![]() ![]() ![]() I am not sure which is hardest: paying my taxes or writing the class column. So-fix it!” ❖ Class of 1943, c/o Alexandra Bond ’12, Online news form. The world I went through (yes, including WWII) was so much nicer than the world of today. Most of my class is now gone, and a whole new generation is taking over for a whole new world. “I just turned 100, which I didn’t expect but do welcome. “What sustained me at that time was dreaming about returning to that special place on the Hill,” Shig said in 2014, on the night he received the Vanneman Award, to an audience that rose to a standing ovation. of State classified his family as “enemy aliens”-even though Shig grew up in New Jersey, where his family had moved when he was just a toddler. ![]() ![]() His experience on the Hill was not conventional: In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Shig’s junior year at Cornell was cut short when he was ultimately deported to Japan after the US Dept. Shig-a retired physician, husband, father of four, and grandfather-was awarded the William “Bill” Vanneman ’31 Outstanding Class Leader Award in 2014 for his more than five decades of service as an officer of the Class of 1943. In December 2020, our class and the Cornell community lost Shigeo “Shig” Kondo, who passed away at age 98. ![]()
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