Biography:

Educator, drama consultant. Born– Aug. 20, 1908, in Hattiesburg, Miss. Parents– William I. and Frances Yates Thames. Married– Robert I. Schwartz, June 3, 1931. Education– Mississippi State College for Women, A.B.; University of Alabama, M.A.; studied at Michigan State University. Taught at Mississippi State College, Birmingham Southern College, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Washington; child drama consultant for Loveman’s of Alabama, 1956-1967; oral communication specialist for Alabama State Department of Education; participant in programs on child drama with American Theater Association; board member on several performing arts boards; wrote for theatrical and educational publications. Birmingham Woman of the Year 1948; Birmingham’s Lady of Fine Arts in Drama 1963; received Children’s Theater Association of America’s special recognition 1974 and 1978.

Source:

Vita.

Joint_Editor:

Give Them Roots and Wings. New York; American Theater Association, 1972.

Author_and_Director

Techniques in the Communicative Process. S.l.; Interlock Film Co., 1974. (Filmstrip, record, and tapes.)