Girls Entertain 200 Soldiers

Some 200 Nisei soldiers stationed at a camp near New York City were recently entertained by 125 Nisei girls from New York and vicinity at a party in honor of the soldiers at the Nyack, N. Y. USO. The program included singing by Miss Tubby Kunimatsu, formerly of Heart Mountain, and dancing by Misses Yuriko Amemiya and Mae Enseki, both of whom came to New York City from Gila River. Miss Enseki presented some Hawaiian dances and Miss Amemiya, who is a member of the famous Martha Graham dance company, performed several modern dance.

The Nisei girls made the trip from New York to Nyack and returned in buses provided by the USO. They were rounded up on only several days’ notice by the New York chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League at the request of A. L. Esplin, director of the Nyack USO, who said the party was “a grand success.”