Liz Orndorff has spent most of her professional life on university campuses and with advertising agencies, including positions as Director of Public Relations and Instructor in Journalism at Palm Beach Atlantic College in West Palm Beach; as a Copywriter/ Creative Director at two Atlanta ad agencies; as Editor of University Publications at Emory University in Atlanta; as Editor, Extension Service, University of Kentucky; Editor, University Publications, Ohio State University; Director of Public Relations, Westminster College in Pennsylvania ; and as Graduate Assistant Instructor in Journalism, University of Kentucky.

She received her B.A. in English from Grove City College in Pennsylvania a
M.A. in Journalism from University of Georgia and a PhD. in Communication from University of Kentucky.

She grew up in Lexington, KY, then Athens, GA, where her father was a professor at the University of Kentucky and the University of Georgia.

Her husband Robert is a retired journalism professor and newspaper copy editor. She is the step-mother of two adult stepsons.

Liz’s current activities include: Adult Sunday School teacher and Deacon, The Presbyterian Church of Danville, KY.; Trustee, Boyle County Public Library; former Board member and current play director, West T. Hill Community Theatre; Coordinator, Meals on Wheels Program.

She is interested in reading, theatre fiction writing (finished two novels and 16 short stories), teaching, and travel.

My story was inspired by a column by Merlene Davis in the (Lexington) Herald-Leader which told of the Colored Women’s Clubs of the 1930s through the 1950s in Lexington, Kentucky, one of which “maintained” a bathroom in a beauty shop for use by colored folks who were downtown shopping and had no other place to go.

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