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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections Research Center
Title: Katsuyo Howard Papers
Identifier/Call Number: UA.1043
Physical Description:
6 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1980-2003 (bulk 1992-1997)
Abstract: Howard served as coordinator for Southeast Asian Student Services at Fresno State from 1981-2008.
The papers were donated by Katsuyo Howard in 2008.
The papers are open for research.
Copyright has been transferred to California State University, Fresno.
Katsuyo Howard was born in Yamanashi, Japan, on April 6, 1945. After graduating from Chiba University in March 1968, she
taught at Funabashi Junior High School until 1972.
In 1972, Howard came to Fresno State to pursue an M.A. in Linguistics. During graduate school, she taught Japanese at the
Fresno Adult School in Fresno, California. Upon completing her M.A. in 1976, she started teaching Japanese at Fresno City
College.
After she received a second M.A., this time in Counseling, and a California state license as a Marriage and Family Therapist,
Howard served as the coordinator the Southeast Asian Student Services at Fresno State. Her interest in education and teaching
led her to pursue a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco while continuing
to work for Fresno State, completing her Ed.D. degree in 1996. In 2003, Howard returned to her position as a counselor in
the International Student Services program at Fresno state. During the 2008/2009 academic year, she was chosen to serve as
the resident director for the California State University (CSU) International Program and taught intercultural communication
classes to students from all over the world at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.
Howard's book
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience, published in 1990, was adapted into a theatrical production in the 1991/1992 academic year. Howard also produced three
videos, including "Voices of Challenge: Hmong Women in Transition," which received a Certificate of Honorable Mention at the
44th Annual Columbus International Film and Video Festival, held in Columbus, Ohio, in 1996.
In 1976, she married John Howard, then an assistant director in Computer Services at Fresno State. They have two grown children,
Paul Shinichi Howard, an artist living in the Bay Area and Keiko Kristina Howard, a neurologist living in Detroit, Michigan.
Currently, Howard lives in Clovis, California and continues teaching and counseling college students at both Fresno City College
and Fresno State.
The Katsuyo Howard papers measure 7 linear feet and date from 1981-2003. The collection is arranged in nine series: Articles,
Community outreach, Counseling resources,
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Resources, Presentations, Trips, Southeast Asian Student Services, Photographs, and Media.
The
Articles series (1987-1997 and undated) includes articles that were written about Howard, or articles that she clipped and saved.
The
Community outreach series (1981-2003 and undated, bulk 1989-1994) contains resources collected by Howard when she joined the Wesley United Methodist
Church as a refugee counselor. This series also includes materials collected from Howard's involvement in the Stone Soup
Project, training, and volunteer information. Materials from other youth programs from the United Methodist Church, including
the Adventures in Learning tutoring program and the El Dorado neighborhood project are also included in this series.
The
Counseling resources series (1981-2000 and undated) series is a collection of manuals and guidebooks used by Howard during her time as an adviser
in the International Student Services program.
The
Multimedia series (1980-2001 and undated) contains videocassettes, including her video
Voices of Challenge Hmong Women in Transition, and U-matic tapes of the theatrical production of Passages.
The
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Resources series (1989-1992 and undated) contains materials and documents used by Howard for her book and the theatrical performance
based on it. It includes documents used and collected by Howard for when she published the text version of
Passages in 1990. This series also contains materials generated by the theatrical adaptation of Howard's book in the 1991/1992 academic
year.
The
Presentations series (1993-1997 and undated) is the second largest series. This series includes materials such as advertisements and correspondence
from the Hmong Story Cloth presentation, a quilt that includes images and stories from different students in the Southeast
Asian Students Club. There is promotional material for the Southeast Asian Oral History Project, presented by the Metropolitan
Museum. Also, there are materials generated by the theatrical production of "We are Hmong," a series of monologues and scenes
written from the Hmong immigrant perspective. Documents and materials from the production and screening of the video
Voices of Challenge: Hmong Women in Transition (VHS), which Howard helped direct and produce are included in this series as well.
The
Southeast Asian Student Services series (1987-2002 and undated) contains documents, correspondence, and newsletters generated by the Southeast Asian Student
Services program at Fresno State.
The
Travel series (1991, 1994 and undated) includes materials that Howard collected during her visit to Southeast Asia June-July 1994.
The
Photographs series (1988-1996 and undated) contains photographs, slides, and negatives from Howard, including photographs for her trip
to the refugee camps in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asian Student Services
This collection contains Howard's correspondence, as well as additional photographs and a description of the Hmong Story Cloth
presentation.