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Show Donna Ash Back From Japan After Years Work Mrs. Donna O. Ash, former principal of Grovecrest School, arrived home June 12, after spending spen-ding the 1959-60 school year in Yokahama, Japan. Mrs. Ash' has been serving as a special teacher teach-er in remedial reading at the Richard E. Bird Naval School, where children of U.S. Naval personnel attend. When asked what was the high light of her nine months stay in the orient, she said, "My wonderful wonder-ful association with the Japanese Japan-ese people." She explained that the children in the Richard E. Bird school were of all nationalities. Their fathers had gone to Japan as single men in the Naval service and had married Japanese girls, American girls or girls of mixed blood. In many cases neither the children nor their mothers had seen America. All they had learned learn-ed about the United States was from the American-bom fathers and teachers. ' "Integration really works in the Service Schools in Japan," Mrs. Ash said. Even the president presi-dent of the PTA in the Bird School was a full-blooded negro man. He was an educated and cultured gentleman, Mrs. Ash added. In addition to her day-school teaching, Mrs. Ash taught English Eng-lish in an evening school to " adults from all economic and social so-cial levels, including Japanese students from Tokyo University. During her vacations, Mrs. Ash had the opportunity to tour Hong Kong, Tailand, India and Nepal. When asked her opinion of the current anti-American riots in Japan, Mrs. Ash was positive that they were Communist inspired in-spired and stimulated. "The great majority of the Japanese people love America," she emphasized. empha-sized. Mrs. Ash will join the super-viso7-y staff of the Alpine District Schools n July 1 of this year. |