Edward G. Lueders, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, February 1, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 326 and 327

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EDWARD G. LUEDERS February 1, 2000 me. EDW: Some kids sort of get into early hand-to-eye coordination. I think eye-to-mind and imagination coordination is something separate, and perhaps a proclivity is something that some kids have, and some don't. WIN: Remember teachers that left a mark or impression on you in your elementary school years? EDW: I can remember them, but I don't feel any outstanding relationship with them, one or another. I've rehearsed my teachers because my own career as a teacher made me do this, to see where things were working and where they weren't. WIN: What about when you got to high school? EDW: In high school, the English teachers were the ones that had their effect on me. And there were two teachers in my Amundsen High School years that I felt were outstanding. Quite different from one another, which was an advantage too! One was a Miss Arndt, very sweet, young, and with it in the Depression days. I had a crush on her, which continued, but with some disillusionment, after she got married at mid-semester and became Mrs. Andrews. The other one was a Mrs. Baxter, a rather harsh, not a particularly attractive person, but a good teacher in the process of seeing that those of us that had any talent were pressed to use it. I make this generalization too, and this is probably only that for me, but it may have something to do with the whole period. While my elementary school was sound and 7