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- The Boston Globe, Massachusetts, 17 Nov 1980
Mercedes Bassett, Retired Drama Teacher, Writer
Mercedes (Chic) Bassett, a retired teacher at the Cambridge School of Weston,
died Saturday in Waltham Hospital after a long illness.
Mrs. Bassett was born in Kansas and graduated from McPherson College there and
since had had a varied career in teaching and drama. She was also a frequent
contributor of stories to children's magazines. She first taught dramatics at
the Neighborhood House in St. Paul, Minn., and next at the Northwestern
University Settlement House in Chicago, where she met and married her husband
in 1933.
A resident of Weston since 1940, she was the founder of the original
Children's Theater in Weston, taught at the Beaver Country Day School a
later at the Cambridge School. During the summers, she and her husband
conducted educational programs at several boys' camps, first at the Culick
Lanakila Camp in Fairlee, Vt., and Camp Tree Tops and North Country School,
both at Lake Placid, N.Y.
Since 1948, Mrs. Bassett had been an active member of Vokes Players, Inc.,
Beatrice Hereford's amateur theater on the Boston Post road in Wayland. Mrs.
Bassett was the group's director and historian. She leaves her husband,
Phillip D. Bassett, and a daughter, Susan M. Bassett of Kirkland, Wash.
Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Church of the Holy
Spirit in Wayland. Burial will be in Linwood Cemetery, Weston.
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