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Full title:Miss Florence Takemura, age 23, former resident of Los Angeles, California, relocated from the Manzanar Relocation Center in October, 1942, to attend school at Drake University. She received her A.B. degree from Drake University this year and is planning on taking some post-graduate work in the East. While attending this school Miss Takemura was employed in a home and at the present time is working for the Iowa Christian Women's Missionary Society in a clerical capacity and as a receptionist. Miss Takemura has taken an active part in all Japanese American activities and has appeared before many groups interpreting the program. While at Drake University she served on the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, belonged to a women's Honorary Society, and appeared in a national Who's Who for college students. Des Moines, Iowa.
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