1963

Spring

• Bellairs first tells his story of Saint Fidgeta at a graduate student party in Fitschen's Hyde Park apartment in Chicago.

April

• Bellairs joins the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the rank of instructor; he's a member until 1966 [1].

June

• Bellairs leaves the English Department at Indiana University-Gary Center.

September

• Bellairs begins work as full-time instructor of English at the College of Saint Teresa in Winona, Minnesota.

October

• 29 - Bellairs attends a lecture by Robert Cahlman, from the American National Theater and Academy, on the history of great costumes in theater.  Bellairs modeled Rex Harrison's costume for Henry VIII, "Shadow", and Jackie Gleason in his famous mountain climbing suit. Fellow instructor Norbert Geier wore costumes representing Prospero, Cyrano, and the Music Man [2].

November

• 22 - The first of four subsequent night performances of Bellairs playing the role of "Joshua" in Jean Anouilh's "Ring Round the Moon."

Winter

• Bellairs is in enrolled in classes at the University of Chicago for Winter quarter [3]. He leaves the doctoral program having completed all requirements except his dissertation.

Reference

• [1] Correspondence with American Association of University Professors (2003).
• [2] "Saint Teresa Students Witness Cavalcade of Theater History'.  Winona Daily News (Oct. 30, 1963).
• [3] Correspondence with University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center.