Lillian Scalzo Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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Let's see, you have a unique art course here. Well, thia talks about the
course in architecture focusing on Frank Lloyd Wright. Was this a course
that was given? Do you remember?
A: Yes.
Q: Oh, you have been a member of the Vachel Lindsay Association, right?
A: Oh, yes.
Q: And how long have you been involved in that?
A: Ever since its beginning. I was one of the founders of it.
Q: You were an officer?
A: Yes.
Q: Which office did you hold?
A: Well, I was vice-president for I don't know how many years. (laughs)
Q: And your main duty there was to . , . to what? Just keep up the
house?
A: Well, that's most of our duty is to keep up the house and help out
Elizabeth [Graham] when she needs help to go through the house.
Q: Did you do some tours yourself?
A: Oh, yes, yes. And then whenever she had a program. I gave two
programs for them, one on Vachel Lindsay as an artist and then I gave
another program on--I always stuck to his art part. But that was about
all you do with the Vachel Lindsay Society.
Oh, sometimes you take
certain visitors through when Elizabeth can't, but she's there most of
the time.
Q: Right. Now here is a publication in 1970 talking about . . .
A: Well, that's the International Enamel Show in which I had a piece of
enamel.
Q: Okay. And this was in 1970.
A: Yes. That was quite an honor because that was International.
Q: Right. I can see that it is. It's very nice.
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