Pictured (front row, seated from left) are Marion Hori, co-president, Wasatch Front North; Shauna Shiramizu Riley, co-president, Wasatch Front North; 93-Year-Old Korean War veteran Norio Uyematsu, Salt Lake; and guests Gerald and Teruko Nisogi and (back row, standing from left) are Alyssa Kammerman, project assistant, Japanese exhibit Brigham City Museum; Suzan Yoshimura, Wasatch Front North; Alana Blumenthal, director, Brigham City Museum; Larry Grant, Wasatch Front North; Floyd Mori, Mount Olympus; and Candace and Aiko Flowers, Wasatch Front North. (Photo: Patti Hirahara)
FDR Presidential Library Director to Keynote
Members from the Mount Olympus, Salt Lake and Wasatch Front North JACL chapters convened on Oct. 3 at the Idle Isle Restaurant in Brigham City, Utah, to discuss their first Day of Remembrance event, which will also be held in Brigham City on Feb. 15, 2025. The DOR will coincide with the grand opening of the first Brigham City Museum exhibit “Uncovering the Journey: Japanese American Pioneers in Box Elder County,” whose story has never before been told. The keynote speaker for the Day of Remembrance event will be William A. Harris, director of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, N.Y.
Next year signals the 83rd observance commemorating the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942. The DOR event’s keynote speaker will be William A. Harris, director of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. It will mark Harris’ first visit to Utah to speak on this subject.
