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DG: Now, some of your papers suggest that you had a lot of activity with the YWCA in Spokane.

NS: Yes. I was on the board of the YWCA when we were evacuated, and I was on the camp committee and I was interested in camping for the girls. I had, also, a group of "Girl Reserves" that I was advisor to. And so -- and I had been a YWCA member ever since I was growing up as well as at the university. And so I kept up my affiliation with the YWCA, and they kept me on the board. Even in camp, they had sent letters to the neighboring Twin Falls YWCA. And so we were welcomed into the club rooms at Twin Falls if we could get out and have a day on the town, which we welcomed because camp was getting a little bit claustrophobic. So after we moved to Spokane...

DG: Now, you moved when?

NS: After, we moved -- I think it was September.

DG: Well, it was '43, because you went to camp in '42, and then you were there through the winter and spring. And then...

NS: And then in the summertime, in August, I wanted to, my son to go to normal public school. So, the end of August, I think, we left to go to Spokane. We found this house and that was when that incident came. (My husband) didn't have hospital privileges, but he did have a license to practice in Washington. So, that that was why we stayed in Washington. And then we came back as soon as the coastal region was open for resettlement.

DG: So now you were in Spokane from about September of 1943 until the war was almost over?

NS: Well, I don't know whether the war was over or whether the coast was open for relocation.

DG: So about a year and a half you lived in Spokane?

NS: That's right. And then when school was ready to open, we came back to Seattle. I found a house for my mother, and she moved in, and we moved shortly afterwards.

DG: Okay. I wanted to talk a little bit more about your YWCA work in Spokane.

NS: Uh-huh.

DG: You were on a committee for race relations, I think it was called.

NS: Could be. Yes. At that time, why, it was quite a bit of... we were meeting with "F.O.R.," "Friends of Reconciliation," I think it was. It was a Friends group.

DG: And that's the Quakers.

NS: (Yes). And that was what Floyd Schmoe was.

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