So much for the sophomore slump. The Terraces of Los Gatos managed to outdo itself with its second annual Multicultural Day in October.

When she arrived in Kyoto in 1947 as a medical missionary, Dr. Alice Cary knew one word of Japanese: “ohayo,” which means “good morning.”

Eleanor Childers was traveling as a courier, carrying classified information about the Pan-American Highway. World War II was under way, and Childers was working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Costa Rica to build an alternative transportation route in case the Panama Canal was attacked.