BCU’s Richard Poole Gives Paper on Brief History of High School Assembly Programs

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s Richard Poole, chairperson of the speech and theatre department at BCU, gave a paper at the Annual Meeting of the National Society for the Preservation of Tent, Folk and Repertoire Theatre, April 18-20, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

Poole’s paper was entitled “School’s Out – Assembly Programs Rule: A Brief History of High School Assembly Programs in the United States from 1920 to the Present.” He also presided at one of the conference sessions introducing various papers.

Poole, a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu Taiwan from 1998-1999, has written and given papers and is published extensively on theatre in small towns in the Midwest. He co-authored Opera Houses of Iowa, Iowa State Press, 1993, with Dr. George Glenn from the University of Northern Iowa.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states, Bosnia, Canada, Ecuador and Pakistan.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion.