South Carolina Theatre Association (Scta)

the south carolina theatre association was founded on september 23, 1967. the meeting had been called at the behest of the southeastern theatre conference. setc, anxious to create a statewide theatre organization in each of its ten states, had appointed state representatives in those states not so in south carolina. hill prepared and sent a letter of invitation to identifiable theatres throughout the state, and mckellar provided a meeting site and presided at the organizational meeting. the thirty delegates present, representative of community and educational theatres in all parts of the state, concurred in the need for an organization and voted to constitute itself into such an association. a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution, and officers were elected. they included donald mckellar as president, philip hill as vice-president, betty hudgens as secretary, and gene eaker as treasurer. it was agreed to hold the first annual convention in columbia on january 20, 1968, with