David "Mas" Masumoto
Featured Speaker - Saturday Morning

Two Minutes for CATE "Fertile Grounds for Expression: CATE Publications" Susan Dillion, Member-at-Large, Secondary

CATE President, Michelle Berry, introduces the Classroom Exellence Award winner and the Award of Merit winner

Introducing the featured speaker, David Masumoto, is Christopher Houston of Bullard High School in Fresno

David "Mas" Masumoto, Author David "Mas" Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer and the author of Letters to the Valley, A Harvest of Memories. His previous books include Four Seasons in Five Senses, Things Worth Savoring, Harvest Son, Planting Roots in American Soil and Epitaph For A Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm. Masumoto is currently a columnist for the Fresno Bee and has written for USA Today and Los Angeles Times. His other books include Silent Strength, Home Bound and Country Voices, The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community. He received the James Clavell Japanese American National Literacy Award in 1986. He has a Bachelor's degree in sociology from UC Berkeley and a Master's degree in community development from UC Davis and he attended International University in Tokyo, Japan. Masumoto and his wife, Marcy, have two children and reside in a 90-year-old farmhouse just outside of Del Rey, California.