MEMBER BLOG TAG: abner mccall
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:12PM | | | | Sit-In at Baylor Drug | Tags: Baylor University, Baptist, Drama, Paul Baker, Eugene McKinney, Thornton Wilder, integration, Baylor Drug, Abner McCall,
| | | | After two degrees from Baylor University, and two years teaching at Gardner-Webb, a Baptist college in North Carolina, I was invited to be a member of the Baylor Drama Department. Life Magazine, Saturday Review, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines and newspapers had given the department and its theater productions an international reputation. I was going to join my mentors, Paul Baker and Eugene McKinney. The impossible dream, had come true.
I had a wife and two young children and my first year I taught in summer school because I needed the income. That meant teaching three classes and directing a play in the summer theater program. My plan to write full-time in the summer was severely curtailed, especially since directing required the same kind of work... | | | | | |
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