This period was perhaps the most active for Yasundo, academically as well as leisure-wise. He was busy teaching graduate classes which included many students from abroad and he served as the Chairman of Automatic Control at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He published two books: "System and Control" (1968) in Japanese from Iwanami Publishing Co. and "Control" on which he had been working for a few years and finally decided to co-author with David Auslander and Mike Rabins, published by Addison Wesley. He started using a computer for his lectures. The PDP-7 computer was approved for Etchevery Hall at the price of $74,000! (In these days his monthly salary was $1550.)

He loved to travel. We were anxious to visit scenic places and to show them to visitors. With the improving Japanese economy, there were many visitors from Japan.

From France Professor and Mrs. Perret came with their friends. They all loved the wide open scenery of the Southwest. During five years, we went to Monument Valley three times and the Canadian Rockies twice. In 1968, our daughter Yuri graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, and entered the graduate school of Oriental Art History at the University of Washington in Seattle. We often drove up to the Northwest.

1966

September 1

An evening with visitors Rene & Genette Perret, John Paul & Michelle Guerin, Paule Bianquis & Yvette Ort from France, and Jean and Lowen Shearer with their daughter Ann and son Doug from Boston.

September 9

We took the French group to the Southwest of the country, traveling the road like this: a straight line as far as you can see!

September 13

The whole group lined up with the Totem Pole in the back.

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A Navajo rider at the John Ford Point. The spectacle of the movie was in everybody's mind.