Thelma McDaniel grew up in Staten Island New York and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1946 with a major in the Dramatic Arts. She earned her MA from Eastern Michigan University in 1964 with an emphasis in elementary education, and joined the faculty of EMU in 1961 in the then named Department of Speech and Dramatic Arts. McDaniel worked to help develop outreach programs within the Theatre of the Young program, which has lead to productions touring into areas schools and community centers every year since 1968. She also wrote and directed a number of touring productions, which include:  Let's Go Movin' On, Rain, Wind and Sun Tales, A Magic To Do, and  All One. She also wrote play adaptations to  The Wind in the Willows and  Little Women, which both premiered as mainstage productions. In 1980, McDaniel collaborated with Dr. Sandra McClellan of the Department of Special Education to design a developmental drama program for mentally impaired adults that utilized simple dramatic exercises of sound, sense and movement. The program was made possible by McDaniel's Faculty Research Fellowship and McClennan's sabbatical leave. She retired from EMU in 1986, but remained active in children's theatre at the state, national, and international level, with particular involvement in the American Alliance for Theatre Education, the National Drama and Therapy Association, and the International Amateur Theatre Association. She is the recipient of the prestigious Creative Drama for Human Awareness Award presented by the American Alliance for Theatre Education.

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https://caine.emich.edu/archives/findingaids/html/Drama_and_Theatre_for_the_Young_program_records.html#ref1065

I was working on publishing Thelma's works and did finish one that is sold on Amazon.com
"Wind, Rain and Sun Tales"

Love you Thelma!

Comfortable -
Memories of my mother and grandmother who encouraged me to play and make up stories and act out the stories.  It was the kind of playing that emphasized the process.  I was early on involved in the process.  The doing, the drama of living, the playing, the "brainstorming" were given as much chance as the product, the play whatever I did could always be nurtured and allowed to grow. 

Cooperative -  
Spirits in my life.  I remember how I wanted to believe Robert Browning's version of heaven in his poem, Andrea del Sarto.

Catalyst - 
This also follows that my mom and grandmother who were catalysts.  I was inspired towards a life of love, adventure and high ideals.  I keep working at what I know.  If I had several lifetimes, I'd still need more.