Nisei scholarship fund's 20th Anniversary event, Sept. 15, 2000

Nisei scholarship fund's 20th Anniversary event, Sept. 15, 2000        
    The Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative (NSRC) Fund, a scholarship
fund, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on Friday, September 15, 2000,
6:00pm at the Westin Hotel, in Waltham, Massachusetts.  The theme of the
event is "Commemorating the Past - Educating for the Future, A Tribute to
Those Who Helped."  The keynote speaker will be Congressman Barney Frank of
Massachusetts.
    The NSRC Fund was established in 1980 by a group of Nisei living in New
England who were all interned during World War II.  They were able to leave
the camps to go to college due to the efforts of the National Japanese
American Student Relocation Council.  In 1980 they decided it was "payback time" and created a scholarship fund to thank, honor and pay tribute to those
who had helped them in 1943.  In the early 1980s the stories of the
Vietnamese "Boat People" were in the news and their situation reminded the
Nisei of their own wartime experiences.  They decided that the scholarship
recipients would be from Southeast Asian communities from all over the United
States.  Since its inception, the scholarship fund has grown to over $650,000
and nearly 200 awards have been given to students from five cities in
California, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Seattle, New York City, North Carolina
and Wisconsin.
    For more information, call 781-674-0086 or email: jeanhibino@gateway.net