"Soon after, her parents moved to another state, leaving Clark to fend for herself. "They didn't ask where I would be living or if I was going to college. They knew nothing. They didn't give me any money. They just left," Clark recalled. Clark felt lost, alone and directionless. Luckily, her high school drama teacher, a man named George Meshke, had just taken a job at a community college and suggested she register there. She had just enough money for tuition and a place to stay."
"Two days later, Meshke approached Clark with unexpected news. "He always [was] kind of gruff. And he [said], 'Well, you don't probably really deserve it, but I found out there was a college drama scholarship and, well, you got it. So, your next semester is totally paid for,'" Clark remembered. Clark was shocked and relieved. The next semester, she worked as many part-time jobs as she could."
Silvana Clark graduated high school in 1971 and was left without parental support when her parents moved to another state. She enrolled at a community college after her former drama teacher, George Meshke, suggested she register and she had just enough for tuition and housing. Clark struggled financially, lacking basics like toothpaste, and worried she could not pay for a second semester. Meshke later told her he had arranged a college drama scholarship to cover the next semester, and Clark continued, working many part-time jobs. Toward the end of the year she discovered the drama scholarship did not exist.
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