Fuchigami, Robert Y.: - Born in 1930 at Marysville, California.
He retired in 1992..
He took one year leave of absence to work for the National Council of Exceptional Children in Reston, Virginia (1977), and as State Director of Special Education for California (1985).
He served as the Chairman of the Education Department and later Dean of Graduate Studies at Sonoma State University.
During the summer, he taught special education at the University of Wyoming (1971 and 1973), and at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (1972).
In 1968, he moved to Sonoma State University in California to start a teacher training program in Special Education.
He left Hawaii in 1966 to serve as the Field Coordinator of the Northwest Regional Instructional Materials Center, based at the University of Oregon.
He began a teacher training program in Special Education at the University of Hawaii in 1964.
He was a State Consultant with the Illinois State Department of Education (1963).
He taught summer session at Sacramento 131 State University in 1962.
He was awarded the degree in 1964.
He taught in elementary and secondary schools in San Jose and Hayward, California, before receiving a federal grant in 1960 to pursue a doctorate at the University of Illinois, Institute for Research on Exceptional Children. at San Jose State University. and M.
A.
After four years, he resumed his college education and completed a B.
A.
Navy, when the Korean War began in 1950.
Robert completed high school, enrolled in college an completed two years before joining the U.
S.
With nothing to return to in California, the family moved to Greeley, Colorado, when released from Amache in September 1945.
They were incarcerated behind barbed wire fences for three years, during which time they lost their farm - home, truck, equipment, etc.
In September 1942 they were moved again by train to the Amache Concentration Camp (Granada Relocation Center).
Army and sent by train to Merced (California) Detention Center (assembly center).
In May 1942, his family of ten: father, mother and eight children, were evicted from their 20 acre fruit and vegetable farm in Yuba City, California, by the U.
S.
Fuchigami, Robert Y.: - Born in 1930 at Marysville, California
