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JENNIFER NARDONE:

Oh, okay. So it was 48-49. And you played basketball and football. Were you involved in other activities at Lincoln?

JAMES ATWATER:

At a school like that people can't escape multiple-but, no, the choir, the band, the drama club-

JENNIFER NARDONE:

Wow, all on top of the classes.

JAMES ATWATER:

Well, yes. And, as I say, many of us did that, because, at my graduation, we were sitting there in rows, we got up, sang in the choir, go sit in the band, go back-

JENNIFER NARDONE:

Like musical chairs.

JAMES ATWATER:

Yes, because the school was so small.

JENNIFER NARDONE:

Yes. Well, you say that you don't remember there being a lot of organized interaction between Chapel Hill and Lincoln. Do you remember how you sort of viewed Lincoln, I mean Chapel Hill high when you were in high school? Did you know about what was happening at Lincoln high? Did you care about what was happening?

JAMES ATWATER:

You mean Chapel Hill?

JENNIFER NARDONE:

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, yes. At Chapel Hill High.

JAMES ATWATER:

Well, not to a great extend, but it was easy to see-bigger building, seeing that the facilities seemed to be much better than ours.

JENNIFER NARDONE:

Did you ever go inside Chapel Hill high while you were a student?

JAMES ATWATER:

I don't think so, I don't think I ever was in the building. I think I may have been on some of their athletic fields, outdoor, but I do not remember going into the building, but it was on Main Street, of course we saw it all the time.

JENNIFER NARDONE:

So you don't remember really having a lot of knowledge about what they were doing as students or-

JAMES ATWATER:

No, no. Not really.