OVERVIEW

After an interview & multiple auditions in 1952, I was accepted into tha Drama Department at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. All 1st year students knew that work would be evaluated by the department faculty at the end of the academic year & students who had not made sufficient progress would be asked to leave.

 I graduated in 1956. In the 1960s, I tried to start a Performing Arts Alumni Association but was preoccupied with my career & increasing activity in Actors’ Equity Association.  (Finally in the 1970s, the Performing Arts Alumni Assn. was successfully established by Carol & Nick Gordon, Class of ‘57 Music Dept.  By 1990, it had evolved into the Performing Arts Forever Alumni Organization, PAFAO.)