Some of you who read my recent blog post about my great-aunt Miriam and my uncle Sol, the two gifted thespians in our family, were surprised to learn that I had dramatic aspirations myself . (THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, June 15, 2015)
But although that’s me vamping it up as Helen Morgan, and although I did have a real aptitude for acting, I took a more conventional career path, girl-child of the 50s that I was, and became a high school librarian.
But I’ll always remember the great fun of college theatre, the happy roar of the greasepaint, and the smell of that rowdy young crowd!
Dana Susan Lehrman
Love it! You gorgeous chanteuse-y!
Merci P!
Great pictures!
Rereading this now, I am sorry I may not have thanked you sooner Cassandra, my loyal blog follower!
I beg to differ. There was nothing “conventional” about your career. As a school librarian, you well know books revolutionize lives. That makes you, a librarian, a revolutionary. Step aside Lenin. Read David McCullogh’s THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. The whole family in off-the-beaten-track Dayton, Ohio, adored books and read voluminously across manner of all subjects. What invention most revolutionized human history? Powered flight; it came from passionate readers run amuck. All in all, across generations of young readers, you lit fires one by one. What’s that about not being a TRUE Torch Singer?
Thanx Mike! You've inspired me to finish a draft I started about the rewards of my long library career, I'm calling it DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL, and yes it's about Anne Frank too. Stay tuned, I'll post it soon, And what are YOU writing now, another wonderful book?!?