Twenty-Fourth Season: 1971-1972
Best Costumes ………………………….. Gloria Salladay for “Auntie Mame”
Best Sound Design …………………….. (Tie) Ray Strickland for “Don’t Drink the Water” AND
………………………………………………. Keith Patterson for “Hansel and Gretel”
Best Lighting Design …………………… Ray Strickland for “Plaza Suite”
Best Set Design …………………………. Kelly Matthews for “Don’t Drink the Water”
Best Supporting Actress ……………… Mardi Bell in “Auntie Mame”
Best Supporting Actor ………………… John Voulkos in “Don’t Drink the Water”
Best Lead Actress ………………………. Pat Branson in “Don’t Drink the Water”
Best Lead Actor …………………………. John Gordon in “Auntie Mame”
Best Director …………………………….. John Voulkos for “Plaza Suite”
Best Production of the Year …………. “Don’t Drink the Water” directed by Don Mummert
“Lifetime Patron Membership” awarded to Paul H. Troutner and William Langroise
Twenty-Third Season: 1970-1971
Best Properties ………………………. (Tie) Kay Stowell for “Wait Until Dark” AND
………………………………….. Irene Godbout & Sheila Wagner for “Cactus Flower”
Best Set Design………………………..Vaughn Price for “Blithe Spirit”
Costumes………………………………..Jan Van Schulyer for “Devil’s Disciple”
Best Supporting Actress …………… Vicki Danielson in “Dylan”
Best Supporting Actor …………….. (Tie) Don Mummert in “Wait Until Dark” AND
……………………………………………. Jim Erickson in “Cactus Flower”
Best Lead Actress …………………… Nancy Suiter in “Cactus Flower”
Best Lead Actor ……………………… Michael Reinbold in “Dylan”
Best Director………………………….. William Shankweiler for “Blithe Spirit”
Best Production of the Year …….. “Cactus Flower” directed by Vaughn Price
Twenty-Second Season: 1969-1970
Best Supporting Actress ……………….. Pam Abas in “Ten Little Indians”
Best Supporting Actor ………………….. Michael Reinbold in “Androcles and the Lion”
Best Lead Actress ………………………… (Tie) Sharon Purdy in “Roman Candle” AND
…………………………………………………. Patricia Patterson in “Antigone”
Best Lead Actor …………………………… H. Paul Kliss in “Antigone”
Best Director ………………………………. William Shankweiler for “Ten Little Indians”
Best Production of the Year ………….. “Ten Little Indians” directed by William Shankweiler
Twenty-First Season: 1968-1969
Best Costumes ……………………. Kay Stowell for “The Madwoman of Chaillot”
Best Lighting Design ……………. Ken Weaver & Aldrich Bowler for “The Fantasticks”
Best Set Design ………………….. Andrew Wight for “The Philadelphia Story”
Best Supporting Actress ………. Margot Bown in “The Madwoman of Chaillot”
Best Supporting Actor………….. James H. Hawley, Jr. in “The Biggest Thief in Town”
Best Lead Actress………………… Helen Bonnell in “The Madwoman of Chaillot”
Best Lead Actor………………….. Jay Sherlock for “The Odd Couple”
Best Director………………………. Vaughn Price for “The Odd Couple”
Special Award for Sound Effects to Keith Patterson for “Stalag 17”
Twentieth Season: 1967-68
Best Costumes………… Faye Peters & Jan Van Schuyler for “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Best Staging ……………… Maynard Smith & Del Bowman for “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Best Lighting …………………. Bob Elliott for “Summer and Smoke”
Best Supporting Actress ….. Pam Abas in “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Best Supporting Actor …….. Jerry Hall in “Barefoot in the Park”
Best Lead Actress ………….. Patricia Patterson in “Summer and Smoke”
Best Lead Actor ……………. Charlie Wilson in “No Time For Sergeants”
Best Director ………………….. (Tie) Keith Patterson for “Summer and Smoke” AND
…………………………………….. Jay Sherlock for “Barefoot in the Park”
Scholarship presented to Marilyn Miller
Nineteenth Season: 1966-67
Best Supporting Actress………… Luella Zundel in “Our Town”
Best Supporting Actor…………… Steve Conover in “The Play’s the Thing”
Best Lead Actress………………… Terri DeLatour in “A Majority of One”
Best Lead Actor…………………… J. Edwin Spence in “Never Too Late”
Best Director……………………….. Vaughn Price for “Never Too Late”
Eighteenth Season: 1965-66
Best Supporting Actress……………. Martha Zermer in “Take Her, She’s Mine”
Best Supporting Actor……………….. Steve Conover in “Of Mice and Men”
Best Lead Actress…………………….. Rebecca Woodworth in “The Glass Menagerie”
Best Lead Actor……………………….. Jake Davidson in “Of Mice and Men”
Seventeenth Season: 1964-65
Best Costumes Design…………………. Blanche Evans for “Guys and Dolls”
Best Lighting Design…………………….. Roger Lounsbury for “Guys and Dolls”
Best Set Design…………………………… Everell Jefferson for “A Man for All Seasons”
Best Supporting Actress……………….. Esther Dworshak in “Under the Yum Yum Tree”
Best Supporting Actor…………………… John Fairchild in “Death of a Salesman”
Best Lead Actress………………………… Betty Nelson in “Guys & Dolls”
Best Lead Actor……………………………. Jay Sherlock in “Under the YumYum Tree”
Best Director……………………………….. (Tie) Keith Patterson for “Guys and Dolls” AND
…………………………………………………. William Shankweiler for “Death of a Salesman”
Sixteenth Season: 1963-64
Best Supporting Actress…………….. Miriem Graeber in “Seven Year Itch”
Best Supporting Actor……………….. John Voulkos in “The Rivals”
Best Lead Actress……………………… Betty Jefferson in “Rebecca”
Best Lead Actor………………………… Hal Knutson in “The Seven Year Itch”
Fifteenth Season: 1962-63
Best Supporting Actress…………………. Meriem Graeber in “Arms and the Man”
Best Supporting Actor……………………. Dwight Bickel in “Life With Father”
Best Lead Actress………………………….. Betty Smith in “Anastasia”
Best Lead Actor…………………………….. Hal Knutson in “The Unguarded Hour”