Charles Mendick

Actor, comic and award-winning playwright ("And May God Have Mercy" [May 8, 1937] ), Charles Mendick of Brooklyn, New York was the son of Joe and Celia Mendick and a 1937 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, the president of the Cornell Dramatic Club and a member of Cornell's University Theatre during his four years there as a drama and theatre major. He was a student of Prof. A. M. Drummond's "Public Speaking 49" group, a director of the Cornell Radio Guild and a member of Cornell's Savage Club, a group modeled after the famous London club by that same name.