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 him as a professor up at the university. He was teaching a graduate class in school administration. In the meantime he had become a school administrator, that kind of thing. He was a good man. Lyle Bradford taught the a capella choir--a very famous gal in our area who turned out some fme musicians. I sat just down the row from Russell Nelson. I was there with him and learned to admire him. I remember when he came out for football. He did well in everything. He was a good musician. He sang, he was in the operas, and he was in plays. I was in a play with him as a freshman up at the U. Of course, he went on to be a general authority and a really wonderful doctor, a medical man. But as far as teachers were are concerned, of course, Mick Oswald, and Marv Pugh were my coaches. They were fine people. Sgt. Anderson was the commandant of the ROTC. Those were choice people. There were some women teachers, but I guess those are the main ones. WINN: In your circle of friends, who were you best friends at that time? ROYCE: There were some good people: Bill Doxey, Betty Boothe, and Darline Anderson. Lots of really fine people, Bill McKay. One of the men that was in that study group that we had on those Sundays was named Woolsey. His father was the manager of the Utah Light and Traction Company, all of the trolley cars that ran around. I remember he gave a really good treatise on their operation in the company. That was interesting. There were just a lot of really fine people. I had a close friend whose name was Lafe Edmunds. I had some girlfriends that were quite meaningful to me. When I was in junior high I dated Georgia Ostler who was a kind of an operatic singer. She ended up marrying a good friend of mine, Dick Christopherson, who was a good friend all through that time. When they started dating I was pleased that they were getting together. He went on to be a specialist in family life. I thought how needed he has been all through these years when the family was at risk all through these years. I was very much in favor of family life. I did a lot in our family to bring about reunions, and peace in the family, and understanding--those kinds of things. 10