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MN: Let me go, skip a few years and go to your first Class of 1944 Manzanar High School reunion. When was the first one held?

SO: The first one was held in 1964, at the Ambassador Hotel, and that was Class of '44 only.

MN: And the Ambassador Hotel is no longer with us.

SO: Nope.

MN: Did you attend your Venice High School reunion?

SO: No.

MN: Have you attended all your Manzanar High School reunions?

SO: Yeah. I've attended all of them. In fact, the second one was twenty, the second one was held at the Proud Bird in Inglewood. Then we started in Vegas in, our fifty years, in 1994.

MN: And you are very active with the Manzanar Committee, the Manzanar High School Reunion Committee.

SO: Yeah.

MN: How did you get, when did you join and how did you get involved?

SO: Well, I actually got involved because a friend of mine lived in the same tract as I do, and he loved fishing, so the meetings were held on a Sunday at Bruce Kaji's office, so Sundays were this fellow's day off and he would ask me, he says, "Would you take --" he was the treasurer -- he says, "Would you take my report in and give it to the committee members?" So I said okay, so I took it in, and he did this to me several times and before I knew it I was on the committee. So that was my first experience with the committee.

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