He, Neal and Carolyn went to clubs to dance and hear music. Kerouac accompanied her to rehearsals at the University and rode the streetcars back and forth. She lived in a residence hotel, and Ginsberg stayed in her apartment for two weeks before finding one of his own and helped her with homework. She began a Theater Arts department for the Denver Art Museum. Whille in Denver she met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. In 1946 she went to Denver to study for her MA degree in Fiine Arts and Theater Arts for one year while working as a Teaching Assistant. At the war's end, she returned to Nashville to continue at the Playhouse, paint and recover from her stressful war experiances.
She obtained her BA degree in Stanislavsky Drama in 1944.Īfter college she became an Occupational Therapist for the Army and served at Torney General Hospital in Palm Springs, California.
She and her roommate became air raid wardens, auxillary members of the NYPD Before they found their apartment on E.55th Street, she spent two weeks at the home of Robert Sherwood, the playwright and writer of FDR's speeches. At Bennington she took classes with Martha Graham, Erich Fromm, Peter Drucker, Francis Ferguson, Ted Roethke, and other noted teachers in their fields. Oklahoma opened as well as others the American Ballet Theater began, and the hotels all featured the biggest swing bands of the era. That was a great year in New York for her major she was required to see as many productions of all kinds, and Broadway was awash with the famous of stage and screen. She was allowed to live and study for six months in New York in 1943 where she worked for Dazian's fabric company by day, studied at Traphagen School of Design by night and on weekends browsed in the basements of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art for little known prints of period dress. There she began studying art but switched to drama. She continued her work there every season even after she earned a scholarship to Bennington College in Vermont. She won two prizes for set designs and became head of the make-up department at age 16. She began formal art lessons at age 9, sold her first portrait at age 14, her second at 16 and continued to paint portraits the rest of her life.Īt the age of 12 she joined the Nashville Community Playhouse. In Nashville, Carolyn attended the Ward-Belmont Preparatory School for Girls. Summers were spent at Glen Lake in Michigan. She lived in East Lansing for eight years until moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where she spent 9 winters. Her parents were educators, her mother a former English teacher, her father a Biochemist. Carolyn Cassady was born Carolyn Robinson in Lansing, Michigan on 28 April 1923 at 10:AM CST, the youngest of five siblings.
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