enormous change in the skill of surgery and medicine that occurred between
 1943 and 1980 enabled people who are very competent people--possibly not
 nationally prominent--to handle with great success a problem that baffled
 the best neurosurgeon in the world at that earlier time. It is
 interesting.

D: Well, have they corrected that problem now.

R: Yes, they have. The only thing it leaves me with is a visual'problem
 which cuts off my peripheral vision to the right entirely. It is not only
 peripheral, I do not see anything to the right. I have half. Imagine
 looking straight ahead and seeing only half of what is before you. That is
 what I have, not one eye or the other, just half of the field. It took
 awhile to get used to that I can tell you. But I was lucky in that I have
 the left field and I am right handed. For instance, if I could see only
 to the right I probably could not play golf, or at least I would have to
 become a left-handed golfer. It was just a lucky break.

D: Well, good.

R: Is this too much baloney for your tape?

D: It sounds like your father was very interested in your getting an
 education.

R: No question about it. My parents were both for it.

D: Did your mother work?

R: No, she never worked. Her father was a fairly prominent person in
 Chicago. He was on the Chicago Board of Trade, and when he died, as a
 matter of fact, he was the oldest member at that time of the Board. They
 were not especially well-to-do, but comfortable, and he had a nice summer
 home. We had a less-elaborate home next to his on a lake in Wisconsin,
 which is where I spent summers until I was about sixteen.

D: What was your mother's name

R: She was named Annie Lucretia Badenoch. Badenoch is my middle name.

D: Your rather casually decided to study law?

R: In a way I drifted into it.

D: It was wither law or business.

R: It was not put to me quite cold turkey, but yes, I think so.

D: How did you decide to go to the University of Michigan?

R: First of all, even in those days it was known as a very fine institution,
 so it was a place that would be worth going to. Secondly, I had two
 friends who were there two years ahead of me, who had been very good
 friends and fraternity brothers at Rochester. I think that had something
 to do with it.


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