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2 unusual facts about Janet M. Suzuki


Janet M. Suzuki

She was born at a time when other Japanese were being placed in internment camps (Japanese American internment).

Feeling that the needs of Asian American librarians were unrepresented and under served by the American Library Association, she co-founded the Asian American Librarian Caucus (AALC) in 1975.


Buddhist modernism

Moreover, it has its own cosmopolitan lineage and canonical "scriptures," mainly the works of popular and semischolarly authors—figures from the formative years of modern Buddhism, including Soen Shaku, Dwight Goddard, D. T. Suzuki, and Alexandra David-Neel, as well as more recent figures like Shunryu Suzuki, Sangharakshita, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa, and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Janet M. Anderson

She received commissions from a wide range of business, publications, advertising campaigns, and individuals, having her work shown to visiting celebrities and dignitaries such as Hello Dolly! star Carol Channing and U.S. President Gerald Ford.

Anderson’s commercial work features depictions of famous Detroit landmarks and life along the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair (her grandfather was a captain of the SS Ste. Clair).

Janet Mills

Janet M. Mills (1921–1991), Republican member of the Connecticut House of Representatives


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