Class Notes: 1995
Tamiko Nimura ’95 has just published a memoir called A Place For What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake (University of Washington Press, 2026). In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly calls her book a “gut-wrenching work of intergenerational dialogue,” and says that “Nimura braids passages from her late father's unpublished memoir of growing up in California's Tule Lake...
Jane Kuo's debut middle grade novel, In the Beautiful Country, is forthcoming from HarperCollins/Quill Tree on June 14, 2022. Loosely based on the author's own experience, the story is about an immigrant girl's first year in America.
Jim Barnhart, MBA ’95, chief operating officer at Velodyne Lidar, has authored Elite and True: Leadership Lessons Inspired by the US Navy, which translates real-life experiences in the Navy’s Officer Candidate School, Nuclear Power School, and submarine service into deeper leadership insights than most people will experience in their entire careers. The book will be released on August 9....
