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TI: There's a group that you belonged to, the Quixotics?

MN: Quixotics.

CS: Oh, Quixotics, Quix.

TI: So tell me about that group.

CS: Well, right after the war, a bunch of Niseis made different clubs, bachelors clubs, and the womenfolks and all that, they made a lot of girls' clubs, and they used to have socials all together. The Quixotics were formed around 1946 or '47, so right after the war. And the Quixotics was made, mostly professional people were in there like Frank Chuman and Harry Honda, Stanley Uno who was the first police officer, Roy Uno, people like that. And we would have all kind of... we had a reunion last month, I think, and Harry Honda wrote a little... he used to publish in, we used to have a periodical. He likes to write, so we had a "dirt sheet," you might say, who went out with who and what party, and got all that information.

TI: Oh, like a little gossip column.

CS: Gossip column, yeah. So he kind of summarized it, and at that reunion, he made an, gave us a whole history. So it's all in that information I brought you.

TI: This is funny. So Harry wrote this column or this article, and he distributed it amongst the men, or he just wrote it...

CS: Well, there weren't too many men there. Most at that reunion were widows. [Laughs]

TI: Oh, so he, this was all his notes...

CS: Well, we had, at the reunion, we had a display of some of his old writings, we had all kind of things on display, including this newsletter.

TI: Oh, good, I'm curious, I want to read that. That's good. And so tell me how you met your first wife.

CS: Oh, it's through the Quixotics. In fact, I think most of the, ninety percent of the men in the Quixotics married through meeting a girl in one of the club affairs, socials.

TI: So this was a way to meet and then eventually find a girlfriend or a mate.

MN: What was Mitsy's group's name?

CS: Seven M's. Seven Maidens, they're from All People's Church.

MN: What was Mitsy's full name?

CS: What?

MN: What was Mitsy's full name?

CS: Mitsuko Uyeno. So she belonged to the All People's Church, so that's why I joined. And it was a mixed group, they had a baseball team, half of 'em were blacks and I was playing with them.

TI: And when you say you had these kind of mixers between groups, I mean, describe one. I mean, was it, like, with a band, a dance?

CS: Oh, different things. We had beach parties, we'd have Halloween parties, masquerade parties, hayrides, go out to picnics, oh, we had a good time. [Laughs]

TI: It does sound like a good time. And when were the two of you married? How long did it take for you to get married to Mitsy?

CS: Oh, let's see. That was '46. 1949 or '50 I got married. Wait a minute, I'm trying to get this straight. (1951) we moved into the house (when) my son was nine years old when he got real ill. Must have been around 1949 or '50.

TI: Okay. And you mentioned a son, so how many children?

CS: Just one.

TI: Just one.

CS: He's handicapped, yeah.

TI: Okay.

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