Above, yours truly introduces S. I. Hayakawa to the LACYR party. Photo by Ken Huthmaker.Back in 1975, I served as 2nd Vice-President of the Los Angeles County Young Republicans (LACYR).
Above, Hayakawa with Assemblyman Paul Bannai and Armand. Photo by Ken Huthmaker.On September 27, 1975, I also co-chaired a fundraising cocktail party (with Mrs. Hideko Bannai) at the Beverly Hills home of record producer Mike Curb. S.I. Hayakawa was the special guest at the event. Hayakawa beat incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator John Tunney in November 1976 for the senate seat.
Above, Assemblyman Michael Antonovich, S.I. Hayakawa, Assemblyman Bannai and Armand. Photo by Ken Huthmaker. The party was seen as the beginning of Hayakawa's run for the U.S. Senate.
S.I. Hayakawa was born July 18, 1906 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (he died Feb. 27, 1992 in Greenbrae, California). He was a scholar, university president and U.S. senator from California (1977–83). He is best known for his popular writings on semantics and for his career as president of San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). (Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica)
He became a bit of a "folk hero" when he yanked out the wires from a public address system of some student protesters at San Francisco State.
For more on S. I. Hayakawa, go here.
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