Sept. 17, 2008

Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu

Author of “One Sunny Day” describes struggle
to wrest hope, healing from ashes of Hiroshima

Free, public lecture Oct. 7

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Hideko Tamura Snider was just 10 years old, playing at home a little more than a mile from downtown Hiroshima, when an atomic bomb destroyed her residence, her family and almost everything else around her.

Ms. Snider will recount the events of that horrific day as well as her subsequent dedication to a life of healing and hope in a free, public lecture Oct. 7 at Bellevue Community College.

Entitled, “The Consequences of Nuclear Use and the Role of Hope: A Personal Testimony,” the lecture will begin at 7 p.m., immediately following an open reception at 6:30.

Both events will take place in BCC’s student union building (Building C on the college’s main campus, 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., Bellevue, at the intersection of S.E. 28th St. and 148th Ave. S.E.).

Ms. Snider is the author of the book, One Sunny Day (Open Court Publishing, 1996), a vivid, moving account of her life before, during and after Aug. 6, 1945 – in her words, “the day the sun and the earth melted together.”

Now a resident of Medford, Ore., Ms. Snider has dedicated he life to healing, in part through a long career as a psychiatric social worker in Chicago.

Her Oct. 7 lecture is co-sponsored by several BCC programs and organizations (UNICEF of BCC, Center for Liberal Arts, BCC Reads! program, Sakura Club, Campus Activities Board and Associated Student Government) in cooperation with the Lake Washington Japanese-American Citizen’s League.

For further information please contact Nora Lance at 425-564-6150 or nlance@bellevuecollege.edu.

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