Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

we&s. I didn't, bzlt I thmght so. So, I had--and I thaught I could
tell my ---I was a little bit afraid of tell- him. There wasn't
much rmtice. But anymy, I want'& his office and I remaher it had
a glass door, a double Fbmh glass dloor that was be- his office
and h. He ws an actmdy sucmssful man, but .Ule huilw looked
very ratw. He had kdlt this bhms and just maintained the
old--it was a crmvertad house, and added on to it. We were all in one
added-, sothese-~doorsthatwmtcutside. H I -
in this section-I dealt at that time with the technical problerrts of
proltuctim, shipping schedulm. It was a very cmrqlicated thhg. 1
was on the telqhans, so, I was right cutside his dmr. I rmmbzr
looking~the~dwrsandsay~, 'WhenIamIgohqinand
tellhim~thatheisnotgo~togetupsetor~?~~ Arryway,
I went in and I said, !Mike. Itve got ' totellyou. Iam
going to join Frank Uoyd Wright,I1 or =like that. I don't
think he knew I was irrterested. He was a very nice guy, but he was
just all oriented to his bus-. He just listened and I said,
tWell, I saw him on television, you haw, sahrday" and dl this kind
ofthing. Hehadara.qhideathatthemwassuchathing. I
explained it to him. He said, Wkll, if I was twenty years ycsunger, I
would do it, too.'' (laughs) And that was it. I don't
tell* other people.
Q: Yw were still livhg at ham at the *?
A: Yes.
Q: HcJw did your parerrts react to it?
A: IguesstlIqlcnewIwasintereEsted. Atthispoirrt,wellIwas
twmQ-nine, I mean, I could go anywfrere ztrrd travel and do anything,
so it was just re do- it. had stare of who he
-. I man, a god of wha he- going off the
hardle wm place.
Q: Let's place this. This -
the miq of 19543
A: Naw that I think abaut it. !Chis wts the fall mly. It nust
havebeenbeca-Iwmtinabcolttwoweeb. Igotduwn, Ithink,
early in NcJvemkr.
A: It mt have been OAdxr. It was nice weither. I this
because of going outside to the telephone and going to the Plaza and
so forth. I didntt have a coat an. But it mst have been a mild
mtoblx.
Q: Before arriving and discuvering that ycru were do- fine, did you
have same misgivings about age ok lack of architecrtural training and,
therefore,
-
being at a di-tage in wanparim with the other
fell-?
A: No. In the autabiqraphy, Wright descrb that were people
who frcan high school. As a naatter of fact, I gut there of