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RP: Who were the popular girls in camp? Do you remember any?

Off camera voice: Certain clubs, yeah. The age group, just goes by age group. I think the Funsters were too young for the Manza-Knights.

RP: Do you remember some of the Manza-Knights?

KT: I remember names.

RP: Like... what was his name, Cal Maruki?

AF: Yeah, he was our coach, I remember.

KT: We used to call him --

RP: Shy, Shy Nomura was --

AF: Oh, yeah, he was our coach, too.

RP: Was he your coach?

AF: Yeah, uh-huh.

RP: For your softball team.

AF: Yes, uh-huh.

RP: What do you remember about Shy? Was he a good coach?

AF: Oh, yeah. Real handsome young man.

Off camera voice: Yeah, Ralph Lazlo was in our Manza-Knights, too.

AF: Oh, that's right. I remember. Is he still around?

Off camera voice: No, he passed away.

AF: Oh, that's too bad. He was unusual.

RP: You said you played, you accompanied Mary Kageyama?

KT: On the piano.

RP: In the auditorium?

KT: Yes.

RP: Do you remember playing in the auditorium?

KT: Yes.

RP: There was a piano at one corner of the auditorium there, I think it was...

KT: I can't remember -- it was on the floor, wasn't it?

NN: But there was one on the stage.

KT: Was it on the stage?

NN: Oh, no. This one, I'm sorry, it wasn't you, it was Pizzell playing the piano, I think, wasn't it with Mary singing on stage?

RP: Picture of that.

NN: I think that one, yeah.

RP: And you also played for one of Louis Pizzell's plays?

KT: Oh, that's right. He wrote a --

RP: And opera?

AF: Oh, that's right. Yeah, he was my music teacher, I remember.

RP: Was he? What do you remember about Louis? He got everybody really excited about music.

AF: Oh, yeah, he was so nice and friendly.

KT: Gosh, I can't remember.

Off camera voice: We tried to recreate his compositions, you know, the East-West players. Because he wrote a whole --

KT: Operetta type of thing, huh?

Off camera voice: Musical.

KT: Musical.

Off camera voice: And it was about college days and that sort of thing. We've got all the words, but we don't have...

KT: The music?

Off camera voice: The music.

NN: I see.

Off camera voice: So I thought maybe you might have had the music.

KT: No. I don't think so.

Off camera voice: We went up to Shafter where...

KT: His father lives, right?

Off camera voice: His father lives. He gave us what he, Louis had left after he passed away. No music. We just had the words, no music.

RP: Somebody create some music.

Off camera voice: But he was great. He really kept the school going with the plays and the music. I think he was the lifeblood of the high school.

RP: Of the high school? Were there other --

AF: He was just out of college, I think. I remember the young, young boys in our class used to make fun of him 'cause he was so young. [Laughs]

RP: Oh, yeah.

Off camera voice: He had us singing very, very patriotic songs. There was that one song about the United States of America... created... starts off "In 1776 the sky was gray and thunder rumbling overhead." "And King George couldn't sleep in his bed." [Inaudible] And this cantata that the choir sang.

RP: Oh, the choir sang?

NN: Really?

Off camera voice: Yeah, and the funny thing that I remember, I embarrassed George. One scene is, it says about Paul Revere had a horse race, and he had to go through the town and alert them, "One by sea and two by land." And after he said, "Paul Revere had a horse race," he's supposed to say "horse race." But it came out, "Paul Revere had a horse face." [Laughs] He whirled around, he said, "Did I say that?"

NN: That is so funny.

Off camera voice: He slipped and said, "Paul Revere had a horse face." Anyway, excuse me for breaking it up.

RP: No, no.

AF: That's funny.

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