got my comfirmation call for next week.
for some unknown reason on Monday I'm working at MJT* instead of lionking removal.
won't know for what until I get there...
*Mary Jane Teall
"As a child, Mary Jane Houston used to stage circuses and other shows on her grandfather’s lawn in Tekamah, Nebraska, charging 2 cents admission and even building the plank seating out of lumberyard scraps. She would go on to earn her master’s in theatre from Northwestern University and direct GI productions during World War II.
Coming to Wichita in 1944, a single parent of two children, Mary Jane Teall would soon become the “First Lady of Wichita Theater.” She co-founded the Wichita Community Theatre in 1946, and was hired as professor of speech and drama at Wichita University. Retiring from WSU in 1982, as associate professor emeritus of speech communication and theatre, she would return to WSU each summer to direct the summer theatre program. In 1989, she resigned from WCT after 43 years, but continued her “Laugh at…” comedy revues and produced a number of shows with the Center Theatre for Young Audiences. A diminutive, yet highly energetic woman, she was considered to have “created theater in Wichita,” and in 1981, was inducted into the Kansas Theatre Hall of Fame. In 1989, the little theatre at Century II was renamed in her honor.
In 1994, she was driving to the Judge Riddel Boys Ranch to teach a class on improvisational theater when she was fatally injured in a car accident. To honor her memory and her great passion for theater and the Wichita community, the Mary Jane Teall Theatre Scholarship Fund was established in 1995."
http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=foundation&p=/SpiritoftheGiftBiographyProject/Biographies/MaryJaneTeallTheatreScholarshipFund/
a very neat lady that was a big part of my youth...
