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Note From the President

As the Scottish poet Robert Burns once wrote in his poem “To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough”: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men/Gang aft agley” (i.e. no matter how much you plan, things just don’t always work out the way you thought they would). As I noted last year, in March 2002, I had the honor of being elected National President of Alpha Psi Omega/Delta Psi Omega and had planned to step down March 2011 so our Vice-President, Prof. Frankie Day, could be nominated for President. However, our search for a Vice-President candidate was still ongoing, and Frankie and I agreed that rather than leave a vacant post, I would remain as President for another year. As such, I had the pleasure and honor of remaining in my post and will be retiring after a nice, round ten years instead.

I am now pleased to announce that our search has been successful. Professor Frankie Day, who after serving 10 years as the National Vice-President, will be nominated for National President. Frankie Day is the Program Director for the Theatre Arts Program and Executive Director of Paul Robeson Theatre on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University. She holds the Masters of Fine Arts in Acting/Directing from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and is the recipient of The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's National Teaching Artist Grant, a national honor awarded to only six professors in the country in recognition of Outstanding Achievement as a Theatre Artist and Educator. The National Office is nominating Professor Thomas F. Cox of the University of West Georgia for National Vice-President. Professor Cox is a tenured, full professor holding a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design from Purdue University, is a dedicated Alpha Psi Omega member and faculty advisor, holds numerous honors, and whose publications have been seen in Southern Theatre Magazine. Both will be put forth for election at the National Meeting at the SETC Convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee on March 9, 2012.

As a final word of farewell, I want to thank everyone who has made my tenure as President one of the most rewarding experiences in my life. I have gotten so many calls and emails over the years from students and faculty who care deeply about our society. Some I now have the honor to call “friend” (in its original, non-Facebook meaning!). They have shown me, again and again, that the theatre attracts the most caring and dedicated people in the world. At this time of ongoing, world-wide economic hardship, when the arts and humanities are often rejected as financially unfeasible, I know that the theatre will survive because of their efforts, and the dramatic arts will continue to shine a brilliant light on the complexities of the human mind and potential of the human spirit. To every member of Alpha Psi Omega and Delta Psi Omega, to every Faculty Advisor, to our Regional Reps, to our National Officers (past and present), I offer my deepest and most heart-felt thanks. Break a leg!

E. Teresa Choate, President, 2002-2012

Critical Address Change! 

The address all paperwork should be mailed to has changed! Please mail all correspondence to: Dr. Bret Jones, Alpha Psi Omega, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount St., Box 153, Wichita, KS 67260. Sending to the old address won't get to us in a timely manner.