Collected by: Rooftop Alternative PreK-8 School

Archived since: Apr, 2017

Description:

The Nancy Yoshihara Mayeda archive is created to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Nancy Yoshihara Mayeda Campus at Rooftop School and honor a dedicated and much respected educator. Mrs. Mayeda served as Rooftop's principal from 1982 to 1998. In 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle noted, ... after Dianne Feinstein: There are public schools named after three living heroes, Rosa Parks, Alice Fong Eu and Nancy Yoshihara Mayeda.

Subject:   Nancy Yoshihara Mayeda, Rooftop School, Mayeda Campus, principal, SFUSD, education, public education, alternative schools, Japanese American Internment