Japanese Member of Graduating Class Given Highest Honors

Shigeyoshi Fukasawa, the Japanese graduate of the Senior Class of 1912 of the local high school, who last evening was awarded the John Day Thompson Memorial Scholarship for the freshman year in the College of Fine Arts of USC for the highest average in scholarship, has been a student in the high school for four years.

His average scholarship rating for the four years was 92%. He took four subjects each year, making a total of sixteen subjects as follows: four years in English, three years in mathematics, two years in Latin, two in French, one in Physical Geography, one in Physics, one in US History and Civil Government combined, one in Geometry, and one in Commercial Geography and Commercial Law combined.

The scholarship was offered by the Baraca class of the local Methodist Sunday school to the male member of the class showing the highest average, and who has been a resident of South Pasadena at least one year. It is valued at $100.

Owing to the shifting membership of the Baraca class, it is said to be uncertain whether the scholarship will be offered each year, the matter being left to the discretion of the membership with each recurring annual meeting.

South Pasadena Record, June 21, 1912