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Ruth Kaylor - Her salad days extended into her 90's By: Roy Riedy |
Mrs. Ruth Kaylor started her association with Highlands Little Theatre with the first production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, directed by Marian Dunham, in November,1986, the first play of the Twelfth Season. Ruth's name appeared with the Gourmet Staff in the Salad Bar/Desserts section and reappeared there in stage bills for 60 other productions during the next 13 years. It was last seen in the program for the second production of The Sound of Music, directed by Frank Oberhausen, in April, 1999, Ruth was now 92. Befittingly it appeared on the page devoted to the Gourmet Staff. Her name follows Vic Damigella, the Chairman of the Salad Bar/Desserts, along with her long time "bar" friends Margaret Donahue and Pauline Bailey, who also put a special spin on the phrase "salad days" by extending them into the following millennium.
In the 1992 production of The Teahouse of the August Moon, directed by Marian Dunham, Ruth broke the cake of custom by making her one and only stage appearance as a villager in John Patrick's comedy on the Lakeside Playhouse stage, but you had to look close to notice her. Vanity was not one of Ruth's flaws, and apparently neither was stamina nor endurance.
At the Ninth Annual Awards Ceremony in October, 1994, after 8 years of faithful service she received a Board Service Zenon "for outstanding contributions with the Gourmet Division."
Ruth died in 2001 at the grand age of 95, her salad days ultimately over.
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