Warren Beatty more comfortable behind the camera," she says. "He's in the total-control aspect. He has to have control over everything. Beatty doesn't deny that need; in speaking about his earliest parts, he said "When I acted in films I used to come with suggestions about the script, the lighting, the wardrobe, and people used to say 'Waddya want, to produce the picture as well?' And I used to say that I supposed I did." Beatty was a star football player at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington. Encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who had recently established herself as
Charles Clinton Beatty Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary). In 1829, he and his wife founded the Steubenville Female Seminary in Steubenville, Ohio and he was superintendent. In 1861, he received an honorary degree from Washington College. He was elected trustee of Washington College on September 1, 1863. On November 6, 1863, Beatty, offered $50,000 to entice ailing Washington College and Jefferson schools to unify. Beatty had a number of familiar and social connections to Washington College, including a stint in leadership of the Synod of Wheeling. This inducement was enough to encourage the schools to unify as Washington & Jefferson College. On