Title:

Dr. George Nagamoto, Issei, and one of the most prominent orthodontists in the country, teaching at the University of Kansas ...

Date:

1945-03-03

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

Full title:Dr. George Nagamoto, Issei, and one of the most prominent orthodontists in the country, teaching at the University of Kansas City Dental College, Missouri. Major Smith was a former student of Dr. Nagamoto at the University of Southern California where Dr. Nagamoto taught graduate classes in orthodontics for practicing dentists from all over the country. In addition to teaching, Dr. Nagamoto had a private practice in Los Angeles prior to evacuation. While at the Granada Relocation Center, Dr. Nagamoto organized the first dental clinic in the centers and had twenty-five dental students working under him in one wing of the pediatric wing of the hospital. When his son Kenneth, now a private first class at Fort Snelling, decided to study dentistry at the University of Kansas, Dr. Nagamoto came to the Midwest with him and was offered a faculty position by the director of the Kansas City Dental College, also a former student of Dr. Nagamoto. Although Dr. Nagamoto says he prefers the people he knows in the Midwest to those back in California, he has not decided yet where to settle permanently with his family. Except for the fact that there is no opportunity to do graduate teaching in his special field, Dr. Nagamoto says he would stay here. My work is more important to me than anything else, Dr. Nagamoto said, except for good schools for my children. My wife and one child are still at Granada and I'm going to visit them as soon as school is over and decide where to go.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Kansas City, Missouri.

WRA no. I-764

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement