Wilhelmine Bennett

Background

Wilhelmine Bennett was born on June 14, 1933 in Carmi, Illinois, United States, into the family of Voyle Columbus and Wilhelmine Sophia (Hambacker) Bennett.

Education

Wilhelmine received Bachelor of Music degree at the Butler University, and then earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees at the Northwestern University. She had a postdoctoral study at Columbia University and also studied acting and dance at Neighborhood Playhouse and psychology at University of Chicago. Finally, she attended Freiburg Hochschule fuer Musik.

Career

Wilhelmine Bennett worked at Chicago State Hospital as a psychiatric social worker in 1961 - 1965. Then she served at the University of California in Santa Cruz as an adjunct professor during 1972 - 1973 and took the same position at the University of Iowa in 1979 - 1980.

Though she started out in the performing arts as a concert pianist, she became bored in that role. In her junior year of college, she started writing music and knew immediately that her niche was as a creative artist, rather than a performing artist. Though she has performed since as an actress and dancer, she feels most fulfilled when creating — in many different areas, including music, plays, dance, design, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

She is also the author of the plays "Delusions", "Confusions", and "Hieroglyphics." Moreover, she is the creator of the videotape "New Horizons" and the videotape series “The Other Species”, and composer of orchestral and chamber music works that have been performed in the United States and Europe.

Achievements

• Wilhelmine Bennett is highly notable for her book "Habits: A Journal", written in 1998.

Works

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• book

  • Habits : A Journal 1998

Membership

• member of executive board

  International League of Women Composers

  1980 - 1986

• Pi Kappa Lambda

Interests

• music, acting, and dancing

Connections

In April, 1972 Wilhelmine Bennett married Roger Douglass, but the couple broke up in October, 1978.

Father:

Voyle C Bennett

Mother:

Wilhelmine Sophia (Hambacker) Bennett

Spouse:

Roger Douglass

Brother:

John A Bennett

Brother:

Columbus Bennett

Brother:

Carmi Bennett

Sister:

Mary E Bennett

Sister:

Ruth Bennett