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TI: Let's talk a little bit about, about school.

RK: Sure.

TI: So how would you describe yourself as a student?

RK: I guess I was, I did pretty well. I went to the, kind of the neighborhood elementary school and junior high school, it was called junior high school at that time. And then when I went to high school, I went to Lowell, which is kind of the academic high school in San Francisco. And I did okay at Lowell, I guess. It was interesting. Lowell, at that time, had a very high percentage of Chinese Americans, very few Japanese Americans, but I would say that probably at least a quarter to a third of the kids at Lowell were Chinese Americans.

TI: And then, so a third to a quarter Chinese Americans, a few Japanese Americans, what about the rest of the student body? How would you describe that?

RK: It was, I mean, there were very few African Americans, there were very few Latinos. The rest were mostly Caucasians or whites. And there was a couple of us that, I had a couple of close friends who were both Chinese Americans who went to the same junior high as I did. And there was only a very few of us that went from my junior high to Lowell. So those became my close friends, because those are the people we knew really well.

TI: And describe to me, so from your regular junior high school, what percentage would go to Lowell? Give me a sense of how...

RK: Yeah, it was pretty, I would say less than ten percent. It was a pretty small group. Most of the, most of the folks from my junior high went to the local neighborhood high school, and a small group of us went to Lowell.

TI: And were there particular topics or subjects that you enjoyed in school?

RK: Nothing that, nothing extraordinary.

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