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TI: So describe kind of the school setting in Selleck. What was school like in Selleck?

TT: Oh, we a had regular schoolhouse. There used to be two to a classroom. Except for our class, we had more kids than the rest of the... I don't know, we must have had nineteen, twenty in our class. So we had our own room, but the others were doubled up.

TI: So when you say doubled, usually, you mean usually two...

TT: Two classes in one room. One teacher to every room.

TI: And in your class you said fifteen or so?

TT: Hakujin.

TI: Yeah, how many were Japanese, how many were hakujin?

TT: Oh, I never stopped to count. [Laughs]

TI: Just roughly.

TT: Roughly half.

TI: Half and half?

TT: When I first started. By the time I graduated eighth grade, yeah, we still had sixteen, eight boys and eight girls, mostly hakujin, though.

TI: And how did the different races get along with each other, like the Japanese and Caucasians, how would that...

TT: Oh, we got along all right. Except occasional... when we get in fights or something, calling each other names. But we got along fine. In fact, I still go up there once in a while to visit my classmate. There's very few people left up there in Selleck, all the stores, everything is gone.

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