Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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know, more or less today, I don't how what it'll be tomorrow. Q. It's a big job. A. Yes, it's a big job. Q. A lot of responsibility. A. And his wife is at the First. . ,they have two children now and they have a Poliash nanny (chuckle) whose chased along with them. She's at First National Bank. Q. And about the daughter. A. The daughter. (Chuckle) She's done everything and I think she's. . .wheread she graduate fiom? I think she went to Northwestern and she's also gone to a school in Chicago on Interior Decoration and Design that's one of the top ones. She's very capable and she about thirty nine or forty now, 1 guess. She's a policewoman. (Chuckle) Q. She's very different that his son. A, Yes. She's done everything. She's worked for Marshall Fields and all therest of them. But that's what she is at the moment. Without her parents howing it, she had a cw, a foreign car that had to be something recalled on it, so she took it out to the dealers, and there were a bunch or people standing around across the street and a big sign-up, EXAMS or something, and it was the area police station, and she had time on her hands, walked across the street. . she's not afraid of anything, she walked across the street, went in and asked, "what's going on?" They said, "We're having examinations for the entcance into the Police Academy and we're lookiag for women that have college degrees. Are you interested?" And she said, "Well, sure, I haven't anything else to do." She took the exam and passed it, (chuckle) And then they gave her a physical exam and she'd been a swimmer and all kinds of athletics, and so a year ago she went to the Police Academy up there. They paid her $32,000 a year while she did it. She's bees accepted, as of Christmas, and she's out riding a beat (chuckle) at nights! Q. Where? A, Well at least it's North and West in Chicago. So she went six months to the Academy and now she's. . .and my brother said she's just. . .then she told her father and mother, which I guess they nearly blew a fuse, and my brother had been on the police advisory comflLittee or what ever they have up there, cause he's in everything. At one time he was on forty org-tions. Have you ever heard of Hull House up there? It's one of the great old, old organizations for training people and things. They've never been in the black until he'd been president of it. In a couple of years he got the red off there.
Q. Well, he's quite a guy, A. A terrific guy. Q. Well, we should get back to you now. I I A. We'll get back to me, Q, You're very different, A. Very different, Oh, and by the way, he's a very fie cartoonist. Q. Now, we have to get back to you. A. All right. Where were we? We were gating me to St. Agnes or Blessed Sacrament. . . Q. Then where did you go? A. Springfield High School when there was only one high school except for &ls. The girls went to convents in those days and never. . .there was only Springfield High School, That was it. About 1800 kids. Q. Just boys? A. Oh no, Q. But you say except for girls. . .? A. The girls. They had Catholic Schools for what we called the West End Cmvent That's the Sacred Heart out there and the other one was Ursuline and they were high schools for girls. Q. So were there fewer girls consequently at Springfield High School then boys? A. No, there were 1800 there or thereabouts. Q. But you had Griffin too didn't you in those days? A. GriEin wasn't started yet. It was started right after. Q. I thought Griff~m was earlier than Sacred Heart, It's,the other way around, A. They were both going before Gsiffin.
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