<Begin Segment 6>

MN: Let me ask you a little bit about your education now. When you moved to the Clearwater-Hynes area, do you remember which grammar school you went to?

KK: Well, we went to Lincoln grammar school. What was the junior high school called? I forgot what the junior high school was called.

MN: Was there a Clearwater junior high?

KK: Oh, yeah, it was called Clearwater junior high school. And then Compton college.

MN: High school. Compton High School.

KK: High school.

MN: How did you get to your schools? How did you get to Lincoln High School? I mean, Lincoln grammar school?

KK: Lincoln grammar school. Oh, we had to walk about three, four miles to school. But we walked it all the time. No car, no nothing. So we walked it, rain or shine.

MN: How about the Clearwater junior high?

KK: Oh, that was closer, and we walked that, too. Only time when we had bus transportation was when we went to Compton High School for two years and junior college for two years.

MN: Oh, so high school was only two years? Compton High School? And then you went to Compton junior college?

KK: Uh-huh, for two years.

MN: Now, you were very athletic. Let me ask you about some of your sports activities at Compton High School. Can you share with us that archery class you took?

KK: Oh, yeah. They had an archery class, so I took archery, learned how to, you know, pull a bow up to your thing and let go, things like that. And it was a lot of fun.

MN: Was this an all-girls or a mixed class?

KK: Oh, yeah, this was all girls, well, the ones when I took lessons, it was all girls.

MN: Now, did you have to buy your own bow and arrow?

KK: No, they had it at school. I don't know if they even offered that anymore at school. But they did.

MN: And then what did you shoot it at?

KK: Oh, haystack. They had haystack on the other end with a big bullseye thing pasted to it. Can't miss it. You either make it or don't make it. [Laughs]

MN: How good were you?

KK: Not too bad, but not that good.

MN: You were involved in other sports activities. What other sports did you play at Compton?

KK: Let's see. We played baseball, soccer, hockey with a stick. I guess that's... and volleyball. But that was about it. They didn't have any swimming.

MN: Did you ever get injured? 'Cause you're so active.

KK: No.

MN: You never broke anything?

KK: No, never got injured.

MN: Now when you were growing up, did they have, like, Girl Scouts?

KK: I don't remember if they had Girl Scouts, but I never participated.

<End Segment 6> - Copyright © 2012 Densho. All Rights Reserved.