Friendship Dolls
Changes
January to June 2003

June 22, 2003

• Added index for Friendship Visits - May and June 2003
• Added pages on following visits to Japan in May and June 2003:
  - Iai Asahioka Kindergarten (Hokkaido Prefecture)
  - Blue-eyed Dolls and Miss Miyagi Exhibit (Miyagi Prefecture)
  - Aikawa Elementary School (Yamanashi Prefecture)
  - Shintoku Kindergarten (Yamanashi Prefecture)
  - Takasago Kindergarten (Hyogo Prefecture)
  - Yamakataya Department Store (Kagoshima Prefecture)
  - Mikuma Kindergarten (Oita Prefecture)
  - Ohdono Elementary School (Yamaguchi Prefecture)
• Added index of Friendship Visits to Japanese elementary schools and kindergartens between 2001 and 2003
• Added Japanese Friendship Dolls Welcomed to Roaring Brook School
• Added Friendship Exchange Between Japanese and American Children - Arrowhead Elementary School and Azuma Elementary School
• Added Allison - Blue-eyed Doll at Iai Asahioka Kindergarten
• Added Erika and Helen - Blue-eyed Dolls at Takasago Kindergarten
• Added Katie - New Blue-eyed Doll at Takasago Kindergarten
• Added Mia and Hailey - New Blue-eyed Dolls at Takasago Kindergarten
• Changed photo for Dorothy - Blue-eyed Doll at Kawamata Elementary School
• Added Thank-you Letters from Students at Aikawa Elementary School
• Added Thank-you Letters from Students at Ohdono Elementary School
• Added Letter with Doll at Shintoku Kindergarten
• Added Passport of Evangeline - Blue-eyed Doll at Shintoku Kindergarten
• Corrected name of doll and kindergarten director on page for Blue-eyed Dolls at Mikuma Kindergarten
• Added Rail and Steamer Ticket for Blue-eyed Doll
• Added Passport of Carolyn Becker - Blue-eyed Doll at Mikuma Kindergarten
• Added photo of Blue-eyed Dolls in Yamanashi Prefecture
• Replaced three photos on Fannie Pio - Blue-eyed Doll at Sapporo Clock Tower (also to Japanese page)
• Added photo to translated article from Hokkaido Shimbun about Fannie Pio
• Added Passport of Fannie Pio - Blue-eyed Doll at Sapporo Clock Tower
• Added photo to page with Letter from Fannie Pio (also to Japanese translation)
• Added photo to Ellen - Blue-eyed Doll at Hirado Kindergarten
• Modified layout of Pathelo - Blue-eyed Doll at Wachi Elementary School
• Updated information and photos in section on Miss Miyagi - Japanese Friendship Doll

May 13, 2003

• Added Friendship Visit by Ellen Biro to Honcho Elementary School in Yokohama
• Changed name of Blue-eyed Doll at Shintoku Kindergarten from Yvonne Jillian to Evangeline after the correct name was verified when the doll's passport was found after being missing for several decades

May 2, 2003

• Added comments from students of Tokoname Nishi Elementary School about The Secret Friend, a play about a Friendship Doll named Grammy
• Added Dorothy - Blue-eyed Doll at Kawamata Elementary School
• Added new page on Shataka - Blue-eyed Doll at Johnan Elementary School
• Added article about dolls at Kamiyama Elementary School in Ehime Prefecture

April 10, 2003

• Added information and links to page on Miss Kagoshima - Japanese Friendship Doll
• Added May Weber and Patsy - Blue-eyed Dolls at Oizumi Kita Elementary School
• Added Michiko Takaoka's speech on "The Message of Friendship Doll Ambassadors"

March 24, 2003

• Added Miss Akita - Japanese Friendship Doll
• Added Blue-eyed Dolls at Mikuma Kindergarten
• Added Visit by Sharon Gulick to Watauchi Elementary School

February  27, 2003

• Added Passports to Friendship, the Friendship Doll exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum
• Added 1927 photo of American doll received at Nagadohe Elementary School in Ishikawa Prefecture

February 20, 2003

• Added Miss Miyagi's Homecoming, which describes return of Japanese Ambassador Doll to Miyagi Prefecture after 76 years
• Added second photo of Betty Jane - Blue-eyed Doll at Bikuni Elementary School
• Added Kako - Little Sister of Miss Kagawa

January 12, 2003

• Added photo of Miss Toyama to Gail King's article, "Single, 69, and a Real Doll"
• Added Friendship Visits to Mochi Elementary School, which includes the amazing story of the 1997 visit by an American woman to the Japanese elementary school to which she had sent a Friendship Doll 70 years before
• Added Miss Toyama at Wrather West Kentucky Museum
• Added Miss Toyama - The Ambassador Doll's Homecoming

Recent Changes
2003 Changes - January to June (this page)
2002 Changes - January to June, July to December
2001 Changes - July to December