Louis Zucker,Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Hynda Rudd and Ralph DeRose, September 1 & 4, and October 24, 1972, January 25, 1973 and June 1, 1977

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LOUIS ZUCKER #1 college. I wrote verse ; I d i d not write anything but verse while I was in college. I n fact , when I entered the university, I had aspirations to develop myself into a poet worth reading. I did not have t he concentration, although I did write. I found others who were writing, and we read to each other. Then I had a French teacher when I was a sophomore who was a poet, a good one, and took me to his bosom. We became very, very good friends, and we formed a society called the "Rhymers". He was the patron, as it were, of the society. You know, we published a couple of little books, supposedly the creme of our verse ef­forts. I still have them. Nothing very serious, but it provided common ground with congenial men and women, Jews and gentiles. It was an important part of my college experience. There are two professors whom I might mention before I go on. It goes back to this Zionist thing. It happened that the very first class I went to as a freshman, the very first meeting I went to, I sat next to a chap who turned out to be a Russian Jew who was an ardent Zionist and Hebraist. There were several other interesting men in that class. In those days the university was a monastic ins ti tut ion. There were no girls in our classes. We never had any girl teachers. The only women in the place were 43