Fuki Wooyenaka ('30)

Miss Fuki Wooyenaka was a member of the Wellesley College Class of 1930. Before coming to Wellesley, she attended Seishin Gogakko in Japan and Abott Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

Studies at Wellesley: English Literature
 

Other Institutions: Seishin Gogakko (graduated in 1923), Abbott Academy (1924-26)

Family:

• Her mother went to Wellesley, and her father went to Tokyo University, Oxford, and the London School of Economics

• Husband (Mr. Samitaro Uramatsu) was a self-employed journalist and literary critic who was educated at Tokyo University, Oxford and the London School of Economics

• Miss Wooyenaka had four daughters, two of whom attended Wellesley, and the two others Smith College and Rikkyo University: Junko Uramatsu Smith (Wellesley '58), Haruko Uramatsu Meredith (Smith ‘61), Kiyoko Uramatsu Tokunaga (Rikkyo University ‘64), and Kieko Uramatsu Zehr (Wellesley ‘65)

After Wellesley...

• Translator (Japanese to English, The Heike Story)

• Worked at general headquarters of the US Army (SCAP) as a Civil Intelligence Writer. She had no choice but to work for the headquarters because of the reprecussions of the war. She quit her job when the Peace Treaty was signed in 1952

• Part time teacher and tutor for writing

• Magazine Editorial Advisor

• Maintained a column in the English Yomiuri Newspaper for eight years

• Secretary of Tokyo Wellesley Club 1945-1952, President of Tokyo Wellesley Club 1957-1958

• Wrote frequently to fellow alumnae, Miss. J.F. Seneff

• Wrote book, "A Bowl of Tea"