sentences:  The daughter of a clergyman, she often recalled that her family couldn't afford electricity, so she grew up with candles and gaslights.She graduated from Berea College (Kentucky) in 1946 and later attended Yale University, obtaining her MFA in 1950.Her first Broadway lighting credit was José Quintero's staging of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" in 1956 at the original Helen Hayes Theatre.