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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. their way to the Museum. The Topaz Museum Board has been promised large items, a piano and other furniture. We will make arrangements to pick up donations from the Bay Area and transport things back to Delta by a rental truck. If you have items you would like to donate, write or call Jane Beckwith, Box 272, Delta, Utah 84624 (801) 864,2098 so we can schedule the pickup trip. Thank you so much for all your help. order to further support the project in any way we can, an idea of maybe actively taking part on the project was brought up. The participation would be somewhat like project "HABITAT", that even our past President Carter, takes part. All it takes is a hammer and your volunteer time to pound some nails. Its like raising a barn, only it will be to finish off the Topaz Museum, once the foundation is in. A working group could drive or meet in Delta, and stay for a week to take part, and at nights have fellowship and fun talking about old times or do anything you want like meeting townspeople, or socializing with them to express our thoughts and gratitude ... Jane Beckwith is doing a tremendous job in Delta, but she really needs help any way she can get it. If you have time and want to volunteer for the building project please feel free to respond, or give the editor your comments and thoughts so we can share your ideas with the rest of the readers. A good idea is worth nothing until one shares the thoughts with others who may be able to help implement that idea. You can provide all of us with thoughts we may have missed or didn't even think about. Any takers ? INTERESTING ARTIFACT DONATIONS CONTINUE TO ARRIVE Jane Beckwith Finally, it seems that every day we are moving toward our goal of a wonderful Topaz Museum. We have enough money to begin restoration; we are printing a newsletter to keep people informed; and we are steadily collecting artifacts to furnish the Museum. In the past month we have received two very interesting gifts: a set of four chairs from Frank Kami of Berkeley and four swords from Mrs. Edith Ikemoto, now living in Salinas. The chairs were made from wooden boxes used to ship personal belongings from Tanforan to Topaz. Each chair is sturdy with an apron around the seat braced from beneath. The simple design is very pleasant. Underneath one chair it reads: Mess, 12 Group,B 9,22,42 (The date the family left Tanforan.) James J. (Kami) 13696. The swords were made in camp from a leaf spring of a car. Mrs. Ikemoto sent a brief note, but the Museum volunteers are full of questions that may never be answered. The largest sword, almost three feet has a scabbard and hilt made of wood. Two of the three other blades are unfinished, one has a lacquer sheath. Others who have donated items include the entire collection of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Sekerak, shell brooches and carved birds from Leighton and Helen Dingley, a fine suzuri carved from slate from Antelope Springs and fitted with a wooden case from Roy Shimada. Many items from Delta residents are also making CAMPSITE RESOLUTION Chuck Kubokawa At the August 1994 National JACL Convention, in Salt Lake City, there will be a resolution brought before the attending national delegates to vote on relative to all the ten past WRA Campsites. This resolution authored by Chuck Kubokawa, and introduced by the Sequoia JACL Chapter, will be to charge JACL, as a project, to get the U.S. Government to make all the former campsites into a "National Historic Site". By taking such action, and if the U.S., does it, the upkeep, erection of a standardized monument, etc. will be handled by the Government, no longer resting upon the shoulders of the survivors. There will also be be another plus in that once erected, if anyone defaces the monument it will be a Federal offense WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU Chuck Kubokawa As you may know by now Mr. Joe Mori, has graciously accepted the editorship of this new "Topaz Times," to keep everyone informed as to the goings on of our camp people. It is an unique quest and hopefully all of you receiving this newsletter will enjoy the thoughts of all the contributors and ideas that have been in your mind for all these years with no place to go. Well now you will have an outlet because the Topaz Museum board is hoping to publish this newsletter twice a year letting you know how the museum project is |
