Clarice Chase Dunn papers, 1942-2001.

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Clarice Chase Dunn papers, 1942-2001.

1942-2001

https://www.uwec.edu/kb/article/guide-to-clarice-chase-dunn-papers-1942-2001/

Personal papers of a teacher who worked in the Heart Mountain (Wyoming) Japanese American relocation camp during World War II.

2.6 linear feet (3 archives boxes, 1 flat box)

jpn, Jpan

eng, Latn

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, McIntyre Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7998566

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Dunn, Clarice Chase.

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Clarice Chase Dunn, a 1937 Eau Claire State Teachers College graduate from Cornell, Wisconsin, was a school teacher for 35 years. In addition to teaching in high school and junior college, she taught illiterate adults, foreign students and homebound children. From 1942-1943 she was an English teacher at the Heart Mountain (Wyoming) relocation camp school for Japanese Americans. In 1943 Dunn was sent back home to Washington, D.C., following a battle with chronic bronchitis. Clarice became an acco...

Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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{Text of biographical or historical note, in paragraphs; separate each with paragraph tags} The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten relocation centers constructed as a result of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect on February 19, 1942. The Center, located near the town of Cody in northwest Wyoming, held Japanese American internees from 1942-1945. The camp reached a maximum population of 10,767, making it the third largest settlement i...