Micah Wilkins, web editor, reports in Warren Wilson College's Echo:
“When this building opened there was one sewing machine and one spool of thread. So you can blame me for all of this” said Bev Ohler, the head of Warren Wilson’s costume shop, as we walked through what she and others in the theatre department call the “dungeon,” the basement of Kittredge Theatre. ...
“It’s everybody’s attic” Ohler said. ...
Ohler first came to the college in 1955 and returned for good in 1958. She has been at the college longer than anybody else. She has seen the “dungeon” swell from nothing to a basement full of hundreds of costumes, many of which were made by Ohler and students on her costume shop work crew. She has had a hand in over 160 productions on campus. She watched the college transition from being a junior college to a senior college. She has seen the student body grow from 300 to 500 to 900 students. ...
“Everybody did things they loved in those early years at Warren Wilson,” Ohler said. “If you did something and you were trained to do something and you could do something well, you just did it. Nobody cared about what they were compensated for. It was just a joy to be a part of it.” ...
"That was always the key: Getting people to do the thing they loved to do." — Bev Ohler
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“When this building opened there was one sewing machine and one spool of thread. So you can blame me for all of this” said Bev Ohler, the head of Warren Wilson’s costume shop, as we walked through what she and others in the theatre department call the “dungeon,” the basement of Kittredge Theatre. ...
“It’s everybody’s attic” Ohler said. ...
Ohler first came to the college in 1955 and returned for good in 1958. She has been at the college longer than anybody else. She has seen the “dungeon” swell from nothing to a basement full of hundreds of costumes, many of which were made by Ohler and students on her costume shop work crew. She has had a hand in over 160 productions on campus. She watched the college transition from being a junior college to a senior college. She has seen the student body grow from 300 to 500 to 900 students. ...
“Everybody did things they loved in those early years at Warren Wilson,” Ohler said. “If you did something and you were trained to do something and you could do something well, you just did it. Nobody cared about what they were compensated for. It was just a joy to be a part of it.” ...
"That was always the key: Getting people to do the thing they loved to do." — Bev Ohler
Video by wwcechoRead the full article
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You might check with Mrs. Ohler. I believe your information is incorrect. She informed me a month ago that she is not retiring.
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Hannah
By Hannah Jacobs
01/02/2012