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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y S U M M E R 2 0 1 8 37 For more than 40 years, Ken Miura inspired countless young minds with his work as an audio professor for the University of Southern California (USC). He has influenced and helped to shape the minds and hearts of many of today's most successful professionals. A San Diego-born native Californian, Ken's life was an incredible journey of resilience and strength. Ken and his family were among the approximately 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry who were relocated to internment camps in the 1940s. Released in 1945, his family's residence had been tended to by a friend who allowed them the rare gift of returning home. Nevertheless, after this exceptionally difficult period, Ken enlisted in the Army and served two years in the Army Signal Corps under Gen. MacArthur in Japan where he lent his language skills of Japanese to the war effort. It was here that Ken first learned how to operate a camera. At the young age of 19, Ken attended USC on the GI Bill. In 1952, he began his career as a sound mixer at CineSound. And on February 6, 1956, he began sharing his love of sound as a staff member at USC. Beloved father of Lisa (Tom) Thompson and Karen Miura-Conklin; grandfather of Tyler and Dylan Thompson, Malia and Alana Conklin; he is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Ken joins his beloved wife Mary Jane Miura who passed in 1999. Ken Miura's legacy lives on not only in his relatives, but in the hearts of his vast extended family of students, professors, and professionals. Koichi "Ken" Miura VETERAN/PRODUCTION SOUND MIXER/EDUCATOR