Zsuzsanna Vamos was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1953. She attended Semmelweis University in Budapest and earned a master's degree in pharmacology in 1977. In 1978, she and Istvan Adany were married; they later had three children. In 1988, she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology. She immigrated to the United States in 1989 and first settled in Kansas, where she worked at the Kansas University Medical Center. She became a U.S. citizen in 1997. She and her family relocated to Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2009, and she became a pharmacist for Albertson's in Hillsboro. She is also an artist and has had her work exhibited in several galleries in the Pacific Northwest.

Teruo Tsuboi and his older brother operated "Tsuboi Brothers" store, selling western-style clothing, suitcases, and jewelry for people coming from Japan. Following World War II, Teruhisa ("Ted") Tsuboi operated an in-store optometry exam room.

Maurine Brown Neuberger was born in Cloverdale, Oregon, in 1907. She earned a teaching certificate at the Oregon College of Education (now part of Western Oregon University) in 1924. In 1929, she graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor of arts degree in English and physical education. She also did graduate work at UCLA. She worked as an English teacher at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon. In 1945, she and Democratic Congressman Richard Neuberger were married. After Richard Neuberger was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948, Maurine Neuberger also entered politics. In 1951, she was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives, where she represented Multnomah County until 1955. Richard Neuberger died in 1960, and Maurine ran for and won his Senate seat that same year. While in the Senate, she served on President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women. In 1964, Neuberger and Philip Solomon were married. That same year, she declined to run for a second term, instead relocating to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she taught at Radcliffe and at Boston University. In 1967, she and Solomon divorced, and she returned to Portland. She taught at Reed College and continued to have an active role in the Oregon Democratic Party. She died in 2000.

Reverend Lee Owen Stone (1903-1977) was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church by the Bishop Dagwell of Oregon in 1937 and served as vicar of St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church from 1936 until his retirement in 1972. He was active in numerous church and civic organizations, including the Portland Urban League, the Portland branch of the NAACP, and the Oregon Trail chapter of the American Red Cross.

Howard Morgan was born in Tillamook, Oregon, in 1914. After his parents divorced when he was in the first grade, Morgan lived with his father in Portland, Oregon. He attended the University of Oregon and transferred to Reed College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1940. He also studied at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1940, he and Rosina Corbett were married; they later had four children. During World War II, he worked for the Office of Defense Transportation and the Naval Air Transport Service. After his discharge in 1945, Morgan and his family settled in Portland. He represented Clackamas and Multnomah counties in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1949, was chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon in 1955, and was Oregon Public Utility Commissioner from 1957 to 1959. He was also a member of the Federal Power Commission in 1961. After an unsuccessful run for the Oregon Senate in 1966, Morgan retired. He and Rosina Morgan lived in Spain before returning to the Pacific Northwest. Howard Morgan died in 2012.

Mary Margaret Goodin Fritsch was born in 1899. She studied architecture at the University of Oregon, and in 1923 she became the first woman to graduate from that program. That same year, she became the first woman to be a licensed architect in Oregon, and she was also the first woman member of the American Institute of Architects from the West. She served as secretary of the Oregon State Board of Architect Examiners from 1926 to 1956. In 1928, she and fellow architect Frederick Fritsch were married. Frederick Fritsch died in 1934, and the next year, Margaret Fritsch adopted a child. In 1938, she opened her own architectural practice, and in 1963, she moved to Juneau, Alaska, where she worked as a city planner. She retired in 1974 and remained in Alaska. She died in 1993.

Howard Andrew "Hobby" Hobson was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. He was a basketball player and a coach of college football, basketball, and baseball. He attended the University of Oregon with the intent to study law. After being told by the dean of the law school that he would have to choose only one sport to play, he switched his major to economics with a minor in education. Just before his graduation in 1926, he and Jenny Christin Noren were married; they later had two children. In 1949, he earned a master's degree from Columbia University. Hobson was head basketball coach at Southern Oregon University from 1932 to 1935, at the University of Oregon from 1935 to 1947, and at Yale University from 1947 to 1956. He was also head football coach at Southern Oregon University from 1932 to 1934, and head baseball coach at the University of Oregon from 1936 to 1947. In 1945, he earned a doctorate from Columbia University. He was president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1948, spent 12 years on the U.S. Olympic Committee, including four years as chairman, and in 1952, managed the U.S. Olympic basketball team at the Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland. He died in 1991.

