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Description
Assignment by Henry Haruda for period VIII World Geography and History class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Henry recounts needing to leave his dog Scrappy behind when his family left Los Angeles. He tells a story of Scrappy stealing bacon from the grocery store and getting into the neighbor's chickens. The day before the forced evacuation he had to give the dog to a neighbor, and he thinks of his dog constantly. Original item is found in item: ecm_wells_0020. Collection of documents and ephemera from Harry Bentley Wells, teacher at Manzanar War Relocation Center High School and Shirley Elizabeth Wells, registered nurse (R.N.) at Manzanar War Relocation Center. This collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, student papers, grade book, commencement program, prom invitation, and other memorabilia from the eleven months H. Bentley Wells was employed at Manzanar.
Type
text
Format
Essays 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education Education--Secondary education World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
Place
Manzanar, California Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
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