Through the years, I’ve had a strange love/hate relationship with Mary Doveton, the Founding Mother and Executive Director of Theatre Lawrence, formerly the Lawrence Community Theatre. Mary directed the world premiere of my play Flesh, Flash and Frank Harris (1984); and encouraged me to direct three others of my own at LCT—Hatchet Club (1983), Chambers…
Writing newspaper headlines is an art. Witness the front page story in yesterday’s Lawrence Journal-World about Bernadette Gray-LIttle, the exciting new chancellor at the University of Kansas. The headline? Gray-Little stresses worth of pursuing education. Hmmmm. Was this ever in doubt? So what’s the subtext here?
Faculty members at the University of Kansas who are fortunate enough to get a Kemper Teaching Fellowship (it comes with a $5000 cash award) are asked to each give a two-minute speech about their “teaching philosophy” at a convivial convention made even more convivial by the sumptious reception which follows the brief ceremony, at which event…