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KP: And you went to, what was your grammar school?

TT: What?

KP: What grammar school did you go to?

TT: I went to Fruit Ridge. The school is still there. When I was living in -- I went to that Lockenar School that they had over there, then I went to Fruit Ridge school, then I went to Stanford junior high school. Then I went to Tule Lake, Tule Lake and Topaz, Tri-State High School both places.

KP: What was, at the Fruit Ridge school, what was the ethnic makeup of the school? Were there a lot of Japanese kids there?

TT: Oh, no, oh, no. I think there was maybe a couple, three blacks. There was, I would say maybe a half dozen or so Japanese, maybe ten. Very few.

KP: Other ethnic groups?

TT: Oh, yeah, we had... at that time as I recall, like you see all the Spanish people from Mexico coming after the... there wasn't that much Mexicans, but there were a lot of Okies, we used to call 'em. But as far as people from Mexico, there were maybe a few, but not like it is today.

KP: Did you... what sort of activities did you do in school? What were your favorite classes in school?

TT: Pardon?

KP: What were your favorite classes at school?

TT: I used to like math. I didn't like English. [Laughs] I liked math the best. But you know like now they have the physical ed., we had that. But we had, naturally we had history and all that. But I had a good history teacher, I'll tell you one thing. Because we had to learn about the Constitution. I think seventh and eighth grade, we had to learn about the Constitution.

KP: Do you remember that teacher's name?

TT: I think it was, her name was Mrs. Moore. They had a good math teacher, her name was, I think, Mrs. Warnkin. She was a math teacher.

KP: Were you involved in sports when you were young?

TT: No, not too much. We used to play baseball, not organized -- when we went to camp, we played a lot of baseball, but not when I was going to school.

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