Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

a child.
A. We forgot something in there as a child.
Q. We haven't covered a lot of things, I'm sure.
A. We forgot Helen Sterickex's Nursery School. There were no Kindergarted's in those days.
Q. She's not that much older than you? Oh you mean HELEN Stericker?
A, This is old George Stedcker's sister. Dkl you remember the Stericker Hovse there on
Second. The yellow brick house, The family. . .they tore it down recently and made another
parking lot.
Q. They had two houses there. They were entirely different style.
A. Well this was the yellow brick one right on the corner.
Q. More Colonial Style wasn't it? Revival?
A. Yes, that was old Dr. Stericker. The father of George Stericker who had built the house and
he had these two kids, George and Helen. Maybe somebody else, I don't know. Helen had a
Kindergaten and she'd been to school up in Evanston there. It's still there. National School or
something or other but that was Kindergarten. She picked us up, us kids at me and a half or
four years old. I'l show you pictures of that, of some of the Eds,
Q. Well, that's great We'll start there then. What kind of a youngster were you? Do you
remember? You were a handsome young man,
A. I would say I was fairly shy, really. Kitty took it out of me. It's a good tljng.
Q. She brought you out? You were shy? What did you do as a child? Who were your fiends?
A. Built model airplanes, model boats. And what'd I do on Saturdays? Oh, bp the way, the
Kindergasten. . .she came around in an electric car that was like a great big fi&-bowl and the
doors were on the sides and the driver sat on a bench seat in the back with a tiller, like this, (he
demonstrates) and on the end of it was the horn and you could roll this, and &re were two
swivel seats up in front and cut glass bud vases, You know about those? And she'd come around
and pick us kids up. . .I went two or three winters. These were winter deals. But she'd go
around and pick up all us kids and crowd us into this and drive us to her home and we'd go up
there all morning and then. . .oh, that was fun. I'll never forget those days. 'Qen Saturday's, I
went to the art Club. Bunch Bunn and I and Paul Barker. We all went out to, the Saturday
classes at the Art Club. We were eleven and twelve years old and I think we W d about this at