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DG: Okay. Now, you went to the university a couple of years.

RM: Yeah.

DG: And you lived in the Student Club there.

RM: Japanese Student Club, yeah.

DG: Because that's where you met Toru.

RM: Yeah.

DG: But you had to -- so how long did you go?

RM: Go to school?

DG: Uh-huh.

RM: A couple years, maybe year and a half. So then I had to come back and help dad, had to take care of the oysters and cranberry business. He couldn't take care of both of them so I came back to help, and then I was gonna go back again, but I got so busy I never did.

DG: Now, when you came back to help run the oyster business, you said you took care of the oyster part and your father continued with the cranberries. Now, we're talking about 1935. Is that about the time?

RM: 19... let's see... graduated in '32. Gee, I don't know.

DG: Well, somewhere around there, '34 or '35. What did you have to do to help manage? Did you know the oyster business already by then or did you have to learn it?

RM: No, I had to learn it. Well, I might -- when I was going to school, I may have worked enough to know what's going on.

DG: Oh, in the summers?

RM: Yeah. So I think I more or less took over pretty fast.

DG: Now, we're talking about the Eagle Oyster Company.

RM: Yeah.

DG: So you worked in Eagle Oyster Company until the war started?

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: So then you knew the business quite well.

RM: Oh, sure.

DG: And it was thriving and you had...

RM: Uh-huh.

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