SPRING AND SUMMER CLASSES

Maximize your spring and summer. Earn 2-3 credits in only 6 weeks and enjoy smaller class sizes! CMTA is offering over 30 great classes in your major or minor including 12 that are general education courses.

Spring: May 4 to June 15

Summer: June 29 to August 10

Registration is in progress.

We are pleased to announce that the 48th annual EMU Alumni Awards Dinner will be held on Saturday, May 9 (6 p.m.) at the Ypsilanti Marriott and Eagle Crest Conference Center.

Two people, very special to CMTA, will be part of the honorees:

• David Blixt, 1999 graduate will be honored with the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. David has been very successful as an author and actor in the Chicago area and spent a great deal of his last year working with current EMU theatre students as the director of Romeo and Juliet –– one of our fall 2008 mainstage productions.

• Ken Stevens will also be recognized with the Dr. John W. Porter Distinguished Service Award. As both professor and long-time director of EMU Theatre, Ken has provided life-changing events for many of us and this recognition, we feel, is well deserved and long overdue.

If your schedule allows and if you would like to join us for this alumni event, please call or email for more information including ticket prices prior its May 1 deadline for reservations:

Pam Cardell
pam.cardell@emich.edu
734.487.1220

Wendy Kivi
wkivi@emich.edu
734.487.3198

The 29th Undergraduate Symposium was held on Friday, March 27 in the EMU Student Center. Pictured here with their posters are Lane Stover, student presenter from CMTA under the guidance of faculty sponsor Jenny Kindred and Amanda Beck who was sponsored by Pam Cardell. Oral presentations numbered 15 from the department with topics ranging from worker motivation tactics to Japanese Kabuki Theatre.

Hall of Fame Induction

Click on this link http://gallery.me.com/patrickbarryjr#100566 to see photos from the 2009 Hall of Fame Induction for EMU Forensics. It was a wonderful celebration on Saturday, March 21 as it honored the 30th anniversary of the 1979 national championship team and inducted Kim Roe, Carole Bennett, Dennis Cockrum, Bill Coelius, Jeff "Shappy" Seasholtz, Dave Smith, Jayme Wilson and Danny Vice.

Meeting at the Hall of Fame

Karen Kosinski Florek (right) finally gets to see the plaque in her honor as a member of EMU Forensics Hall of Fame. Karen was a member of four national championship teams during the 1970s. Here, Karen is pictured with her husband Dann (center) and Judy Sturgis Hill (left), CMTA faculty member and another honored member of the team's Hall of Fame. Judy was the very first EMU student to capture an individual national forensics championship in 1972.

Florek is Commencement Speaker

Recognize this face? Dann Florek, aka Captain Donald Cragen from the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, will serve as the fall 2008 commencement speaker. While here at EMU as a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dann was active in both EMU Theatre and EMU Forensics. He and his wife, Karen Kosinski-Florek, also an EMU alum and a member of EMU Forensics, look forward to returning to to campus for this most special occasion.