It’s been seventy years since students of Japanese descent were forced out of college and sent to interment camps during World War II. Now, after all these years, those students who are still alive are getting a chance to put on the cap and gown and receive honorary degrees.
Friday morning, the USC campus will be filled with smiling students posing for pictures next to the most important people in their lives. For Hitoshi Sameshima, however, graduation comes a little too late.
It’s been 70 years since Sameshima attended USC, and he has longed for this day. But his wife and daughter didn’t live long enough to see it.
Commencement will be bittersweet for Nisei alumni like Sameshima, 91, whose educations were interrupted by internment during World War II and who will finally receive degrees from their alma mater. Nine former students will take part, school officials said.
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