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Spotlight on Sierra Madre Volunteers Spotlight on Sierra Madre Volunteers is a weekly column that spotlights the people who donate their time to help keep their city ticking. Check each week to see which of the folks you work side by side with is being recognized in the latest edition. Click the photo to enlarge it.
'The Play's the Thing.' 'Hamlet'--The Bard
In about 1996, the Sierra Madre Playhouse was on the verge of bankruptcy. Founders Charles Andrese and Stan Zalas were wringing their hands, wondering how to pull it together, when George Enyedi, another Sierra Madre volunteer, gathered a group of local people to solve some of the problems, to answer how to deal with some of the playhouse travails. Ward and Louise Calaway were among that group, and, under Enyedi's leadership, the local volunteers raised money to remodel the theater and reinstate the board of directors. Enyedi also arranged for the playhouse to purchase the building they had been using all of those years. In 2002, Ward was asked to take over as president, and, with the exception of one year, he is still banging the gavel and leading the group. "Other than sporadically attending shows, I had no experience with the theater before joining the Sierra Madre Playhouse board," Ward said. "One of the most rewarding things I've done was organizing the tribute to Verna Chilton after she died in October, 2005." Verna was a good friend, volunteer, and prolific actor at the playhouse. Ward was tapped to represent the playhouse on the new Arts Commission in 1999, and he accepted. He said that he couldn't overestimate the importance of that commission to the town. But that was just the beginning of appointments. He was chosen Sierra Madre representative to the board of Community Media of the Foothills, a nonprofit group that administers Public, Education and Government access TV in Monrovia and Sierra Madre. It entails membership on the Sierra Madre SMTV3 committee responsible for Channels 3 and 98 (government and educational channels, respectively). CMF makes possible the broadcasting and recording of the Sierra Madre City Council and Planning Commission meetings as well as many other events in the City. When Alison Kalmus formed the Southern California Lyric Theater in 2006, Ward asked to be involved. SCLT is a nonprofit group dedicated to music theater from Broadway to opera. Its productions involve both youngsters and adults, and include the popular summer Shakespeare in Memorial Park. "Being basically introverted, I marvel at how much fun I have working with the directors and actors, and how I enjoy meeting and greeting the patrons," Ward said. "Aside from listening to music, my exposure to the arts has been minimal. My most artistic endeavor is my work, designing electronics circuits." His two degrees, a BS and MS from Caltech, came after he moved to the West Coast. Ward grew up in Chicago, married Louise, his childhood sweetheart, and they moved to Pasadena, and then to Sierra Madre, to be near his work. He is a self-employed electronics consultant. The Calaways have two grown children, and he has four children who call him "Grandpa Calaway."
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