Tatsuro Yada was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1916, and he moved to Salem with his family in 1918. He later attended Willamette University. After his graduation in 1939, his father became ill, and Yada took over the family farm. He became the only Japanese American member of the Civil Defense Corps in Oregon. During World War II, he and his family were among the Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California. He was in charge of recreation and taught in the school in the camp. After a short time, he was released to work at a hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After the government ended its incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1945, he returned to the family farm in Salem. In 1946, he and Masoko Onishi were married; they later had four children. He died in 2003.

George Iwasaki was born in Sumner, Washington, in 1912. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and his family became farmers in the Hillsboro, Oregon, area. In 1942, he and Tomiko Natsuhara were married; they later had five children. Also in 1942, the Iwasaki family was among Japanese Americans ordered to the Portland Assembly Center by the U.S. government. The government gave them the option to work as farm labor, and they spent much of World War II working fields near Nyssa, Oregon. After the war, they were able to recover their farm in Hillsboro. In the 1960s, the farm rebranded as Iwasaki Bros. and became one of the leading bedding plant producers in Oregon. George Iwasaki died in 2009.

Nadyne Yoneko Dozono, nee Yoneko Niguma, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1915. Her family arranged for her to go to Japan in 1931, when she was a teenager, to obtain a two-year education in Japanese culture. In 1934, while still in Japan, she and Asazo Dozono were married, and they later had three children. She lived in Japan during World War II and considered herself a Japanese citizen. After the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, she worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which studied the effects of radiation poisoning among the survivors. She returned to the United States with her oldest child in 1953, with Asazo Dozono and the other children following shortly after. In the U.S., she continued working as an interpreter for the Japanese Ancestral League, as well as occasionally for the FBI. She was active in the Veleda Nisei Women's Club and often spoke in public schools about Japanese culture. She died in 2013.

Joyce Faye Braden Harris was born in 1951. She spent the first nine years of her childhood living with her grandmother in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, while her parents were stationed in Manila, Philippines, with the U.S. Air Force. Harris joined them in 1960, when her parents were stationed in Madrid, Spain. The family returned to the United States in 1962 and settled in New York City. In 1972, Harris earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. While a student at Reed, she helped to found the Black Education Center, which provided free summer education to black children in Portland and became a full-time private school in 1974. During Harris's time as a student at Reed, she also earned an education degree from Oregon State University through the Portland Urban Teacher project. While working at the Black Educational Center, she also worked with Portland Public Schools to help improve the educational environment, particularly for black students. She authored the Baseline Essay for PPS on African-American Traditions in Language Arts. In 1992, she began working with the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

Bernard "Bernie" V. Foster was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1940. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was deployed to Vietnam in 1963. In 1975, he and his wife, Bobbie Doré Foster, founded The Skanner newspaper in Portland, Oregon. The paper later opened an additional office in Seattle, Washington. In the 1990s, he founded The Skanner Foundation, which grants awards and scholarships to members of Oregon's black community. In 2013, he and Bobbie Doré Foster received the Oregon Historical Society's History Makers award.

Bobbie Doré Foster was born in Abbeville, Louisiana, in 1938. In 1965, she moved to Astoria, Oregon, where she attended Clatsop Community College. She then lived in Seattle, Washington, where she and Bernie Foster were married. The couple settled in Portland, Oregon, and in 1975, they founded The Skanner newspaper, which later added an office in Seattle. In 1989, Foster completed her education in journalism at Portland State University. She serves as The Skanner's executive editor. In 2013, she and Bernie Foster received the Oregon Historical Society's History Makers award.

Wendell Harold Harmon was born in Waverly, Iowa, in 1910. In 1932, he earned a bachelor's degree in forestry from Iowa State College, now known as Iowa State University. He graduated during the Depression with no job prospects. In 1933, he and Florence Elizabeth Thuirer were married. That same year, the couple moved to a homestead near Elk City, Oregon, and began operating a tree farm on the land. In 1935, Harmon accepted a job with the U.S. Forest Service. Though he worked largely in South Dakota, the Harmons kept the homestead in Oregon, dividing their time between the two places. After Wendell H. Harmon's death in 1999, an endowed research fellowship in forestry management was created in the Harmons' name at Iowa State University.

Florence Elizabeth Harmon, nee Thuirer, was born in Summit, Iowa, in 1909. In 1931, she earned a bachelor's degree in home economics from Iowa State College, now Iowa State University. After graduating, she became a teacher. In 1933, she and Wendell Harold Harmon were married. That same year, the couple moved to a homestead near Elk City, Oregon, and began operating a tree farm on the land. After Wendell H. Harmon's death in 1999, an endowed research fellowship in forestry management was created in the Harmons' name at Iowa State University. Florence E. Harmon died in 2010.