Teruko Nakamura ('26)

Miss Teruko Nakamura attended Wellesley College as a member of the Class of 1926, and went on to be a research fellow at University of Chicago from 1929 to 1930. In 1920, she graduated from Ochanomizu Girls' School, and then prepared for college at Northfield Seminary in Northfield, Massachusetts. She entered Wellesley in 1922, specializing in Chemistry. In 1924, Nakamura and fellow Wellesley students Sumiye Seo, Wan-Ying Hsieh, and Yone Murayama put on a production of the Japanese play Princess Radiant.

Studies at Wellesley: Chemistry

Other Instututions Attended: Ochanomizu Girls' School, Northfield Seminary, University of Chicago

After Wellesley...

Returned to Japan and pursued a career in chemistry research, working at the Institute for Chemical and Physical Research and researched organic color matter
Rebuilt Kirby Gakui (a school started in 1920 by her mother, and destroyed in WWII) and became its headmaster
Became an English teacher at Keio and Waseda University
Founded the Japan Association of University Women and Japan UNICEF
Married Mr. Jiro Tanaka

Teruko Nakamura (far right) with other Wellesley students (from left to right: Sumiye Seo, Wan-Ying Hsieh, and Yone Murayama) in costume for the Japanese play Princess Radiant.