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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release September 16, 1994
        PRESIDENT NAMES SUSAN HAYASE AS A MEMBER OF THE CIVIL 
         LIBERTIES PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 
     President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate

Susan Hayase as a member of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of Directors.

     Susan Hayase of California is a software 
     development engineer at the Hewlett-Packard 
     Company, and is a third-generation Japanese-
     American whose parents were incarcerated in the 
     Amache, Colorado and Gila River, Arizona camps.  
     She has been an active member of the San Jose 
     Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC), the Japanese-
     American Citizens League (JACL) and the National 
     Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR).  Ms. 
     Hayase attended Stanford University.

     The nine-member Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of

Directors is responsible for making disbursements from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for the development of research and public education activities on the circumstances surrounding the confinement (internment) of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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