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TI: So when you came back to Seattle and you were staying with the Baker family, what school did you attend?

TW: I attended Garfield High.

TI: Okay, so you started right at Garfield High School?

TW: No, I started junior high school somewhere, and then I went to Garfield High.

TI: So would it be Washington?

TW: I don't recall. Broadway, did I go to Broadway?

TI: Broadway was a high school, too. Washington would have been one of the junior high schools.

TW: I don't know where I went to junior high.

TI: But then you went to Garfield.

TW: (Yes), I graduated from Garfield in 1949.

TI: And when you went to school, like at Garfield, did people ever talk about what happened during the war with the Japanese, Japanese Americans? Did you ever share that you were at Tule Lake or anything like that?

TW: No, I don't recall.

TI: Do you recall any other Japanese Americans talking about the World War II experience?

TW: No, I don't.

TI: Do you think anyone knew? Did any of your classmates or teachers ever ask about what happened?

TW: I don't remember being asked about it.

TI: Well, I'm a Seattle native. So Garfield during that time period was a very, I'll call it "happening place." I think, wasn't Quincy Jones there?

TW: Yes, he sure is.

TI: So he was a classmate?

TW: (Yes), he played, at noontime he'd play for us. [Laughs] Isn't he something?

TI: Yeah.

TW: Is he still alive?

TI: Yes, I think he still is.

TW: Oh my god, he was good even then.

TI: So you remember Quincy Jones?

TW: Yes, I sure do.

TI: So Garfield was a very happening place for music, I mean, Jimi Hendrix was there also, maybe not the same time period.

TW: Well, I heard that, but Jimi Hendrix is much younger, isn't he?

TI: Yeah, he was much younger.

TW: He's a Tacoma... a Renton guy.

TI: (Yes), but Quincy was there.

TW: Quincy was there, Quincy Jones.

TI: Because now, when I, because I live in that neighborhood, when I drive by, they have Quincy Jones, is it auditorium? Or some kind of performance hall.

TW: Oh, really? Named after him?

TI: Yeah, named after him.

TW: How nice.

TI: But I noticed that you were there at the same time he was.

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