McCallum Scholarship Winners Announced

[Shelley Scott]

At its May 2004 Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba the Association for
Canadian Theatre Research/Association de la recherche théâtrale au
Canada awarded its seventeenth annual Heather McCallum Scholarship to
David Ferry and Natalie Papoutsis.

David Ferry recently completed his MFA in Directing at the University of
Victoria. He is halfway through the writing of an enumerative
bibliography of Canadian playwright James Reaney. The award of $700 will
assist Mr. Ferry with travel expenses as he visits libraries and
archives to complete the searches and collation of secondary sources.
The Committee was impressed with the thoroughness of research already
conducted and felt that our contribution to the completion of this
meritorious project is particularly apt, given the interest this project
will have to the membership of ACTR/ARTC.

Natalie Papoutsis is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama, University of Toronto. She is studying CBC radio adaptations of
Classical Greek tragedies. The award of $500 will fund the duplication
of recordings from the 1940s to the 1960s, featuring such celebrated
Canadian performers as Mavor Moore, Jane Mallet, Lorne Greene and
Christopher Newton, and will make these recordings publicly available
from the National Archives of Canada for the first time. The Committee
was particularly pleased to support a project which will prioritise
these recordings for preservation work, make them available for public
listening, and expedite the CBC’s process of reclaiming materials for
their own archive.

The Heather McCallum award monies are drawn from the interest earned
annually from an Endowment Fund created in 1987 to honour Heather
McCallum, who established and, for 25 years, headed the Theatre Section
of the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library. She is the author of the
Directory of Canadian Theatre Archives.

Tax-deductible donations to the Heather McCallum Endowment Fund are
welcomed and may be sent to Bruce Kirkley, Theatre Department,
University College of the Fraser Valley, 45635 Yale Road, Chilliwack,
BC, V2P 6T4.

For any further information regarding the Heather McCallum Scholarship,
including the criteria for application, please contact:
Erin Hurley
Department of English
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2T6
(514) 398-6573