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DG: How'd you find the hotel in the first place?

KS: Oh, a hotel was easy to find. As soon as we got off the train, we just went to the first little hotel.

DG: Oh, so these friends didn't find places for you.

KS: Oh no, no, no, no. There, there was nothing organized to... I think later on they, the organization arranged train fare for, or bus fare for, students to get out of camp and many of them got help from various groups to pay for tuition. But that all happened I think, oh at least a half a year or a year after we got out of camp. And we were so happy to get, for Toru to get to go back to school, that we just made the best we could and fortunately the registrar at the University of Utah had a young friend that had just built a house up on the hill and he had two children and his wife was also pregnant and needed help. And they said, they had a room and a bath. And so I said well I'd just be happy to go and help there if we could just get a place to live. So we both moved up to this lovely, brand new home up on the hill and I took care of two little girls and a pregnant woman and I was quite pregnant myself, but I was young and healthy and we became very good friends. Toru was able to go to the University and, and he can tell you how hard he had to struggle to find, find his required classes.

DG: You want to go ahead and tell us about that?

TS: Well, at that time the University of Utah Law School had only about an average of six to ten law school students in each class. And consequently their curriculum of subjects that they offered each quarter or each semester was very limited so I was able to take classes for credit only for one or two subjects, and maybe take or go to one other class, just not for credit. And consequently my graduation date was extended. It was, the law school was only just down the hill, about a mile from the place where we were living and the University. So it was real nice and I think we stayed there until after David, our first child, was born. And then I got a job at the Colonial Hotel as a night clerk and that job furnished us with a apartment. Night clerking from midnight to 6:30 in the morning, and I attended law school in the morning and came home after lunch hour and spent some time with the family and tried to sleep from three or four o'clock to eleven o'clock to go back to work. But it was nice, because a night clerk job involved my cleaning the floor every night of the lobby and just making the rounds of the floors of the hotel periodically during the evening, and also to study on the job. So it worked out quite nice.

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