| Title |
Jun Kurumada, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 18, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 339 |
| Alternative Title |
Jun Kurumada, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-18 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Japan |
| Subject |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Tokyo; Sapporo; Yokohama; Dentists |
| Description |
Transcript (30 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Jun Kurumada on April 18, 2001. This is from tape number 339 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jun Kurumada (b. 1913) graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in dentristry in 1937 and opened an office on Main Street in Salt Lake City. He reflects on life in Utah during World War II. He was drafted into the army in 1953 and was stationed in Tokyo, Sapporo, and Yokohama. 30 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
30 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Japanese Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026194 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026167 |
| OCR Text |
Show JUN KURUMADA l 2001 JUN: Well, the equivalent of a dollar a day which is th alary th t I kn that the fellows I knew who were working in town, they were getting something lik thirty dollars a month, thirty-five a month. And I'd say they were surviving. And we had farm workers who were working on the farm and their salary was about one dollar a day. And they worked from dawn to dusk for a dollar a day. BEC: Yeah. Did you work on the farm too? JUN: Oh, yes. I worked on the farm in between school years and all the time prior to going to college. But once I finished college and got my degree then I took the California Board, then I came back to Utah and the Utah Board was within two weeks of the time I took the California Board, so I took the Utah Board and before I found out whether I passed it or not I'd gone back to California because I found out that I passed the California Board, so I went back there to look for possibly a position in an office, or start a business there, but then the problem I had was it was a very difficult thing to start a practice in California. So I came back here to Utah. Started an office down here on Main Street in 193 7. BEC: I want to back up just a minute and ask you where you attended your elementary school. JUN: Well, all three of us graduated from Granite High School. Prior to that it was an elementary school in Ogden. So, as much as I remember the first grade school that I attended was in Benjamin, down in Spanish Fork. And my elder brother also attended there, or he started there. My younger brother didn't start until, let's see, until we came-well, I guess it was in Ogden when he started. So within the interim of about, oh, I'd say, 1923 until1926 we were at Riverdale in Utah, and when we moved to Ogden 4 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p/1026167 |
