Ralph Borden Culp, Denton, Professor Emeritus of dance and theatre who worked at UNT from 1971 to 1999, died March 3. As a professor and former chair in the Department of Dance and Drama (now the Department of Dance and Theatre), he directed more than 200 plays, musicals and operas and published two textbooks. In 1999, he was awarded the Texas Educational Theatre Association Founder’s Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to educational theatre in Texas. Culp also taught at Rutgers University and the University of Texas at El Paso. He attended Catholic University in Washington, D.C., before joining the U.S. Air Force and serving as a pilot of mid-air refueling planes in the Korean War. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Southern Methodist University and a doctorate from Cornell. Memorials may be made to the Ralph B. Culp Endowment and Scholarship in Directing at UNT.