Dora "Dodie" Harrison

Courtesy of Western Regional Archives

FOCUS

Performance Art

ROLE

Student

ATTENDANCE

1941 - 1943

BIRTH

1923-04-11

New Orleans, LA

DEATH

2012-10-14

Los Angeles, CA

Dora was a student from fall 1941 to spring 1943. While a student, she participated in the production, Ethan Frome.

Courses Taken

Fall 1941-1942:Dramatics I with Wunsch, Music I with Evarts, History ofCivilization with Radin, Introductory Writing with Wunsch (dropped), Dramatics II withWunsch, American History with Boyden.

Spring 1941-1942: Dramatics with Wunsch, Types of Literature with Kurtz, History of Civilization with Radin, Music I with Evarts, Review of Mathematics with M.Bergmann, Dramatics Tutorial with Wunsch.

Fall 1942-1943:Shakespeare and Elizabethan England with Kurtz, Readingin Philosophical Classics with Straus, Introductory Botany with Voigt, Eukinetics forActors II with Kahl, The Seeing of Art with Albers, Advanced Dramatic Production with Wunsch, Community Work Program with Wood.

Winter 1942-1943: Shakespeare and Elizabethan England with Kurtz,Europe 1600-1800 with Bentley, The Seeing of Art with Albers, Dramatic Production III with Wunsch, Stage Design and Construction with Kopp, Review of Mathematics withM. Kopp, Tutorial in Advanced Eukinetics with Kahl, Sociology with Miller, Community Work with Wood.

Spring 1942-1943: Shakespeare’s History Plays with Kurtz, The 19th Century with Bentley, Introduction to Scientific Analysis of Society with Miller, Operas of Mozart with Jalowetz, Stage Design and Construction with Kopp, Community Work with Wood

Portrait of Dora Harrison.Dora Harrison in Robert Wunsch's study.Dodie Dora Harrison leaning out a Studies Building window, Lake Eden campus, ca. 1942.Students around the Studies Building fireplace, Lake Eden campus.
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