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TI: So let's move now to high school, Broadway High School. So tell me about Broadway High School and what was that like?

FT: Well, we had homeroom, and I was lucky in that the homeroom teacher was also the journalism teacher. And he was a real nice guy named Mr. Miller. And we'd report in the morning to the homeroom and it was a half-an-hour session in the homeroom and then we'd go to our different classes.

TI: So was it Mr. Miller that got you interested in journalism? In newspapers?

FT: He was the homeroom teacher. Uh-huh, yeah. And we had some real good people in that homeroom. The crowd in the homeroom, the people would be with us, we would be with them for the whole four years. So we got to know them (...) well. And among our classmates was a very famous (Ed) Guthman. (...) He became (...) a public relations man for Senator Robert Kennedy, and he (later) became editor of the Philadelphia Enquirer and then (...) the Los Angeles Times. And he was there, and we had, I think we had (...) one of the Nordstrom kids (...) in our homeroom. And we had one guy that became a fullback at University of Oregon. And we had a couple of, I mean, a twin, O'Neil twins. That was interesting. One was named Harvey, and the other was Harley. [Laughs] (...) And Pete Yoshitomi was (...) with me.

TI: And so was Mr. Miller important in terms of getting you interested in newspapers?

FT: Huh?

TI: Did Mr. Miller encourage you to get involved with the journalism class?

FT: Yeah, he was also the advisor for the Broadway Whims, the school paper. So I took a class with him, a journalism class, and worked on the Whims for a while. Submitted articles and stuff like that. And he'd (edit) everything.

TI: So what, besides your studies, what other activities did you do at Broadway?

FT: I didn't do much (of other activities).

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