Secondary School

Raytown South HIgh School

Raytown, Missouri

"Graduating with Class Distinction"

May, 1968

SAT: V620, M680 - No. 22 in a class of 550

Foreign Language: Two years of elementary school Spanish and one year of high school French

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Honor Roll (7-12); National Junior Honor Society (8-9) and National Honor Society (10-12); Optimist Oratorical Contest (9-10); high school forensics and debate (10-12); vice-president (8 and 11) and president (9 and 12) of junior high and high school drama clubs; best actor (8 and 9); best supporting actor (10 and 11); most promising speech and drama student (10); senior drama department honor (12); selected "speech star" for junior high and high school yearbooks (9 and 12).

Undergraduate School

Trinity University

San Antonio, Texas

Bachelor of Arts: English Literature

May, 1975

Foreign Language: Eighteen semester hours of elementary and intermediate college French

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Honor Roll (all semesters); Sigma Tau Delta (Honor Society for English Majors); Editor, TRINITY REVIEW (undergraduate literary magazine); Department of English Award (Top Senior in the English Department); R.O.T.C. (one year); and work-study job in the engineering department (three years).

Graduate School

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York City, New York

Master of Arts: Theatre History and Criticism

October, 1977

Doctoral Study (no degree): Theatre History and Criticism (1977-1979)

Master's Thesis: Alan Jay Lerner and the American Musical Theatre

Foreign Language: Qualified in French for the Master's Degree and continued the study of German for second foreign language for doctoral degree (not completed)

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Actor in M.F.A. acting projects; juror in "moot" courts in Columbia School of Law; House Manager of Horace Mann Theatre; Administrative Assistant to Technical Director (Columbia University School of Theatre Studies [now: Oscar Hammerstein II School of Theatre Studies]); and Administrative Assistant to divisional manager of Administrative Systems Analysis and Programming Division (ASAP), Columbia University Center for Computing Activity (CUCCA).

Master's Thesis on Alan Jay Lerner

Other Universities Attended

University of Missouri at Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

Undergraduate Liberal Arts study (no degree)

1972 - 1973

Foreign language study: two semesters of elementary college French and one semester of elementary college German

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Honor Roll (all semesters) and Dean's List (one semester); contributed to school newspaper.

University of Southwestern Louisiana

(Now: University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

Lafayette, Louisiana

Graduate study in English/Creative Writing (no degree)

1982 - 1983

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Taught two courses each of remedial and regular freshman composition and one course of freshman literature.