{"id":31,"featured":0,"modified":"2024-09-18 22:58:39","latitude":30.634449205475167588019758113659918308258056640625,"longitude":-97.66516306348654552493826486170291900634765625,"title":"Remembering the First Asian and Asian-American Students","subtitle":"Tracing the history of early Asian and Asian-American students at Southwestern","fullsize":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/67640252732db8b11ade670f8e3009e7.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Michelle Taing  '24"],"description":"As an Asian-American student, I have noticed that there is no place on campus where Asian or Asian-American students from the past are commemorated, so I became curious about my predecessors.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nRummaging through the Sou’wester yearbooks for weeks, I noted down the Asian students that were the first (or second) to do something as an Asian or Asian American at Southwestern. <br />\r\n<br />\r\n The following captioned photographs provide a guide to the first Asians or Asian Americans at Southwestern.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nNote that because these students did not then or now have a place to call their own on campus, we have placed them with a pin in the center of campus.<br />","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/67640252732db8b11ade670f8e3009e7.jpg":{"id":69,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Foreign Female Students from 1953","description":"Sou&#039;Wester 1953 | 1953 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/67640252732db8b11ade670f8e3009e7.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/861bbc6ea83863c4ac1c16e3d62ae67c.jpg":{"id":137,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Male Foreign Students,, 1953","description":"Sou&#039;Wester 1953 | 1953 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/861bbc6ea83863c4ac1c16e3d62ae67c.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/043a004007a56d7cd25a69b110430230.jpg":{"id":125,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Frances Aoki","description":"1st Asian to enter as a freshman and stay at the University until graduation. (3 years): Fall 1951 - Spring 1954 | Sou&#039;Wester 1954 | 1954 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/043a004007a56d7cd25a69b110430230.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/cb1816d339224fb44459b26f0c4682ed.jpg":{"id":126,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Muhammad Rafiq","description":"1st Asian to graduate after transferring (~1 year).  Fall 1951 - Spring 1952<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1952 | 1952 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/cb1816d339224fb44459b26f0c4682ed.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/4aa025e6e0e0b18b65bab5637f118eb9.jpg":{"id":127,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Elsie Kaneshiro","description":"1st Asian to go through all 4 years. Fall 1953 - Spring 1957<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1954 | 1954 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4aa025e6e0e0b18b65bab5637f118eb9.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/28ac6276d21e7da774108c0afdf929f0.jpg":{"id":128,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Franklin Sun","description":"1st Asian to go through all 4 years and more. Franklin stayed an extra year to get another degree.  Fall 1953 - Spring 1958 | Sou&#039;Wester 1954 | 1954 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/28ac6276d21e7da774108c0afdf929f0.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/35873161d3433b74bc34041aad0b1c17.jpg":{"id":129,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Paul Hsu 1956","description":"1st Asian American to attend Southwestern from the contiguous United States.  Fall 1955 - Spring 1956<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1956 | 1956 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/35873161d3433b74bc34041aad0b1c17.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/ea8f7145f57c29273b8df84c1f67bd2a.jpg":{"id":130,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Yuri &quot;Kit&quot; Yamada","description":"1st Asian American to attend Southwestern from Texas. Fall 1956 - Spring 1960<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1957 | 1957 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ea8f7145f57c29273b8df84c1f67bd2a.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/46a8adaeee3d33ba97f5fb0c4557f72f.jpg":{"id":131,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Alejandrina Sakaguchi","description":"1st Asian to attend Southwestern from a non-Asian country or the United States. (Peru),  Fall 1957 - Spring 1960<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1959 | 1959 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/46a8adaeee3d33ba97f5fb0c4557f72f.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/dcb61a6b0e343ee815ba85eb1762c820.jpg":{"id":132,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Stanley Wong","description":"1st Asian to double major in the same year. Graduated with two majors. ; <br />\r\nFall 1957 - Spring 1960 | Sou&#039;Wester 1958 | 1958 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/dcb61a6b0e343ee815ba85eb1762c820.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/3cce4fdb975b8f0e7a7bd270189a8f42.jpg":{"id":133,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Ernest Chou","description":"1st male Asian American to attend Southwestern from Texas. Fall 1973 - Spring 1975 | Sou&#039;Wester 1974 | 1974 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/3cce4fdb975b8f0e7a7bd270189a8f42.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/560d7b060f8f07a6007420c6f08bd98b.jpg":{"id":134,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Raymond Khouw","description":"1st male Asian American from Texas to go through all four years of college. <br />\r\nFall 1974 - Spring 1978 | Sou&#039;Wester 1975 | 1975 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/560d7b060f8f07a6007420c6f08bd98b.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/96a383e5059afbf01871eed94dfca311.jpg":{"id":135,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Eui-Soo Suh","description":"1st Asian faculty child to attend Southwestern (son of Dr. Suk-Soon Suh). Fall 1971 - Spring 1972  | Sou&#039;Wester 1972 | 1972 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/96a383e5059afbf01871eed94dfca311.jpg"},"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/739a9dd49770705d7b499cb1997fd9af.jpg":{"id":136,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"Sally Suh","description":"1st Asian faculty child to attend Southwestern and graduate from Southwestern (daughter of Dr. Suk-Soon Suh). Fall 1976 - Spring 1980<br />\r\n | Sou&#039;Wester 1977 | 1977 | Sou&#039;Wester staff","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/739a9dd49770705d7b499cb1997fd9af.jpg"}}}