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RP: Did you participate in any sport, sports activities?

MI: I was more interested in tennis. And so my dad ordered a tennis racket for me. And we used to get up at six or seven in the morning, about four of us, and then we rigged up a makeshift tennis court. Yeah, we played. There was a...

RP: In camp?

MI: Yeah, there was a tennis court that we set up.

RP: Yeah, and you know, I think it's the right location, but it's right across from the auditorium, there's still clay on the ground there.

MI: Is there?

RP: Yes.

MI: Really.

RP: That was officially the tennis... you know, tennis courts were set up there. There was a tennis club for a while.

MI: Yeah.

RP: We're going to talk to a teacher, a teacher who taught at Manzanar, tomorrow, and apparently she was heavily involved in the tennis club.

MI: Who was that?

RP: Her name is Libby Wordner, or at the time she was Libby Gratch. G-R-A-T-C-H.

MI: No, we didn't belong to any organized. We just went there and had fun.

RP: Practiced.

MI: Yeah. It would have probably helped us. But we just went... it's social, you know, it's just...

RP: So Mike and Joe were kind of occupied with school and sports.

MI: If it's school, it's sports, and church.

RP: Church. We're gonna get to that in just a minute. How about your other sister?

MI: Angie?

RP: Angie.

MI: Well, she had her group of friends from Maryknoll. And she was still going to school, too, of course, because she's very young. And I think her main activities were all at church, too, yeah.

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