Dr. Arthur Lee Harris was born on 4/21/1903 in Carthage, Illinois to Ernest and Grace (Arthur) Harris. Dr. Harris was principal of McKinley High in Honolulu, Hawaii, and former high school principal of Poston camp I. Later, he became the Director of Education for the Poston internment camp in Arizona. While working at Poston, he met his future wife, the former Catherine Embree, a high school teacher in Poston camp I and II.
They were married in the fall of 1945 in Chicago, and returned to Poston to finish closing the camp. The married couple traveled to Washington DC, where Dr. Harris took a position with the United States Office of Education while they lived in Virginia for nearly 20 years. In 1966, Dr. Harris served as the United States Associate Commissioner of the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education. By 1969, they moved to Honolulu, Hawaii where he retired and later died on 9/3/2001.
Dr. Harris is survived by wife, Catherine; sons, Robert, David, McLaren; four grandchildren; a great-grandchild
