My Life in Theater
The Late Christopher Bean 1946-47 Stonewall Jackson High School Junior Class Play Actor, minor role. This was my very first play. The lead was played by Sara Jane Kahn (Moore), the woman who tried to […]
What is it About Me? Part 1 – Work & Money
What is it about me? I’m a perfectionist. Organized. On time. And I found out that I am also really, really good with
E. B. Hunt at Verona High School, Meets Ruth Brown
VERONA HIGH SCHOOL — CLASS OF 1922
VERONA, OHIO
PICTURES AND ARTIFACTS
Summer 1940 – Across the Country
Automobile trip to the San Fransisco World’s Fair. Sacremento, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone NP, Teton Mountains, Cheyenne Wyoming Rodeo, Nebraska, Rt 80 Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Grandmother’s farm of course, to Charleston, WV. We went out […]
Candis & Norman Brown Homes & Stories
It is extremely difficult to reconstruct Family History and stories accurately from 120 years
ago. That history is a combination of a
Meeting Bill Giles – Fall 1950*
I met Bill Giles for the very first time on a fall weekend at a dance and mixer at Hodge’s Hall – the men’s dormitory at Marshall College. The mixer was for their freshman residents […]
Lady Pintno (Pug)
English Bulldog, Spring 1941 – 1952 On Easter weekend 1941 while we were living in Charleston, WV, Mother & daddy planned a big visit with Mother’s sister Gladys and her family (husband Earl (EJ) and […]
Back at Home – Life After Marshall*
When I graduated from Marshall I wanted to move to Charleston, WV and get an apartment and a job and see what I wanted to do with my life. I had had enough of schooling […]
Finally . . . On My Own – Northwestern University 1955-1962
The whole winter in Parkersburg, before I went to Northwestern, I did a lot of research and writing, trying to figure out how I was going to pay for my Master’s Degree. I figured out […]
The Path to my PhD in Theatre – Northwestern 1958-1959
I don’t see this much as a story. What I did was, after I got my master’s degree, I immediately took courses in stage costuming and acting so that I would get my PhD in […]
Skidmore College – 1959-1960
1959 was my first year at Skidmore, then I went back to Wingspread. When I came back from Wingspread, Skidmore told me that this year would be my last year since they could not give […]
Flatrock Playhouse
I was an apprentice for 2-3 weeks in the summer of 1959 at the Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina.