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TI: So after Bailey Gatzert, what school did you go to?

TK: Washington school, which was right up on Washington Street, just up the street here.

TI: Up Jackson a little bit. And this was the Washington junior high school.

TK: It is now, yeah, that's right.

TI: And what was that like? How would you describe Washington school?

TK: Well, it was... I can't remember just what it was like.

TI: Any, like, memories from Washington that you...

TK: Nothing spectacular, no.

TI: Now, if I had one of your friends here, Tom, and I asked him, "So describe what kind of student Tom was in school," what would they say?

TK: I think they would say, "He was a smart, industrial guy." [Laughs]

TI: Was there like a topic that you liked better than others?

TK: Not really. But I think there, I learned how to... one of the teachers I remember would put us at the end of the hall and have us speak to her down the hall, speak English, enunciation, so she could understand down here. I remember doing that.

TI: Oh, interesting. So she sat far away, so you had to really talk clearly.

TK: That's right. We were on the one end of the hall and she would be down on the other, so she could hear us speak.

TI: And would she do this with all the students?

TK: I don't remember that now, but I remember being one of the students doing that.

TI: And this was in middle school, like Washington?

TK: Washington school, it must have been about fourth, fifth, sixth grade. Because at the sixth grade, I went over to St. Mary's.

TI: Which is another, a couple blocks away from Washington?

TK: Weller Street, Twentieth and Weller over here. Do you know where Gais Bakery is? Right across the street.

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