Tag: Lewis Terman

Yamamoto was born Oct. 19, 1918. Jordan, founding president of Stanford University, was a progressive reformer who thought society could be improved through sterilization and selective breeding. Fred Yamamoto as a member of the 442 RCT. The board formed a committee to recommend new names. Many cited the Nanjing massacre of 1937 in emotional testimony. “There exist certain hurt [feelings] when the last name ‘Yamamoto’ is mentioned, especially for Asian immigrants whose families were tragically affected in China, Korea and Southeast Asian countries during World War II,” a petition said. Further, some asked, if it’s wrong to object to Fred Yamamoto’s surname because Adm. Yamamoto shared it, why did the district scrap Frederick Terman’s name because of his father’s views? “Taiwan was colonized by Japan for 50 years.” Kathy Jordan, a former professional tennis player who had opposed naming the school for Yamamoto, ran an insurgent campaign for school board which won significant support from Chinese immigrant parents. We don’t want to see this kind of thing happen again here.” He asked to remain anonymous. Complaints of insensitivity and trauma have become distinctive marks of Americanness.