From Sunday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
“Several years ago, when University of Central Arkansas associate professor Sondra Gordy was researching student transfer records from the year that Little Rock high schools were closed, she found something unusual.
“The last names of Yada, Nakamura and Oishi were hardly typical for Little Rock students. So, Gordy contacted the three Japanese-Americans and learned that not only were they affected by the Lost Year, the year that Little Rock high schools were closed, but they also had also lived in internment camps during World War II.
“Gordy interviewed them and plans to include their stories in her coming book, Finding the Lost Year, which is being published by the University of Arkansas Press. It is due out in January 2008.”
