Entry No. 272
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| One of the Carlston Family Foundation's 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award winners, Yo Azama, poses with his mother. Mr. Azama was once a self-described angry teen with an orange mohawk. At age 13 his parents sent him from Okinawa to school in the United States with 5 days notice. He spoke no English. He is now teaching Japanese to students at North Salinas High School in Salinas, Ca. and was nominated for the award by a former student who is now an engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca. |
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