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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi Ric,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I recall voting at the 2007 CATR AGM in Saskatoon to change ACTR to CATR.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The change from ACTH to ACTR was before my time with the association, but newsletters in our archives indicate the change from ACTH to ACTR happened between spring 1991
and September 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">On a related note, if I may, if anyone has past ACTH/ACTR/CATR conference programs, we’d love to receive scans of the covers to fill in what we’re missing on the
Past Conferences webpage:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<a href="https://catracrt.ca/past-catr-conferences/">https://catracrt.ca/past-catr-conferences</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">. Bonus points if you don’t mind scanning the whole program (they weren’t
that lengthy in the distant past). Please email </span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:catr.communications@gmail.com">catr.communications@gmail.com</a></span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">
or me (<a href="mailto:rwhit@stu.ca">rwhit@stu.ca</a>) if you can help.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Warmly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dr. Robin C. Whittaker</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
CATR/ACRT President</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Associate Professor, Drama, Department of English, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alumnae Theatre Company: Nonprofessionalizing Theatre in Canada<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://utorontopress.com/9781487548261/alumnae-theatre-company/"><span style="color:#467886">https://utorontopress.com/9781487548261/alumnae-theatre-company</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>St. Thomas University is situated on the traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Wəlastəkewiyik / Maliseet whose ancestors along with the Mi’Kmaq / Mi’kmaw and Passamaquoddy / Peskotomuhkati Tribes / Nations signed Peace and Friendship Treaties with the
British Crown in the 1700s.</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Candrama <candrama-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Ric Knowles <rknowles@uoguelph.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:21</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca (candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca) <candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Candrama] dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Does anyone know the dates that ACTH became ACTR and then CATR? It isn't on the Association's website, and I can't find it in my own records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sets/people/ric-knowles">University of Guelph</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ric Knowles lives and works on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit (Between the Lakes Purchase, Treaty 3), where we acknowledge our responsibilities
to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant and offer respect to Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours as well as to the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples for whom today
<span style="background:white">this gathering place is home</span>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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