Longtime BTE friend and supporter LuAn Keller contributed $3800 for the purchase of new tools for BTE’s production center workshop and costume shop. Earl Martz, BTE’s technical director, gets a brand new table saw, to replace our ancient and much used Grizzly, while in the costume shop, a new serger will let BTE’s Costume Shop Supervisor Michael Mengine sew stretchy fabric fast. The costume shop also received a commercial sewing machine and a dress form, helpful in costume design and construction. The gift is in memory of Clarence and Kathleen Keller, circumspect farmers from whose dairy Miss Krause bought her milk. Early students of Miss Krause were familiar with Clarence, and Kathleen, who ran her own table saw until the age of 80, when she figured she had built her last dog house and bequeathed it to a much younger woman. If you’d like to donate to BTE, please contact us today!
