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Oregon Nikkei Endowment Collection
Title: Kay Sweeney Interview
Narrator: Kay Sweeney
Interviewer: Alison Walcott
Location: Portland, Oregon
Date: February 26, 2003
Densho ID: denshovh-skay-01-0009

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AW: So what other activities do you enjoy doing?

KS: Pardon me?

AW: You're a very busy woman. What other activities do you do?

KS: Oh, we, let me see. We like to travel, traveling with my husband here and there sometimes. And sometimes I like garden, gardening my yard, and I am the member of the, some Japanese Women's Club and Hyakudokai, and JACL. And also I am member of the Haiku Poem Group. That I have been doing many, many years. I enjoy so much.

AW: And how many other women or is it just women involved in the haiku group?

KS: No. There is men and women involved in it.

AW: And how long have you been doing that?

KS: Oh, haiku I've been doing many years. First I started from the, my high school time and some wartime and with army hospital patients. And after that, after I entered the family life, I quit years. Then I was doing myself time to time. And then I was member of Los Angeles Tachibana Haiku group, then here Hood Haiku group, and then now another new haiku group here. So I've been doing all my life almost, adult life, I mean.

AW: You're also a member at Epworth Methodist Church. How long have you been at Epworth?

KS: Epworth, I was about twenty-eight years at Epworth.

AW: And now that you are fully retired, what kind of activities do you enjoy doing?

KS: Well, just about same things. I am doing, I am doing more gardening for summertime. Wintertime, I'm just going to the meeting of the Fujinkai and Hyakudokai and haiku class. And so --

AW: What activities do you do with the Fujinkai?

KS: Pardon me?

AW: What activities do you do with the Fujinkai?

KS: Oh, there are many activities. We take a trip together once a year, and we are helping Japanese graduation, high school graduation student. And other than that, I don't, we're just helping each other and for the community, Japanese community. And we do the, some Japanese Nisei veteran's group for their family like that, something like that.

AW: That's all the questions I have for you today. Thank you so much for doing this.

KS: Thank you.

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