Denied permission to attend her graduation ceremony due to World War II internment of Japanese Americans, Michi Yasui Ando waited 44 years to attend her commencement IN 1986. The night of graduation in 1942, she fled Eugene by bus—the only way to avoid incarceration in an internment camp. The second-generation American from Hood River relocated to Denver. There she earned a master of education, became an elementary school teacher, married, and raised six children.