Comment on Scholarship fund in Myers' name to be announced at WVSU event Friday

By Douglas Imbrogno Lydia McLeod attended West Virginia State College in Institute at the same time as Cabin Creek native Lou Myers. She did not know him well, but characterized him as "a regular guy with a very warm sense of humor." Myers would graduate in 1964 with a degree in sociology. He would instead go on to a globetrotting career in TV, film, theater and cabaret performance. About five years ago, McLeod and her husband, Ron, who had been following Myers' career and meeting him at homecomings back in Institute, went to see him perform on Broadway in "The Color Purple." "We didn't realize until we got up to our seats - which were up in the nosebleed area in the last row - and everybody sitting on that row was from West Virginia State," she recalled. They sent word backstage that a bunch of alumni were there and could he meet them at the stage door, McLeod recalled. "And so we did.