Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Q. Exactly, So what else did you do?
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A. No wait a minute. Lets move me away £ram the Mac Murray gang. We qved to Williams
Boulevard. Who'd I play with over on Williams Boulevard.
Q. Did you play in the park?
A. No, we played down behind the old Governor Yates house. There was a very low place there
and we tried co dig caves in there, and that's where my brother then had his, later on, had his
Indian tribe down there and they expanded it down there. All the neighborhood kids. Oh, and I
didn't finish why he wasn't Chief Illhiwick. He got out there and danced for @ern and he had all
the equipment, I mean he had all the feathers and stuff. And he went up to Cmp Anaceechee
which was a YMCA camp in Wisconsin for two or three summers and he taught Indian lore up
there so he was a very, very qualified guy for Chief Illhiwick. The only thing is he didn't get it
because he got out these in the middle of the stadium and did his Indian war dances and stuff and
of course those Indian dances are little foot-steps and Eddie Calb of Springfiew came out there
and, I guess he hew a lot of Indian stuff, but he got out there and you've seeq them maybe as
they gyrate around, so he got it, and John said, 'But he wasn't authentic", and they said, "We
can't see you from the top of the stadium but we can see him, authentic or no^" So that's the one
thing he didn't get at the U of I that he wanted.
Q, What a heartache!
A. By the way, was there any interest about my being at the University of Illisois over there. The
tuition was $45.00 a semester, (chuckle) Special classes might have been an additional $5.00 or
something, and the house bill at the Fraternity House was $52.50 a month and that was twenty
meals a week
Q. Not bad. It was all relative though wasn't it?
A. And bansportation from Springfield to Champaign was on the old Illinois Terminal Railroad
as we called iE, Inter-Urban. They had a special weekend pass which started Friday noon until
Monday noon and that was $2.00 round-trip to Champaign.
Q. That's not relative,
A. No. And I nearly died when I paid $2.00 for a sheet of Watman's paper fac drawing class for
architecture but we worked on it for. . .
Q. During this same time?