Leroy Gardner (top middle), Kiyoo Shimatsu (bottom right), and Stan Yamashita (bottom left) in the 1944 Bethel Yearbook – Bethel University Digital Library
War bonds ad in a 1943 issue of The Bethel Clarion – Bethel University Digital Library
While the BGC’s denominational magazine took a staunchly neutralist stance before December 1941, the Conference Press was selling patriotic materials like this Robert Jones painting as of the summer of 1941
“It’s our patriotic duty to give your car the best of service”: an ad that ran in 1943 issues of Bethel’s student newspaper
1945 ad in The Clarion
The freshman class of Bethel Junior College in 1943-1944: Yamashita and Shimatsu sit in the first row (1st and 3rd from left, respectively); Gardner is in the third row, 2nd from left – Bethel University Digital Library
Shimatsu in Bethel’s Pep Band (an ensemble “not heard from too frequently”) admitted The Spire – Bethel University Digital Library
Rev. Paul Nagano in a 1999 oral history interview – Densho
Sunday School class at the Poston concentration camp, ca. 1944 – Densho
Platts (left, next to fellow English professor Alice Johnson) also had her students recite war poems by the likes of A.A. Milne, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Carl Sandburg at a 1944 convocation – Bethel University Digital Library
A leading Reform rabbi, Wise served as president of the World Jewish Congress until his death in 1949 – Library of Congress