Mark Jerome Malinauskas, 76, died Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at Murray Calloway County Hospital. Mark was born on September 11, 1939 to Stella and Anthony Malinauskas in Ashley, Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA degree from Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a Master's degree from Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico and a PhD from the University of Oregon in Eugene. (Go Ducks!) He acted in summer and community theatres in Carbondale, Illinois, Bakersfield and Santa Clara, California, The Black Hills Playhouse in South Dakota, Sister Lakes, Michigan, and Eugene, Oregon. He worked for the Third Army as an entertainment director and taught and directed theater at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin and at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Mark was retired from Murray State University where he had served as Director of Theatre from 1978 to 1993. During that time he directed innumerable mainstage productions, taught theatre classes on campus and in London and created a summer theatre group called Sing Out Kentucky which performed music indigenous to Kentucky's history at local state parks. He also taught in the Governor's Scholars Program in Lexington. In 1990 he gave up the directorship of theatre to become Director of the Honors Program, a position he held until his retirement in 2008. He was proud of being honored as the Distinguished Professor in 1999 which allowed him to lead his daughter and other MSU graduates in that year's commencement exercises. Mark's long membership in SETC culminated in his serving as President of the Southeastern Theatre Conference and being awarded the Suzanne M. Davis Memorial Service Award in 2003. A member of St. John's Episcopal Church, Mark also served on the scholarship committee as a member of Rotary for several years and was named a Paul E. Fellow. He had a strong interest in the Civil War and traveled to many of the battlefields and was an avid reader of Civil War material. Surviving Mark are his wife, Barbara, to whom he was married for forty nine years and three children: Deidre Malinauskas (Murray, KY), Sean Malinauskas (San Diego, CA) and Megan Betzelberger and husband Marc (Shelbyville, TN). He also delighted in his five grandsons, Jacob, Benjamin, Noah, Jonathan, Luke and a lovely granddaughter Adelyn Kate. He cared for a loving sister, Mary Butchko and husband, Tom (Exeter,PA) as well as a sister-in-law, Barbara Malinauskas, and nieces and nephews with whom he frequently corresponded. Preceding him in death were his parents, Anthony and Stella Malinauskas and a brother, Dr. Anthony Malinauskas, who was honored by the Department of Energy for his work in nuclear waste disposal. A memorial service will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church on December 12th at 2:00 p.m. with interment following immediately in the church's Memorial Garden. A reception will follow at the Church. Expressions of sympathy, in lieu of flowers, may take the form of contributions to St. John's Memorial Garden or the Mark Malinauskas Book Scholarship Fund for the Honors Program at Murray State University Condolences available at www.imesfh.com