Walnut Grove Buddhist Church
leadership through the years

MINISTERS AND PRESIDENTS

(this is still "draft" from the old website, needs updating)

Ministers and years served:

Chonen Terakawa (1931-1936)

Tokujo Tsumura (1936-1941)

Takuyu Shirakawa (1941-1949)

Seikaku Mizutani (1950-1972)

Shoshin Ota (1973-1985)

Ken Fujimoto (1985 to 2006)

Harry Bridge (2007-2009)

Katsuya Kusunoki (2010- )

PRESIDENTS AND YEARS SERVED

Hikotaro Inaba (1929-1930)

Suehiko Yoshida (1931)

Shusaku Hamada (1932)

Ukichi Kuwabara (1933)

Enichi Yamao, M.D. (1933-1938)

Kunisaburo Ishizuka (1939-1941, 1949-1950, 1952-1954, 1957-1958, 1960, 1963, 1965)

Sadayoshi Yagi (1942)

Shigeo Kato (1947-1948, 1951, 1955-1956, 1959, 1961-1962, 1964, 1968)

Morio D. Aoyama (1966-1967, 1969, 1971-1972)

Takao R. Sugimoto (1970)

Sumio R. Himoto (1973)

(History Committee: Shigeo Kato-chairman, Roy Himoto, Katsuji Kirihara and Ralph Sugimoto)

History courtesy of BCA History Book.

2026 Walnut Grove Buddhist Church Executive Board
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