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SHORTCUTS INDEX E2 Pigs and vegetarians tremble as "Cooking With Lard" hits America's bookstores. E3 BOOK REVIEW Julie Schumacher's second book of Action Features typically eccentric characters. E3 Ann Landers E2 Astrological Forecast E5 Laugh Lines E2 Comics E4-5 Doonesbury. E2 Cos Attgeles unc orange county SECTION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1997 1 Photos by ALEXANDER GALLARDO Los Angeles Times Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, left, talks to Cal State Ful-lerton President Milton A. Gordon at a benefit for the school.

4 A 'Mickey Millennium'? Crowd Is All Ears A1C0NWAY Or Courtesy of WOODROW ICHIHASHI peaking before a spirited, crowd at the Pond in Anaheim, Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner touted the new theme park and resort expansion of Disneyland that he says will pump millions into Orange County. In remarks at a benefit for Cal State Fullerton, Eisner who wore a Mickey Mouse bow tie with his tuxedo detailed expansion plans that he said will bring 14,500 new jobs MOftNfNG $HAM)W Santa Anita Assembly Center, Arcadia, June 1, 1942. From a letter from Yamato to Stanford colleague and close friend Payson Treat and his wife, Jessie: We arrived Among the 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry interned at relocation centers from 1942-'45 were Stanford University history professor Yamato Ichihashi and his wife, Okei (Kei). Yamato was 64 and Kei was 50 in May 1942 when they were sent from their home to a series of camps.

Both were isseis, born in Japan. Yamato had immigrated to the United States at 16 on a student visa, arriving in San Francisco. His excellent high school grades led to his acceptance at Stanford in the fall 1903 class. In 1913, having completed studies for his doctorate at Harvard, he began teaching Japanese history and government at Stanford. In 1921, his endowed chair became the first in the university's history.

One of the first academics of Japanese descent in the United States, Yamato over the next decades at Stanford maintained close ties with his homeland and wrote numerous books and papers on subjects including the immigrant experience and race relations. At camp, he recorded the evacuees' lives in diaries, essays and letters their humiliation, their hardships, and the conflicts between the issei and their American-born nisei children. His papers, and a few of Kei's letters, in storage at Stanford for 25 years, have been compiled by Gordon H. Chang, associate professor of history at the university, as "Morning Glory, Evening Shadow," to be published in March by Stanford University Press. and generate revenue of "$25 million a year to Anaheim and $10 million a year to Orange County." A gigantic mouse-ears sculpture formed the backdrop for Eisner's appearance before a crowd eager to hear his take on the world of Disney.

Eisner playfully invited guests to a news conference Jan. 1, 2001, where he will speak of "our Mickey Millennium," an announcement that will follow the "Mighty Ducks' victory at the Stanley Cup, and, even more certain, the Angels' victory at the World Series." The new theme park Disney's California Adventure is part of a comprehensive entertainment development concept, he said. Due to open in four years, it will include a major new hotel as well as dining and retail areas. For all of his company's successes, there are still failures, said the man who took over leadership of the faltering Disney Co. in 1984 and turned it into an entertainment giant with revenue last quarter of $6.3 billion.

"In my job, I get to deal with failure every day," he said movies bomb, videos flop, children are bored with new theme park concepts. "But failure is unavoidable and indispensable. It's not how you fail; but how you deal with it. It is only failure if you do not learn from it." Eisner said before going on stage that he agreed to speak at the benefit because students at Cal State Fullerton play a major part in the success of Disneyland as cast members. Eisner's appearance was the second in the "Front Center" benefit series staged to raise money for the university.

Net proceeds of $250,000 from Thursday's event will be combined with $200,000 from last year's benefit in a scholarship fund for high school National Merit finalists and semi-finalists. Last year's benefit showcased Ret. Gen. Colin L. Powell; next year, broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite will be featured.

Guests who held $500 tickets were able to join Eisner for a black-tie dinner on the ice hockey rink camouflaged for the evening with black AstroTurf. Guests who held $20 or $10 tickets came after dinner, sitting in the stands to hear Eisner speak. Elaborating on his decision to speak on behalf of the university which he did free of charge Eisner said "thousands really, thousands of our cast members are students from Cal State Fullerton. And, of course, this was being staged at the Pond, where we Mighty Ducks play hockey. "I rarely do this kind of thing," Eisner said.

"Usually you have to travel too far and I like to stay in my office. But Orange County was close and important." Getting Eisner to appear was no easy task, explained Larry Zucker, the university's vice president for advancement. "He had turned us down once for this," Zucker said, "and we continued to find alums that were in proximity to him either knew him socially or through his board. Ultimately, the level of the contacts intrigued him and he decided to do the event." Please see CONWAY, E2 here safe and sound, although the train ride was the worst I have experienced here or abroad. We went without lunch the day we arrived; at 5 p.m., much hoped for supper came.

But, alas, the mess hall sounded like a battle, with booming and banging of metal dining service; the worst was yet to come. Supper consisted of a small quantity of baked spaghetti, a small potato, a little rice and water. What a comedown, even for a professor! Our living quarters is a small portion of woodshed of cheapest type. We hear everything that goes (on) on either side. there is no privacy.

June 7, to the Treats: The Assembly Center) has a population of 18,400, each numbered for identification; I am No. 5,561. Of course aside from mails, we have no contact with the outside world. The population is mixed: citizens and enemy aliens. an impossible combination.

Many of the youngsters have been appointed to administrative jobs and they act like petty bureaucrats. In management of the classless community, the government has apparently adopted the lowest conceivable standard of treating human beings; thousands are still housed in stables; a stable of an animal Please see EXCERPT, E6 i i hf Record Group 210, National Archives Lunchtime at the Tule Lake internment camp, top. Yamato Ichihashi in his Stanford office, and Kei with Woodrow in the backyard of their campus home. Special Collection, Green Library, Stanford Honored Craft's Revival Has America in Stitches -X I "Today's needleworker, according to surveys, is young the average age is under 40," Cravens says. "She's intelligent, usually with a college education.

She's fairly affluent, which gives her the leisure time to pursue this craft" And she's not always a she. "Although the majority of needlework hobbyists are still women, there are certainly growing numbers of men who are avid needle-crafters," Cravens says. "It's a relaxing escape, to pick up your needlework after a long day spent on the job, at the computer or in traffic. Medical studies have proved that doing needlework actually lowers your blood pressure as it calms and focuses you I even know of therapists who prescribe it for their clients." Needleworking is, of course, an ancient craft, born first of necessity and then of vanity. During medieval times, membership in the embroiderers' guilds was limited to men only.

Women of high birth and their female servants, however, worked embroidery as an everyday craft inside their manor houses, embellishing clothing and linens. The 17th and 18th centuries were the heyday of the "sampler" in England and America, as girls practiced stitching alphabets and moralistic sayings on pieces of linen, usually under the watchful eye of a governess. The Victorian era brought one final blast of fine needle craftsmanship, but industrialization of textile and clothing manufacture sent the needle arts into a long decline. Today, however, there is a renaissance of interest in all forms of needle craft, Cravens Please see NEEDLEWORK, E2 Hobbies: Devotees of needlework are finding that it can be good for the soul as well as for the home. By MARY PLATT SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Cross-stitchers.

Needlepointers. Lace-makers. Embroiderers. Think of them as devoted. Artistic.

Maybe even addicted. Just don't think of them as little old ladies in rocking chairs. You can stick a pin in that stereotype, says Joan Cravens, who directed the I Love Needlework Fair last week aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach. At the Pond in Anaheim decorated with a giant mouse-ears sculpture Eisner spoke of plans for his company's future..