THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 16, 1994 PRESIDENT NAMES SUSAN HAYASE AS A MEMBER OF THE CIVIL LIBERTIES PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate Susan Hayase as a member of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of Directors. Susan Hayase of California is a software development engineer at the Hewlett-Packard Company, and is a third-generation Japanese- American whose parents were incarcerated in the Amache, Colorado and Gila River, Arizona camps. She has been an active member of the San Jose Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC), the Japanese- American Citizens League (JACL) and the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR). Ms. Hayase attended Stanford University. The nine-member Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of Directors is responsible for making disbursements from the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund for the development of research and public education activities on the circumstances surrounding the confinement (internment) of Japanese-Americans during World War II. -30-30-30-