Janice Matsutsuyu papers, 1947-1997, bulk 1960-1990

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Summary

Creators:
Matsutsuyu, Janice Setsuko, 1934-2005 and Reilly, Mary, 1916-2012
Abstract:
This collection includes the professional and personal papers, manuscripts, and books that belonged to occupational therapist, author, USC alum, and former clinical associate professor, Janice Matsutsuyu, MA, OTR, FAOTA. Also included in this collection are some of the professional papers that belonged to Mary Reilly, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Occupational Therapy at USC.
Extent:
4.17 Linear Feet 10 boxes and 30 books (books not included in linear feet total)
Language:
English French Latin
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], [Collection title], USC Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Janice Matsutsuyu papers (1947-1997, bulk 1960-1990) includes the books, publications, notes, notebooks, correspondence, letters, memorandums, meeting agendas, conference programs, and more that belonged to occupational therapist, author, and USC alum and former clinical associate professor, Janice Matsutsuyu, MA, OTR, FAOTA. The collection primarily highlights Matsutsuyu's professional career and documents her time as a student, a clinician at renowned medical institutions, such as the National Institute of Mental Health and UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), and as a board and committee member for major OT non-profit organizations, such as the American Occupational Therapy Association and the Occupational Therapy Association of California. Of special interest are materials pertaining to the NPI Interest Check List as well as the professional papers that originally belonged to Mary Reilly, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Occupational Therapy at USC.

Biographical / historical:

Janice Setsuko Matsutsuyu was born in Long Beach, California on February 11, 1934 to first-generation Japanese American parents, Ichitaro and Shinaye Matsutsuyu.[1][2] Matsutsuyu was the youngest child and had three older brothers named Ichiro George, Toshiro, and Yuzo.[3] The family lived on Terminal Island, California where Ichitaro worked as a fisherman and was considered to be a community leader.[4] After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Ichitaro was arrested by the FBI and temporarily held at the Fort Lincoln incarceration camp in Bismarck, North Dakota.[5] Shinaye and her children were forcibly removed from their home and sent to Manzanar incarceration camp located in the Owens Valley in California in June 1942.[6] Ichitaro eventually reunited with and joined his family around two months later. Shortly after World War II ended, the Matsutsuyu family was released from Manzanar and decided to resettle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[7]

From 1948 until 1950, Matsutsuyu attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls and after was admitted into the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy, which had recently merged with the University of Pennsylvania.[8] After graduating in 1955 with a B.S. in Occupational Therapy, she worked as a staff occupational therapist at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) until 1959.[9] Matsutsuyu moved back to the west coast in 1960 and would soon begin to work at the newly established Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at the University of California, Los Angeles where she would eventually become the Chief of Rehabilitation Services and the Program Director of Adult and Geriatric Day Treatment Services.[10] She would remain at NPI until her retirement in 1992.[11] Matsutsuyu graduated from the University of Southern California with an M.A. in Occupational Therapy in 1968.[12] She started her teaching career as a Clinical Instructor during that same year and was later promoted to Clinical Associate Professor with the USC Department of Occupational Therapy (currently the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy)[13]. She would also begin a Lecturer position at Loma Linda University in 1990.[14]

Matsutsuyu further contributed to the profession by publishing articles and book chapters, presenting at conferences and workshops, as well as serving on the executive boards and committees of OT non-profit organizations, such as the American Occupational Therapy Association, Occupational Therapy Association of California, and the Southern California Occupational Therapy Association. [15][16]

Matsutsuyu passed away on June 1, 2005 at the age of 71.[17]

REFERENCES

[1] "Janice Matsutsuyu Obituary." Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2005.

[2] Box 1, Folder 5, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[3] Personal knowledge of family member, Keith Matsutsuyu.

[4] Personal knowledge of family member, Keith Matsutsuyu.

[5] Personal knowledge of family member, Keith Matsutsuyu.

[6] Personal knowledge of family member, Keith Matsutsuyu.

[7] Personal knowledge of family member, Keith Matsutsuyu.

[8] "Janice Matsutsuyu Obituary." Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2005.

[9] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[10] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[11] "Janice Matsutsuyu Obituary." Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2005.

[12] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[13] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[14] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[15] Box 4, Folder 8, Janice Matsutsuyu papers, Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

[16] "Janice Matsutsuyu Obituary." Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2005.

[17] "Janice Matsutsuyu Obituary." Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2005.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Keith Matsutsuyu, 2022.
Processing information:

This collection was processed by Lindsay Anderson, Christine Peters, Amity Beardsley, and Riley Marsh in 2024.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to research by appointment only. To request an appointment, please contact us at libraryarchive@chan.usc.edu.

Please be aware that this collection contains sensitive materials documenting former patients of the National Institute of Mental Health. Other sentitive materials include letters written to Matsutsuyu from a former patient at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, student records containing evaluations of third party individuals, and California Foundation for Occupational Therapy (CFOT) scholarship applicant files containing personal identifiable information. "3.3 Restricting Materials in Minimal Processing", found in the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Surveying and Minimal Processing Manual, was referenced for guidance on restricting access to these materials and recommended restricting access for 70 years following the end date of the file. All aforementioned materials can be found in Box 10, which cannot be accessed by the public.

Books are available for research, but are non-circulatinng.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing and directed to libraryarchive@chan.usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the USC Chan Archive as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

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Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], [Collection title], USC Chan Archive, USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California.

Location of this collection:
2653 South Hoover St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007, US
Contact:
libraryarchive@chan.usc.edu
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