely because I daily life. Shortly thereafter, the excellent students but, alas, they I thought they were had a terrible time understanding emperor began to do that. failed their physicals. Later I met simultaneously classic and what it meant. And sometimes I During one conversation with Culver Glysteen and Henry modern. They stood at the didn't understand and had to the prince, Cary referred to the Knoche; in fact, Knoche was one juncture of old and new. And I make a stab at the meaning. emperor as the prince's "big of my roommates for a while. think a great deal of good Some sections are so difficult to brother," a deliberate attempt to At Boulder, I was introduced literature does exactly that. put into English. With that kind compel the prince to view the to what we now call ―Frisbees‖. Though someone can be at that of work, you may be exhausted emperor as a mortal. A student in the Russian juncture of old and new and still from time to time, but you are According to an account Cary Program, named Bud, played the be a lousy writer. never bored. From start to finish, gave in his 1975 book "War- game using the top of a large it took a dozen years, but I was Wasted Asia: Letters 1945-46," cookie tin [that would work]. As When translating, do you put the doing other things at the same the royal sibling found the I recall, he came from Harvard. emphasis on getting everything time. I think if I had worked only concept startling. A short time Does anyone know the early right word for word, or on Genji, it would have taken me later, however, he published an history of Frisbees at Harvard? conveying sense? five or six years. article in Japan with a surprising [Writes Mary Bellis, “The I stay as close to the original as I headline: "My Big Brother, the Frisbie Baking Company (1871- can, but for me it is very What were Tanizaki and Emperor." Hirohito renounced 1958) of Bridgeport, CT, made important for the translation to Kawabata like? his divinity a short time later. pies that were sold to many New read smoothly - in other words, I did come to think of both of (end) England colleges. Hungry to have a certain literary quality them as friends, and that is Elaine Woo, college students soon discovered and that means very frequently because of the translation work. I Los AngelesTimes that the empty pie tins could be in matters of small detail saw more of Kawabata than April 23, 2006 tossed and caught, providing Tanizaki, which is curious ______departing from the original. A endless hours of game and literal translation cannot be a because he was considered the Roar Lion Roar sport”. Walter F. Morrison and very literary translation. But I less sociable of the two. But he Warren Franscioni invented the stay as close to the original as I was more accessible. He lived in (Cont‘d) After the Navy, Bill plastic version in 1948. Wham-O can. My theory of translation is Kamakura. We could go down to Voelker went to Columbia Law bought the rights and began that it is imitation; it is Kamakura and come back in a School, made Columbia Law manufacturing their Pluto counterfeiting. And the day. Then he won the Nobel Review and joined a prestigious Platter in 1955. I suspect that counterfeiter who makes George Prize and took me off to NY law firm [John Foster Dulles' while Harvard was not the Washington on the dollar bill Stockholm with him. I think that firm]. He never forgot how much original spot where Frisbee pie look handsomer than he was is led to a very considerable feeling he had enjoyed Colorado, plates were first thrown, Bud, the of nearness. He was a nice man. He took some getting used to. He before the War. I was honored to and others from the Revue cast Mr. Waddington‘s professional was very silent and would go a be a member of his suite.‖ would have made. I suppose interests in the UN, world, national whole evening not saying a ―Indeed I do,‖ I replied. ―A “singing” would not be a talent one and local events defined his sense of would look for in a secret agent.] global citizenship. The Fulbright thing. This initially made me pity His Highness visited the ______program sent George to Brazil in very uncomfortable. But then I wrong university.