Deeply Honored

Description:	Images and letters used for this book are from the Densho Archive and the Carleton College Archives ... The visual quality of the original letters and documents required that they be transcribed for this printing. The Shigemura letters were printed in Lucinda Handwriting, a font that approximated the beautiful writing of Mrs. Shigemura. The Carleton letters and memos have been transcribed into Monaco. The descriptive text is printed in Verdana ... the paper used is Rives grey. The binding is drum leaf. The printing is in silk-screen.--Colophon.Because of the great interest in this subject Hagstrom decided to create this second edition--Vamp & Tramp website (viewed April 16, 2012)After being interned with his parents at the Minikoda Internment Camp in Idaho, Frank Masao Shigemura was released to attend Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with the help of the newly formed National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, headed by John W. Nason. Although Shigemura described his year at Carleton as the best of his life, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was killed in battle in France on October 20, 1944. When Carleton published a memorial Gold Star booklet which honored the Carleton men who had been killed in the war, Mr. and Mrs. Shigemura responded with the first of many donations to the college. From their correspondence, Carleton President Laurence M. Gould developed a friendship with the Shigemuras, and as their contributions continued, helped establish the Frank Shigemura Scholarship at Carleton. The alumni felt Franks loyalty should be made public and asked George Grimm, a columnist, to write about it. Grimm wrote a series of articles on the Shigemurass generosity, the articles were collected and reprinted elsewhere.Deeply Honored is a story about the internment of Japanese Americans during the war. Carleton College took in several students under scholarship in order to get them out of internment camps. This was part of the Student Relocation Council, organized by John Nason, President of Swarthmore College. Carletons first such student was Frank Shigemura, who enlisted after one great year at Carleton. He was killed in France. After the war, his parents were released and returned to Seattle. They appreciated what Carleton had done for their son, so they began a string of contributions to the College. This added up over the years, until the College President discovered that they were living in poverty and were giving a large portion of their income to the school. He tried (without success) to discourage them from any more contributions. Carleton has a scholarship in his name, and a room in his honor in our memorial hall. When his parents died, they left anything they had to Carleton. The book is about this tremendous family and what they did in the face of one of the great injustices of our history. deeply honored is a phrase from Mrs Shigemura. The text is from archival letters, including those of Mrs. Shigemura to the school. --Artist statement from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed June 14, 2018)I-ART: Library has copy no. 6, signed by Fred Hagstrom.
Origin:	2010
Created By:	Hagstrom, Fred
Publisher:	[St. Paul, Minn.] : Strong Silent Type Press, 2010.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/680
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Shigemura, Frank Masao d. 1944. Shigemura, Takejuru d. 1964--Correspondence. Shigemura, Kay d. 1979--Correspondence. Nason, John W. Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995. Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.) National Japanese American Student Relocation Council. Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Artists books. drum-leaf binding silkscreen on Rives grey, cloth covered boards

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