At Age 85, Mrs. Jessie Anderson
' - ■
Remembers Earlier Christ: liases
*• By Audrey C. Lodato
Port Staff Writer
> At "approximately" 85, Mrs.
! Jessie Anderson may be slow of foot
; and hard of hearing, but her heart's
• still in the right place.
< A member of Second Calvary
• Baptist Church since shortly after
. moving to Charlotte in 1939, Mrs.
; Anderson was very active in church
• life until becoming homebound
i about three years ago. She taught
; Sunday School for 20 years, was a
; member of the choir and deaconess
I board, ushered, and served in the
; missionary department and on the
' kitchen committee.
^ “I just loved church,” the smiling
; Mrs. Anderson recalls. “I was
brought up in the church.”
I Bringing up, for Mrs. Anderson,
| occurred in Georgia, where she
• married Ed Anderson. Widowed
,‘ since 1933, she decided to move with
her seven children to Charlotte six
years later because her people were
; here.
; When asked about her early
Christmases, Mrs. Anderson re
members her first Christmas as a
tiny girl. “Santa Claus came to me.
He didn’t come as much as he does
now, but he always came to me,”
she says. On Christmas Day, her
family would go to church in the
morning. Her favorite gifts were a
special doll and a wagon.
In more recent years, and until
she was unable to get out, Mrs.
Anderson spent Christmas visiting
her grown children’s families.
“I’ve always enjoyed Christmas,”
the octogenarian smiles. "I enjoy
exchanging gifts and just celebrat
ing Jesus' birthday.”
This Christmas, family will come
to her. Daughter Deborah Williams
will prepare a dinner of turkey,
ham, pies, and other good things to
eat.
Mrs. Jessie Anderson
—Heart’s still In right place
Mrs. Anderson has 13 grandchil
dren and eight great-grands. Most of
the family still live in Charlotte. She
occasionally gives the young ones
advice on how to act and being good,
she says.
There’s quite a big difference, she
admits, between the way the world
is now and the “olden days.” Now,
she believes, things are better than
they used to be.
Mrs. Anderson states that she
always made New Year’s resolu
tions. “I always wanted a little
better life the next year than the
year before,” she explains.
If she could change anything in
her life, she concludes, it would be to
be able to walk again and to “do the
things I used to do.” Her final wish
this Christmas season? “Just to
keep on living.”
■ UNC-G Theatre Play Selected
For ACTF Regional Competition
Special To The Post
Greensboro - The Theatre of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro (UNC-G) has been in
vited to present its production of
“Mournin’,” an original play by
drama graduate student Carolyn
Cole, at the Southern regional Ame
rican College Theatre Festival at
Catawba College in Salisbury on
February 11-15.
In addition to UNC-G, five other
The schools are N.C. Central Uni
versity, University of Alabama,
University of Louisyille, Virginia
Commonwealth University, and
Troy State University". “Mournin’”
will be presented on February 14.
We are extremely proud and
honored to have ‘Mournin’’ select
ed for ACTF. It is a tribute not only
to Carolyn, but to all the faculty,
staff and students-both from UNC-G
and N.C. A&T State University
who worked on the show,” said Tom
Behm, director of UNC-G Theatre.
“We hope that many theatregoers
from this area will want to go to
Salisbury for our performance on
Valentine's Day.”
Ms. Cole, a former resident of
Goldsboro now living in Greens
boro, has rewritten parts of the play
following suggestions by ACTF ad
judicators and playwright Joseph
Walker ("The River Niger”), who
critiqued the production.
Two students in the production
also were nominated for Irene Ryan
Acting Awards. They are Robin L.
Monteith of Charlotte, who played
Eula, and Tony L. Patterson of St.
Albans, N.Y., who played Cleophus.
Carolyn Cole
. ... Rewrote parts of play
Playwright Roland Reed, a drama
professor at UNC-Charlotte, said of
UNC-G Theatre’s production of
“Mournin’”: “I look on the experi
ence with ‘Mournin’’ as among the
most exciting ACTF adventures I’ve
had in my five years of traveling to
new plays.” Reed was one of the
festival’s adjudicators who selected
“Mournin’” for the regional event.
The play has been endorsed for
entry in three ACTF playwriting
competitions:
-The National Student Play
wrighting Award, which is for the
best original play written by a
drama student in the United States
during the year.
-The Lorraine Hansberry Award,
which recognizes the best new play
written by a drama student on the
black experience.
-The Janet Chambers Award,
which recognizes the best new play
by a drama student addressing the
experiences of women.
Presented November 13-17 in
Aycock Auditorium at UNC-G,
“Mournin’” was directed original
ly by Karma Ibsen-Riley, a UNC-G
assistant professor of drama. An
original play by Ibsen-Riley is being
considered for production in Chi
cago. She has requested that Dr.
Herman Middletpn, a UNCG Excel
lence Foundation Profesaorof
drama, take over the director’s
duties for the ACTF presentation.
Middleton has worked with Ms.
Cole on the “Mournin’” script since
she first read it during the summer
of 1984 in Middleton’s playwright
ing course. “Three weeks of re
hearsal will be necessary as we have
a completely revised first act and
many changes throughout the play
to incorporate,” said Middleton.
r ollowing the regional festival, six
productions from across the country
will be selected for presentation
March 31 - April 13, 1986, at the
Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts in Washington, D.C. The only
UNC-G Theatre production to ad
vance all the way to the national
event was “The Oresteia,” direct
ed by Middleton in 1974.
Two other UNC-G Theatre produc
tions, “The Homecoming” (1978)
and “Enrico IV” (1977), were
selected for presentation at regional
ACTF events.
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