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My Senior Year I participated in BJU's 200 member Oratorio which traditionally performed Handel's Messiah for the Greenville community during Thanksgiving week. I remember the orchestra leader Dr. Dwight Gustafson's 'pep talk' to us the night of performance..

"Sing your best. When will you ever get to sing Messiah in a 200 member Oratorio accompanied by a full orchestra in a 2000 seat auditorium again?"

He was right.

We Speech and Radio students were always helping one another out.Our Play Production class produced Pride and Prejudice on the stage of the Concert Center. The class divided up the various production roles among ourselves (I was in charge of props) and we pulled our actors from outside. That's also how I ended up as one of the wicked step-sisters in Cinder-Riley for the Drama Production WorkShop. In Mr. Pratt's Readers Theater class, we called on one another, and friends and room mates for our productions. As a change in pace, Jim Baker, a senior in radio, asked me to play a character named Mrs. Offet in his senior radio production on the life of Abraham Lincoln.

As I stated above, undergraduate BJU speech students were required to do a public recital to graduate. Graduate speech students on the other hand had to write and produce an original drama, usually performed at Vespers. In Ruth Clement's play Africa's Prodigal about the life of Saint Augustine I played the role of Videa and also a woman holed up in the siege of the basilica. I also did the make-up for the three young women who portrayed some of the vices of young Augustine