Royce Flandro, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, March 21, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 2 & 3

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ROYCEFLANDRO March 21,2000 WINN: How many siblings do you have? ROYCE: I have four brothers and one sister. WINN: You are number? ROYCE: I am number two. Paul was number one, and fifteen months later I was born. That was Fifth East. Then we moved into the house on Seventh South above Thirteenth East, almost by the cemetery in about 1924, before Beverly was born. We wanted to be close to the university, mother said. She wanted all of us to see university students coming and going. As we lived there we heard the football games, and we parked cars for the football game in our vacant lot next to us and these kinds of things. We were focused on, and planned to attend, the University of Utah from that vantage point. WINN: What were some of your childhood activities up there? I imagine you had the whole east bench, so to speak, to play with. ROYCE: Yes, we did. We had a lot of interesting times in the cemetery. WINN: That is Mount Olivet? ROYCE: Mount Olivet Cemetery. We did scouting things up there. We went to the scout training programs at the university, and we played up in the hay field and helped them mow the hay and stack the hay in the haystack. We were interested in the horses. From time to time there were sheep herds that came down moving for the winter to the summer range and back. Every time they came through they stopped in that hay field, and we were able to ride horses and help herd the sheep, and it was quite an enjoyable time there. We had many picnics up on the reservation and hiked up into the mountains across Ft. Douglas and up Emigration Canyon. We used to ride the horses up in the Hottentot Riding Academy at the mouth ofEmigration Canyon. Of course, the Hogle Zoo was there. That whole area was our playground. It was wonderful . WINN: What school did you attend. ROYCE: Douglas School for the elementary school, the Roosevelt Junior High School, 2