First, I was conceived in Dayton, Oh and born on July 29, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 29, 1930 – 1933, Pittsburgh, PA, Mother and Dad lived in 3 different houses during these 3 years.
1933 – March 1937, 1183 Bridge Ave, Charleston, WV. I lived here during the January 1937 Flood. The river came up to 2 feet below the street level for downtown.
March 1937 – Spring 1938, 4th Street & 10th Avenue, Huntington, WV. The entire basement of the house we rented had been hit by the January Flood. I had my first group of really good friends when I lived here.
1937 – Winter 1938, Marshall College Preparatory School
Spring 1938 – Fall 1939, Circle Rd,,Charleston, WV, Fernbank Elementary School
Fall 1939 – March 1942, 939 Ridgeway Rd, Charleston, WV in a much nicer house that was closer to my school so that I could walk to Fernbank Elementary school. This is where I lived when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
March 1942 – Fall 1942, 4th Street & 11th Avenue, Huntington, WV.
Fall 1942 – 1948, 109 1/2 Maryland Ave, Charleston, WV, Lincoln Junior High School, Grades 7 – 9. Stonewall Jackson High School, Grades 10-12.
Summer 1948, I was secretary for Herbert G. Tog at the Office of the Director of Curriculum, Kanawha County Schools, Charleston, WW
Fall 1948 – Jan 1951, Marshall College, College Hall Dormitory (Freshman, Sophomore, 1st semester Junior)
Jan 1951 – May 1952, Alpha Xi Delta Sorority House of Marshall College, Huntington, WV. I graduated from Marshall College with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree with majors in Speech & Drama and Sociology and minors in English & Psychology.
May 1952 – June 1955, Chestnut Street, Parkersburg, WV with my parents (The Lost Years) I had jobs at Midway Loan Company then in 1953 – May 1955 Metropolitan Life Insurance. I also volunteered at the Methodist Church conducting the Children’s Choir. I spent summers playing Tennis and was the Women’s City Champion runner-up.
Summer 1954, My first tour in New York City.
Summer 1955, RA Willard Hall, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for Masters Degree Oral Interpretation of Literature, Taught at the National High School Institute,
Fall 1955 – June 1956, RA Willard Hall, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for Masters Degree Oral Interpretation of Literature with a minor in Speech Education. Received Masters Degree June 1956.
Summer 1956, Apartment, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for PhD in Theater, Taught at the National High School Institute
September 1956 – Spring 1957, 2 1/2 room apartment in Spartanburg, SC where I bought my first pieces of furniture, a bed and a marble top table. I worked at Converse College, Assistant Professor & Chairman of the Speech & Drama Department where I met Tad Currie at when he was hired to work as part of the Speech & Theater Department in 1957.
Summer 1957, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for PhD in Theater, Backstage Jobs at the Northwestern Summer Theater, esp. costuming, Taught at the National High School Institute. Met John Keltner who recruited me to work at Kansas State University where I would make $1,000 more per year
Fall 1957-Spring 1958, Manhattan, KS, Teaching @ Kansas State University, Oral Interpretation & Public Speaking, Chief Stage Costumer for the Plays. Hired by John Kelter.
Summer 1958, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for PhD, Backstage Jobs at the Northwestern Summer Theater, esp. costuming, Taught at the National High School Institute.
Fall 1958 – Spring 1959, Manhattan, KS, Teaching Kansas State University, Oral Interpretation & Public Speaking, Chief Stage Costumer for the Plays
Summer 1959, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University for PhD, Backstage Jobs at the Northwestern Summer Theater, esp. costuming, Taught at the National High School Institute.
Sept 1959 – May 1962, Saratoga Springs, NY. I shared the downstairs of a very fashionable, beautiful old summerhouse mansion with a roommate. The mansions was a vacation homes owned by wealthy people from NYC. I was teaching Oral Interpretation, Theater, and was the costume designer at Skidmore College. The campus was spread throughout approximately 80 buildings in downtown Saratoga Springs. In 1960 Mother & Dad moved to Oakview Dr, Kettering (Dayton), OH.
Summer 1960, I spent in Colon, Michigan where I partnered with Tad Curry and two others and leased the Wingspread Summer Theater. I was also the Business Manager of our theater production company. We produced and staged 10 shows in 10 weeks, including Summer & Smoke, when I played the lead, Alma, for the first time.
May 1962, Cincinnati, Ohio on Whitfield Ave.
June 1964 – ~ August 1965, Cincinnati, Ohio on Ormond Ave across the street from Babette and Sigmund. I had the 2nd and 3rd floor of this house. The first summer I was there, I removed the paint from the woodwork. I sub-let the 3rd floor to Jinny Weil, that’s when I met her. Before I left for a tour of Europe with Tom Grooms, I told my landlord that I had heard rumors that they were going to sell the house and I wanted to make sure that I was going to have a place to live when I got back. She said, “oh, no! I’m not selling” but when I got back the house had been sold and I and my new roommate had 30 days to find a new place to live.
August 1965 – May 1, 1966, Cincinnati, Ohio on Orland Ave. I
May 1, 1966 – January 2016, Cincinnati, Ohio 3204 Coral Park Drive. I was tired of moving, so I decided I was going to buy a house. So dad did some searching and he’d come down and we’d go look at houses together. He found me the house. They wanted 26,000 for the house. It was a depressed market and dad was good at negotiation and he got them down to 19,000. I closed on the house in the spring and started moving in May 1. I lived there for 50 years.
January 2016 – January 2019, 5131 South Ridge Dr, Cincinnati, Ohio in my Patio Home at Twin Towers. I really enjoyed my Patio Home. I wish I could have stayed there longer. Jinny Weil, my friend from TDW and who lived with me for a short time on Ormand Avenue, lived across the street from me.
January 2019 . . . 5343 Hamilton Ave Cincinnati, Ohio. After 4 days in the hospital and 3 months in Twin Towers Rehab, it was time to move into Twin Towers Skilled Nursing.