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And the Bea and the Beat Goes on ... and on and On, F T Goes on ... And the ncOLIVIAhor Volume VI, No. 1 A MEILY SOCIETY Winter 2008 And the Beat Goes On ... and On and On, for This Alum Life is for living, despite our age or condition. If behind the book and their role in finishing it. In addi- we can sing, we should sing. If we can write, we tion, they have created a video program, which includes should write. We should always be in search of a a humorous dramatic reading from the book. new experience. Always be ready to commit our- It’s no wonder Kay’s having trouble finding time selves to a new interest. to work on the new book, but odds are she will. She has hose are the words of her father, noted Co- been a successful multi-tasker ever since her Western Tlumbus, Ohio, journalist Mardo Williams, but graduation. She received a B.Sc. in education from OSU Kay Williams ’55 has most emphatically made his phi- and taught high school English in Columbus — direct- losophy her own. ing the junior class play — while writing movie and With her first suspense novel, Butcher of Dreams, theater reviews for the Columbus Dispatch. still hot off the presses [see Fall ’07 Bulletin], she and But her longtime dream was to be an actress. She co-author Eileen Wyman are already at work on a se- quit teaching, tried living in New York quel, another mystery, that opens in Leningrad in 1991. City but after nine months opted for Meanwhile — in San Francisco, where she got her eq- another enterprise — uity card and landed choice roles in Kay and her sister, Jerri such plays as Miss Jairus, Great God Williams Lawrence (an Brown, School of Scandal, Hamlet, OSU grad), are taking The Balcony and The House of their show on the road. Bernarda Alba (with the then-famous When Mardo Williams San Francisco Actors Workshop) and Kay as Cybel, in died in 2001, at age 95, As You Like It (for the Santa Clara Uni- O’Neill’s The Great God Brown he left behind an in- versity Shakespeare Festival). complete novel, One Next came two years with Vanguard Theater of the Last Dance: It’s Never Kay Williams (left) and her sister, Pittsburgh Playhouse, then back to New York. There Too Late to Fall in Jerri Lawrence, are intent upon she lived in a six-floor walkup (“a women’s residence showing the “over-60 crowd [who] Love, called by one re- feels invisible in our youth- that provided free breakfast!”) while auditioning for viewer “a sweepingly dominated society” that “they don’t regional repertory theaters — and was hired by the Jack- elegant romance have to sit in a corner and wait for son, Mississippi, Theater Center to replace Mercedes [which] celebrates the life to happen.” McCambridge as Regina in The Little Foxes. importance of living in the moment and never giving “It was an exciting time for theater in NYC,” Kay up in the search for love.” Kay and Jerri finished it and says. “I acted in a number of new off-Broadway plays had it published in 2005. It promptly won Best Regional ... more challenging and more fun than acting in a play Fiction for the Great Lakes region in the 2006 Indepen- that had been successfully produced and ‘set in stone.’... dent Publisher Book Awards. Since then, the sister act When Manhattan Plaza (‘The Miracle on 42nd Street’) has been appearing at libraries, senior centers, book became available, I was lucky and qualified for an apart- clubs and women’s organizations to discuss the ideas ment, by now loving New York. At that time, the neigh- The Meily Society, named for distinguished alumna and benefactress Olivia Meily Brice, Class of 1866, was established in 2001 to honor our Wise Able Vital Elder alumnae who have celebrated their 50th reunion and to recognize and encourage the knowledge and energy they bring to the WCAA. “The Anchor” is a periodic newsletter published exclusively for its members. Catherine Bauer Cooper, Editor • WCAA, Inc. • 325 S. Patterson Ave. • Oxford, OH 45056-2499 (513) 529-4400 • E-mail: [email protected] A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTERN COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION, INC. page 2 The Anchor A Compelling Mystery in a Theatrical Setting borhood From Scrapbook and Album Sara Lee Burneson,* A reviewer, 08/20/2007: was pretty I loved it. I was pulled immediately into the tension seedy — More from Kay Williams ’55 as she looks back at of the mysterious and frightening events. The behind the scenes life of the theatre and the complex even dan- her senior year as a theater major: personalities who staff it create a fascinating setting