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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS February 1 2000 EDW: No, I was very vague about what I was going to do. There was pressure to enter the family business, the oil company, and I did work in the office for summers while I was in high school. WIN: Did they want you to go to college before you did that, or while you did that? EDW: The same aunt, my Aunt Dorothy, my father's sister, who was the Treasurer of the oil company, wanted me to go to college and she was the upwardly mobile one in cultural matters. But, she also was interested in providing for the company, and I was to be, in her eyes, in her plans, the chemical specialist for enlarging the product line. Well, that didn't suit very well what I had in mind, if I had anything in mind. So, I kind of dodged that one. But I had no particular plans. I thought journalism might be a natural in any of its forms, and I wound up, the last summer before I went to college, as a guide at NBC, in the Merchandise Mart the NBC Radio studios in Chicago. And that was rather formative. I was in the world of celebrity, so to speak, at the lower stances. But with the sense that I felt I was entering that field of radio. And that continued with me for a while, as well. I even taught radio for a while, in my early academic career. WIN: You did? EDW: For our Speech Department, while I worked on my Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. WIN: Towards the end of your high school career, the war, in Europe, had begun. EDW: Yes. WIN: Did you have any sense of what was happening? Did you hear about that in your 13 |
