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DG: So what was the Fuyokai doing in your years then, that was 1930...

KS: Yes, I started in '37 and it was over in '41 when we left. We had meetings once a week. Actually, most all of our activities were social. We planned dances and mixers. We also tried to have some kind of function for Girls' Day, have a tea, and invite former members of the Fuyokai to that.

DG: Where did you have these meetings?

KS: These meetings were at the Commons. The Commons is where everybody ate. They had smaller rooms there...

DG: How many of you got together?

KS: There were about maybe forty or fifty in our membership, but every week about thirty or so, we would get together and eat lunch together and have a meeting. We did have some service projects and mostly the service projects were to make some kinds of crafts things. [Laughs] I don't really remember them...

DG: To raise money for something maybe?

KS: Yes, yes. Groups would have bazaars and things, and then we would bring some little thing. The main purpose of the Fuyokai though was to provide a social outlet for the students, because... there were a few of us who once in awhile would go to the all-University dances at the pavilion, but they were not really that much fun. There were something like five or six hundred people there and it was not...

DG: Where did you have these mixers and dances?

KS: Well, that's what took planning. We would have to arrange with different hotels or different halls and ...

TS: Churches.

KS: Yeah, the mixers would be at different churches. As they needed music, we would have to arrange to have some band or some little group to come and play the music. It seems like a rather small thing for a group to do, but it was a real need to provide some social outlet for the students and we enjoyed doing it.

DG: That's where you met Toru, right?

KS: At school, yes. There were times that I know we would have style shows. As I recall, they were for the new students that were coming in, to get them acquainted with some of the activities at school.

DG: You would have a little sister or...?

KS: Oh yes.

DG: Did you have a big sister?

KS: I had a big sister when I first came to school.

DG: Who was that?

KS: I think Michi Yasumura was my big sister.

DG: Lillian tells me you were her big sister or something.

KS: [Laughs] I was quite a few! Every year, the upper classmen get 'em. When I went to school, there were quite a few, so we ran out of upper classmen and some of us who were sophomores were big sisters to the freshmen. But it was a nice group and we had a good time.

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