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Nishimachi Annual Report 2019-2020
Nishimachi-Kai 2019-2020 Nancy Hashima ‘83 Nishimachi-Kai Chair
Nishimachi-Kai is the alumni association of Nishimachi International School, and its board plays an active role in the school community. We are invited to participate in, and support, various school activities, as well as organize events of our own during the school year. Most importantly, Nishimachi-Kai sponsors booths at Nishimachi’s annual Food Fair in October and hosts the alumni BBQ in June. We are always pleased to welcome back a wide range of alumni from different generations and various parts of the world to these seasonal events. Although we were unable to host our annual June BBQ due to COVID-19, we had a remarkably successful Food Fair in October despite the cold rain. Alumni Haruko (Kawai) Kohno ’85 and alumni parent Wendy Kobayashi did an incredible job decorating our booth at the newly renovated Green Building to look like a true alumni café. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following donors who supported the October 2019 Food Fair. Regardless of how much time has passed since any one of us was a student at Nishimachi, fond memories remain, and the school spirit lives on in the alumni community. This is true not just of our most ardent alumni, who frequently return to the school and lend support, but also of those alumni who have not been back to the school for decades but keep in touch from afar. Our activities bring together all members of Nishimachi-Kai (alumni, parents of alumni, former staff, and friends of Nishimachi). We also do our best to reach out and strengthen our communication with the current Nishimachi community in order to pass on the distinct values of the school, which we learned as students, as well as the traditions some of us were fortunate enough to experience first-hand during Miss Matsukata’s time. Our long-time culture of working together with compassion and empathy continues to make Nishimachi International School truly strong and special today. The founder’s foresight to educate children as true global ambassadors in a culturally diverse but family-like environment has positioned Nishimachi today in the forefront of excellent international education. The Nishimachi-Kai board will continue to work hard to ensure that current students and their parents can experience the same special educational and cultural opportunities earlier generations had during their time as students.
