‘Lessons from Internment’ May 8

Janet Hamada

Special guest speaker Janet Hamada will describe lessons from the Japanese-American internment of World War II on Tuesday, May 8 at the Hood River Indian Creek Campus of Columbia Gorge Community College.

The public is invited to attend this presentation at 10 a.m., part of a U.S. History class taught by CGCC instructor Stephen Shwiff. Hamada, a social worker and executive director of The Next Door, Inc., will be speaking in Room 312 on the experiences of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast during World War II.