Guide to the Terry Ishihara Collection 1989-2012
SC 014.8

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Creator
Ishihara, Terry
Title
Terry Ishihara Collection
ID
SC 014.8
Date [inclusive]
1989-2012
Extent
0.3 Linear feet of shelf space, 1 Box
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
The Terry Ishihara Collection consists primarily of materials concerning the incarceration of Japanese Americans at Tule Lake Relocation Center during World War II. Terry Ishihara, a former prisoner at Tule Lake, gathered these materials that include reunion programs and ephemera, speeches by Ishihara about the incarceration, and a book of memoirs co-edited by Ishihara and Ben Hara titled Trials and Triumphs: A Collection of 21 Memoirs.

Preferred Citation

[Item description]. Terry Ishihara Collection, 1989-2012. (SC 014.8)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

Teruo (Terry) Ishihara was born in Ogden, Utah in 1927. He was the oldest of 5 children born to Tetsuo and Shizuyo. The Ishiharas moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1939, where Tetsuo ran a hand laundry and cleaning business. In 1942, the Ishiharas were sent to the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California as a result of Executive Order 9066, which ordered the removal and detention of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. From Pinedale, the Ishiharas were sent to Tule Lake Relocation Center, where Terry attended Tri-State High School. In the Fall of 1945, Terry enrolled at Washington State College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He then went on to earn several more degrees culminating in a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona.

Between 1951-1997, Terry worked as a mechanical engineer for the United States Navy and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), as well as several teaching positions including a year teaching secondary school in Oakland and several positions at colleges and universities across the United States and in Japan. Ishihara’s longest tenure was at Saginaw Valley State University from 1982-1994 where he served as Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. In 1997, Ishihara retired from Northern Arizona State University. In 2004, Ishihara co-edited a book of memoirs with Ben Hara titled Trials and Triumphs: A Collection of 21 Memoirs, which contains the recollections of former students of Tri-State High School in Tule Lake Relocation Center.

In 1952, Terry Ishihara married Simi in Oxnard, California. Together they had five children. As of 2014, Terry currently lives in San Pedro, California.

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Biography/History

Executive Order 9066:

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the incarceration from 1942 to 1946 of approximately 120,000 adults and children of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were United States citizens. They were expelled from their homes and placed in incarceration camps without due process and in violation of their civil rights. These camps were euphemistically referred to as “relocation centers” or “internment camps”. After decades of advocacy by the Japanese American community, in 1988 the United States issued a formal apology and began redress to survivors of Japanese incarceration during World War II.

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Scope and Content

The Terry Ishihara Collection consists of publications, ephemera, speeches, and drafts of histories about Tule Lake Relocation Center (also widely, though misleadingly, known as an "internment camp") near Newell, California. Many of the published materials can be grouped into general reunion programs for Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake during World War II and materials dealing specifically with students at Tri-State High School, which served the school age prisoners at Tule Lake. Amongst materials created by Ishihara are two speeches, one given at a 1989 Day of Remembrance event and one give at a 2003 Tule Lake reunion.

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Arrangement

The Terry Ishihara Collection is arranged alphabetically by folder title.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2015

https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open and available for research use.

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions apply.

Acquisition Information

The Terry Ishihara Collection was donated to Washington State University by Terry Ishihara in 2014 (MS.2014.33).

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Steven Bingo.

In 2021, in response to evolving societal understanding regarding the language used to describe the impact of Executive Order 9066, this finding aid was revised to more accurately provide context to the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

Alternative Form Available

Some items in this collection have been digitized and are available online as part of the Japanese American Incarceration Collection.

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Related Materials

Related Material

George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection of Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1932-2016 (SC 014)

Tom T. Hide Collection, 1925-2012 (SC 014.1)

Okubara Family Collection, circa 1943-2008 (SC 014.2)

Takeda Family Collection, 1938-circa 2012 (SC 014.3)

Kenneth Nishiyori Collection, 1942-1944 (SC 014.4)

George and Doris McIntyre Papers, 1944-1945 (SC 014.5)

Mari Tsuruyama Okumura Collection, 1936-2014 (SC 014.6)

Patti Hirahara Collection, 1955-2020 (SC 014.7)

Mike Mackey Collection, 1940-2002 (SC 014.9)

Heart Mountain High School Tempo, 1945 (SC 014.10)

Fusataro Nakaya Photographs, circa 1944 (SC 014.11)

Nabata Family Collection of Heart Mountain Photographs, circa 1942-1945 (SC 014.12)

Frank Chin Oral History Collection, 1974-1986 (Cage 654)

Inez Puckett McEwen Collection on Japanese-American Incarceration, 1942-1943 (Cage 4923)

Japanese American Redress Collection, 1976-2000 (Cage 5126)

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Tule Lake Relocation Center -- History -- Sources.

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • Ishihara, Terry -- Archives.

Subject(s)

  • Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
  • Japanese Americans

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Detailed Description of Collection

box folder

Biographical materials 2011 

1 1

Clippings and newsletters 2002-2010 

1 2

Day of Remembrance speech 1989 

1 3

A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience curriculum guide 2011 

1 4

Reunion materials 1995-2012 

1 5

Tri-State High School 65th Anniversary Annual 2010 

1 6

Trials and Triumphs: A Collection of 21 Memoirs 2004 

1 7

Tule Lake histories 2005-2006 

1 8