~~ I met Sandy Meisner many years ago, 20 or so. We worked very closely together until a few years before he died. I was first a student in his private acting class, then his teaching assistant (he taught on Wednesdays and I would watch, I taught on Saturdays and he would watch), then a teacher on my own and a faculty member of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and always, we were friends. When Sandy died my son was graduating. My wife and my daughter and I went to Texas. I couldn't attend the funeral so I wrote a tribute and Harold Baldridge, the director of the Neighborhood Playhouse, read it at Sandy's memorial in New York.