Roster of AATE Presidents & Chairs

Roster of AATE Presidents & Chairs

1944 - 1945
Hazel Robertson
Palo Alto Children’s Theatre

1946 – 1947 
Virginia Lee Comer
Association of Junior Leagues of America

1948 – 1949
Burdette Fitzgerald
College of the Holy Names

1950 – 1951
Campton Bell
University of Denver

1952 – 1953
Kenneth L. Graham
University of Minnesota

1953 – 1955
Sara Spencer
Children’s Theatre Press

1955 – 1957
Paul Kozelka
Teachers College, Columbia University

1957 – 1959
Eleanor Chase York
Western Michigan University

1959 – 1961
Dorothy Thames Schwartz
Loveman’s of Alabama

1961 – 1963
Agnes Haaga
University of Washington

1963 – 1965
Jed H. Davis
University of Kansas

1965 – 1967
Nat Eek
University of Oklahoma

1967 – 1969
Barbara McIntyre
Northwestern University

1969 – 1971
Ann Hill
Nashville Children’s Theatre

1971 – 1973
Orlin Corey
Everyman Players

1973 – 1975
Nellie McCaslin
New York University

1975 – 1977
Coleman Jennings
University of Texas, Austin

1977 – 1979
Judith Kase-Cooper
University of South Florida

1979 – 1981
Tom Behm
University of North Carolina

1981 – 1983
Lin Wright
Arizona State University

1983 – 1985
Ruth Heinig
Western Michigan University

1985 – 1987
Barbara Salisbury Willis
University of Texas, Austin

1987 – 1988
Harold Oaks
Brigham Young University

1988 – 1989
Thom Feit
Warren Central High School

1989 – 1991
Joan Lazarus
University of Wisconsin, Madison

1991 – 1993
Kim Alan Wheetley
Southeast Institute for Education in Theatre

1993 – 1995
Laura Gardner Salazar
Grand Valley College

1995 – 1997
Susan Pearson-Davis
University of New Mexico

1997 – 1999
Gretta Berghammer
University of Northern Iowa

1999 – 2001
Judith Rethwisch
Afton High School

2001 – 2003
Joseph Juliano, Jr.
Hamden Public Schools

2003 – 2005
Janet Rubin
Saginaw Valley State University

2005 – 2007 Steve Barberio
James P. Shannon Institute

2007 – 2009
Betsy Quinn
Haven Middle School/Northwestern University

2009 – 2011
Rives Collins
Northwestern University

2011 – 2013
Daniel A. Kelin, II
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
2013 – 2015
Jo Beth Gonzalez

Bowling Green High School

2015 – 2017
Gary Minyard 
Victoria Theatre Association
2017-2019
Stacey Ardelean
Fuse Theatre
2019-2021
(Org. title changed
to AATE Chair)
Jennifer Katona
City Collage NY &
Norwalk Public Schools
2021-2023
Roundabout Theatre Company

 

Secondary School Theatre Conference (SSTC) Directors/Presidents

1959-1961
John C. Barner
1961-1963
Charlotte Kay Motter
1963-1965
Wallace Smith
1965 -1967
Joseph L. Peluso
1967-1969
William H. Cleveland Jr.
1969-1971
Nicholas Wandmacher
1971-1973
Richard C. Johnson
1973-1974
William Waack
1974-1975
John Baumhardt
1975-1976
John C. Barner
1976-1977
Thomas Beagle
1977-1978
Anna May Hughes
1978-1979
Charles Jeffries
1979-1980
Norman Potts
1980-1981
Jerry Proffit
1981-1982
Lynn Murray
1982-1983
Doug Finney
1983-1985
Rita Kotter
1985-1987
Mina Halliday
1987-1989
William Rough*


* Because this organization merged with AATY to form AATE, Rough never served as president