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19004 WHEN she was graduated from San Jose State College in 1942, Mary Ishimoto was sure of only one thing uncertainty. Actually, she spent her graduation day at the Santa Anita Race Track, although neither for pleasure nor by choice. She was there, along with other Americans of Japanese ancestry, because she was considered a threat to U. S. wartime security.

Shifted hurriedly from their homes, these Issei and Nisei (first and second generations in America of Japanese blood) had been put behind barbed wire the obvious idea being that if let loose they might blow up the West Coast. Mary's "highest honors" degree came to the race track by mail. A fellowship award for graduate studies in chemistry and biology at the University of Wisconsin was cancelled because of military projects on the Wisconsin campus. But Mary was luckier than many. Six months later she was allowed to accept a scholarship at Radcliffe, where she earned her Ph.D.

in biology. Oddly, her laboratory was right next to one being used by a high-security Navy project. Today Mary's laboratory is at 2100 Arch street in Philadelphia. There, at the Biosciences Information Service (BIOSIS) she is supervising and editing Japanese material on deep and shallow water farming. This 18-month project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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