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Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Preferred Citation

Restrictions on Access

Subject Terms

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Electronic Guide to the Kazuyoshi Kawata Collection

Prepared by Kathleen Knaack, Student Assistant, Morris Davis, Jr., Manuscript Processor, and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist.

United Methodist Archives and History Center
General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church

6/22/2000


Overview of Collection

Record Creator: Kawata, Kazuyoshi
Title: Kazuyoshi Kawata Collection
Date Span: 1924-1990
Abstract: Kazuyoshi Kawata was a Methodist Church Missionary to India. The collection is made up of material relating to his life and work as a missionary.
Extent: 2.33 cubic feet
Resource ID: gcah.ms.729



Biographical Note

Kazuyoshi Kawata, an American engineer and missionary, is the son of Japanese immigrants. Kawata grew up in Portland, Oregon. In 1941, he and his family were held in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans. When the U.S. Army began accepting Japanese- Americans as enlistees in 1943, Kawata joined and served in Europe until the end of the war. After his honorable discharge he attended Oregon State College, finishing his degree in 1949. He married Marion Jean Sammis in August, 1949. After Kawata earned his M.S. at the University of Minnesota in 1951, the Kawatas served as missionaries to the Methodist Church in India for fifteen years. "Kaz" Kawata worked as a sanitation engineer, helping to design and implement improved septic and waste disposal systems. He was the first Methodist missionary to serve in such a capacity. Following his missionary service, Kawata returned to the United States to finish his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. He later taught at Johns Hopkins, where he remained until his retirement in 1988. His expertise allowed him the opportunity to continue working around the world through various community health programs.


Scope Note

Kawata's work as a missionary, scientist, scholar, and humanitarian are reflected in this collection. Correspondence, photographs, legal papers, and reports on community improvement projects make up the series on his early life in schools, Japanese-American internment camps, and the mission field in India. Correspondence, academic papers, and published articles and monographs represent his university and publishing life. The publications series also contains articles by Kawata on such topics as the internment camps, prejudice in South Africa, and the U.S. military.


Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in the following manner.

Series: Engineering Projects
Series: Personal, Missionary, and Church Work
Series: Publications
subseries: Articles
subseries: Printed Matter
Series: Scholarly Career

Preferred Citation

When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Kazuyoshi Kawata Collection, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.


Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding this collection.


Index Terms

Subject Topics
Community development
Missions
Subject Geographic
United States
India
Genre
Manuscripts
Pamphlets
Photographs
Reports
Clippings
Occupations
Sanitation Engineer


Container List


Series: Engineering Projects
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
1553-4-3: 19 Environmental Sanitation in India 1963
1553-4-3: 20 Appalachian Regional Commission 1969
1553-4-3: 21 Department of Environmental Health 1967-1979
1553-4-3: 22 Heritage Farm Sewage Treatment 1972-1974
1553-4-3: 23 Hopital Sainte Croix-Leogane, Haiti 1973
1553-4-3: 24 WHO - Bangladesh 1972-1973
1553-4-3: 25 West Allis, Wisconsin 1973
1553-4-3: 26 WHO - Expert, Health Science 1974-1978
1553-4-3: 27 WHO - Philippines 1975
1553-4-3: 28 WHO - Egypt 1976
1553-4-3: 29 New Federal Capital for Nigeria 1978
1553-4-3: 30 Schistosomiasis - Cameroon 1979
1553-4-4: 1 Environmental Services Corporation 1980
1553-4-4: 2 APHA - Environmental Design Construction 1980
1553-4-4: 3 Cameroon Water Supply/Resources Project 1980
1553-4-4: 4 Monts Mandara Resources Project 1981
1553-4-4: 5 Baltimore City - Woodberry Landfill 1981
1644-5-1: 1 WWII Basic Training at Fort Benning, GA. ASTP soldiers. Kawata first row first from right. 1943
1644-5-1: 2 667 Field Artillery Battallion, Battery B in Training in Texas, 1944. Kawata, 2nd row, first from right. 1944

Series: Personal, Missionary, and Church Work
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
1553-4-2: 1 Early Years: Photographs 1924-1943
1553-4-2: 2 Report Cards from School at Japanese Internment Camp 1942-1943
1553-4-2: 3 Education 1942-1979
1553-4-2: 4 Military Years 1943-1946
1553-4-2: 7 Missionary Photos 1953-1955

Series: Publications
Sub-series: Articles
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
1553-4-2: 17 "Shiferah's Story" 1980
1553-4-2: 18 "Evacuation/A Nisei Remembers" 1981
1553-4-2: 19 "Executive Order #9066 and Other Things that Defied Logic" 1981
Sub-series: Printed Matter
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
1553-4-3: 1 "The Amateur Doctor in India" 1955
1553-4-3: 2 Article on Mela (Festival) Sanitation, Apka Swasthya, Hindi Health Magazine of Indian Medical Association. In Hindi 1962
1553-4-3: 3 "New Era in Festival Sanitation" In Swasth Hind 1962
1553-4-3: 4 Monograph: "Environmental Sanitation in India" 1963
1553-4-3: 5 "Ludhiana Doctors at Refugee Camps" in World Outlook 1966
1553-4-3: 6 "Reconnaissance Team" in the Johns Hopkins Magazine 1967
1553-4-3: 7 "Providing a Safe Water Supply in the African Bush" in Public Health Reports 1967
1553-4-3: 8 Book: "Health and Disease in Chad" 1970
1553-4-3: 9 Essay in Book: "Inactivation of Virus in Sewage" 1970
1553-4-3: 10 Conference publication: "The Enhancement of Viral Inactivation by Halogens" 1971
1553-4-3: 11 Book: "Health and Disease in Rural Afghanistan" 1972
1553-4-3: 12 "Composting Destroys Pathogens in Sewage Sludge" in Water and Sewage Works 1977
1553-4-3: 13 Project Report: "Microorganisms in Urban Stormwater" 1977
1553-4-3: 14 "The Effectiveness of Chlorine Residuals in Inactivation of Bacteria and Viruses Introduced by Post-Treatment Contamination" in Water Research 1980
1553-4-3: 15 Project Report: "Benefits of Maintaining Residual in Water Supply Systems" 1980

Series: Scholarly Career
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
1553-4-2: 11 University Years 1967-1976
1553-4-2: 12 University Years 1976-1980