Mitsue Endow (left) and Mary Wakai as Linfield College students
in 1942 Linfield Oak Leaves yearbook.
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Linfield student Mitsue (Endow) Salador was studying to be a teacher in 1942 when she had to report to the Portland Assembly Center
Capturing Linfield’s disappearing history
Linfield Magazine Spring 2019
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During World War II, Mary Kazuyo Wakai was one of two Linfield students forced to leave the college
Linfield Magazine Fall 2019
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See "Oath administered to newly-appointed Oregon Alien Enemy Hearing Board members including Linfield President William G. Everson (as board chairman) on Jan. 5, 1942, in Portland."
During World War II, Everson was chairman of the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which conducted hearings for non-citizen Japanese residents of Oregon who were detained as possible security risks and made determinations as to whether their detainments should continue.
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Some sources say the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board led during World
War II by Linfield College President William G. Everson played a:
- “role in the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, despite a lack of evidence against them.”
- “significant and often adversarial role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans and other ‘enemy aliens’ during WWII, rather than being a mere formality.”
An Associated Press story in the Jan. 6, 1942, Medford, Oregon, Mail Tribune says the board’s job was to “make recommendations when there is a question whether an alien is dangerous to public safety.”
