Editor’s note

Abstract

In reading responses from those memorializing the passing of our dear colleague and editorial board member, Debra Hundert McLauchlan, several adjectives recurred. Committed. Creative. Generous. Supportive. Caring. Nouns recurred, too. Drama. Theatre. Brock University. Mother. Grandmother. Wife. Friend. Students. One surprisingly consistent noun was “story.” Everyone mentioned how she told good stories and employed anecdotes; how she helped students tell stories through theatre and drama; how she taught and supported and wrote with story; how she made space and time for story— her’s and others’. Always. Of course, David Booth was her mentor. In their book Story Works (2000), Bob Barton and David Booth remind us: