Bill Wills:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Baltimore, MD
Emmitsburg, MD
St. Charles CollegeClass of 1967
Catonsville, MD
Towson, MD

Bill's Story

After spending two years at St, Charles Preparatory Seminary, I graduated from Loyola High school and then Mount Saint Marys College. While at the Mount, I discovered my deep love of performing on the stage (in elementary school, I was always entertaining at class parties imitating Elvis, Buddy Holly, etc.), After meeting my wife to-be at a community theater group, we have basically spent most of our married years making a living at theater. First we operated our own theater company producing childrens theater and summer theater in Ocean City, MD for 20 years. For the past 25 years, we have been touring the country performing shows on our American Presidents and First Ladies. We have presentations on 34 Presidents and their Wives. Of course, everything and everybody in my past readied me for the future that unfolded and is still unfolding. A recent news release: Winter Park, Fl couple, William and Sue Wills, have now appeared on stage in over 7,500 performances! In 1978, the couple risked everything they had to open a children¿s theater in Ocean City, MD and within four months promptly lost all they had. In fact, they were left with $18.36, three children ages 5 and under, and a pile of unpaid bills. By the way, Bill, at the age of 30, was then acting General Manager for a 250 room Sheraton hotel in Ocean City, which job he left to begin the theater. The couple did not give up and 31 years later they are still performing together, now over 300 times a year. The Wills ran their theater company in Ocean City for 20 years and eventually all three children worked with them in all types of shows ¿ children¿s musicals (31 in number which the couple wrote ), Broadway recreations, and musical revues. The...Expand for more
ir eldest daughter, Jennifer, is now a leading lady on Broadway and is the current Christine Daee in Broadway¿s ¿Phantom of the Opera.¿ In 1991, William created a course to teach for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Elderhostel which he entitled ¿Presidents and Their First Ladies, dramatically speaking¿. Over the next six years, William researched and wrote performance pieces ranging between 30-60 minutes, which he and Sue then presented as ¿dramatically read dialogues¿ in a classroom setting. When the couple closed their theater company in Ocean City, during which time they logged at least 4,000 performances, they began touring with their presidential programs. They added costumes to make the presentations more ¿theatrical¿ but retained the simple ¿reading¿ format utilizing simply two lecterns (although many of the pieces really are memorized). This simplest of theatrical formats has been able to not only recreate history, but to move audiences to laughter and tears. Now in their 13th years, the couple have done over 3,500 of these presentations. Their ¿stages¿ range from small libraries to presidential museums, from retirement communities to legitimate theaters. Probably the highest tribute to their quality is that many venues have invited them back year after year ¿ in some cases all 13 years- and they have made 29 presentations at our nation¿s Presidential Library/Museum sites. When the couple first met in 1970 ( a whirlwind courtship that lasted 15 days from first date to marriage proposal) Bill mentioned to Sue that he would like to be President by 1996. He did better than he promised, by that time he had become 31 Presidents with Sue by his side as his many First Ladies.
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Jack and Jackie Kennedy
Theodore and Edith Roosevelt
George and Martha Washington
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Today, we want to make you aware of our Virtual Fundraiser for our non-profit Presidents Project, Inc. Please consider your donation of $11.00 to gain access to watch online OR download our show on the Clevelands and the Ha
One year ago that's us arriving home from our transatlantic cruise. on the Allure of the Seas. If you want to come along on our "unusual" voyage home, then  have a read but it will take about 8 minutes.

All is well, until
Today you can visit https://www.facebook.com/Presidents-and-Their-First-Ladies-dramatically-speaking-104712684640949
and learn President Polk's feeling on job seekers, infrastructure spending, and lobbyists.
46 years ago today 3/30/75 at exactly 3:30 PM, Bill, Sue, Jennifer and Dan, still in the oven ,arrived in Ocean City Maryland and the Wills story truly began. We knew that with all the "threes" good things were in store...f
Nice way to spend a perfect Florida day..picnic and crossword puzzle by a lake
My favorite section of our outdoor decorations. Bring the window in close, it's the reason for the season.
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Remember , say the last 6 months or so, when you hardly got any "extra" mail. Wasn't that nice. But now when those mail in ballots are being sent back the post office has to deal with this. This is only today's mail. Yuch!
Cute story. Pictured is an Ocean City White Marlin pin. Sue has a lanyard on which she has a collection of various pins and on which she attaches her room card on cruises.
 The pins always start some conversations with peop
50th anniversary conclusion
First, thanks to all of the readers who took this memory journey with us. 
We had a perfect celebration:
Oct 8-gathered with Becky and her children to open a special gift and reminisce
Oct 9-flew
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If you are not aware, I wanted to let anyone with an amazon account to  be aware of Amazon Smiles. You just designate a charity and some of whatever you buy gets donated...the numbers are amazing.
50th anniversary story continued:

The lease on our apartment began September 1st and we were only about one month from the big day.
We began to order rugs, curtains and have them installed. We picked out china, and other t
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