Famous & Notable Daughters

Meghan Cary: Singer, recording artist

Singer, Songwriter & Jobie of Bethel 17, Hershey, Penn.

Meghan Cary's music has drawn comparisons to Shawn Colvin, Stevie Nicks, Blind Faith and even Bruce Springsteen. An award-winning songwriter and a natural on stage, Cary was named Billboard Magazineís Critic's Choice for Best Newcomer when she hit the music scene. As one critic exclaimed: "Cary is a star waiting to happen!" (Barry Fox -The Patriot News). The star has risen.

On her newest release, "Live at Your House", Cary serves up the magic of her live show on CD, and literally leaves her audience howling. “Live at Your House” is unique in the fact that it was recorded live in a living room. "I perform house concerts all over the country, so when it came time to record my first live album I knew that to capture the intimacy, energy and comfort level I wanted from the room, it had to be a living room." This album captures it all.

Raised in Hershey, PA, Cary studied math and chemistry at Duke University, with plans of becoming a doctor. But she made an about-face at school, ultimately earning her B.A. in theatre before going on to obtain her M.F.A. in acting at Florida State Universitys Asolo Conservatory. She has performed in more than 50 plays throughout the United States and Europe while simultaneously working in film, television and radio. Cary is a founding member of the NYC-based, Actor's Shakespeare Company. If you haven't caught her playing Helena in "Midsummer", you've probably seen or heard Cary on television selling you everything from diapers to long distance telephone service.

Meghan did not plan on having a recording career but when her fiance Matthew Black passed away she channeled all of her feelings and thoughts for him into songs. She actually had to learn to play guitar at that time and it was on Matthew’s guitar that she learned and then wrote those songs.

Meghan says, "It struck me as I was working on my new tune 'Building a House' (you'll be hearing it soon) that in May of 2005, I will have been writing, recording and performing my own music for 10 years. I couldn't believe it. To this day I pick up my guitar to write a song and it feels like a brand new experience." To commemorate her first ten years of music making, Meghan recently released a 3 CD set, "boxset - A Decade of Song,", that includes 3 of her 4 CD releases: "New shoes," "Onion Dream," and "Live at Your House." To listen to any of Meghan's music, you can log on to www.meghancary.com.

Source: www.meghancary.com

Judy Garland

Actress, Singer & Jobie

"But Ol' Man River, he jes' keepin rollin' along" was a line in one of the many songs that Judy Garland recorded. She was born in the Upper Mississippi River town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where the Judy Garland Museum takes up an entire floor of the old grade school. A block away is the site of the home where Garland spent the first five years of her life. That spot is now occupied by a multiplex cinema in the town's only shopping center. Garland's father operated the only movie theater in Grand Rapids until he moved the family to California in 1927. Garland made her stage debut at that Grand Rapids theater with her two older sisters. In 1934, the Gumm Sisters performed in Chicago during the World's Fair there. That is where Frances Gumm was advised to change her name to Judy Garland. Her voice got her into film acting when she was 13 and kept her in demand for stage and television performances after her film career was over. The Judy Garland in the later movies was much slimmer than the teenager who co-starred with Mickey Rooney and who played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The final display in The Judy Garland Museum blames the pills she started taking in the 1940s to achieve the streamlined figure Hollywood wanted her to have for her early death.

Although it states she was a member of the Order, no Bethel is listed on her biography.

Source: www.imdb.com

Debbie Reynolds

Actress, Dancer & PHQ Bethel 97, Burbank, Calif

Debbie Reynolds wasn't a dancer until she was selected to be Gene Kelly's partner in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Not yet twenty, she was a quick study. Twelve years later, it seemed like she had been around forever. She was only 31 when she gave an Academy Award nominated performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). She survived losing first husband Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor following the tragic death of Michael Todd. Her second husband, shoe magnate Harry Karl, gambled away his fortune as well as hers. With her children as well as Karl's, she had to keep working and turned to the stage. She had her own casino in Las Vegas with a home for her collection of Hollywood memorabilia until it's closure in 1997. She took the time to personally write a long letter that is on display in the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and to provide that museum with replicas of Garland's costumes. The originals are in her newly-opened museum in Hollywood

Christie Hageman

Christie Hageman graduated from Billings Senior High School and San Jose State University – Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance.

She is now attending the University of Texas at Austin studying for a Master's of Music in Opera Performance
She was active at First Immanuel Church, San Jose, CA. during those 4 years at San Jose State, singing solos during worship services and giving several concerts in their sanctuary. Her talent in the Miss Montana contest was a jazz rendition of the song "Route 66."

Source: Job's Daughters International

Kim Cattrall

Actress & Jobie of Bethel 8, Courteney, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Kim Cattrall was born on August 21, 1956 in Widnes, England, approximately 16 miles east of Liverpool. At the age of three months, emigrated with her father, Dennis, and mother, Shane, to Canada, where a large number of her films have been made. At the age of eleven, Kim returned to her native country and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Upon her return to Vancouver, Canada, Kim graduated high school at age sixteen and won a scholarship to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. During her final year at the academy, she won a part in Otto Preminger's Rosebud (1975). Following her film debut Kim returned to the theatre first in Vancouver and then played repertory in Toronto prior to winning a contract at Universal in Los Angeles.

Source: www.imdb.com