Ronald Hall:  

I didn't have that many friends in high school and did not keep up with any of them after graduation, so you may not remember me at all, but that's my fault, not yours. I was nerdy and shy, studied hard and got high honors, but high school life is pretty much a blur. Could not name a single teacher I had. When one reaches 70, one can't help thinking back to where we once were and paths taken for better or worse. After missing all those reunions I got curious and found this forum. After West I went straight to 4 years at UW Madison and got a BA degree in fine arts. Became interested in theater stage design and developed skills in design and construction, but I couldn't draw worth beans. In the theater dept. I did design the set for "Julius Caesar" (which i don't remember either.) Worked in a couple of theaters in St. Louis and then snagged a property job at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Worked at the Guthrie with a great group for 10 years up to 1981. In the 1970s I spent more time with my main love of old movies, and ran a film society from 1971-'74. My future wife Christine was an early patron - she came early to set up to tape sound tracks to Marx Bros. films. Hard to not notice that....Expand for more