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LT: Now, as you were growing up and when you went to school, what do you remember about other Asian Americans?

ED: Very little, because there were very few in our area. I got acquainted with Asians through our Baptist church. We were Baptists, and the young woman who was in charge of getting together with other church groups pulled together a group of Chinese girls, and we met, we had gatherings with them, and that was how I got to be good friends with some of them, and I enjoyed that.

LT: So it wasn't until you went to college that you met Japanese Americans.

ED: That's right.

LT: Okay. And to go back, you graduated from high school in Seattle.

ED: What's that?

LT: You graduated from high school in Seattle in 1940.

ED: Yeah, I guess.

LT: And you entered the University of Washington that fall.

ED: Entered it, yeah.

LT: And is that when you first met Japanese Americans?

ED: I think so. I try to think about it, and it certainly would seem to be accurate that I had not known many before that.

LT: Do you have any particular recollections of meeting Japanese Americans in your classes or in activities or in organizations?

ED: What about it?

LT: Do you have any recollections of meeting Japanese Americans at that time, at college?

ED: No. There had been no other opportunity that I'm aware of. Mother brought a Japanese... Japanese boy? From the navy who had come to visit our church, she brought him home for dinner, and so that was one contact that I'd not had before. And she reached out that far.

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