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Joan Susannah Sadler (nee Wilkinson)[edit]

Joan Susannah Sadler (nee Wilkinson) is best known as a community organizer, radio personality, and actor during the two decades after World War II in Detroit, and as a promoter of the American Conservatory Theater, and as a playwright and artist in subsequent years in the San Francisco area.

Heritage and Early Years[edit]

Of particular note among Joan's forebears was General James Wilkinson, who served as commander of the American Army under Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and as one of the two first co-governors of the Louisiana Territory. A great uncle, Theodore S. Wilkinson, represented Louisiana's first district in the House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891 before running unsuccessfully for governor; and Joan's father, V. Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson, Jr., commanded World War II amphibious landings in the Southwest Pacific, including Leyte and Lingayen Gulfs in the Philippine Islands. Her mother's father, Richard A. Harlow, built and owned the Jawbone Railroad, a north-south Montana feeder line for the Great Northern Railroad.

Born on July 1, 1921, Joan Wilkinson spent a good part of her youth at "Hockley" (now “The Cedars” ), the colonial mansion overlooking Georgetown from across the Potomac that her grandfather Harlow had bequeathed to her mother Catherine. ^[1] Describing Joan's debutante party at Hockley, the Washington Star society editor wrote that “luscious beauties were swept around the dance floor by entire battalions of Princeton crew-cuts, Yale slickerbugs, and Harvard freshmen…” ^[2]

She attended Katherine Branson School in Ross, California while her naval officer father Theodore Stark Wilkinson was assigned on the west coast. She later attended Madeira School in Langley, Virginia, and Vassar College, graduating in 1942. She married Lt. George Hall, USN, in 1942, and served in U.S. military intelligence during World War II while her husband was at sea. In a letter of commendation, Military Intelligence Chief B. Gen. P.E. Peabody praised her work on tabulating and evaluating enemy ground transportation throughout Southeast Asia. ^[3]

Grosse Pointe Years[edit]

After the war, she and George moved to Grosse Pointe, Mi. During the succeeding 20-year period of her life, she was active in the community life of greater Detroit, serving as president of the Detroit Junior League and chairman of its United Community Services. In the radio world, she had her own shows on stations WJR and WDET and was a reporter for the Voice of America. She was also active in the development of Detroit’s Vanguard Repertory Theater, and had leading acting roles in summer stock, television and industrial films.

After the death in 1964 of George Hall (then president of the cosmetics firm Beauty Counselors), she remarried. Her new husband, Dr. Harrison Sadler, took a faculty position at the medical school of the University of California, Berkeley , and the two settled in Belvedere, Ca.

Belvedere Years[edit]

When the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) was inaugurated in San Francisco in 1966, Mrs. Sadler was among the first volunteers to provide support. As vice president of the repertory theater’s community board, she played a major part in ACT’s development and growth over the next 20 years. When the organization was shaken by internal turbulence, she was appointed Chairman of a reconstituted Board of Directors and spearheaded restoring community confidence in ACT. In appreciation for these contributions, in 2010 she was elected to the ACT “Emeritus Advisory Board,” a distinction “among the highest honors that ACT can bestow.”^[4]

Joan Sadler's own plays received wide recognition. Her first, “A Different Reality,” portrayed the formative years of Sigmund Freud and was selected in 1985 from among 200 plays to be showcased by the Marin Theater Company. It was also chosen for presentation to an annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association. Additional plays included “In the Wake of the Seagull,” a dramatization of the novel “Chekov’s Sister”, which won the “new voices” contest at the Chicago Dramatists’ Workshop in 1986. “The President Had a Restful Night” (1996) recreates the last years of President Woodrow Wilson in the White House and the efforts of his wife Edith to insulate him and to protect his legacy from a growing group of political enemies. To encourage playwriting in the region, Mrs. Sadler was a co-founder of the San Francisco area “Playwrights' Lab” in 1994 and the “PlayBrokers” in 1998.

In recent years, Mrs. Sadler has pursued an evolving interest in new visual art forms, joining and contributing to the work of O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, Ca., where she served as Vice President of the Board of Directors. Her collages and interpretive photography have been displayed at sites in Marin County and were most recently featured in a commemorative exhibit in Mill Valley in May 2011.

Dr. Sadler, Susannah’s second husband, died in 1998. Of her three children with her first husband, George Hall, two live in California (Carter and Catherine ”Brooke”). A third, Daniel, died in 1979.

Plays[edit]

"A Different Reality," 1985

"In the Wake of the Seagull," 1986

"The President Had a Restful Night,"1996

References[edit]

^ ”The Cedars” is currently the national headquarters of The Fellowship, which has links with the US Congress and sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast annually. The house has a rich history. It was there, for instance, that decrypted Japanese Purple code messages were brought for Joan’s father, who was then Director of Naval Intelligence, and his dinner guests, the president’s military aides, to read in the evening on December 6, 1941, hours before the Pearl Harbor attack.
^ Washington Sunday Star, June 11, 1939.
^ Military Intelligence Service memorandum, September 28, 1945.
^ ACT Press release, June 10, 2010

External Links[edit]

http://www.detroitreptheater.com Vanguard Repertory Theater

http://www.act-sf.org American Conservatory Theater (ACT)

http://www.marintheater.org Marin Theater Company

http://chicagodramatists.org Chicago Dramatists' Workshop

http://www.142throckmortontheatre.com/playwrights.php Playwrights' Lab

http://california.14thstory.com/playbrokers.html PlayBrokers

http://www.ohanloncenter.org O'Hanlon Center for the Arts

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[1] ”The Cedars” is currently the national headquarters of The Fellowship, which has links with the US Congress and sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast annually. The house has a rich history. It was there, for instance, that decrypted Japanese Purple code messages were brought for Joan’s father, who was then Director of Naval Intelligence, and his dinner guests, the president’s military aides, to read in the evening on December 6, 1941, hours before the Pearl Harbor attack.

[2] Washington Sunday Star, June 11, 1939.

[3] Military Intelligence Service memorandum, September 28, 1945.

[4] ACT Press release, June 10, 2010

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