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AI: Well, now, while you were at high school, what kinds of thoughts did you have about your future for after graduation from high school? What were some of the things you were thinking about?

MN: Not that much. I know at one time, I thought I wanted to be a social worker, but other than that, nothing big.

AI: What were some other hopes, or did you have other dreams that... even maybe that you didn't share with others, but you thought, well, if you could, you might be interested in?

MN: No, I wasn't that ambitious, so I didn't have kind of dream so much. A lot of people, they say, "I want to be a movie star," or something big, but I didn't have that kind of...

AI: But being a social worker was something that you kind of had...

MN: That was in the back of my mind all the time.

AI: Your brother Henry was a year older than you were, and did I understand right that he went to college?

MN: He started University of Washington just before the war.

AI: And so he was already at the University of Washington.

MN: Uh-huh, when the war broke out.

AI: And then, but before the war broke out, you graduated high school from Garfield, also, and was that 1941 that you graduated?

MN: Yes. Henry was different, too, though. He was very active in Garfield, and he was, I think, vice-president of the senior class, and so he took a different path than I did.

AI: When you were graduating from Garfield, what were your plans? What did you think you would be doing next?

MN: I didn't really have any plans, and then all of a sudden I realized that I didn't have the background to go to college, and so I went back to school to pick up on algebra and some of the requirements that I needed for college, rather than going to college and pay for all that. I went back and did post-graduate classes.

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