{"id":62181,"date":"2024-11-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=62181"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:45:44","slug":"rod-serling","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/rod-serling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Serling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Rod Serling<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lecture-date-january-28-2025\">Lecture Date: January 28, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-russell-mait-and-barbara-stone-mait-79-lecture\">The Russell Mait and Barbara Stone Mait &#8217;79 Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2025: Rod Serling\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1051638001?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62162\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling.jpg 667w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In this deeply intimate and soulful memoir about her father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the serious figure the public saw hosting <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em> each week. In 1975, Rod Serling&#8217;s untimely death at 50 years old left 20-year-old Anne stunned and reeling. But through talking to his friends, poring over old letters, and recounting her childhood memories, Anne not only navigated her profound grief, but gained a deeper understanding of this remarkable man both as her father and as a dynamic writer. Now she shares her journey, along with personal photos, letters, scenes of her dad&#8217;s youth, his service in World War II, and her family&#8217;s time together. <em>As I Knew Him<\/em> is at once a portrait of a father and daughter, and a tribute to Rod Serling&#8217;s legacy as a visionary, storyteller, and humanist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1lSk9cXYGlt8AS2h3fnDPZ56wPF6WMlpk\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=103238403274382254745&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW<div class='arrow'><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speaker-anne-serling\">Speaker: Anne Serling<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling_pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling_pic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62177\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling_pic.png 275w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/sterling_pic-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anne Serling was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and grew up in southern California. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was an early childhood teacher. Anne serves on the board of directors of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne has been published in <em>The Twilight Zone, The Original Stories<\/em> and <em>The Twilight Zone Magazine<\/em> in which she adapted two of her father&#8217;s teleplays into short stories. She has had poetry published in <em>The Cornell Daily Sun and Visions<\/em>. Her works have also appeared in Salon.com and Huffington Post and she is currently writing a novel: <em>AFTERSHOCKS<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-62181","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1261","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rod Serling - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/rod-serling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rod Serling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Date: January 28, 2025 The Russell Mait and Barbara Stone Mait &#8217;79 Lecture In this deeply intimate and soulful memoir about her father, Anne Serling reveals the fun-loving dad and family man behind the serious figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week. 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