In preparation for the 50th Anniversary of the Program and the 2016 Forum in Educational Theatre, we are working hard on a special project: a timeline of 50 years in Educational Theatre. When completed, this timeline will live on the Educational Theatre website. For now, we would like to draw your attention to one of our resources: the Lowell and Nancy Swortzell Theatre Arts Collection, Child Drama Collection, Arizona State University. About 15 years ago, Lowell and Nancy Swortzell donated all of their papers, pictures, pamplets, etc. to the Child Drama Collection at Arizona State University to preserve the legacy, not only of our innovative founders, but also of our Program, the first of its kind in the world. This way, researchers will have access to materials documenting the history of our Program in perpetuity. A number of these images will be featured in the timeline, but here are a preview of what’s to come:
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- Study Abroad, School Visit, London, England
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- Elizabethan Movement class, Bretton Hall, Study Abroad UK, early 1980s
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- Nancy, Gavin Bolton, and Audrey Coldron in London
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- Lowell and Nancy in the Provincetown for New Plays for Young Audiences
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- Lowell and Nancy, on the set for Peter Rabbit and Me, 1992
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- CTF Medallions 2003
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- Nancy Swortzell, Wayne Fairhead, Vera Mowry Roberts, Cecily O’Neill at the IDEA Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 1995
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- Nellie McCaslin and Aurand Harris with Nancy Swortzell, Christmas 1994
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- Nan Smithner in the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 1990
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- NYU Study Abroad First Summer Theatre Centre London, 1974
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- NYU, Master of Arts class, Puerto Rico, 1968
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- Nancy teaching at NYU, 1965
