Katsuyo Howard Papers UA.1043
Tiffany Polfer, 2009
Special Collections Research Center
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
5200 N. Barton Avenue, M/S ML34
Fresno, CA 93740-8014
scrc@mail.fresnostate.edu
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.
Acquisition
The papers were donated by Katsuyo Howard in 2008.
Access
The papers are open for research.
Copyright
Copyright has been transferred to California State University, Fresno.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Contents
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.
Related Collection
Southeast Asian Student Services
This collection contains Howard's correspondence, as well as additional photographs and a description of the Hmong Story Cloth
presentation.
box 1
Refugee counseling resources
box 1
1988-1989, 1991, and undated
box 1
Repatriation, 1989-1992 and undated
box 1
Thailand refugees, 1988-1992 and undated
box 1
Mission statements, 1993-2000 and undated
box 1
Proposals, 1995 and undated
box 1
Organizational material, 1991 and undated
box 1
Staff training, 1995-1997 and undated
box 1
Volunteers, 2000 and undated
box 1
Articles, 1994-1998 and undated
box 1
Correspondence, 1993-2000 and undated
box 1
Fresno Police Department, undated
box 2
Schedules and agendas, 1993-1999
box 2
Evaluations, 1994 and undated
box 2
Flyers, 1993-1994 and undated
box 2
Presentations, 1993-1994 and undated
box 2
Member organization, undated
box 2
Training, 1994 and undated
box 2
Volunteer information, 1993 and undated
box 2
Mentoring information, 1993
box 2
El Dorado Project, 1993-1995 and undated
box 2
Southeast Asian Culture Nights, 1993-1994 and undated
box 2
Alcohol Prevention Program, 2000
box 2
An Annotated Bibliography of Cambodia and Cambodian Refugees, 1987
box 2
Asian and Pacific Islander, 1988
box 2
Asian Pacific American Education Advisory Committee, 1989 (3 folders)
box 2
Asian Pacific Americans in the CSU, 1994
box 2
Asian/Pacific Islander Cultural Strengths and Stresses, 1981, 1995-1996
box 2
A Bibliography of the Hmong, 1983
box 2
California Refugee English Training Task Force, 1995
box 2
The California Southeast Asian Mental Health Assessment, undated
box 2
The Decade of Chaqwa: Peru's Internal Refugees, 1991
box 2
The Education of Hispanics: Status and Implications, 1986
box 2
Education Reform in California: An Asian/Pacific Islander Appraisal, 1985
box 2
Enriching California's Future: Asian Pacific Americans in the CSU, 1990
box 2
Gang membership report, 1998
box 2
The Health Status of Asian and Pacific Islanders in California, 1997
box 2
The Hmong: 1987-1995, 1996
box 2
The Indochinese and their Cultures, 1991
box 2
Introduction to the Hmong History and Culture, 1994
box 2
Materials for Indochinese Students, 1984
box 2
Native American Resources Catalog, 1989
box 2
A Resource Guide and Pacific American Students, K-12, 1992
box 2
Southeast Asian Students at CSU Fresno: statistics, undated
box 2
The Southeast Asian Student Services of California State University, Fresno, 1991
box 2
Training Southeast Asian Women for Employment, 1986
box 2
Unfamiliar Patterns: Asian Parents and U.S. Public Schools, 1997
box 2
Passages: Images of the Past and Visions for the Future, 1992
box 3
Voices of Challenge: Hmong Women in Transition, 1996 (2 folders)
box 3
We Came to Grow: Japanese Americans in the Central Valley, 1869-1941, 1999
box 3
Recorded television shows
box 3
Cambodian-American, undated
box 3
Cambodia Frontline: Current Cambodia, undated
box 3
Children of the Camps, 1999
box 3
Hmong Education Taskforce Digital Storytelling: BoA Camp, 2001 (2 folders)
box 3
Hmong in Transition, 1986
box 3
Hmong Women in Progress, undated
box 3
Hmong Women: Introduction, undated
box 4
Nova: Terror in the Mine Fields: Cambodia, 1991
box 4
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Resources, undated (2 folders)
box 4
Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodia in America, 1991
box 4
Success Through Perseverance: Japanese in the San Joaquin Valley, 1980
box 4
Summer Youth Project training, 1993 (4 folders)
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience
box 5
Correspondence, 1990-1992 and undated
box 5
Publication documents, 1989-1990 and undated
box 5
Publicity, 1990-1992 and undated
box 5
Articles, 1990-1992 and undated
box 5
Correspondence, 1989-1990
box 5
Promotional, 1989, 1992, and undated
box 5
Southeast Asian Oral History Project, 1994
box 5
Correspondence, 1996-1999 and undated
box 5
Production information, 1996-1997 and undated
box 5
"We are Hmong" project, 1993
Southeast Asian Student Services
box 5
Correspondence, 1992-1993 and undated
box 5
Leadership retreats, 1993-1995 and undated
box 5
Vol. 1, no. 1-Vol. 2, no. 4, 1987-1988
box 5
Vol. 3, no. 1-Vol. 4, no. 3, 1988-1989
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Vol. 5, no. 1-Vol. 6, no. 1, 1989-1990 and undated
box 5
Southeast Asian Refugee Studies, 1993-1994
box 5
Southeast Asian Students Newsletter, 1987-1993
box 5
Presentations, 1987-2002 and undated
box 5
Worksheets, 1993-1994 and undated
box 5
Correspondence, 1991 and undated
box 5
Itineraries, 1991-1994 and undated
box 5
Hmong story cloth, undated
box 6
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience, American tour, 1992
box 6
Passages: An Anthology of the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience, Japan tour, 1992
box 6
Revisiting the Passages, Thailand refugee camps, 1994
Southeast Asian Student Services
box 7
Social functions, undated
box 5
Stone Soup Project, undated
