Ray Tsuyoshi Yasui (1915?-1989). Ray loved sports, and even spent an extra year in high school to play football. He enrolled at Oregon State College, but left college to work in his father's fruit growing business, and play amateur baseball, until the war broke out. He and his wife were expecting their first child when they were evacuated to the internment camp at Tule Lake, California, in May 1942. Their daughter was born in the camp two months later. Ray was sent to Montana as a laborer, and his wife and baby were able to join him the following year.

After the war, Ray and his family moved back to Hood River, took over the only remaining Yasui orchard, and slowly rebuilt the family business. He was as successful as his father had been in business and farming, and eventually was elected to the board of directors of the Apple Growers' Association. Ray initiated a sister-city program with Tsuruta, a village in the apple-growing district of Northern Japan. Although he did not have a college degree, Ray was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education by Governor Mark Hatfield and served for six years. Ray Yasui was the first minority person to serve on the board.