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HM: How often are your class reunions, and who comes?

HC: Well, I don't mean to sound facetious, but we have a reunion every week of people on the island. Now there are about four people in Seattle area that can't make it over for, and there's one in Bellingham and one in British Columbia, guy named Bill Beaton, but Earl Hanson, Sylvan Munch, Jim Johansson, and occasionally Carmen, Carmen Berry -- she was a Rereicich -- we get together every Thursday for a cup of coffee over at Central Market. Jerry used to be in on that, too. But it's a good, good group of people. Sylvan at this time is up in Bellingham. He missed lunch yesterday, but that's, he's up there for the graduation from high school of his first great granddaughter. God, that, isn't that, he's our age, you know? To have a great granddaughter, it's unbelievable. I was talkin' about Reeves and Jerry. Reeves Moran, he was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. I think a piece of shrapnel hit him in the butt or something. But there was something between he and Gerald that was something nice to see, and Reeves lived up on Orcas for many of those years. He had also worked as an accountant at Medical Lake and up at Western, Western State? In Burlington or somewhere up there.

HM: Monroe?

HC: But then he left there and moved, inherited a home from his aunt, one of the Morans, but Reeves would come down quite often, and any time of day or night he'd fall in with Joe. But their friendship was great. Jim Johansson had an experience, the war was over and he was a navigator on some kind of a ship, and they were in Tokyo and he looked down from the bridge, down on the dock, and there was somebody, a Hideaki, so they had, they toured the whole thing and stole a jeep somewhere and had a good time. Hideaki Nakamura, his sister was in our class, Yukiko. She's doing very well health wise. I thought it was great that, while they were gone, that a few people somewhat took care of their farms. Arnold Raber was the one that helped the Kouras. I don't know the names of anybody else, but they were up in my neck of the woods.

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