Corrections

[Adam Blatner]

What fun! I'll save and compile these in a file called history.
 
I confess that my week at the Beacon academy was one of the high points of my life! February, 1968, I think it was. Tom Treadwell was in the group, Sheila Blume (a psychiatrist who has gone on to do great work in the treatment of alcoholism), Marcia, you did some great directing that week. You might have also been in the car--- the weekend started in New York City at the Moreno institute. 
    That's where I remember the good doctor looking over a compilation of papers I'd made up about psychodrama and saying to me, "Why don't you write your own book?" (This led to my doing what he said, writing Acting-in, and publishing in 1973.)
    
   Many others might want to reminisce in this fashion, also. I know that Anath was active at the Institute. 
         Thanks for the memories, Marcia, and Bud---I just saw your email! Wow! --- 
 
    Warmly, Adam Blatner
    

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, mkarp11444 at aol.com <mkarp11444 at aol.com> wrote:

From: mkarp11444 at aol.com <mkarp11444 at aol.com>
Subject: Corrections
To: "Grouptalk" <list at grouptalkweb.org>, "Zerka Moreno" <tmceline at comcast.net>
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 10:04 PM

My dear Grouptalkers, I have been corrected by our primary  mentor and beloved
friend, Zerka, who has a better memory than I for detail.  Gertrude Franchot
Tone, for whom the Beacon Theater was dedicated was never a patient at the
Academy but was a guest. Virginia Satir was not a student of Moreno. She
attended congresses with him and watched him direct. She denied any other
connection. The Ackermans of NYC also directed the public sessions. Zerka
remembers that she and J.L did Monday and Friday nights and after I left, Moreno
turned the Institute over to her. Sunday nights were free. When I came on board,
that wasn't the case. Sunday nights, Walter Klavun directed and the Morenos
came into NYC once a week on Fridays. The rest of the week they were training us
at the Beacon Academy. Zerka also remembers"singing our heads off on the
way home. And you, Marcia, kept us in stitches singing 'One Hundred Easy
Ways to Lose a Man."   Monica Zuretti has emailed me from Buenos Aires,
after reading Grouptalk, to say,"You made me remember and connect with the
long car trips with the Hudson River by our side. Going up in silence and
concentration  and coming back singing and laughing. Every time I talk about
those times with young people, I feel the emotion and priviledge we had sharing
such precious moments with two such special beings. Love to you all,
Monica." Fond memories. We were lucky. Marcia
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