Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Q: (indicates af f innative)
A: Yes, there's a fellow by the name of Walter Schaefer who taught me
constitutional law and some other courses and he later became a Supreme Court
justice for the State of Illinois. There was a fellow named Fred Inbau who
was one of my professors there, taught me evidence. There was a fellow named
Irving Goldstein who taught trial technique. Professor Havighurst taught
contracts. Professor Nathaniel Nathanson who taught administrative law. And
let's see, I'm trying to remember some of the other professors. I can
remember the fellow who taught conflicts of interest. Oh, Professor Cary
who taught real property--real popular, he was quite a guy.
Q: Have you kept in touch with any of those individuals since?
A: Yes, particularly Justice Schaefer. Yes.
Q: (pause) Other than the dinners with the two girls, did you have any
particular social life that you followed at all?
A: Very little social life that two-year period.
Q: A little bit busy at that time?
A: Very busy.
Q: Yes, sir. What did you do during the four weeks you had off during that
time?
A: Well, I would probably go down to Arkansas to see my folks at least once a
year, either between one semester or the other. Normally at Christmas, I
would stay here and work because there would be plenty of opportunities, you
know, the business was good.
Q: Yes.
A: I would work during Christmas and I would go down to Arkansas to see them
between, say spring and the summer session, something like that. I spent the
time here working.
Q: Same type of work?
A: Yes, waiting table.
Q: Where did you do that? Right downtown here?
A: Well, the first job I got was over at the Palmer House as a banquet waiter.
I worked there one night and they said that they didn't feed you and I said,
"My God, 1 never worked anywhere as a waiter where you didn't get fed." So I
didn't go back there. I started working for these nightclubs just on the
weekend which was a lot better because if I had gone as a banquet waiter at
a hotel it would have been probably every other night. You work the nightclubs