"I
went to Denver again last weekend. For
supper I stopped at the Japanese Cafe of Mr. Otagiri, my ex-reading teacher. He
was overjoyed to see a former student; and proceeded to talk school affairs
with me all during my chop suey meal.
The wife was even summoned from the kitchen for an introduction. Mr. Otagiri had been requested to go to
Stillwater to teach in the new branch; but like a lot of instructors he
resented the high-handed methods used in an attempt to force the change and was
tired after 3 yrs. of it; so he quit."
-- Letter from my father, Boulder, Colo., to my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans.,
Saturday, August 4, 1945. The Navy
Language School had recently moved part of its operation to Oklahoma A & M
College in Stillwater, Okla. For a time,
my father thought he would be going there; but his class remained in Boulder.
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