repertory theatre st. louis
Rep Volunteer Educators
Karen Miller, Linda Vandivort, & Brian Coates facilitated discussions about the creation & curation of a season, from play selection to the moment it comes to life on the stage.
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REPERTORY THEATRE ST. LOUIS
130 Edgar Road
Webster Groves, MO 63119
We learned about all the different aspects of theatre & interacted with props, set modules, lighting fixtures & more.
Authentic Props
The Rep was Founded in 1966 and made its home at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts.
Costumes!
Costumes!!
Costumes!!!
Patrick murphy - the irish in st. louis
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy has worked for over 40 years in St. Louis radio & TV, both on-air and as a six-time Emmy winning producer of documentaries and musical variety shows. For the past 26 years he’s emceed the St. Louis Speakers Series at Powell Hall. He is also a working artist - producing woodcut prints that are on display in several regional galleries. He has written four books: “Candymen: The Story of the Switzer Candy Company”, “The Irish in St. Louis: From Shanty to Lace Curtain”, “Places to Pray: Holy Sites in Catholic Missouri”, and most recently, “Prelude to a Century: The 1904 World’s Fair”.
The Irish in St. Louis
Patrick tells the story of the Irish peoples assimilation which is as multifaceted as the Irish character itself. From Shanty to Lace Curtain introduces us to a range of St. Louis Irish, from priests like Timothy Dempsey and Charles Dismas Clark (the “Hoodlum Priest”) to gangsters from the Bottoms Gang and Egan’s Rats. We meet artists and revolutionaries, entrepreneurs, and entertainers. It takes us to the rough and tumble neighborhoods of 19th-century Kerry Patch and Dogtown, where immigrants and their children forged paths into the city’s mainstream while preserving their Irish identity. We visit contemporary Irish St. Louis, where Irish dance and music thrive. At McGurk’s Pub and the Pat Connolly Tavern we discover what makes an Irish pub truly Irish.
Incorporating Incidental exercise in your daily life
Speaker Danielle Wilson is an exercise physiologist in cardiac rehab at Barnes Jewish Hospital and also works as a pulmonary disease educator.
Danielle discussed the benefits of exercise and demonstrated exercise moves that can be performed at home with yoga, resistance bands and core strength exercises. Through her guidance we learned how to incorporate "incidental" exercise into our daily routine.
president's Luncheon
Bev Scheutz
She is the creator of HISTORY TALKS and is known for her unique topics and entertaining presentations. Bev is a frequent guest speaker at the College Club Luncheons.
The Funny History of American Comedy
We enjoyed the humorous analysis of the last century of American comedy in this unusual presentation. – How has comedy influenced our history? We took a madcap look at the greats from vaudeville, radio, movies, theater, TV and stand-up and examined the tears behind the laughter of these brilliant artists. We discovered how comedians have reflected, shaped and changed our culture over the last 100 years as they practiced the art of being funny.
grounded in clay: the spirit of pueblo pottery
Exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is a major exhibition that showcases more than 100 historic and contemporary works of Native American pottery from Pueblo communities in the southwestern United States. The exhibition is remarkable for being curated by Pueblo community members, ensuring that Native American voices and perspectives are prioritized over Anglo-American art historical interpretations.
Grounded in Clay emphasizes the multifaceted and nuanced understandings that Pueblo Indian people have of pottery as a form of community-based knowledge and personal experience. The Pueblo Pottery Collective, a group of over 60 individual members representing source communities, selected and wrote about the artistically and culturally distinctive pots featured in the exhibition.
After the exhibit we had lunch at the Panorama Restaurant in the museums new wing.
2025 Scholarship awards luncheon
The Awards Event
This event is the highlight of our year and is attended by members, the high school finalists, their parents, their college counselors and our US Bank financial partners. As the winners come up to accept their award, they introduce themselves and their attending parent. They tell us where they will be attending college and what they will be studying.
The College Club Award Winners
Twenty two high school senior women representing eight different high schools were chosen to receive $10,000 apiece to help with their first year of college.
spring wildflowers of missouri
Carol Gravens
Our speaker Carol Gravens is a Master Gardner. She guided us through a photo hike of the Missouri countryside. We were dazzled with a display of awesome wildflowers with interesting facts about flowers and tips on where the best places to search for them.
Spring Wildflowers
All the photos were taken by Carol within a 123 mile radius of St. Louis.
Carl Lutz: the forgotten holocaust rescuer
Amy Lutz
Amy is a speaker at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. Amy told us the little known but fascinating story of Carl Lutz and his heroics. Carl was a Swiss diplomat who served in the Swiss Legation in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. In that role, he issued tens of thousands of Swiss protective papers to Hungarian Jews, resulting in the largest civilian rescue mission of the entire Holocaust.
Carl Lutz
Prior to Carl's heroic efforts during the war he lived in the US for a while including nearly a decade in St. Louis.
124th college club birthday scholarship benefit party
The College Club of St. Louis turned 124 Years Old in 2025!
Members contributed to our Annual Pot O Gold to raise additional money for Scholarships.
Member Claudia Uccello highlighted the history of the College Club and why we all joined.
Member Marsha Rolwes discussed the progress of the History Committee in updating the Club's two history books.
Member Sandy Mueller interviewed and fielded questions for our two special guests.
