2008
Rollins Players Officers
Joseph Bromfield, President Email Joseph
Rob Yoho, Vice President/Treasurer
Sarah McWilliams, Secretary
Jen Bevan & Maggie Moran, Social Chairs
Emily Killian, Membership Chair
Dustin Schwab, Second Stage Liason
Alex Vazquez & Cristina Martinez, Historians
Hannah White, Fundraising Chair
Brian Groth, Community Service Chair
Jane Wurzelbacher, Staff Advisor
 
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National Theater Honors Fraternity Theta Alpha
Phi is an honors
society rather than a recognition association or activity club.
It
confers nationally recognized honor on graduate and undergraduate
students who earn a specified high level of quality in theater study
and
production at over 36 selected, accredited colleges and universities
in
22 states.
Theta Alpha Phi is the only honorary theater
organization
restricted entirely to that level of education where students can
be
expected to have a serious purpose in theater work and study. It
charters only four-year-or-more, Class "A" colleges and
universities,
has no branches or subsidiaries, and admits to membership only students
of sophomore standing or above.
Theta Alpha Phi is the only wholly independent
theater honors
organization with standards and functions established solely by
its own
constitution without regard to requirements of other organizations.
It
is not a member of any association whose member societies are concerned
with areas other than theater, but which nevertheless control the
standards and hence the functions of members.
Theta Alpha Phi is the only national
organization which honors
graduate and undergraduate students for quality as well as quantity
of
work and study in theater arts alone. Unlike some organizations
which
demand that students achieve a certain level in all studies, most
of
which are unrelated to theater, Theta Alpha Phi demands excellence
only in theater. Recognizing individual differences as a fact of
life, Theta
Alpha Phi believes a student can be outstanding in theater and deserving
of honor in theater without comparable achievement in all areas
of study.
Theta Alpha Phi provides its members
and member schools with
greater prestige than any similar organization. Having been founded
in
1919, it is the oldest, nation-wide, educational theater honors
society
in the world. Since its founding, it has consistently admitted only
the
finest colleges and universities with the highest academic standards
and
the highest theater standards in the nation. It is the only honorary
which presents a national award. This Medallion of Honor is known
as
the highest national tribute made in educational theater.
Theta Alpha Phi's magazine, The
Cue, is oriented distinctly and
solely to students of theater in higher education. With articles,
pictures and other features relevant to mature college students
rather
than to younger readers or faculty. The Cue stands alone in its
field
and provides a useful and important service not only to members,
but to
all students of theater.
Theta Alpha Phi is a completely democratic
organization. There is
no secrecy, no "blackball," and no chapter or member discrimination
on
the basis of race, color or creed. The constitution, initiation
ceremony, financial statements, and other records are available
for
inspection to any responsible person or organization. Throughout
its
history, however, Theta Alpha Phi has retained a consistent and
dynamic "fraternity" policy of mutual aid among members
and member schools.
The first chapter was formed on December
22, 1919 at Oklahoma A & M College in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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