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Deadline to submit a paper, panel, workshop, or presentation is May 31. Please submit at this link.

Submit your papers, panels, workshops here for the Fall 2023 conference.

Are you interested in serving on the OSTCA Executive Board? Do you know a colleague who you think would serve well in the organization? The following positions are seeking nominations to be presented at the Sept. 9th, 2023 OSTCA Convention:

1. VP Elect

2. Webmaster

3. Communication Division Chair

4. Theater Division Chair

Please email Ant Woodall, Nominations Chair, at woodalla@ou.edu by May 31st to express your interest.

To nominate a colleague for one of our following awards, please email shawna.blake1@tulsacc.edu.

AWARDS:

OUTSTANDING YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AWARD: Created in 1987. Limited to no more than seven years of teaching. 

H.B. MITCHELL OUTSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL FORENSICS COACH AWARD: Created in 1987. Mitchell was a member of the Debate Coach Hall of Fame. Coached 13 consecutive state high school championship debate teams at Seminole High School. Former superintendent of Seminole Public Schools and president of Seminole Jr. College. 

RUTH ARRINGTON OUTSTANDING COLLEGE THEATRE AWARD: Established in 1987 in honor of Ruth Arrington, long-time theatre professor at Northeastern State University; Arrington also created the Native American Studies program at NSU. 

OUTSTANDING YOUNG COLLEGE TEACHER AWARD: Created in 1987. Limited to no more than seven years of teaching. 

D. J. NABORS OUTSTANDING COLLEGE FORENSICS COACH AWARD: Established in 1989. Nabors was an Honorary Permanent Member of OSTCA. Conducted college level speech tournament for decades at East Central. As a participant in the Oklahoma State Teachers Conventions in 1928, 1929, and 1930, he was a founder of what became the Oklahoma Speech Association.  Served Pi Kappa Delta as national secretary-treasurer for 10 years. Dr. Nabors was the first Communication Department Chair at East Central and attended every speech association meeting until his retirement in 1972. 

FRED TEWELL OUTSTANDING COLLEGE COMMUNICATION EDUCATOR AWARD: Established in 1987; named after Fred Tewell in 1993. Tewell was a long-time professor of communication at Oklahoma State University, where he taught and coached debate for 25 years.   

JOSH LEE SERVICE AWARD: Created in 1965 and changed in 1987 to Outstanding Service Award; again changed in 1988 to the Josh Lee Service Award. Named for the Oklahoma teacher/statesman, college debate champion, professor of speech at the University of Oklahoma, U. S. Representative and U. S. Senator. Lee was head of the Speech Department at OU for several years. His book, Public Speaking Manual, served as the text for many speech/theatre teachers in the state for many years. Award is given for career contributions to speech, theatre, communication in Oklahoma.