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MN: Now, your high school, what year did you graduate from..

KM: 1938, summer of '38.

MN: Now after graduating from high school, what did you do?

KM: After graduating from high school? Oh, I enrolled in Glendale junior college, so I was there for two years.

MN: What did you major in there?

KM: Oh, I was majoring in civil engineering, but I changed that later on.

MN: Why did you pick civil engineering?

KM: Oh, I really didn't like it, but my uncle always was trying to indoctrinate me that most of the graduates of college at that time were all graduating with honors and all that, but they could never get a job. So my uncle was telling me that there was golden opportunities in Manchuria. So that, "You got to go to something that would be beneficial to getting a job in Manchuria." And so Manchuria was being developed, so civil engineering was more or less the construction end of it. So that's why I chose it, so route I should take. So that's why I enrolled in civil engineering.

MN: Now you said that you went to Glendale junior college for two years, and then from there where did you go?

KM: I went up to Cal Berkeley.

MN: Now why did you decide... why didn't you go straight to Cal Berkeley from high school?

KM: Huh?

MN: Why didn't you go straight to Cal Berkeley from high school?

KM: Oh, I couldn't afford it. Besides, I guess... well, I don't know why, but I thought it was easier for me to spend two years at junior college and then transfer to Berkeley than to go directly from high school to Berkeley.

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