Past Scholarship Award Winners Are Our Special Guests!
Left to Right
Tatiana Davis - 2023 graduate from McClure STEAM High School. She is currently attending Rolla University where she is studying Mechanical Engineering. Tatiana will spend her fall semester studying in Madrid.
Sandy Mueller - College Club member who interviewed our guests.
Megan Bruenger - 2018 graduate from Afton High School. Megan earned her degree in Nursing and is now a school nurse at one of the schools she attended while growing up. She is married and has a new baby girl.
laughter yoga
College Club Member Jodi Hart (on the right) a certified LAUGHTER YOGA Trainer introduced the group to LAUGHTER YOGA. This is a fun exercise that can be done in a group or alone.
Our bodies don't know the difference between real and fake laughter. Both provide health benefits.
LAUGHTER YOGA is a global exercise program that combines laughter, breathwork and mindfulness meditation. It was created by Madan Kataria in 1995 and has been studied for its effects on mental and physical health.
Hollywood: the war years 1941-1945
Speaker Mary Saputo
This highly acclaimed program explains what Hollywood was like during the War Years of WWII. Saputo provides this “education” with film clips, romantic music, movie history and some lively narration in her presentations.
Book review about the history of st. louis bakeries
Author Rich Gaynor
Rich Gaynor is a native of St. Louis who grew up with his German grandparents who introduced him to the pleasures of coffee and cake. These early experiences sent him on a ten-year quest to discover the lives, motivations, and relationships of the independent bakers of St. Louis.
"Our Hearts Were Stollen: A Partial History of St. Louis Bakeries"
"The St. Louis Bakery Community - A story of Creative Kindness and An Extended Family." Rich shared interesting stories about the 25 St. Louis Bakers that he interviewed for the book.
barcelona - an architectural Wonder
Speaker Marion Herrmann
Speaker Marion Herrmann
The old and beautiful city of Barcelona Spain reflects multiple trends in the history of Western Architecture in its own unique way.
Speaker Marion Herrmann
Speaker Marion Herrmann
Speaker Marion Herrmann
Marion is a College Club member who has made many trips to the beautiful city of Barcelona.
Speaker Marion Herrmann
Marion provided a brief survey of the different architecture periods and culminated with the whimsical architectural movement called "Modernisme".
bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
Bellefontaine Cemetery includes sculpture, stained glass and architecture. The richness can be seen in the 314-acre cemetery and the legacies of those buried there. In the presentation, all elements were explored along with individuals who supported the arts.
The Wainright Tomb
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The Busch Mausoleum
Daniel Fuller - Event and Volunteer Coordinator
The Busch Mausoleum
Designed by Barnett, Haynes, and Barnett
breakaway siberians: the st. Louis dog sled team
Speaker: Richie Camden
We heard the interesting story of the Breakaway Siberians, the competitive sled dog team from Missouri. We learned how musher, Richie Camden stumbled into the sport of sled dogs and mushing.
The Siberian Huskie Team
The team consists of huskies adopted from shelter and rescue groups around the Midwest.
Sled and Breakfast
Richie and his wife own and run the Sled & Breakfast. It is a dog daycare, boarding, training, and grooming facility located in Fenton, Missouri in the St. Louis Area. As you can see their huskies are just part of their family.
st. louis houses with a wow factor
Douglas Schneider was our speaker. Doug showed us homes in St. Louis that cost as little as $1.22 and some that cost as much as $20,000,000. The home pictured above was built out of shipping containers.
With each home that Doug showed us you couldn't help but say WOW! The one pictured above was built inside a cave which used to be a skating rink.
There were St. Louis homes with windows in their chimneys and homes made out of steel, cement blocks, or Styrofoam, The one above is constructed from dirt bags.
forest park owls: Hunting & feeding
Mark H.X. Glenshaw
Mark Glenshaw, an award winning naturalist, has studied the lives of the Great Horned Owls in Forest Park since 2005. In his presentation: Hunting & Feeding, Mark covered obscure behaviors from hunting perches and their predatory attempts. He also described the owls' attempts to feed themselves and their many owlets.
Great Horned Owl
The great horned owl is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.
"the court watch project: a model for systems change"
Carla Maley
Carla Maley, Court Watch Project Coordinator, gave an overview of the problem of domestic violence and the legal remedies available in St. Louis. Carla's overview served as background for her discussion of the Court Watch Project and its impact on the complicated problem.
Court Watch Project
The Court Watch Project is a community-based initiative within the court system to help improve court processes regarding Order of Protection hearings.
The mission of the Court Watch Project is to make the justice system more effective and responsive in handling cases of domestic violence perpetrated against women and children and to create a more informed and involved public.
frank lloyd wright house in ebsworth park
Tour of the Kraus House
The brick and cypress house was designed and constructed for Russell and Ruth Goetz Kraus. The design was conceived in 1950 and construction continued until 1960.
The house features parallelograms. The only right angles are located in the bathroom. Even the bed is a parallelogram and sheets must be custom made. The house itself sits on parallelogram blueprint..
The house features a carport., attached shed, and a workroom for Kraus, a glass work artist. Kraus heard of Wrights work and was so excited at the thought of living in a work of art himself, he wrote to Wright, who sent him the plans for his "little house".