[e-drive][EQUIFLASH - DEADLINE FOR HONOURS COMMITTEE]

[Darlene Bullard]

Please direct all responses and inquiries directly to the theatre or
association listed in the e-drive notice below.

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HONOURS COMMITTEE DEADLINE 
SUBMISSIONS DUE BY NOVEMBER 30, 2003
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We all know of members who are deserving of recognition by their peers
but you have to tell the Equity Honours Committee about these amazing
people who you've admired for years.

Please download a copy of the application form off our website at
http://www.caea.com/publications/ under the subheading Equity Business.

The deadline for submissions for nominations to the Honours Committee is
November 30, 2003.

The Awards are as follows:

Honorary Membership - awarded by Council to persons who are not members,
but who have assisted in promoting the objects of the Association or
made an outstanding contribution to the performing arts. They may not
vote and have neither the rights nor the obligations of membership.

Past recipients of Honorary Membership include:

1980 Norma Springford 
1982 Tom Paterson 
1983 Dorothy Somerset 
1984 Laura Legge 
1985 Art Eggleton 
1986 Pauline McGibbon 
1987 Heather McCallum 
1990 Nicholas Goldschmidt 
1991 Floyd S. Chalmers
1993 Brian Paisley 
1994 David and Edward Mirvish
1995 Keith Kelly
1996 David Spencer 
1997 Walter Carsen 
1999 David and Margaret Fountain
2000 Margaret Mooney 
2001 Kathleen M. Richardson 
2002 Andis Celms 
2003 Jacqueline Shumiatcher 

Life Membership - awarded by Council to members who are deemed to have
made an outstanding contribution to the performing arts and to Canadian
Actors= Equity Association. They pay no basic or working dues, but have
all rights and obligations of membership.

Life Membership has been conferred on a who's who of Canadian theatre
including:

1975 Jane Mallett 
1976 Herman Geiger-Torel, Hamish Robertson & Herbert Whittaker 
1977 Mervyn (Butch) Blake, Dora Mavor Moore, and Dennis Sweeting 
1978 Robert Christie & Gratien Gelinas 
1979 Sam Payne & Arnold Spohr 
1980 Paul Kligman 
1982 Donald Davis 
1983 Lois Smith 
1984 Amelia Hall 
1986 Maureen Forrester 
1987 George Luscombe
1988 Jean Gascon & Barry Morse
1990 Jack Merigold
1991 Dan MacDonald
1993 Evelyn Hart
1994 Douglas Campbell
1995 Joy Coghill
1996 Jean-Louis Roux
1997 William Hutt
1998 Anthony Holland & William Needles
1999 Lotfi Mansouri
2000 John Neville
2001 Frances Hyland
2002 Tony Van Bridge
2003 Tibor Feheregyhazi

Larry McCance Award - awarded to members of Canadian Actors= Equity
Association or staff who have made an outstanding contribution to the
Association.

And with the Larry McCance Award honourees have included:

1982 Burnard Chadwick 
1983 Peg Harmon 
1984 Vernon Chapman 
1986 Dan MacDonald 
1987 Sandy Webster 
1988 Walter Massey 
1990 Helen Simpson-Baikie 
1991 Barbara Chilcott & Desmond Scott 
1993 Kenneth Wickes
1994 Araby Lockhart
1995 Christopher Marston
1996 A. Frank Ruffo
1997 Jeff Braunstein
1998 Patricia Carroll Brown
1999 Richard Hurst
2000 Winston Morgan
2001 Ron Haney
2002 John Mac Master 
2003 Jane Heyman & Gary Goddard (posthumously)

Send nominations along with a brief bio and any pertinent back-up
material to

Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Honours Committee
44 Victoria St., 12th Floor
Toronto, ON M5C 3C4
Or e-mail: vera at caea.com
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Canadian Actors' Equity Association
44 Victoria Street, 12th Floor
Toronto, ON M5C 3C4
Tel: 416-867-9165
Fax: 416-867-9246
e-mail: communications at caea.com