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MA: So which grammar schools did you attend?

KI: Radcliff was the kindergarten, and that school is still standing. And then I went to, I don't see... the other three schools I went are, I think they're all, they're all destroyed now, but I went to, from first grade I went to Minty White, which is still standing. And then when I got to the sixth grade, I came back to town, and I don't know what they call that school. Grammar school, did they -- no, did they call it the grammar school? Anyway, that's destroyed, and then I went to the high school here.

MA: So you went to a few, a few different schools.

KI: Yes, uh-huh.

MA: And a couple, so one of 'em you went to was in town, you said.

KI: They're all in town.

MA: Oh, they're all in town?

KI: Yes, they're all in town. Radcliff is right on Rodriguez Street, and Minty White's on Palm Avenue, and the grammar school that I went to was right on East Lake. It's, the YMCA building's there now. It's, it's all local.

MA: So how many Americans or Niseis were in your classes?

KI: Well, in high school class, like I said, there was about, over forty that we have a picture of. When graduation, said, "Let's all take a picture," and that was 1940 just before the war, this was about forty people. And I don't think it was every one of us, neither, you know. I think there were some missing. But it was a big... oh, every class had quite a bit, because you know, in those days, almost every family had from five to seven or eight kids, and then they were all... and at least the Japanese kids, they all went to school.

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