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Trutter, architect, discusses his family history, growing up in Springfield, job at Producers Dairy, everyday life in the 1920s and 30s, Lake Springfield, attendance at the University of Illinois, architectual work, designing schools, designing for the handicapped, courtship and marriage, creating jigsaw puzzles, and world travels.

Memoir, 82 pp. Interview by Eugenia Eberle, 1995 OPEN

Scope and Contents Turner, WWII veteran and businessman, discusses his boyhood in Petersburg, Illinois, his family, atteding Petersburg-Harris High School, and fraternity life at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He also recalls his Navy Air Corps service in WWII in the "Kingfisher Squadron," catapault sea planes on the Battleship Texas.The memoir also includes copies of reminiscenses from and correspondence with members of the USS Texas Veterans Association.2 tapes, 180 mins., 48...

Scope and Contents Victor, wife of Benjamin Victor (above), recalls her early years growing up in a Jewish family in the small town of Worden, Illinois, her parents, moving to Edwardsville, attending high school there, her early interest in speech and acting, attending Washington University and the Morse School of Expression in St. Louis, her marriage to Springfield pharmacist Benjamin Victor in 1931, the birth of her children, and the death of her son Michael at the age of 20. She also discusses the...