Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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skin and the other, he got a commission in the Army, and he was off and gone d went to. .. he
rattled around the Illinois states here while the war got started, then he went tolchina, Burma,
India theater, spent a year in Kumling, China, and he was a Lieutenant Coloneljat twenty three.
(chuckle) That's the kind of an organizer he is, and then when he came back hq worked for the
telephone company and had three different chairs as a vice-president and still wrkes for them at
the age of seventy five at half time.
Q. Today?
A, Yes, today. At sixty-five everybody up in that upper eschelon is supposed to be out, so they
hired him back
Q. Did ye marry?
A. Yes. He married Weque Woods. Do you know Weque?
Q, Only fiom her friends and relatives.
A, She was Edith English known as Weque and that's only because she was b m in Weque,
Tonsing, Michigan. ( chuckle)
A. That's right, and the spelling of that is unusual but I'l get that later.
Q, Is she still living? And do they have children?
A. Yes, they have two.
Q. Two children as well. No big families.
A. A girl and a boy. And he's a hot-shot too. The kid is.
Q. Did he go to the University of Illinois?
A. No.
Q. He sapped out?
A. No, no. OE course they lived in Evanston and he went to. .. he went to Loyolla up there as a
kid and studied Chinese. I think he had seven yeas of Chinese &d then he wem to the Univvrsity
of Southern California and got his degree in Asiatic Studies and then he got into banking. i
Q. Did he ever work in Asia?