




In 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which ordered the removal of any person with at least 1/16th Japanese ancestry on the western coast of the United States into internment camps. In 1943, one of the then-owners of Lake Lawn Resort, Jay Reader, sponsored Henry Tsuru out of Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho and made him a pastry chef at the resort. This was the start of a great chapter of Lake Lawn history as many more Japanese-Americans left the camps and joined Tsuru to become part of the Lake Lawn family.
Below are pictures of yearbooks, reunion programs, and a some pages of a book about Lake Lawn Resort that show the story of the people that were sponsored out the internment camps to make lives at Lake Lawn and Delavan, Wisconsin.
The book about the history of Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin. This is what started our quest to learn more about the internees who came to the resort.
Page 54-55: The family names. On page 55, seated at the left is Lois Kaseguma. Her high school reunion program entry is below.