Robert B. Foard (’71 M.S.), Fort Worth :: taught speech and drama for 25 years and was managing director of the Abilene Community Theatre. He directed the Southwestern premiere of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and spent three years as a director and actor with the Hill Country Arts Foundation Point Theatre. He earned certification in English as a second language and taught English for 12 years in Saudi Arabia, also earning his doctoral certification in voice and diction. He is the author of two Christian books: Mr. Sonny and the children’s book I Wanted to be an Angel. As a student, he was president of the University Players and won University Player of the Year in 1963-64. He also was the first president of the Sigma Gamma Cast of the national drama fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega.