| 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 11 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026172 |
| OCR Text |
Show JUN KURUMADA champion at the University. And while he was in high school h for the high school team. BEC: Is that right? RI 1 2 JUN: Well, he was a good athlete all the way around. No matter what he did, he was good at it. In fact he was a good baseball player. He played semi-pro baseball and he played a little basketball and he was a good golfer. But he was the only real good athlete in our family. He was much bigger than we are, too. BEC: JUN: I was going to ask if he was a big kid to be a quarterback and ... Yeah. Well at the time, in high school, he wasn't too big, but then when he entered the University and went on the swimming team, oh, I'd say 175 pounds and six feet tall. So he was ... at that time, that was a pretty good-sized athlete. Of course, the present-day athlete, you have to be seven feet tall to be a good athlete now, but then-he was at that time one of the better athletes of our group. In fact, he was good enough to compete in college. BEC: That's something. Now you say you finished dental school in, was it in 193 7, is that correct? JUN: Yes. BEC: And you started a practice here in Salt Lake? JUN: Yes. I opened an office right down in the Mcintyre Building right on Main Street in 193 7. I think of the buildings that are still in that block between South Temple and First South, I think there's only two original buildings there, the Mcintyre and the Federal Building, or it's what they call the Crandall Building. Those are the only 9 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p/1026172 |
