Patricia Saotome Sensei, Rokudan, has been training with Mitsugi Saotome, Shihan since 1975. She is Executive Director of the Aikido Schools of Ueshiba; doing the extensive record keeping for ASU, as well as supporting and being custodian of the flow with ASU's 90+ international member dojo from its headquarters in Florida.
  She worked extensively on the publication of Mitsugi Saotome's book, "Aikido and the Harmony of Nature" in the capacity of editor and photographer.
  Aikido of Diablo Valley is very pleased and honored to host her for a gasshuku the weekend of September 21 - 23, 2001.