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.
Summer & Smoke
Alma – Lead Role Summer 1960, Wingspread Summer Theater I spent the Summer of 1960 in Colon, Michigan where I partnered with Tad Curry and two others and leased the Wingspread Summer Theater. I was […]
Summer & Smoke
Alma – Lead Role Summer 1960, Wingspread Summer Theater I spent the Summer of 1960 in Colon, Michigan where I partnered with Tad Curry and two others and leased the Wingspread Summer Theater. I was […]
Wingspread Summer Theater, Summer 1960
Summer 1960, June 28 – September 3 I met Tad Currie at Converse College when he was hired to work as part of the Speech & Theater Department in 1957. In 1960 he invited me […]
1962 – 1972, Courter Tech
Besides the Fall play, I also did the variety shows with Mr. sullivan before he got picked up from school by the police for pornography or something. I was also in charge of the theater/auditorium […]
The Curious Savage
Courter Tech High School – Opening night was Friday, November 22, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. At 2 o’clock the PA announced that Kennedy was shot and school was . . .