Lillia C. Woodbury recently graduated Summa Cum Laude with degrees in music education and theatre arts from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester. Lilli played flute and was student president of the Roberts Wind Ensemble. She is granddaughter of the late Estelle and Bernard Winkler of Dunkirk, lifelong Fredonia resident Doris Woodbury, who attended the commencement ceremony, and the late W. Jack Woodbury. Her parents are former Fredonia residents Christine Winkler of Clarence and Timothy Woodbury of Akron.

Lilli was an Honors Program Graduate and other honors and awards upon graduation included a listing in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges and Alpha Kappa Sigma Honor Society membership. Roberts’ scholarships previously awarded include the Jillian Brady Memorial Theater, Honors, Illsley Endowed, Music, and Trustee Scholarships, as well as several grants.

At Roberts and in the Rochester theatre community she has handled stage management for numerous shows and recently helped with directing 23 child actors involved in the musical Oliver. She was employed at Roberts’ Cultural Life Center for four years with duties including sound, lights, props management, and staging; and she also tutored music theory.

Lilli wrote, edited, produced, and directed her original full-length play Light of Day which was staged at Roberts last February, and used the play and its themes for her senior Honors Program project and thesis. She also has written several musical compositions. The Lilli Woodbury Composition Showcase was recently staged at Roberts’ 1893 Cox Hall Auditorium, with Lilli playing piano and several of her fellow students performing Lilli’s compositions.

Lilli is currently teaching music and conducting band at Gates-Chili Middle School, and working on compositions and a musical in her spare time.