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UNWERSUY of NOTRE DAME <br />Scholastic, <br />me <br />arrent Issue <br />News <br />Culture <br />Sports <br />Humor <br />Archives <br />About <br />A Queen of Costumes <br />Published: December 14, 2014 Author: Kathleen Ashcraft tlink:/issues/authors/xathleen-ashcraft/] <br />Imagine a place that allows you to <br />instantly step back into any decade of <br />epast. You can be a dazzling flapper <br />rl from the 1920s or a dapper ad man <br />from the 196os. That is exactly the <br />kind of place Deborah Mayers has <br />created with South Bend School <br />District's Casaday Costume Collection. <br />Lucy Negash <br />Mayers is a professional costumer and is the sole person in charge of the <br />costume collection, which contains over 76, o o o different pieces. <br />The collection itself dates back to the 1970s, when James Lewis Casaday <br />started it. Casaday was a drama teacher for the South Bend School District-.- <br />He <br />istrict:He would help create the costumes for various plays and productions in the <br />district — and he was crafty about it. <br /><f he found a paper plate that he <br />particularly liked, he would make it a part of a crown," Mayers says. <br />1 of 6 1/28/2015 3:40 PM <br />