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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Doris McCuan moved to the Bay Area in 1942 to join part of her family working at the Kaiser shipyards. She remembers ice skating in the winters in Minnesota and carpooling to work at the shipyards. Later, she became head general auditor. She tells of looking for housing in El Cerrito and attitudes toward union membership, as well as sentiments toward Japanese Americans during World War II, and feelings about racial integration.