Densho Digital Archive
Oregon Nikkei Endowment Collection
Title: Alice Nishitani Interview
Narrator: Alice Nishitani
Interviewer: Tim Rooney
Location: Nyssa, Oregon
Date: December 6, 2004
Densho ID: denshovh-nalice-01-0007

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TR: Where did you go to high school?

AN: To Nampa High School.

TR: And how far away was that from the farm?

AN: Oh, that was only about nine miles.

TR: And how did you get there?

AN: School bus.

TR: And what were things, what was it like for you in high school?

AN: Oh, it was, it was all right. I enjoyed it. Then we came over to Nyssa, and I was in high school over here, so it was, I didn't enjoy getting acquainted again. That was hard to do. But, well, it was, I remember we had some of my friends, well, we had dances and so on that way out here and so it wasn't, and then after that, I went from Nyssa High School, I graduated from there and then I went out to the College of Idaho, and so they had dances and so on there. I enjoyed it.

TR: You said you went to high school both in Nampa and Nyssa?

AN: Uh-huh, yes.

TR: Did you move in between there or just change schools?

AN: No, we moved. We came over here and moved to Nyssa from Nampa. Well, Nampa was, oh, about what 40 miles from here, from Nyssa, I would say. And so it was, and then we went over to the College of Idaho, and my brothers, they were older, and they had gone to, my brother Ray went to BYU and so did my brother George, and then Roy went to Oregon State. He graduated from Oregon State about the time of the war I guess it was.

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