Description: Dale Carter Cooper (1918-2012) left her Danville, Virginia home in 1935 to pursue an acting career in New York, where she studied and performed in summer stock. Married in 1940, she moved with her family to Louisville in 1948. Dale began reading for APH in 1952 and recorded over four hundred titles in a career that lasted 39 years. In the late nineteen-fifties she became director of the Louisville Children’s Theatre. She returned to performing professionally in 1967, appearing in regional theatres across the United States, including Actors Theatre of Louisville. In 1968, she became the first female lay reader in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky. She received the Alexander Scourby Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.