‖ 1963, which initiated a study of Latin gradually saw that was just the The General smiled. And so George Rhodes Waddington America and two trips to Guatemala. way he was. It didn't indicate a began a fruitful relationship. OLS 1945 (Russian) In 1970, SUCO‘s President Netze lack of interest, dislike or Looking back, at the age of recommended George for his success hostility or anything of that sort. 91, I am amazed at the impact of George R. Waddington, 88, died on with the Hockerill College Program, a May 3, 2006. he was a beloved We got along just dandy saying my years at Trinity. They gave student international experience in father, grandfather, teacher and Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, nothing, looking into each other's me not only a profession, but tennis coach who dedicated his life to eyes. He had extraordinary, large also a knowledge of how to England. his family, students and community. Believing in the education value of piercing eyes. (to be cont‘d) write, which I turned to good George was born in 1917 in Clark travel, the Waddingtons traveled to Mills, New York where his parents, Edward Seidensticker effect after leaving Intelligence China, New Zealand, South America, Samuel Waddington and Annie Baily JLS 1943 work in order to bring up a Kenya, South Africa, Europe and the had emigrated from the mill towns of JAL inflight magazine family. Soviet Union. His travels provided Yorkshire, England. After attending January 2003 Several works on current lessons for his students. ______Clinton High School, he continued George was a dedicated member of history have given me a mention. his studies at Hamilton College and Two communist publications, St. James Episcopal Church and is An Other Trinity Spy graduated in the class of 1938. He survived by his two children and their one East German and the other earned a master‘s degree from I finished reading History at families. He was predeceased by his from Argentina, called me a Albany State College for Teachers beloved wife, Frances and his dear Trinity in June 1938 and ‗malevolent capitalist agent‘, and began teaching social studies at sister, Kathleen Skonzak of Oneida. returned to America. In 1940, seeking to undo Soviet good the Hoosick School in Hoosick, New well before Pearl Harbor, the works. Other authors thought York. Composed by his family Edited by David M. Hays White House hired me to work me, variously, a big George proudly served as a LT in the US Navy during WWII, entering Archivist & Editor for Nelson Rockefeller, the new businessman, a political ______coordinator of Inter-American active service in November 1942. historian, or a drug dealer. His tour of duty included teaching Affairs. I was given ‗Top Secret: All this means only that I navigation at Ft. Schuyler in the Avis Pick Waring— Eyes Only‘ clearance, in order to must have been a pretty good Bronx and assignment to the Biographical Mileposts conduct somewhat dangerous actor. Indeed, the FBI‘s Chief of University of Colorado‘s US Navy intelligence work, in cooperation Enemy Subversion told me that Oriental Language School to study December 29, 1920, Born during with British intelligence, via the my acting ability was in part Russian. major snow storm on a farm, FBI‘s Chief of Enemy responsible for my recruitment. In 1944, he married Francis Eastern Oregon, no doctor Subversion. Sabalskis in New York City. George available. December 1942, *BA My supervisor, Professor G.P. and Francis moved to Oneonta in This was the start of a fifteen Gooch, had told British degree English, U. of 1946, when George was hired by Washington. July 1943- May year career in intelligence – in Intelligence, who told the FBI, Oneonta Public Schools. His senior submarines, in the CIA and, that I had been in the May Week high school social studies classes are 1946, US Navy, Japanese finally, as a ‗well-informed show put on by The Footlights. well remembered by former students, Language study & work. Aug businessman‘. I got to know the The BBC Empire Service had as is ―Waddington‘s World 1946- June 1949. Civilian, US personalities of the three broadcast part of it, and Sir John Watchers‖ a current events club he occupation of Japan. May 1951, Presidents under whom I served, Reith, head of the BBC, wanted sponsored. He also taught at Bugbee *Cambridge U., BA Honors Franklin Roosevelt, Harry School and joined the Social Science Degree, Economics. September me to be a radio actor. Gooch Education Department at the State Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, told me to refuse the offer since, 1951, Married Ronald Waring, University College at Oneonta in Salem, Oregon (He became an by the different kinds of hugger- once I had graduated, he would 1964. George officially retired from muggery they used cor help me find work more suited to the college in 1993, but continued to editor/writer for the Federal communication between us. My my talents. teach part-time. Government). 