gerous — I have very warm memories of Ruth Limmer and as the mystery develops and the suspense becomes unbearable. Suspicion as to the perpetrator builds but living her playwriting class. (Her first year at Western was in many directions and I found myself wanting to here even- my senior year and to me she was like a breath of fresh talk to the lead character, Lee Fairchild, to advise her. Eventually I succumbed. I ignored the world tually be- air.) With her encouragement I wrote my first play. I around me and read to the end nonstop. came one of still have the note she wrote me: “…The last act is great. *That would be Sara Babcock Burneson ’55, re- the catalysts The whole play is great. Now start casting…” She viewing Butcher on the Barnes & Noble web site. for Butcher wanted me to direct it and present it as my senior the- of Dreams ater project. Unfortunately, Bill Duncan didn’t agree. [see box below]. And hey, the apartment was great (still Ruth became a lifelong friend. is) — not too small, with a balcony overlooking the Hudson. The neighborhood has gone so upscale that we now have a Starbucks in our building.” A stint as assistant to an award-winning indepen- dent filmmaker allowed her time during the day to au- dition, gave her production and acting credits, and took her to both the Cannes Film Festival and Leningrad In- ternational Documentary Festival (which, as mentioned, figures into the work-in-progress). Exit actress, enter writer. Feeling the need “to take a ‘real’ job so I wouldn’t be destitute after I retired,” Kay joined a physician as he set up a Primary Care Resi- dency Track at NYU Medical Center. (She still works Kay’s “Kid Show,” Alice in Wonderland there part-time.) Full-time employment put an end to Alice in Wonderland became my senior project. her auditioning, so she turned to writing — short sto- That turned out well because I met Kathy Piper [’58], ries at first. “I soon found that I didn’t miss acting all then a freshman, also a theater major. She designed a that much. With fiction writing I had total control and gorgeous mask for the White Rabbit, played by Mary could play all the characters!” Sicer Moore [’55]. At one of the first rehearsals, Mary So, true to her father’s philosophy and inspired by (wearing the mask) stepped off the apron of the stage his example, Kay Williams — Mystery Writer — is and broke her arm. None of us realized the eye holes learning a new role. were too small for clear vision. Of course, the mask had to be scrapped (and I believe we had to cast some- The idea for this book [Butcher of Dreams] came one else as the White Rabbit while poor Mary recov- after we moved into Manhattan Plaza, a housing com- plex for performing artists in Hell’s Kitchen. ...Live nude ered — I’m not sure). Kathy and I became close friends shows, erotic bookstores, x-rated movies were just a and remain so to this day. block away from our apartment complex. Crack cocaine I loved playing Andromache in The Trojan Women was sold by dealers in the streets. Prostitutes blatantly my senior year. It was beautifully directed by Bill solicited. In the mid-’80s, 42nd St. between 7th and 8th Duncan and was warmly received by Western audiences. avenues was considered one of the worst blocks in the I’m only sorry we didn’t get to perform it outdoors in city for crime. By the time we finished the book, the Disney Corporation had renovated the Amsterdam The- the nature theater. That would have been a real treat ater, moved in The Lion King and Hell’s Kitchen was and I’m sure, very challenging. I auditioned for Denison well on its way to being gentrified. Now our area is one Summer Theater the year I graduated from Western us- of the safest, cleanest neighborhoods in New York City. ing Andromache’s moving speech (before the Greek sol- — Kay Williams and Eileen Wyman diers throw her young son over the wall to his death). The Meily Society page 3 And 1937-38 was a good year! ’38 classmates The Catharine Gerber Award Jane Noble Miller and Mariana Reed reminisce: Jane: Closing the dorm, McKee Hall, was my re- t the time of their daughter Cate’s death, Don sponsibility as house chairman every evening. A couple Aand Betty Sipe Gerber ’52 looked for a way of girls, who dated regularly, were prompt in their “good to honor her memory and support students pursuing in- nights.” I praised them later — only to find that both terests similar were married at the time and had kept it secret as it was to hers (which not permitted. ... I also got to flick all the campus lights were many!).
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