Graduation Announcement, Manzanar HS Class of 1943 Exclusion and Internment Manzanar and Minidoka The class of ’43 was the first to graduate from Manzanar High School. For the BI class of ’42, thirteen chairs were left empty during their graduation ceremony back on BI in honor of their Japanese classmates incarcerated in Manzanar. Share sakai, artifact, school, Manzanar