1952-1954, career might have been much S. Paul Kramer An avid tennis player since Economist, Bank of Guatemala. briefer had I not been rescued Trinity 1935 childhood, George started the February 1954, Daughter from a Brisbane hospital by a JLS 1944 summer youth program with free Rhonda born in Guatemala City. fellow Trinity man, Lionel The Fountain tennis lessons at the Wilber Park 1955- 1977, Economist for CIA, Holmes Hopkinson, who had Trinity College Newsletter courts in 1946. His 1963-64 tennis 22 years October 1958, Daughter Issue 2 * Spring 2006 team at Oneonta High School, where Elizabeth born in Washington rejoined the Royal Navy after he coached from 1954 to 1964, went planting rubber in Malaya. [Author’s Note: The Fountain is a undefeated and claimed a New York DC. September 1977, Retired, The job had its comic side. At biennial publication of Trinity State Championship. In 1999, the began subdividing land in FL, the start of the American College, Cambridge University, City of Oneonta dedicated the Wilber now a real estate agent. England, of which I am a graduate. occupation of Japan in 1945, I Park tennis courts in his name. How did I get involved with The article was written at the request George was still hitting tennis balls Japanese Language? The Pearl found myself as the sole US of the editor who rewrote it to appeal representative in a provincial at the courts into his 80s. Harbor attack came during my to a British reader. The title, “An George Waddington‘s public and city. I sent for the mayor. He Other Spy,” is a play on words to senior year at the U. of W. I was personal commitment to the studying French but switched to turned out to be a retired general describe me, as distinguished from community are well known in and former member of the other Cambridge spies such as Kim Oneonta. He was elected to the beginning Japanese immediately. Imperial Household. We Philby, who worked for Stalin. The Oneonta City Council and served I heard that the Navy was editor wrote the title.] searching for Japanese linguists. exchanged pleasantries on the from 1974-76. He was honored for station platform. I said I had [Ed. Note: Titles are the editor’s his support of the Family Services Memories of Boulder are been at Cambridge. ―Ah so,‖ he purview, I guess. The comment on Association in 1997 and in 2002 was numerous, most outstanding of replied, ―Then you must acting skill and espionage is presented the Faculty Emeritus Award which are the beautiful campus remember the visit of the interesting. I wonder what kind of by the SUCO Alumni Association for and mountains, marching on the spies Harry Muheim, Larry Vincent his faithful dedication to the College streets, rooming with Barbara Emperor‘s brother to Oxford at Oneonta. Shuey in the big frat house on lawn; his countenance showed feeling prevailed throughout the rendered to neighbors and Broadway, and study, study, and utter exhaustion and weariness. house. teachers was used to supplement study! His nerves were still tense and Half awake the next morning, the $200 a month salary he Another highlight of the frayed from the continuous stress I heard father‘s staccato earned as an instructor in the WAVE days was the good and hardships which he had footsteps descend the stairs to Navy Language School. Through friends I made: During officer endured as the head medical the kitchen. Unaccustomed, early this joint effort the family training at Smith College I came director at the Topaz Relocation morning greetings from the accumulated some of the to know Jean Barnes Morden, Camp in Utah. The hospital had neighbor‘s cows, horses, rationed items: coffee, sugar, oil who continues to be a special only the basic services. In order chickens, and dogs awakened and gasoline. friend. I roomed again with to adequately care for the Father at daybreak. The rattle of Kaya Sugiyama Barbara in D.C. and over the patients, his ingenuity was pots and pans, and soon, the in years since have seen her in constantly in demand. aroma of coffee and toast wafted From the Rooftop Paris. And I roomed with It was the end of the second up to my room. He was The Newsletter of The Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning Blanche Belitz in Japan; we took day for father at his new preparing his own breakfast! In Vol. 84, Issue #5 many trips together. Since then relocated home in Boulder, and great relief I covered my head October 7, 2003 we have seen each other often. he slowly accepted the grateful again, and soon fell asleep, To Be Continued Abbie Jane White Bakony and I fact that there were no longer the realizing that the quiet and peace Next Time - Kaya Meets Kenri - took flying lessons together in barbed wire fences separating his of the night had begun to restore Love Transcends,War Ends Washington and have had two worlds. As the sun gradually his health. Yes, father‘s deep ______occasional visits in Seattle. Such descended, the rays from the sleep in the starlit night gave his friends are dear to me. afterglow reflected on the body a miraculous healing. Upon Malay Instructors

