Yesterday my dear friend Megan passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. I met Megan my freshman year at WMU, and graduated with her in the spring of 2008. We were both tiny, red-haired girls with M-names, and our lighting design professor constantly called each of us by the other girl’s name. It was a very small, rigorous program, which meant we had nearly every single class together and spent hundreds of hours outside of class working together on the shows we were assigned.
Megan was always good for a laugh. Her sarcastic, sassy sense of humor made her fun to work with in stressful situations, and she always turned out brilliant work as the company propsmaster. My favorite memories of Megan are the dinner breaks we’d take together after a long day’s work and before the tech rehearsal began that night. We’d end up yelling to each other about all the things that were making us feel stressed out and under-appreciated, about all the stupid things that had been going wrong with the show, and then we’d just end up laughing and laughing….and then we’d head back to the theatre for another long night of tech. She made it more fun.
I’m so glad that I got the chance to reconnect with Megan last fall. It was a chance meeting; we both happened to be in Kalamazoo to see the current WMU Theatre production on the same night. We spent most of the time reminiscing about our time at WMU, talking about what we’d been up to since then, and what we hoped to accomplish in the future.
Megan, I will never forget you.
Megan, Rachel, Monica
From left: Megan, Julia, Monica, Hope
From left: Julia, Monica, Sam, Marina, Rachel K, Megan, Stacey
From left: Katie, Rachel, Monica, Megan
From left: Micah, Megan, Monica, Rachel, Brandon
From left: Megan, Monica, Rachel, Micah, Brandon
Monica and Megan
<3
Monica
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I’m sorry for your loss.
She seems like a she was an amazing person.
May you find comfort.
I am sorry that you lost your friend.
*tear*
My condolences, Monica.