Lark's Video, 1970

LARK (CAMPBELL) LENNOX was a beloved aide in Betty's classroom circa 1970-1973. Around the time of MLC's 50th anniversary celebration, she contacted MLC and sent along some photos. Then she remembered she had this 14-minute video featuring scenes shot in Betty's room, and sent it together with a note and a few more photos.

"The disc was filmed by my neighbor, George Karlson," Lark wrote. "He was using me as his subject matter and came to MLC to film. George won some short Portland Art Museum film awards ... [although] not for this disc." The footage of Lark with her students is sweet, and quintessentially MLC; of Lark at home, intimate, and quite nostalgic, full of details from the era.

The second half of the film shows scenes from a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Washington Park Rose Garden, directed by well-known Portland actor and producer Keith Scales. It features him as well as Lark's sister-in-law Mary (Kerr) Lennox as Titania and perhaps an MLC student or two. Mary was also active at the Storefront Theater, founded by Anne and Tom Hill whose sons Nicholas and Timothy are MLC alumni, and Lark also remembers working at the Hills' restaurant, The Wayfarer.

Ricia (Smith) Parcher, Sarah Berry, Anna Berry, and Sarah Stevens leave Lark's house after making candles (visible in Sarah Berry's hand). Photo sent by Lark.