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Show WOMAN OF THE WEEK I i . f I , I By EMMA D. KING There's Pat Lees, housewife, mother and teacher of journalism at Westminster College. Pat has had a varied and interesting in-teresting career life. Always interested in the theater she made her "debut" as the mother of George Washington when in the third grade. There were many similar school triumphs in drama, and one day Pat began her study of dramatics under Leora Thatcher, at McCune School of Music and Art Interested in radio, she studied with Irma Bitner and was in several sev-eral "Story Time" shows in Salt Lake. Pat was taken to all the Playbox plays by her aunt and was later cast in several, It was in one of these that she met her husband Jay W. Lees. Not satisfied with her drama studies in the city, Pat continued with a summer course in drama at Banff School of Fine Arts. With this background, after her graduation from the U Pat went immediately into, off all things, newspaper work. For some time she was society editor. At the Telegram she became be-came a member of the cast of "This Business of Farming" over KSL. Pat continued her writing profession pro-fession until the Lees were par- CAREER AND HOME Pat Lees, Westminster instructor, also makes her home a career. ents of their first child, and It was from her home she continued as club editor of the Tribune. A year ago Pat began teaching teach-ing journalism at Westminster and loves her work and association with youth, and the coming year her class will include interpretation interpre-tation of speech. , You can see Jay Lees in the "Lady's Not for Burning" at the Playbox now on the University of Utah campus. But to the Lees they agree the deepest drama of all takes place at 2218 S. 22nd East where they are the directors of Terry, 6, Me-linda, Me-linda, 4, and Bicky, 1. So to Pat for her work with the young folk and all she has done a King's ransom. |