UC Davis: Tears, Pride As Honorary Degrees Conferred
February 1, 2010 3 Comments
The following is from the UC Davis News Service. It is reprinted here with permission. Original story: Tears, Pride as Honorary Degrees Conferred.
Media contact: Julia Ann Easley, UC Davis News Service
(530) 752-8248, jaeasley@ucdavis.edu
Proud family members wore a photo of the late Henry Satoru Marubashi to the ceremony where an honorary degree was conferred on him.
Photo: Julia Ann Easley/UC Davis
Christine Pooley swelled with emotion after a University of California honorary degree was conferred on her late father, who had been forced from his studies at what is now UC Davis during World War II.
“This is like closure,” she said.
Pooley’s father, Henry Satoru Marubashi, was one of 47 former Japanese American students honored amid the pomp and circumstance of a graduation ceremony at UC Davis on December 12, 2009. Read more of this post
