Mark Heyman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A: Wes carte frcan an affluent fdly ard the way he spent money, it
was clearly nut f m Mr. Wrightls pocket. Jack did nut. He came out
of high -1 and johd the Taliesh. He canvt frrnn Evanston High
School. I assume he ms paid -. I dmlt think it was much.
At one time, Mr. might haqht cars for senior apprerrtices. They
bught a ~ 1- Minx, painted red and black. Arrl they were there
vhen I got there in 1954 and they were pretty well worn, but sme
seniors have them. So he gave thean cars. I1m quite sure Jack and
the Etecretary. He did seaetarial work, tdephme. papers, bills,
letters, and all that kind of [tkixrg] , tyPm and mt not. Wtt he
was an accmpliahed hterior designer and he did a lot of mrals for
Mr. Wright for 1- Mldings like the Price in Arizma and for
laxgehames. He~vexrypesrsanableaswell. Hemilddealwith
clients m the telephone, and in m.
Q: Can ym give me a profile of the -ices, that is to say, the
charamistics in general -?
A: No, thatls very difficult. I1d say there were tw kinds,
Amricam and ncm-Amaericans. I mean, I'm trying to break it dam.
The non-Arrrericans were different because they am^ fmm a long
diEttarzceardmstof~~~~teamhi~,maybe~o
t w o y e a r s a u t o f ~ ~ WhenIwasth@m,wehadtwo
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fram Ida. Orre f- Japan was the sml of an ~~ mo mrwd
with Mr. Wright on the IsJrperial Hotel. We had thm fmm Italy, South
Arrrerica, a qle of amtries.
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Ard they also generally, at least
whenfwa~there~cmrreforcmyear. TheyhadaCanrmi-, itwasa
big expense, a big thing in their lives, and then they wmt back. we
hadaSwisscmplethatareforaytar,welltwoywm. 'Iherewas
b h a I was at Wiesin £ran China * had been there a nuher
of-, SOtherewaswnreexOeprtimto [theoneyear]. But,
basically, the foreign archi- were mre hmqmms in their age,
their baclqmund, and their camdtment.
Q: So, their assocation was more like a pstqmkate fellamhip
Y=?
A: Yes.
Q: They m professid architacts already anl . . .
A: Yes. I dmlt knm hrrw Mr. Wright se1ed.d then or, ym kmw,
through recrcarplrerdatims. There w@re enaqh people all wer .the world
wfio knewm. Wright or. . . So, he toak tha on faith. He didn't
usually interview them. Nw, the ones fmn the united States d&
m the great el mybe 80 percent, are mu21 mre wmems. WhenIwasthere, therewas~fellcrwwhohadjust~ted-had
been there six mwrths before I was-he graduated frrarn a high &ool in
Wisconsin, not far frm Taliesin in a mall Wiscrmsin tcrwn. His
fa- was a fanner. Although, I lacrw that he was rather
sophisticated because this fellow just m a t e d fmn a rural hi*
schoolwas~ofthefewwhoread'&leNewYorkerevery~.
(laughter) Again, this apprenkia I mrrticmed last th you to