
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton visits in his office Aug. 21 with Yoshio “Matt” Matsumoto (second from left), Yoshio’s son Joseph and his grandson, Andrew, a freshman. Yoshio graduated from WUSTL with an engineering degree in 1944. He was sponsored by the University to leave a Japanese internment camp to attend classes and had not been back to St. Louis since earning a WUSTL degree. He returned for a visit when Andrew started school this fall. As part of the Freshman Reading Program, all freshmen read Julie Otsuka’s “When the Emperor Was Divine,” a novel dealing with a family in a Japanese internment camp in Utah in the early 1940s.