Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

you're there for five or six maybe. Now you had two more years basically of
Illinois?
A. Yes, then I switched to architecture.
Q. So how many more years did you have &r that?
A. I went to two summer schools in order to pick up stuff, I had too many credits that I couldn't
use for architecture so I got out of there in January of 1938. So I was over thdre, yes, in about
five years, four and a half but I went to two summer schools. One at the Art Qstitute in Chicago
and the other one at Catholic University at Washington.
Q. Have you always been artistic? And your brother as well, obviously?
A. Yes.
Q. Were your mother and father artistic as well? Did you pick that up from ewer of them?
A. Mother was quite artistic, yes.
Q, The flair if nothing more,
A. She had. . .
Q. Really drew, . .
A. I've got a lot of pictures that she did.
Q, So you carried in the genes, A lot of times that doesn't happen. But both of you are artistic
with a different style, you and your brother.
A. Yes, he's done a lot of nice work but he's more into 'cartooning' or wonderful cartoons.
Q. How old were you when you discovered your art? Were you in college as an engineering
student when you decided to become an architect?
A. Tt was not for me. Engineering was not for me.
Q. why?
A. I couldn't stand it, Them-dynamics. The only thing I had fun in was the foundry and
machine shop in the junior year. Oh, I was wonderful &I the lathes and stuff p e that and in the
foundry making the clay cores for the stuff we were casting. !