“This award honors her remarkable career not only in the classroom but as director of Theatre at Shawnee Mission South,“ Max Brown, Kansas Thespians chapter director said.
Mrs. Wood has spent the last 29 years teaching Broadcasting, Forensics, Debate, and Theatre at SM South and is retiring this month. She plans on returning to stage acting, reading a lot, substitute teaching some, and visiting her son, also a RSHS graduate, in South Bend, Indiana where he is pursuing his MBA.
Mrs. Wood also will be inducted this summer into the National Forensics Hall of Fame. And she is only the seventh Kansas coach to ever receive this honor.
Submitted by Nancy J. Holliday, former RSHS teacher, with Cathy Wood’s permission.