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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1978
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Corps of Cadets members relaxed their pace Saturday for an
afternoon of fun. The noon to 4 p.m. bash was held at a park
by East Gate. Above, Joel Rolling samples some chili and at
right Rich Schrader and Denise Tanner from Fowler Hall
enjoy the kissing booth. Fowler Hall president Wendy Clark
said Fowler made $50.25 from kisses despite “freebies” given
to Corps staffers and others. The cadets acted like gentle
men, she said. “No mashers — no wandering hands,” she
added.
Battalion photos by Paige Beasley
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81-year-old collects history, magic
Ex-architect still gets
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ELGIN, III. — The old man
walked down the street pushing his
wheelchair in front of him.
“Something to lean on,” he said.
"Get tired, have something to sit in.
Meet a friend, sit and chat. Meet a
kid, do a trick.
The black hand-lettered sign
reading “ELMER GYLLEGK, Ar
chitect” near the old cement steps
leading to his basement workshop
began fading long ago. But the
magic one encounters inside upon
meeting the spry 81-year-old is very
much alive.
Gylleck is surrounded by such
things as antique maps and charts.
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punching bags, stained glass from
one of Elgin’s two original churches
and thousands of photographs. He
has more stories to tell and theories
about things than anyone has time
to hear.
Give him a ping-pong ball and
he’ll make it disappear.
Ask about the dozens of photo
graphs on the walls and he will show
you boxes where he is holding twice
as many more.
Ask him about children and he
will dust off his vaudeville dummy,
“Twinkletoes.” He performed with
it as a ventriloquist on local televi
sion several years ago.
“Children still come to my door to
watch me do this. It s much better
for them than cutting out paper
dolls and watching television.
Ask about his town and he will
recite a list and show you photo
graphs of Elgin’s first settlers. He
will unveil his 1-lOOth scale model
of Elgin as it looked in 1855, com
plete with outhouses. “You can’t
forget those, he said.
Ask about keeping fit and he ll
offer you a cure for arthritis and hit a
punching bag in time with a John
Philip Sousa record pulled from a
nearby shelf.
“It’s a lost art, this punching, he
repeated until the march was over.
“Even Muhammed Ali doesn’t do it
like I do.
Asked for an example of his ar
chitectural expertise, he said he de
signed his workshop. He also dis
played a book with at least 200
copies of miniaturized blueprints he
had printed in a family homes col
umn during the 1950s.
He claims to have so many hob
bies "if you took something away.
I’d just get something else going to
take its place.
"I used to be a figure skater, too,
until I got arthritis. But as long as
my hands are working, I can do just
about everything else.
Gylleck has spent his life in Elgin,
an industrial city of 56,000 popula
tion northwest of Chicago. His pa
rents, Swedish buttermakers, set
tled there in 1892.
In his youth, he was a professional
ventriloquist and a magician. He at
tended the Armour Institute and
the Bo/.ar Institute of Design in
Chicago, but went off to World War
1 and never graduated.
After the war, he set up his own
architectural firm. He is an honor-
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