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The Greater New York COMMITTEE FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS, Inc. 11 WEST 42nd STREET • WIsconsin 7-1616 • ROOM 785 • NEW YORK 18 [[left margin]] Co-Chairman ROBERT M. BENJAMIN GEORGE YAMAOKA Vice Chairman PHILIP W. BARBER MRS. EDITH TERRY BREME I.B. SEKINE Secretary MRS. MARIAN WYNN PERRY Board of Directors GEORGE A. ABO REV. ALFRED S. AKAMATSU FREDERICK L. ALLEN PHILIP W. BARBER ROBERT M. BENJAMIN MRS. EDITH TERRY BREMER MORTIMER BRENNER DR. J. HENRY CARPENTER DR. EMMANUEL CHAPMAN MRS. MARIE CHASE COLE DR. DAN W. DODSON ROBERT DOLINS W. CAMERON EDEY EDWARD J. ENNIS REV. DONALD HARRINGTON PHILIP E. HOFFMAN DR. EARLE L. HUNTER DR. EDWIN T. IGLEHART ERNEST S. IIYAMA REV. GIICHI KAWAMATA MISS FLORENCE M. KELLEY YASUO KUNIYOSHI MISS LOULA D. LASKER EDWARD S. LEWIS READ LEWIS REV. TORU MATSUMOTO SUAL MILLS MRS. EDWIN MIMS, Jr. CHIYE MORI CLYDE E. MURRAY DR. HENRY NEWMANN MICHAEL M. NISSELSON KENJI NOGAKI ISAMU NOGUCHI DR. KANZO OGURI JOE OYAMA MRS. EDGERTON PARSONS MRS. MARIAN WYNN PERRY BERNARD RESWICK JULES SEITZ REV. HOZEN SEKI I. B. SEKINE MISAO TAJITSU DR. M. RALPH TAKAMI YURINO TAKAYOSHI RAYMOND W. THOMPSON GEORGE YAMAOKA [[/left margin]] September 16, 1946 Executive Director PETER S. AOKI Mr. Yasuo Kuniyoshi 30 E. 14tth St. New York, N.Y. Dear Mr. Kuniyoshi: We received your letter and checks this afternoon and it was a breath-taking surprise for us. Especially the amount of money that you were able to raise. With the recent check that we received from Mr. Rockefeller and the efforts of your Committee at Woodstock, the Committee looks like it will be able to weather the financial headache from when it was first organized. I am very happy to hear that the affair was such a tremendous success. I did get a few scattering commentsfrom here and there but never the entire story. I have personally seen to it that the letters of appreciation have been sent out to those you have requested me to do so. In fact I am contacting both of the boys to check whether they have written a note to Mr. and Mrs. Penning.* I hope that I will be able to see you soon. We are planning to hold a Board of Director's meeting in October, the purpose of giving a half years report on the activities of the Committee. We also contemplate in giving several programs this fall which would tax the energies of our office staff, however, I hope to see you before then. I wish to extend my appreciation for what you have done for the Committee. Sincerely yours, [[signed]] Peter S. Aoki [[/signed]] Peter S. Aoiki Executive Director PSA:am [[footnote]] *Thomas (Mrs.) [[/footnote] [[footer left]] 490 [[//footer left]]