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very much.  Obviously, because we knew him whereas, en masse, his people were "damned Japs."  I am glad those days in California are gone and I hope for the day, but do not expect to see it, when there are only individuals, not members of any minority group.

The time approached when I was to graduate from high school.  For months, I had been poring over the catelogs of the University of California, marking the courses in art that they offered.  I studies them with gathering excitement, classes in drawing, the history of art, the analysis of the great paintings.  Oh, it was going to be wonderful:

A cruel disappointment lay in store for me.

My father's ranching ventures had not gone well.  He had had a series of reverses, through no fault of his.  There had been crop failures, falling prices for farm products, bank loans that had to be repaid.  I knew about all this, but I did not realize how serious our position had become.

One day, college catalog in hand again, I was telling Father about the studies I intended to undertake in the first