Welcome, one and all, to the official Narimasu Alumni Association website! 

“I spent time  recently calling NHS alumni from different years, just to get some prom, baseball and other memorable stories for our newsletter, The Dragons Roar Again.

Why am I not surprised to find that whether we were in the first Narimasu graduating class in 1949 or the last class, in 1971, our memories of those remarkable years growing up as  American teenagers in a foreign country are so similar?

We went everywhere by train, buses and 80-yen cabs. We had minimal parental supervision. Thanks to the ubiquitous MPs and the lack of urban crime we felt safe wherever we went. That was true for the earlier classes, who were not that far removed from the Army of Occupation and it was true for the later classes who were in a country that was ready to bid the US military sayonara!

Whether we arrived in Japan from a Texas Air Force base, a Marine HQ in California or an Army post in Kansas, we were welcomed with open arms by those who got there ahead of us. Having spent most of our lives transferring from base to base, we were all used to being “the new kid” and in some communities it was a struggle to fit in, but in Japan everyone was in the same boat. Or at least on the same island! 

At the teenage clubs we danced to the most recent music available. We cheered our teams on to victory in the basketball tournaments, we  ate cheeseburgers and fries at the snack bars,  went to the 25-cent movies as often as possible and waited impatiently every spring for the pools to open.

We still have a lot in common.  We are still Narimasu Dragons. Not many people can say that!

Cheers!!

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Deana Dempsey Deck '56
President, Narimasu Alumni Association