MS: But the books were sent to us. Every school sent us their outdated books, and instead of getting enough for, say, a fourth grade like I had, there were four fourth grades in the camp, I was the one that was isolated. I don't know why we were isolated, but we were. And I replaced a teacher that had left, and I have no idea why they were set out there. It was in what they called the Japanese section. So I furnished a lot of things for the children and I got UCLA to send me playground equipment, and they did, so I had my own, and I wouldn't have to depend on getting it from the general area. And they were great about that, different organizations.

JA: Alisa also remembered something about schools donating crayons, other schools?

MS: I don't know about crayons, but... it could well be that they did. I know when I first got there, we didn't have enough paper. I went down and bought those five-cent tablets that had, had the great big black 5 on a red cover, and it was miserable paper, and I bought a bunch of penny pencils with the miserable erasers on 'em, and I bought crayons. And I used to write my lessons on, in crayon before all the books came.

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