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DG: So, do you remember some of the incidents?

SS: Huh... such as...?

DG: Who got, what kind of...?

SS: Families were, where the parents were not able to find jobs because even in camp, there's only a limited number of jobs. And the more I think about it, we were really fortunate that there were three of us employed. And when my sister Patsy graduated, my girlfriend Jean Sakata with whom I worked in administration, moved over to work for the security, police department, which is around for the camp people. And...

DG: Did you have a lot of families come through that?

SS: Yes, quite a few. And in fact I have a picture I showed you earlier.

DG: How many of you were working there?

SS: Gosh.

DG: That picture shows about fifteen, maybe. Twelve.

SS: Oh, more.

DG: More?

SS: About twenty, I would think and then, there were what, one, two, three Caucasian...

DG: And what was your job? What do you do?

SS: ...welfare workers, I worked as a secretary. So... And then, we had the internees who were...

DG: Were some of them social workers that counseled with families?

SS: Uh-huh, and those were the guys who, the internees, the women and the fellows who went to college and they got degrees in not social service but other areas. But because they had the college degrees, were able to work as social workers.

DG: Were there handicapped people?

SS: Some probably, but mainly were families where they didn't have any income. And they had to be helped and they were having family problems. Those were the ones that needed lots of help.

DG: Now your own family, how old were your brother and sisters?

SS: Okay, when we went to Tule, I was what, eighteen. My sister Patsy was sixteen, then Richard was fourteen, and my youngest sister was twelve.

DG: They were all in school.

SS: The younger three were in school and then Patsy graduated from Tule. And then my girlfriend Jean, who worked for the police department, was able to get her to work under her. So then we had four people working you see, so when you consider that... the people who didn't have a job and here we were four, in the family I think you could say we were rich, right?

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