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Meet the Past
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Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Crosby Kemper |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Dr. William S. Worley |
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for more information on Worley and Kemper visit: KCPT website
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Crosby Kemper interviews F. Scott Fitzgerald (portrayed by Dr. William S. Worley)
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April 30, 2011
2:00PM at the Museum During Gatsby Days $10.00 per person (A portion of the fee will be used scholarships for the Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild and a portion will go to the museum) |
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| Dr. William S. Worley is Instructor of History at the Metropolitan Community Colleges of Kansas City-Blue River Campus, and the author of several books on Kansas City and regional history, including J. C. Nichols & the Shaping of Kansas City, Legacy of the Santa Fe Trail and Kansas City: Rise of a Regional Metropolis.
Additionally, he portrays historic characters for the Kansas and Missouri Humanities Councils including: political boss Tom Pendergast, Railroad restauranteur Fred Harvey, movie maker Walt Disney, basketball inventor James Naismith, artist Thomas Hart Benton, and President Harry S. Truman. A native of eastern New Mexico and Ph.D. graduate of the University of Kansas, Worley enjoys using his B.A. in English to explore the realm of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the course of bringing our premier 1920s storyteller to life. |
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| Crosby Kemper III is the Director of The Kansas City Public Library and former CEO of UMB Financial Corporation. Educated at Pem-Day, Andover, Eton and Yale he has taught English at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China and been a bookseller in Grand Central Station in New York City. He is the editor of, and contributor to, Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnanimity, Good Will published by the University of Missouri Press.
In 2003-04 he chaired the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Missouri for Governor Holden. He has served on the board of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation which operates Monticello; and the boards of The Kansas City Symphony, the Black Archives of Mid America, Union Station and Lapham’s Quarterly. He helped Marilyn Strauss found the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival and was its first Board Chair. He also founded and chaired the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. He co-founded and is Chairman of The Show-Me Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank for the state of Missouri. In 2008 Crosby received the Difference Maker Award from The Urban League of Kansas City; and he and the Library received the Gold Medal for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services presented at the White House by former librarian, Laura Bush. In 2009 he was inducted into the Mid-America Education Hall of Fame by the Kansas City Kansas Community College Endowment Association. In 2010 he was appointed to the Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission by Governor Jay Nixon, and received the William F. Yates Medallion for Distinguished Service from William Jewell College and the 2010 Harmony Humanitarian Hoffman Legacy Award. |
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