Seven Arrows Student Creates DVD with Uncle’s Story of Hiroshima

Jan. 5, 2011 • Sue Pascoe

Cole Kawana, a sixth grader at Seven Arrows School, recorded an oral history of his great-uncle, Arthur Ichiro Murakami, an atomic bomb survivor. He then met in March with Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Director Koichi Maeda in Japan, who added Kawana’s DVD to the museum’s library. Kawana, who will attend Harvard-Westlake this fall, was required to do a service-learning project as part of the Seven Arrows curriculum. After attending a family reunion in Santa Cruz two years ago where his …