My assignment in ONI surroundings, and in no time awakening to a new dawn the When I sent you my Malay consisted of translating captured twilight faded into the night. ecstatic feeling of being free language books, I said I didn‘t aircraft operating manuals. That Father listlessly sauntered must have revitalized his energy. have the names of the four translation unit was located in toward the still unfamiliar After a hearty breakfast, he Malay instructors, all of whom I th the Stuart Building at 5 and K kitchen, when he realized that looked around and then felt a believe had jumped ship in the Streets. The documents were the family was waiting for him to strong, magnetic pull from the [a better place to technical and boring, however, join them in their first supper front door. His curiosity took be than Japanese Malaya, for that subject did prompt me to together. He hurried to his chair, him out for the first time beyond certain]. I recently came across a take flying lessons which were automatically gave the familiar the front lawn; his stroll in the list giving the names of two I fun. (to be cont‘d) ―Grace‖, and added a few more early morning air turned out to remember, Emyt Dollan and Ma Avis Pick Waring blessings and extra ―thank yous‖ be a complete tour of his new Hi Dohlan, a third is Sapin bin JLS 1944 to the prayer. As father excitedly surroundings. Father walked Ali, who was very young. 1993 WAVE JLS Reunion Book put his chopsticks full of block after block on tree-lined My list also included ______steaming rice into his mouth, a streets to downtown Boulder. Mahmod Raksapevmana, but Student By-Lines sweet feeling melted his hard, The town‘s population of fifteen frankly I don‘t now after 60 ashen look. The aroma and thousand [Actually over 20,000] years remember him. In its first two parts, “Relocation” by succulent bites from the teriyaki was the same in number as the James W. Falk Kaya Sugiyama followed the story of chicken, sautéed vegetables, and inhabitants at the Topaz her uprooted Kitagawa family OLS (Malay) 1945 even a second helping of rice Relocation Camp in Utah. ______displaced from their San Francisco home by the wartime prejudice with hot green tea poured over it, The unexpected walk in this A Korean Adventure against Japanese Americans. You momentarily flushed his cheeks. beautiful small town, the met sister and brother, Kaya and For the first time since his stillness of the early morning Just one small vignette to add - I George and their father, a medical arrival we saw the convivial, gave father time to contemplate mentioned that our little Task doctor at the Stanford Lane Hospital happy face we knew in San and look ahead. Gradually as his Group was at one point ordered on Clay Street whose next Francisco. The short bursts of downhill gait quickened, this to Inchon to pay a courtesy visit assignment ,at $19 a month, was the laughter and expressions of confidence and self-esteem medical units of the Tanforan Race on General Hodge. On the way Track. At his urging they enrolled at camaraderie ended abruptly, for restored him back to his old self. from Inchon to Seoul, our car hit the University of Colorado, Boulder, in a moment, the sadness and Leisurely he explored and a honey cart, which cloaked both thousands of miles away from home silence returned. We carried on enjoyed discovering the back car and passengers in most and family. Once on campus Kaya with our incessant chatter in roads, but finally decided to unpleasant aromatics. It is no waited in vain for an acceptance into order to overcome and conceal return home. This time with a figure of speech to say that, on the war effort, but her application to the dark, sad, mood which determined push, he opened the arrival, we were received in very join the WAVES was never answered. hovered over the household since front door and shouted, ―It‘s ten bad odour! “To beat the game of irony’” she his arrival. o‘clock. Don‘t you have classes applied as a bilingual teacher to H.H. Cloutier When we all finished dining this morning? The fall semester OLS Russian 1944 Naval Language School at the ______University. This week in part three, father nodded gratefully and left had just begun and with all the her story unfolds like a mountain the table. He could have stayed a excitement of the family being $Donations Received wild flower in the morning sun. little while longer and enjoyed reunited again, I was totally Separation becomes reunion. us, but evidently, he could not unaware of the time. Father  N shake the habit of always being made sure that ―Reunion‖ was  P RELOCATION (3) on the go. We realized from the over, and we were, once again,  sound of water filling up the the ―no nonsense‖ family. The soft breeze gently stroked bathtub upstairs, that he was still Father was not allowed to father‘s face, and the rays from exhausted and already preparing practice medicine in Colorado; the crisp, clean mountain sun for a long soak before retiring. since the license was touched and warmed his body. We silently wished him ―a very not reciprocal with the state, a As father rested on the front good night‖, and finally a calm barter system for medical care