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Newspaper page with an article on students learning about Japanese culture, featuring photos of children engaging with exhibits and dressing in a kimono. Text Transcription: Headline: Students get taste of Japan Byline: By Patsy Lochbaum Article Text: Elementary school children in Corpus Christi have added Japanese culture to their curriculum. How to tie a kimono, hold chopsticks and paint Japanese brush characters are part of a crash course for student visitors to the Japanese Museum, 426 S. Staples. Five to six groups of students visit the museum each week, Director Joe McKinley said. Japanese-native Hisako Ochiai teaches the two-hour culture class and provides art collections donated by the Billie Trimble Chandler Arts Foundation. Mrs. Chandler collected more than 1,000 hand-painted Hakata dolls representing every phase of Japanese culture during 17 years of teaching American dependents in Japan. She paid more than $10,000 to ship the dolls and other collections from Corpus Christi to set up the museum in 1973. Many of the dolls are displayed in sealed models of Japanese land-marks, including the Gold Pavilion in Kyoto, a geisha house, a rural farm scene, and a fishing village. (More detailed article text continues...) Caption: Sixth grader Debra Smith, left, admires a model of a Japanese geisha house while, above, Steve Whiteaker and Dina Baugh dress Javier Garza in a kimono (Photos by Patsy Lochbaum).
Title
Students get taste of Japan
Description
Caller Community Life West, December 15, 1977.
Elementary School children in corpus Christi have added Japanese culture to their curriculum. They had a great time experiencing various Japanese cultures by using Mrs. Chandler's collections in the museum.
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6_007_1
Date Created
2021
Language
English
Format
Newspaper
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Black and white
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