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TI: And then did you graduate from Broadway High School?
JS: Yes, I graduated the year that we were evacuated, so that was in 1942.
TI: Let me, let me think about this. So you graduated after...
JS: Pearl Harbor.
TI: Pearl Harbor, but before you were sent to Puyallup.
JS: Yes.
TI: But you were sent to Puyallup in, probably the March/April timeframe?
JS: Yeah, April, probably.
TI: So usually you graduate in June, so how did you graduate before?
JS: Well, we didn't. So obviously, we, we did not attend Broadway High School in the last month, but we, they, we were given a diploma while we were in camp.
TI: So tell me about that, how did they give you a diploma in camp? How did that work?
JS: Well, we had enough credit hours, I suppose, and they may have relaxed the requirements because of evacuation. But anyway, there was a ceremony in, in Puyallup, "Camp Harmony" they called it, and we received our diplomas there.
TI: So describe the ceremony. What kind of ceremony...
JS: I don't really recall. It was... that, it was, of course, all the students were there to receive their diplomas but --
TI: And how many students were, about...
JS: Oh, it's about, I would just throw out a number, three hundred.
TI: Oh, that many?
JS: Yeah.
TI: So it was a sizeable number. All from Broadway High School?
JS: No, from the various high schools.
TI: Oh, so it was like, perhaps, Seattle high schools?
JS: Sure. Well, Garfield, Franklin, Cleveland, Broadway.
TI: Did they have anyone as a speaker at the ceremony?
JS: I don't recall. I'm sure that there was a... no, I'm not sure at all. It was a simple ceremony, not like they do these days, but because it was...
TI: Where in Puyallup did they hold the ceremony?
JS: Well, they held it in Area D, and I don't know even know where, but that, I think that was the fairgrounds itself. We were in Area A, and that was, must have been the parking area. D was, I think the camp, I mean, the fairgrounds themselves.
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