Shirley Helen Gish, Ph.D. Shirley Helen Gish, Ph.D., Morehead State University
She authored numerous plays and performed in Arizona,
retired professor, was born Dec. 17, 1931, in St. Paul,
New Mexico and Kentucky. Dr. Gish wrote and performed
Minn., and died on Thursday, June 27, 2013.
“Me ‘n Susie,” a one-person show based on the life of
Dr. Gish is survived by two sons and two grandchildren, Timothy Donald Haskin and daughter, Melissa Remy Haskin of Tucson, Ariz., and Josh Kenneth Haskin and son, Jonah Timothy Haskin of Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
Dr. Claire Louise Caudill, a revered Morehead doctor, and her nurse, Susie Halbleib. The play and the interviews were later published by the University Press of Kentucky and the book entitled Country Doctor in 1999. She was an original member of the Morehead Theatre
Dr. Gish received numerous awards including the Outstanding Creative Achievement Award from the University of Arizona and the Distinguished Creative Achievement Award from Morehead State University.
Guild and appeared in their first play “Harvey” with Dr. Travis Lockhart. She also appeared in 13 other plays. With the MSU theatre department, she appeared in such plays as “Cinderella” and “Women of Troy.”
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The Morehead State University family remembers . . . Everett A. Moon William B. Pierce Kathleen Johnson Skeens Mildred Hunt Ward Ann L. Sandifer Mayhew Mary A. Walker Ray Mildred C. Vaughan Harlan R. Fleming John “Jack” Q. Reddick John L. Wells John L. Cantrell Stephen R. Haworth John F. McIntyre Andrew J. Rabourn John M. Tomlin Dorothy F. Goble Wallace Margaret Linda Eaton Fain Jo Ann Scruggs Jones Jewell Deane Bowen Seals Molly B. Templeton Robert L. Comstock Loyd “Sonny” H. Cummings Jr.
1964 1964 1964 1964 1964 1965 1965 1966 1966 1966 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1967 1968 1968 1968 1968 1969 1969
Gary F. Levy Jessie F. Lowe William G. Duke Sandy D. Knipp Fred A. Sammons Plina L. Parker Shaffer David S. Stone Sr. Charles E. Cummings Fonetta A. Blackburn Elam Liza A. Fleming Keith G. Stewart Michael B. Fille John S. Nichols Audrey P. Taylor Larry W. Gregory Mr. Mark S. Klingler Elizabeth A. Roberts Thomas Gary R. Tackett Letha N. Smith McDaniel Paul B. Wells Richard T. Ochsner Emma C. Cecil
1969 1970 1971 1971 1971 1971 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1973 1973 1973 1974 1974 1974 1975 1977 1977 1978 1979
Mark E. Lang Dawn Y. Tinch Kinzer Douglas W. Prather Joseph W. Towner Mary E. Karstens Puckett Brian S. Shelton Timothy L. Black Breck A. Tyree Alan R. Baldwin Joanne M. Cox Daniel L. Ambrosini Rachael L. Henderson Underwood James R. Hinton Jr. Richard D. Clark Jacquelyn G. White Wolber Bobby J. Barker Aleda D. Williams Day Giselle Kroebel Teresa Howard Sturgill Maze Rodney R. Adams Rebecca J. Runyon Freeman
1980 1981 1982 1982 1983 1983 1984 1986 1990 1990 1991 1991 1991 1992 1994 1997 2001 2005 2006 2009 2011
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