A Christmas Story

September 1977- Chip Miles asks Clio Community Education director, Richard Negrinelli to include and fund a theatre workshop in the Comm Ed curriculum so that her daughter Linda can be involved in stagecraft. Chip enlists Evie Zilinski, a recent graduate of Evangel College, with a B.A. in Speech and Theatre Education, to help. With the additional help of Brenda Clappe, posters go up all over town. Six adults and a bunch of teenagers show interest. The adults, Betty Steagald, Chuck Krause, Jeff Springgay, Evie Zilinski, Brenda Clappe, Chip Miles, and teen Susan Corbin become known as the founders.