Liza Chapman

Liza Chapman appeared on television and the stage, served as a lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps from 1948 to 1952 and was reported to be the youngest commissioned officer in the corps at the time. A veteran of television melodrama, Miss Chapman was known to daytime viewers for her portrayal of Janet Mathews on NBC's "Another World." She also appeared in two episodes of CBS's "The Secret Storm" in a minor role as Barbara Bradford. Her husband, pianist and conductor Andrew Heath, served as chairman of the music department at Fairfield University. Both studied at Yale University from 1953 to 1955, when he was working on a master's degree in music and she was taking courses in the drama school. Mrs. Heath, a student of Eva Le Gallienne at the White Barn in Westport in 1957, conducted story-telling hours at the Hans Christian Anderson statue in New York's Central Park early in her acting career. Her brilliance in story telling led to an invitation by the Baroness Alma Dahlerup of the Danish Arts Council for her to conduct story telling hours in New York. She appeared in the New York production of "Lysistrata" and off Broadway in "Paris Impromptu" and a revival of "Anna Christie." A graduate of Yale Drama School, she portrayed Regina in the world premiere of Miss Le Gallienne's translation of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts," which was produced by Lucille Lortel at the White Barn theater. Mrs. Heath also appeared many times on the same stage with her husband, doing narratives as he played the piano. She occasionally accompanied her husband on European concert tours. A drama student from New Haven, the then Liza Chapman first met her future husband when he gave a concert at Quinnipiac College. He was a Harvard undergraduate at the time. They continued their friendship in the summers of 1947 and 1948 at Tanglewood, Mass., where Mr. Heath was a student at the music center and Miss Chapman was director of a summer stock theatrical group. Following several years at Harvard and abroad, Mr. Heath entered the Army in 1951. He and Miss Chapman were reunited in New York where she was serving as a lieutenant in the WACs. They were married in New Haven. After release from military service, the couple spent several years studying at Yale and then settled in Westport, Connecticut. Liza Chapman Heath was buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery following services in Connecticut in 1967. Andrew Heath died on February 15, 2005 in New Haven, Connecticut and is buried alongside his wife at Arlington. The couple had three sons, Dana, Duncan and David, and a daughter, Honor.