Louis Philip Trutter Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

A. Not until a couple of months later. See that was '45. No, no. I was through, I didn't go to
work for Meyer anymore then. .
Q. You were working for who then?
A. For myself. Wait, I was working for Hadley and Worthington for two or
couldn't find anyplace for an office. There was no office space ANYPLACE
a partnership with Karl Bretcher who worked for Carl Meyer for years and w
up there and thought we'd work as a partnership and he managed to get a col
old Reisch Building and so we worked together for a couple of years and the]
own.
Q. What year was that?
A. That was about 1949. 1949,1950.
Q. What was your first job? After you went out on your own?
A. Oh Gosh. That's when I'd say I was with Karl Bretcher and he had the jc
over because he had something else and that was the Holland Jewelry Store d
Springfield. It's still there next t6 Mauldners with the glass you can see insid1
windows you can see on the sides.
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Q. What's been your most rewarding job over the years? What was the job 1
A. Oh, I was very pleased with Griffin High School. That was built about 15
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Q. You did the Ben Franklin?
A, I did the Ben Franklin. Washington and Jefferson Middle Schools. Then
did the Municipal Building. Bill Turley. He did the structural and engineerin
design and the other on that, I'll tell you something nobody ever thinks abom
reasonably rewarding and that is the Hope School for the Multiple Hmdicapp
vere two of us who
and I did the
hat has been
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Q. Which one?
A. The one that's out here on Lakeview. You go East Lake Drive.
Q. Tsn't there's another one on Wabash? A Hope School on Wabash?
A. There is? Is that for blind handicapped kids? I don't how anything aboa it but I know this
was started by old DOC Jordan and his wife who had a premature child that w$s haxdly six
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