A handwritten fill out of a typewritten admission application form by Morie Miyata, dated April 1908. Notice how Mr. Miyata wrote down his last name first, as customary in Japan. In the admission application Mr. Miyata expresses a strong desire of entering secretarial work encouraged by his experience in the YMCA of Kobe city, Japan.
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Mr. Miyata, originally from Nagasaki, Japan, was born in 1880, and applied and was accepted to the secretarial program of the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College), graduating in 1911. Mr. Miyata roomed with Yosokichi Morise (Class of 1909), and was well known for his tennis abilities being part of the Tennis Varsity Team, “winning two of the five tournaments in which competed” (The Massasoit, 1911). Along with his career in the YMCA, Mr. Miyata goes on to write one of the first books of rules for basketball in Japanese.
