S25-05 American Icons REPEAT from Spring '22
Class | Registration opens 3/9/2025 9:00 AM EST
This course features six one-man shows, one per class, as a Historic American in our nation’s history. They include: New York's Archibald Gracie IV (“I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic”), Theodore Roosevelt ("Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”), Lawman Wyatt Earp (“Doc Holliday and I: Gunfight at the OK Corral”), Ernest Hemingway (“My Movable Writer’s Life”) Secret Service Agent Clint Hill (“Protecting the Kennedys”) and Abraham Lincoln (“Lincoln on Leadership”).
Mel Maurer
Mel Maurer has a Bachelor of Science from John Carroll University. His education includes many historical symposia focused on Abraham Lincoln. He is past president and historian of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable and has appeared in several of its plays. He is a lifetime member of the Lincoln Forum. For 43 years, he was Manager of Administrative Quality and Distribution for the Boston Weatherhead Division of Dana Corporation. In retirement, he is a writer, speaker and actor.