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[Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]
[Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]
[Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]

[Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960]

Date1960
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.853
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 1 negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.;Winter 1960 Student Council of Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 9, 1960. Portrait of the Student Council sitting in chairs under signs indicating their position in student council, flanked by Caucasian man and Principal Norma Gibson in back row. Three girls sit in front row: Cynthia Taguchi, "Commissioner of Service"; Emiko Hirano, "Secretary"; Ayano Kitagawa, "Vice President". Ricky Seiji Kasuyama, a boy with a gavel, stands at far right in front of seat, "President". Two boys and a girl sit in back row: Melvin Nakano, "Chief Justice"; Robert Tanabe, "Boys' Jr. Vice President"; and "Girls' Jr. Vice President."

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