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Title: Art Abe Interview
Narrator: Art Abe
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: January 24, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-aart-01-0029

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TI: So this last part is, you mentioned your children. Can you tell me sort of the names of your children in the order?

AA: Yeah. The oldest one is, daughter is Carolyn, and she's married to a Chinese fellow, Robert Ling. He's in the software business, he works for AT&T wireless.

TI: Then after Carolyn you have...

AA: It's Mike, and he's a program manager for the Washington State Division of Banking. He's single.

TI: I also see him at triathlon events, too. And then after Mike?

AA: Next is Janet, she's married to a Chinese fellow named Steve Lee. He's also in the software business and he works for Starbucks. He's an expert in firewalls. And then the youngest is Norman, he's single and he's a dentist, and he works for the low income dental clinic, Hispanic dental clinic. He's one of those guys with a lot of education, he's got a chemical engineering degree from the University of Washington, and he's got a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon, and he's got a dental degree from the University of Washington.

TI: That is a lot of education.

AA: The guy with a lot of education is Kay's younger brother Takeshi.

TI: The one who went to Annapolis?

AA: Annapolis. He's got a horrendous number of schools that he went to. After Annapolis, he got a bachelor's in military science from Annapolis, then he went to Rensselaer Polytech and got a bachelor's in civil engineering. He went to University of Illinois and got a master's in civil engineering, and also a PhD. And he went to UCLA and got an MBA, and he, after his military tour of duty, he became a speech writer for Senator Matsunaga from Hawaii, and he became a Director of Economic Development for Governor Ariyoshi in Hawaii.

[Interruption]

TI: Well, it sounds like a, quite an individual.

AA: Yeah.

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