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MA: So let's talk a little bit about your high school. Which high school did you attend?

BH: I went to Auburn High School.

MA: And tell me a little bit about Auburn High School. Were there many Nisei students there?

BH: Yes, I would say -- I might be exaggerating -- but I would say close to (twenty-five) percent were Japanese kids. And I wasn't very active in high school other than simple things like my German class or... I mean, German club, and then the annual club. I went out soliciting money from the businesses for the annuals and all that, advertising. But beyond that, I wasn't very active. Whereas Gordon's younger brother, Ed, who was the same age as I was, he was in the Hi-Y, he played baseball, basketball, things like that. But I wasn't very good at sports.

MA: And how did the Nisei students sort of fit in with the rest of the school? Was it sort of...

BH: Generally speaking, I think everybody did pretty well. There might have been a few that had problems, but in my experience, I never had any problems. Because like from the Boy Scouts, Harold Crispy and Tony Bechard and the Stewart brothers, Peterson brothers, we all went to grade school and high school together, and we were in Boy Scouts together, things like that. So I had no, I had no problem at all. The people that I met in Auburn High School, I had no problems there, either. Maybe it's because I was a... well, all I can say is I loved people. I was a people person. I just got along with people.

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